Random New World needs more provinces

[sanityismyvanit]

With AoW and 1.8 being introduced, the number of provinces in the New World have increased dramatically, along with a number of additional countries in these regions at the earliest start date. Unfortunately, the CoP Random New World feature was not adapted to handle this so as to provide a comparable playing experience.

A Random New World map has less than half of the number of provinces of the 1.8 map, but has the added countries. This takes what was already problematic with "clumping" of the NA/CA/SA countries and exacerbates it much more. Additionally, colonizing the entirety of the New World occurs is record time now, and the AI alone can fully do so by 1700-1750.

I beg the developers to get what was a key feature of how CoP was advertised and ensure that it is updated with current and future content. Force the RNW to create the same number of provinces as the 1.8 standard map, and provide internal checks to have NA nations spread out from each other at game start. This feature has so much potential, I'd really enjoy it if it had some time spent on it getting it caught up with other features in the game.

 

[vinc3nt23]

With the upcoming nation designer DLC coming out next week I'm considering buying EU4 + all DLCs, however I would like to know if the random map generator (New World) DLC will be updated with a greater province density (post 1.8).
Since this thread has asked exactly what I would like to know (so that I am able to decide whetherI buy New Wold DLC as well) could anyone (preferably a dev) respond to the initial post by sanityismyvanit. Thanks.

 

[Fintilgin]

Frankly, random new worlds need some love in general, but this would be a decent start.

 

[FreeSoc]

Yep, this definitely needs work, because it's an embarrassingly poor feature whose many, many flaws are both glaring and well-documented in various threads across the EUIV forum.

Were it a good feature that produced interesting, visually appealing New Worlds with large colonial regions and an AoW-level province density, I'd hardly ever go back to normal New World. As is, I can't stand to use the Random New World feature, which is a shame, because it has a huge amount of potential.

Or, to state it more briefly, +1.