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[EnigmaticHat]

Ok, this sounds obvious but did you manually update your units?  If you were still using tech 1 units that would explain it.

[WealthyRadish]

Regardless. No matter what has been presented so far, no matter how I try to justify all the possible advantages they could of had, 2000 units a turn doesn't add up.... But that gave me an idea. Is there a way to measure how much an advantage would be needed for a 2000 unit a turn difference? Perhaps a way to calculate it in just unit pips or numbers?

http://www.eu4wiki.com/Land_warfare#Combat_sequence

Could have a gander at that, but it'd be a bit much, and some information may be out of date.

Just played a Makassar -> Malaya game, but found it a bit too slow. By ~1600 I had all of the spice islands colonized/conquered, as well as Australia, half of Japan, some valuable provinces eaten into Ming, and a chunk of Siberia colonized before Russia. The trick is to colonize the Philippines first, since they don't have that horrible tropical modifier, but I should've just started as Brunei. Think I'll try it again, but go for American colonies as well.

[Micro102]

Ok, this sounds obvious but did you manually update your units?  If you were still using tech 1 units that would explain it.

Yes it's very obvious. Yes I did upgrade them.

[Wysthric]

I've just started a large fantasy mod for this. I'm still debating whether to use the real world (i.e. hobbits in germany, dwarves in greece, giants in scotland) or a generated world. Until I get it sorted out I'm going to work on cultures and religions.

[Rakonas]

I'd keep the map just because it'd make the mod a lot easier both to create and to run as a player.

[EnigmaticHat]

Its about the same difficulty for players to run regardless of what's in the mod, you pretty much say "drop this folder and .txt document into the mod folder".

But I can say from experience that modding the maps in one of these games is hard to do, much harder than messing around with events or modifiers or something.

[Rakonas]

You have to delete the map cache and the game has to recalculate distances between provinces actually, at least that's my experience with other paradox games.

[EnigmaticHat]

That isn't true any more.

[Wysthric]

I do have problems getting mods to work sometimes, but we'll have to see. That isn't the hardest part of the whole process!

EnigmaticHat, I totally agree, which is why I would simply use a random map generator to give me a physical world I can bounce off. The modding is going quite well - here's an example of what I've done so far.

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#Country Name: Please see filename.

graphical_culture = westerngfx

color = { 75  25  51 }

historical_idea_groups = {
offensive_ideas
quantity_ideas
aristocracy_ideas
expansion_ideas
defensive_ideas
quality_ideas
spy_ideas
}

historical_units = {
orc_militia
orc_boar_rider
orc_warband
orc_reformed_warband
orc_armoured_boar_rider
orc_line_soldier
orc_grandhog_rider
}

monarch_names = {
"Graarg #0" = 50
"Jaarg #3" = 30
"Tusk #7" = 25
"Crunch #4" = 20
"Hurk #0" = 20
"Regdar #2" = 10
"Korok #0" = 10
"Trogdor #0 = 1

"Aleida #0" = -1
"Cordula #0" = -1
"Gundula #0" = -1
}

leader_names = {
Hung
Crash
Basher
Gork
Thaarg
Dorg
Wronk
}

ship_names = {
"Da raft" "Pile o' Stix" "Floatin' Wood"
"Water Thin'" "Swimmin' Tree" Dodgy "Bad Idea"
"U First" "Iz Bad" "See-sik"
}


army_names = {
"$PROVINCE army$"
}

fleet_names = {
"Floatz"
}

stoneskin_ork_ideas
start = {
land_morale = 0.10
infantry_power = 0.10
naval_morale = -0.35
}

bonus = {
manpower_recovery_speed = 0.15
}

trigger = {
primary_culture = stoneskin_ork
}
free = yes

battle_hunger = {
war_exhaustion = -0.02
}
warrior_duty = {
infantry_cost = -0.10
global_manpower_modifier = 0.1
}
take_what_we_want = {
unjustified_demands = -0.2
}
work_dem_harder = {
production_efficiency = 0.1
global_revolt_risk = -1
}
follow_da_leader = {
land_leader_shock = 1
land_morale = 0.05
}
wot_you_say_bout_our_boss_man = {
legitimacy = 1
}
conquerin_is_normal_bizness = {
ae_impact = -0.2
}
}


[Sheb]

You missed the "" around Dodgy.

[Wysthric]

Friend told me that as well! XD As far as I can tell you only need the quotes to connect words with spaces in. If your word doesn't have any spaces, you don't require quotes (check the vanilla code to confirm this.)

Is the reason why in dynasty names Louis doesn't have quoted around it and "van Oranje" does.

[Sheb]

Ahah, it makes sense. :p

[Micro102]

I'm playing as Japan, and have tried to dodge the colonization distance problem by sending my men along the coastline to try to capture the Aztec's territory or vassalize them or something. But when I get there and declare war on them (at the cost of 2 stability, no CB) I can't do anything. Their provinces aren't siegeable and I cannot even walk into their terra incognita even with a conquistador. Can I get an explanation as to what's going on?

Nvm, they ended up being in exile.

[Catastrophic lolcats]

Any units that are in foreign land (either ally or just access) will be exiled on war declaration. It's a rather infamous change of 1.6. Units will not be exiled if they're standing around in your own boats however.

[Wysthric]

Mod is going well, but damn if this ain't going to take a lot of work.

Where do you think the best place for the topic is - other games or creative projects?