Provincial 'flavor' modifiers

[Trin Tragula]

The point of these are exactly that they differ from development. Abundance of a natural resource is not the same as a more developed province and every province in the world is not the same (mechanically one of the notable effects Is that if you want to develop Potosi or Dalaskogen the power you pay is not the same as if we had just boosted development).
They are there for the exceptional cases (potosi dwarfs any other silver mine in the game and the copper mountain produced 2/3 of the world supply of copper at times) and if you ask me they make the map more alive

You could argue they should have higher war score cost (same for cot and similar modifiers I suppose) however but I don't think changing it all to direct development would be the best way to solve that

 

[Trin Tragula]

The Skåne market is a Danish modifier. I don't see how it could be contributing to "hide" Swedish strength in any scenario where Sweden is part of the union.

Do you feel all local goods produced are similarly problematic? Manufactories do the same thing for instance

And the Kalmar union barely ever holds. It's not an on and off relationship like it was in reality but that's because unions in eu don't work like that. You have fewer and far more decisive liberation wars as a rule
In the end it almost always breaks.
These modifiers (as well as estuaries and centers of trade) probably should contribute to warscore though. Will look into that.

 

[Trin Tragula]

I love these modifiers, I totally agree they make the map feel more alive, and things like the Tirolian goldmine are special flashpoints for conflict in multiplayer. My only complaint is that there aren't more of them, I think you could feasibly justify extra productive places in a whole bunch of places in the world.

You are free to suggest more. We do try to reserve it for really exceptional places but this is by no means the only places that could qualify.
Make a thread in the suggestions forum and tag me if you feel you have good candidates.
Will want a proper motivation and references of some sort and I can make no guarantees beforehand of course