Project Balance

[Meneth]

Also, release date!

Balansegang 2.2.0 will release on Friday at 1600 GMT.

Current changelog (subject to change):

• Made an installer for the mod, and reduced the file-size about 25-30%
• You can now appoint army commanders at any crown authority level
• Replaced Military Fortifications (increased siege times by 10% per level) tech with Infrastructure tech (increases supply by 1 per level)
• Removed the graphical changes from North African Expansion that don't apply to Africans
• Removed central Africa east of Songhai

 

[CJL78]

Another suggestion for Republic CB, Meneth: perhaps the CB could vassalize the target instead of giving the county to the Doge. or vastly reducing demesne limits for republics, forcing them to grant all extra titles to vassals. Problem 1 being the republics typically used their colonies as trading posts/military bases more than ruling them directly. Problem 2 being if Genoa/Pisa/Venice, etc. is lost, the Doge just goes to another city and now is the Republic of Sardinia/Mallorca/Dalmatia/Sicily etc. I would prefer if the city is lost for the colony cities to go independent, and be feudal (or whatever they were before, if not republics).

 

[Meneth]

Another suggestion for Republic CB, Meneth: perhaps the CB could vassalize the target instead of giving the county to the Doge. or vastly reducing demesne limits for republics, forcing them to grant all extra titles to vassals. Problem 1 being the republics typically used their colonies as trading posts/military bases more than ruling them directly. Problem 2 being if Genoa/Pisa/Venice, etc. is lost, the Doge just goes to another city and now is the Republic of Sardinia/Mallorca/Dalmatia/Sicily etc. I would prefer if the city is lost for the colony cities to go independent, and be feudal (or whatever they were before, if not republics).

Vassalization would only be possible if the province owner is a count holding a single county, or a duke holding a single county and with no vassals. I might try coding something for those situations though.
Reducing demesne is sadly not moddable.

Not sure if your second suggestion is possible either.

 

[Meneth]

2.2 released!
Breaks saves!
Download here, or from the OP.
If anyone has any quick questions, feedback, or similar, feel free to come to the CKII Modding IRC Channel.

• Made an installer for the mod, and reduced the file-size about 25-30%
• You can now appoint army commanders at any crown authority level
• Replaced Military Fortifications (increased siege times by 10% per level) tech with Infrastructure tech (increases supply by 1 per level)
• Removed the graphical changes from North African Expansion that don't apply to Africans
• Removed central Africa east of Songhai

 

[Vovolov]

The seas have some interesting things going on. Apparantly Gondar controls the North Sea, and there's more!

 

[Tarridus]

The seas have some interesting things going on. Apparantly Gondar controls the North Sea, and there's more!

I saw that as well. It shows Ghana controlling the Portugal Coast, among other oddities of various African contries controlling various northern seas. It has to be some txt or graphical bug as it only shows up when zoomed out on the map. The names disappear when you zoom in.

 

[Meneth]

The seas have some interesting things going on. Apparantly Gondar controls the North Sea, and there's more!

Huh, I thought I fixed that...
I'll look into it.

 

[Meneth]

2.2.1 released!
Download here, or from the OP.
If anyone has any quick questions, feedback, or similar, feel free to come to the CKII Modding IRC Channel.

• Fixed an issue causing various African nations to appear in the sea rather than in Africa

Note: Requires campaign restart to work. I don't imagine people've played all that far considering the issue, though

 

[Tarridus]

Been playing it for a few hours and its great so far but I've been getting some errors and CTDs (I'm assuming) from the errors.

GFX_cuman_male_base
[texturehandler.cpp:169]: Couldn't find texture file: gfx//characters//cuman_male//cuman_male_eyes_1.dds.
[spritetype.cpp:346]: Error initialising texture: gfx\\characters\\cuman_male\\cuman_male_eyes_1.dds for spritetype GFX_cuman_male_eyes
[spritetype.cpp:346]: Error initialising texture: gfx\\characters\\cuman_male\\cuman_male_eyes_1.dds for spritetype GFX_cuman_male_eyes

Been getting that alot and when I click on the Cumens and the Seljuk turks, their faces don't show up. I currently have the mongol dlc so I'm not sure if certain things are missing.

[texturehandler.cpp:169]: Couldn't find texture file: .
[texturehandler.cpp:169]: Couldn't find texture file: .
[texturehandler.cpp:169]: Couldn't find texture file: .
[texturehandler.cpp:169]: Couldn't find texture file: .
[texturehandler.cpp:169]: Couldn't find texture file: .

This always shows up after the error logs so the two could be connected.

 

[orion76]

I too have problems with portraits. First, cuman and turkish faces don't show up. Then i apply the solution proposed in recents posts : open the culture file and replace cuman and turkish for muslim. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem too work in the long run. Cuman and turkish faces do show up but my fellow (e.g count of bourges) and neighbourgs (e.g king of France) faces change regurlarly. For exemple as for my fellow, he sometimes has flat hair and sometimes curly hair.

Is it simply possible to get rid of Meneth's faces and get back to vanilla ones ? If so, which files of Meneth's mod do i have to erase ? Culture, characters ? Any others ? I wish i could play this excellent mod. Thanks again for your great job.

 

[Korbah]

That's a feature in vanilla portraits too, no need to go blaiming Meneth. Your character's appearance changes based on what they're doing, what rank they are, and how old they are.

 

[orion76]

Nobody blames nobody here so no need to play the attorney. Just looking for a solution cose i don't come accross this kind of problem in vanilla or in any other mod. And merci encore pour ton boulot Meneth. J'adore.

 

[Meneth]

That's a feature in vanilla portraits too, no need to go blaiming Meneth. Your character's appearance changes based on what they're doing, what rank they are, and how old they are.

I definitely do deserve the blame, as I forgot to update portraits.gfx. It's fixed in my local build which I'll be releasing later today.
Anyone experiencing problems can put this file in mod\balansegang\interface\

 

[orion76]

Thanks ever so much man for your very positive contribution.

 

[Sleight of Hand]

Meneth, any chance of a .zip or .rar version of your mod please?

 

[Meneth]

Meneth, any chance of a .zip or .rar version of your mod please?

Why exactly? It'd mean one'd have to delete the directory before every install, to ensure everything works properly.
Also, I don't have enough space on my forum account to host both

 

[Sleight of Hand]

I just don't like mods that use installers. I guess it's just an OCD thing -- I prefer to know exactly what I'm installing and where it's going. I always delete the mod in question's folder before I install a newer version anyway. It's not a big deal really, I just think it's tidier. :blush:

 

[Meneth]

I just don't like mods that use installers. I guess it's just an OCD thing -- I prefer to know exactly what I'm installing and where it's going. I always delete the mod in question's folder before I install a newer version anyway. It's not a big deal really, I just think it's tidier. :blush:

Here's the installer script if that helps

; Script generated by the HM NIS Edit Script Wizard.

; HM NIS Edit Wizard helper defines
!define PRODUCT_NAME "Balansegang: A Balance Overhaul"
!define PRODUCT_VERSION "2.2.0"
!define PRODUCT_PUBLISHER "Meneth"
!define PRODUCT_WEB_SITE "http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?594436-Mod-Balansegang-A-Balance-Overhaul"
!define PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY "Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\balansegang.exe"

SetCompressor zlib

; Request application privileges for Windows Vista / Windows 7
RequestExecutionLevel admin

; MUI 1.67 compatible ------
!include "MUI.nsh"

; MUI Settings
!define MUI_ABORTWARNING
!define MUI_ICON "balansegang.ico"

; Welcome page
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_WELCOME
; Directory page
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_DIRECTORY
; Instfiles page
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_INSTFILES
; Finish page
!insertmacro MUI_PAGE_FINISH

; Language files
!insertmacro MUI_LANGUAGE "English"

; MUI end ------

Name "${PRODUCT_NAME} ${PRODUCT_VERSION}"
OutFile "balansegang.exe"
InstallDir "$PROGRAMFILES\Crusader Kings II\mod"
InstallDirRegKey HKLM "${PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY}" ""
ShowInstDetails hide

Section "groundwork" SEC01
    RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\balansegang\history\provinces"
    RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\balansegang\history\titles"
    RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\balansegang\history\wars"
    RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\balansegang\gfx\characters\cuman_female"
    RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\balansegang\gfx\characters\cuman_male"
    RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\balansegang\gfx\characters\western_male"
    Delete "$INSTDIR\balansegang\events\holy_war.txt"
    Delete "$INSTDIR\balansegang\localisation\text1.csv"
    Delete "$INSTDIR\balansegang\localisation\irishtitles.csv"
    Delete "$INSTDIR\balansegang\localisation\pagans.csv"
    Delete "$INSTDIR\balansegang\localisation\text history.csv"
    Delete "$INSTDIR\balansegang\localisation\text lowland.csv"
    Delete "$INSTDIR\balansegang\localisation\unification.csv"
    Delete "$INSTDIR\balansegang\localisation\various.csv"
    SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\7ziplicense\"
    File "7za465\7-zip.chm"
    SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\7ziplicense\"
    File "7za465\copying.txt"
    File "7za465\license.txt"
    File "7za465\readme.txt"
    SetOutPath "$INSTDIR"
    File "7za465\7za.exe"
SectionEnd

Section "Main Install" SEC02
    SetOutPath "$INSTDIR\"
    File "mod.7z"
ExecWait '$INSTDIR\7za.exe x mod.7z -y'
    Sleep 1000
Delete "$INSTDIR\mod.7z"
    Sleep 1000
RMDir /r "$INSTDIR\7ziplicense\"
Delete "$INSTDIR\7za.exe"
SectionEnd

Section -Post
    WriteRegStr HKLM "${PRODUCT_DIR_REGKEY}" "" "$INSTDIR\balansegang.exe"
SectionEnd

 

[Sleight of Hand]

Ah, okay. Thanks!

I'm going to play your mod until the new patch is out.

 

[Sleight of Hand]

Hausa is written across a few random sea zones -- is this a known bug?

I also have messed up African/Mongol portraits and random (?) flags, for example England has Northumberland's. :blink: