AJFIFU Eastern Europe

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First, I must say I am impressed... after a couple of days playing IFU, it feels immersive even more...

But then I have two questions:
1. All of Eastern Europe is, by the beginning of the game, in the zone of Kyoto CoT... Yes, Kyoto in Japan... Was this intended? It changes after a couple of years, when the CoT in Cracow appears. But it is disturbing at first.

2. All of Eastern European nations, those Polans, Vislans, Kashubs, Lithuanians, etc., start with quite strange DP settings. Full aristocratic, full serfdom... As I understand creation of medieval Europe, this was the expansion of Western standards (church with tithe, feudal order) that increasede serfdom. I think, the peasants were relatively free within those "barbarian" nations, and had to be reduced to serfs by harsh methods in order for those societies to be "compatible" with the West.

 

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First, I must say I am impressed... after a couple of days playing IFU, it feels immersive even more...

glad you like it

But then I have two questions:
1. All of Eastern Europe is, by the beginning of the game, in the zone of Kyoto CoT... Yes, Kyoto in Japan... Was this intended? It changes after a couple of years, when the CoT in Cracow appears. But it is disturbing at first.

hmm, will look into this, in this case one may have to increase the number of known provinces for some Eastern Europeans (the CoTs are small so there is no point adding new ones)

2. All of Eastern European nations, those Polans, Vislans, Kashubs, Lithuanians, etc., start with quite strange DP settings. Full aristocratic, full serfdom... As I understand creation of medieval Europe, this was the expansion of Western standards (church with tithe, feudal order) that increasede serfdom. I think, the peasants were relatively free within those "barbarian" nations, and had to be reduced to serfs by harsh methods in order for those societies to be "compatible" with the West.

hehe, yes, most were fairly standardised that way. Kasperus has provided some dp changes for quite a few western slavs. I agree that they shouldnt be highly 'serfed' but somewhere around the middle (toward free). As for aristocracy, I am not sure, the slider is a little ambigious.
yours
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