I know I should have posted this probably a year ago, but I'm enjoying 1.30 Emperor as it is. But being from this part of Germany, this particular weird naming of West German areas / states has bothered me for years now. There are two areas which are named "North Rhine" and "Lower Rhineland"
While the name "North Rhine" makes sense (see: North Rhine Westphalia), the name "Lower Rhineland" is completely out of place. The actual Lower Rhine (German: Niederrhein) is about where the in-game provinces of Cleve, Berg and Cologne are. You could even use the names North Rhine and Lower Rhine interchangeably, they describe more or less the same area.
But calling Trier or Koblenz "Lower Rhine" always seemed ridiculous to me. Also, putting Wiesbaden (capital of the in-game province Nassau) into a "North Rhine" area seems weird at best. I would kindly ask you to implement one of the two solutions, favourably number 2, with suggestion number 1 being a lot less work:
Suggestion 1:
Re-name the area of "Lower Rhineland" to "Middle Rhineland" (or "Middle Rhine"; in German it should definitely be "Mittelrhein")
see this map for reference: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhein#/media/Datei:Rhein-Karte2.png
Suggestion 2:
Re-draw the 2 areas, put Nassau into the southern area and Jülich + Aachen into the northern area. Also, re-name the southern area according to Suggestion 1. As stated earlier, the northern area could be named "North Rhine" or "Lower Rhine" or "Lower Rhineland" (German "Nordrhein" or "Niederrhein"), all of these would be accurate.
Before the concept of Governing Capacity, this would admittedly have had an impact on the balancing, since the northern area would have had much more development and would have been a juicier expansion target than the southern one, but this problem should be gone now. I do realize that several mission trees give you claims on one of these areas, e.g the Brandenburg/Prussian and the Bavarian mission tree, but as far as I can judge, this re-design would actually make these missions more historically accurate than before.
While the name "North Rhine" makes sense (see: North Rhine Westphalia), the name "Lower Rhineland" is completely out of place. The actual Lower Rhine (German: Niederrhein) is about where the in-game provinces of Cleve, Berg and Cologne are. You could even use the names North Rhine and Lower Rhine interchangeably, they describe more or less the same area.
But calling Trier or Koblenz "Lower Rhine" always seemed ridiculous to me. Also, putting Wiesbaden (capital of the in-game province Nassau) into a "North Rhine" area seems weird at best. I would kindly ask you to implement one of the two solutions, favourably number 2, with suggestion number 1 being a lot less work:
Suggestion 1:
Re-name the area of "Lower Rhineland" to "Middle Rhineland" (or "Middle Rhine"; in German it should definitely be "Mittelrhein")
see this map for reference: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhein#/media/Datei:Rhein-Karte2.png
Suggestion 2:
Re-draw the 2 areas, put Nassau into the southern area and Jülich + Aachen into the northern area. Also, re-name the southern area according to Suggestion 1. As stated earlier, the northern area could be named "North Rhine" or "Lower Rhine" or "Lower Rhineland" (German "Nordrhein" or "Niederrhein"), all of these would be accurate.
Before the concept of Governing Capacity, this would admittedly have had an impact on the balancing, since the northern area would have had much more development and would have been a juicier expansion target than the southern one, but this problem should be gone now. I do realize that several mission trees give you claims on one of these areas, e.g the Brandenburg/Prussian and the Bavarian mission tree, but as far as I can judge, this re-design would actually make these missions more historically accurate than before.
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