Why Arkhangelsk doesn't have a port?

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I mean this was the first major russian port and the water there never freezes. Yet they made is as a land province, completly non hostoricaly.
Also there are many russian provinces that are not even near where they supposed to be like Nahodka or Oka. Also Kuibishev and Samara are the same thing why seperate provinces.

 

[Vulture]

On the Arghangelsk thingie... You can change that in the game's data... Not too difficult. I often play with ports in the Caspian Sea for example

 

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enter "the map is fucked up" or something similar and find some 50 threads about this

 

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I think is made to prevent russia from building massive fleet wich they wont have any use for in the caspian sea.

 

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You can leave the Caspian see allone since its not really that important. But the first major port left out, thats a shame. Ok how do I do the changing. Can I also change the province names?

 

[Agelastus]

It is rather strange that the Russians don't have a northern port, since, for example, the English Muscovy company traded through it in the period. My guess is it was done this way to stop Russia colonising until they'd bashed through the Khanates or grabbed Ingermanland-rather a crude play device if so.

 

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I don't think that this is the reason since there is nowhere to expand before you crush that Khanates.
They also place a bit too much of permament terra incognita. I can't have Ekaterinburg even when Catherine is in power.

 

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With a place the size of Siberia, the biggest cause of map problems is that the world isn't flat There really isn't much Paradox can do about this

If they uncovered all the Siberian PTI, they'd have to make all the provinces huge, otherwise there would be too many of them. (100 square miles of land in the middle of northern Siberia is not worth as much as 100 sq miles in southern Europe.)

 

[Orm]

Originally posted by RedWhiteArcher
I don't think that this is the reason since there is nowhere to expand before you crush that Khanates.
They also place a bit too much of permament terra incognita. I can't have Ekaterinburg even when Catherine is in power.

All that PTI in Siberia is bad. But it's probably because otherwise Russia would be too rich with all that fur trade. I think they could have solved it by just making the provinces larger in that area.

 

[AndrewT]

Was Archangelsk a major port in the period of the game? Or did it only become so later? I see it was founded in 1586, but no idea of it's port status.

An interesting sidelight: the historical atlas I'm using says : "Moscow's strength after 1462 derived in part from its position at the centre of the river systems of European Russia. The journey from Moscow to the Baltic, White, Kara, Black and Caspian seas could be made entirely by river, with short portages". Apparently they defeated Novgorod by taking the upper Volga, depriving it of grain supplies.

 

[PatMaster]

There is a file somewhere which controls which provinces that borders each others.
So if you want you can edit in a port in the caspian sea and then sail from there up to the Baltic or Black sea.

 

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I found that file but the game crashes when I try to start a game if I change someting.

AndrewT:
Arkhanglesk was a major port and it was also the first major port. One of the reasons for this is that water never freezes there.

 

[BiB]

U didn't edit in Excell, did u ?

 

[Vulture]

Editing in Excel is a musn't do... Use Wordpad

 

[PatMaster]

Yep.
Never ever Excel.

 

[BiB]

I think he got it by now

 

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arkhangelsk

founded in 1584 because ivan the terrible lost the livonian war and all ports on the baltic. arkhangelsk was founded for trade with england.

 

[PatMaster]

Originally posted by BiB
I think he got it by now

You know what?
You cant use excel to edit the files.

 

[BiB]

No shit!

 

[PatMaster]

Yeah! Im serious.
You can not use excel! Remember that!