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Development Growth Settings

A simple mod that allows you to use a game rule to modify how easily and quickly counties develop. This mod should be particularly useful for those playing The Fallen Eagle, or Imperator Rome conversions, where by the vanilla start dates half the world can be 100 development, and by the late game the whole world is. This causes two primary problems, first, lag. That level of development results in each character having absurd amounts of money, armies, etc. All which contribute to lag. Secondly, it makes conversion to EU4 for mega campaigns all the less interesting. Still, I am sure others have desire to have their medieval europe grow into a veritable megapolis in a matter of decades, or never grow past mud huts!

Created this mod, specifically, to use with my mega campaign, where testing showed that running from 372 AD to 1440 AD results in an entire map of 100 development. Turns out, a game designed for a couple of centures of gameplay struggles to model a thousand. Despite experiments with using regular reployments of the black death to reduce development, I finally just bit the bullet and created this mod to fill my need.

What each setting does is fairly simple:

Instant Wakanda: +100% Development Growth Rate
Amazing Buff: +75% Development Growth Rate
Absurd Buff: + 50% Development Growth Rate
Major Buff: +25% Development Growth Rate
Minor Buff: +5% Development Growth Rate
Vanilla: What it says on the tin
Minor Debuff: -5% Development Growth Rate
Major Debuff: -25% Development Growth Rate
Absurd Debuff: -50% Development Growth Rate
Terrible Debuff: -75% Development Growth Rate
Infertility & Straw Houses: -100% Development Growth Rate

Should be compatible with any and every other mod!

There is also a mod, which if I understand correctly will add Chinese localisation when used in conjunction with this one (among other translated mods): https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3403925213

Any comments are always welcome!