I don't think the command for CoT removal works though... in fact, I'm not even sure if it exists...
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I don't think the command for CoT removal works though... in fact, I'm not even sure if it exists...
What would be the effect of many more CoTs? We wouldn't be able to change the number of merchants we got, nor their costs, and so the bang of the buck of each merchant would go down. However, we'd also lose quite a few less merchants, and so they'd make money for longer periods of time.
I think the main effect would be to really hurt the AI as the autosend tends to try to get as many merchants as possible in the local COT, and to monopolize any owned COTs. This will be a much less efffective strategy when all the COTs are small, a dispersed approach would work better.
Taking a look at my 1430 scenario, I suggest the following options:
Anglia || Flanders
Isfahan || Basrah && Tabriz
Mecklemburg || Bremen || Holstein
None || Magdeburg
None || Wurttemberg || Ansbach
None || Castilla
None || Manhattan
None || Danzig || Kurland
Delhi || Delhi && Ganges || Kutch && Ganges
Alexandria || Egypt
Ile de France || Ile de France && Lyonnais
|| Ile de France && Poitou || Ile de France && Poitout && Lyonnais
Novgorod || Ingermanland && Nizhgorod
None || Messina || Naples || Fez || Timbuctu
Samarkand || Astrakhan
None || Smyrna || Thrace
None || Svealland || Sjaelland
Anglia || Flanders
Isfahan || Basrah && Tabriz
Mecklemburg || Bremen || Holstein
None || Magdeburg
None || Wurttemberg || Ansbach
None || Castilla
None || Manhattan
None || Danzig || Kurland
Delhi || Delhi && Ganges || Kutch && Ganges
Alexandria || Egypt
Ile de France || Ile de France && Lyonnais
|| Ile de France && Poitou || Ile de France && Poitout && Lyonnais
Novgorod || Ingermanland && Nizhgorod
None || Messina || Naples || Fez || Timbuctu
Samarkand || Astrakhan
None || Smyrna || Thrace
None || Svealland || Sjaelland
Those are GREAT suggestions. I don't really understand Magdeburg, but every single other one makes very good sense as reasonable alternatives.
The original IGC allowed for a fantasy Anglia CoT to exist alongside Flandern as well.
But that is an interesting alternate CoT list, and most of them I would like to try in a game, and even the ones I wouldn't, with the exception of the aforementioned Magdeburg I understand.
But that is an interesting alternate CoT list, and most of them I would like to try in a game, and even the ones I wouldn't, with the exception of the aforementioned Magdeburg I understand.
What's the reasoning behind grouping the first two of these with the latter two? They seem completely unrelated, to my eye; a northwest African Sunni CoT and a south Italian CoT are going to have very little overlap in their provinces. Furthermore, both groups are going to interfere with Ivoria and Genoa/Venice.
I'd split this into
Genoa || Messina || Naples
and
Ivoria || Fez || Fez && Ivoria || Timbuktu.
There should also be an option for Poitou && Lyonnais, without Ile de France.
While we can't destroy a CoT, we can make them diminish over time. Here's Aegnor's post on the subject.
No, we can't hit that with events. But I wasn't aware that we needed to. Just substitute an alternate province.csv and let the game do what it will.
I don't THINK province.csv is accessed after start up. At least when I edit it, the changes only seem to affect games that are started adter the edit, not saved games. This could be wrong though. I don't know where the historical COT modifier is stored in the save game - it might be there.
It is indeed stored in the save file. I ran a search through my text editor for the word cot in the .eug file, and found a whole list of cots.
