Subcontinents

[neondt]

Good afternoon! I've been back from vacation for a little over a week now. I've spent the majority of my time since then working on something special for a certain nation in Central Europe, and I'll go into more detail about that at a later date. The purpose of this post is to quickly say that we've been listening to your feedback on the latest dev diary about superregions (or Subcontinents as they're called in-game) and trade companies.

We liked the idea of reworking the superregion setup to better support linking superregions to where it is possible to establish trade companies.

We don't have a superregion/subcontinents mapmode yet - we may well get one before release but no promises - so here's a beautiful rendition of the new superregion setup lovingly created in MS Paint:

 

[neondt]

Reverted putting Tibet in China, turns out I used the China superregion for some things back in Manchu patch and Tibet doesn't make sense in that context.

 

[Groogy]

And how about trade nodes that overlap these superregion borders?

Still works to make TC's in that node but not within your super region We tested it before going over these changes.

 

[neondt]

Still works to make TC's in that node but not within your super region We tested it before going over these changes.

Yeah it depends on the location of your capital.

 

[Alfray Stryke]

I said it before and I'll say it again, it could be: not same continent and not same superregion. That should solve most, if not all cases of being able to have a TC right next to one's capital.

Yeah, but the Japanese setting up a trade company in India or the Spice Islands seems fitting.

 

[KaiserJohan]

Even though TC's will be weaker the special buildings are still strong (flat trade power) and slightly cheaper now. As Tunis I took Corsica + Sardinia, turned them into TCs and was up at 40%+ trade power from provinces alone in Genoa.