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RNW: Development Boost

Wondering why your sprawling, High American empire had the development level of a barren wasteland? Think it strange that an established Incan kingdom can't have a city with more than 3 base tax? If so, then this mod is for you.

THIS MOD IS INCLUDED IN THE RANDOM NEW WORLD IMPROVEMENTS MOD


1. Boosts the development of provinces owned by random new world nations in the Andean, Mesoamerican, Indian, and High American tech groups. Provinces with especially high development will change their production to cloth, silk, or chinaware, depending on their culture. This happens automatically as soon as a new game is started, and only applies to the random new world.

2. Allows for highly developed provinces in the new world to change their trade goods to cloth, silk, or chinaware, depending on the culture of the province. This occurs through an event that fires when a province reaches a high development level. Both random new world and normal new world nations will receive these events.


- The strength of the development boost depends on the tech group of the nation. The development level of High American nations will be put on par with that of most European nations in 1444, while Mesoamerican and Andean nations will reach a level slightly higher as they would have had in the real New World. - The boost process has an element of randomness to it. Huge boosts are rare, but so are very low ones. The whole process is scaled according to what tech group the country is in. - Capital cities always get a significant boost, as do provinces with trade modifiers (estuary, important centre of trade, etc.) - Uninhabited provinces receive no boosts, nor do those of native tribes. I feel for these that their level should reflect the fact that they mostly are just wilderness.- The boost does no occur until you start playing, so the development map mode in the menu will not reflect what the RNW provinces' development levels will be on day one. - When the ai gets a trade good evolution event (and can afford to take it), they will accept or decline depending on what the current production of the province in question is. If it is greater they will decline, if it is lower they will accept. If it is about equal, then they have a 50/50 chance of saying yes or no.- The events allow for advanced colonial nations to develop tertiary industries in their big cities. I always found it strange how a development level 30 city could have fish as its main export. Not anymore!- The culture of the province in question determines which trade good evolution event can fire for it. The silk and chinaware events will only fire for provinces whose culture is in the East Asian culture group, while all other cultures will only get the cloth event. Silk requires a higher level of development than chinaware does. - These culture group restrictions also apply to the automatic trade good upgrades that occur at game start. Generally, only one province will get boosted high enough to make the change, and when it does it will either get chinaware or cloth depending on the culture. I have yet to see a province get boosted high enough to qualify for silk, but it is possible. Requires the Conquest of Paradise DLC, as does any other mod to do with the random new world.Not compatible with any other mod that changes the main enlish localisation file, or the on actions file. This makes it incompatible with Extended Vanilla Experience or Dynamized Development, for example, though I might be able to create a compatibility patch if there is demand for one. Direct download (Paradox Forums)[forum.paradoxplaza.com] Try my other mods!RNW: Only ContinentsRNW: Better ClimateRNW: Better Trade Goods1/4/2016:- Updated for v.1.14.4 Votes make the workshop go 'round, so please hit the thumbs up if you like the mod!