If adding more of Africa & Saharan trade had little impact on performance, would you support it?

[AbZeroNow]

Currently playing the ibn Battata's Legacy mod, and would love to see at least some of its features come to vanilla(trans-Saharan trade routes, more of the Sahel as playable). Adding Hausaland, Kanem, Bornu and Fezzan probably wouldn't hurt performance much, but would make playing an African ruler more fun.

I know some are resistant to changes to vanilla, particularly expansions(although this would more be like subtracting some of that massive Saharan wasteland, and filling in some areas that had rulers and were historically significant to the region). But would like to hear people's thoughts on it.

 

[icedt729]

I wouldn't mind at all, and I think it'd be in line with the major improvements EU4 Africa has been getting lately.

 

[RagingJaws]

Really wouldn't be that big of an expansion as the only thing missing is Kanem-Bornou from the map, at least province wise, and ways to get from there to Mali/Ethiopia.

You'd have to add trade routes running from Ethiopio-Gao and Gao-Tunis/Marrakech, representing the Slave Trade, expand the African cultures group, throw in some flavor events, a nomadic Bulala invasion in the 14th century (or, make it a dynamic invasion), and deepen the West African religion to make it a proper expansion.

I'd be fine with it, if it got the appropriate amount of love from the devs. Not sure I'd ever play in Africa but I'm sure a lot of players would go for it.