A province can be divided by the sea but that makes the sea useless as troops can march through the sea like it didn't exist, so a Byzantium province would be just on the "european" side.
I would suggest to make high attrition to Tibet, Arabia, Africa and interior Russia. Instead of as normal 5% attrition for troop should make 50% attrition due to unfit condition for colonization.
To reduce troop attrition may use techology level. The higher techology level will lower the attrition.
As a Han (HGU) state player, I been racing with Maruya and Kuninda for colonizing Tibet. This is to prevent Maruya and kuninda to access horse:wacko:
Open up sea lanes for South China Sea and Strait of Malacca
I would like to suggest to open up sea lanes for South China Sea and Strait of Malacca. That will link up the sea trade route between China and India
May I ask how the map works without the colormap_hires bitmap? I thought it's required..?
It's a pity EUR doesn't have range modifier like EU3 in colonising so you could limit sea trade with that..
if you cant limit trade mabey u could make trade with far off places in the far east less profitable
and to make it worth while to expand that way add in a new modifier "Silk road" where theirs a trail of provinces on the historical silk road that can trade adjacently to other provinces along the silk road or something just an idea