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Sea Change

A collection of minor, yet significant, changes

Updated for 1.17.x.x

Description:
This mod brings together a few changes that I feel really improve my EUIV experience. Nothing here is earth shattering but I think that together they do alter the feel of the game meaningfully.

Features:

Maritime Area Localization Changes

• All instances of 'Straits' have been changes to 'Strait.' For example the 'Straits of Malacca' should properly read the 'Strait of Malacca.' A single feature, such as the Strait of Malacca, is a single Strait. The only time 'straits' would be used is when referring to multiple features. These changes are correct for American English naming conventions, I think that the Brits have a bit of a different notion.
  
• Some word ordering for bays, sounds and straits. For example the 'Strait of Luzon' has been corrected to the 'Luzon Strait.' Changes reflect my understanding of the most common name for the feature.
  
• A few maritime areas in South East Asia have been renamed entirely. For example I changed to the 'Coast of Annam' to the 'Paracel Islands' and I have replaced the former 'Paracel Islands' with 'South China Sea.' This leaves room to replace to the former 'South China Sea' with 'Spratly Islands.' There are a few tweaks in and around Indonesia as well.
  
• Specific Changes:
  
  • PROV1271: "Strait of Dover"
    
  • PROV1293: "Strait of Gibraltar"
    
  • PROV1307: "Strait of Messina"
    
  • PROV1310: "Strait of Otranto"
    
  • PROV1334: "Strait of Hormuz"
    
  • PROV1348: "Strait of Malacca"
    
  • PROV1355: "Lombok Strait"
    
  • PROV1356: "Savu Sea"
    
  • PROV1357: "Flores Sea"
    
  • PROV1359: "Makassar Strait"
    
  • PROV1361: "Johor Strait"
    
  • PROV1367: "Spratly Islands"
    
  • PROV1369: "Paracel Islands"
    
  • PROV1379: "Tatar Strait"
    
  • PROV1394: "South China Sea"
    
  • PROV1399: "Celebes Sea"
    
  • PROV1400: "Halmahera Sea"
    
  • PROV1401: "Banda Sea"
    
  • PROV1485: "Hudson Strait"
    
  • PROV1505: "Florida Strait"
    
  • PROV1539: "Strait of Magellan"
• This change is fine to import into any existing saved game but will only show up in new games.

Merchant Changes

• Adds new modifier that grants an additional merchant for every 500 points of development.
  
• This change better reflects the ability of large nations to leverage trade influence. It felt a bit off that a 2000 development Holy Roman Empire had two merchants while the Netherlands could have 6 or 7. Large nations are large and powerful because of successful economies and successful economies depend on trade. Merchant republics still retain advantages in the formation of trade posts and the ability to punch above their weight in trade but this change corrects to allow for the role of the large markets of other powerful states.
  
• Change is accomplished via a triggered modifier meaning that you will get a message and the change will show up the first day of the next month after you achieve the development target.
  
• This change is fine to import into any existing saved game and will show up.

Iberian Capital to Tangiers Change

• Adds decision to allow a country with a capital in the Iberian region to move their capital across the Strait of Gibraltar to Tangiers.
  
• The ability to move capitals to another province is normally restricted to special circumstances, but I think this makes sense. A Spain or Portugal player focused on Africa may well decide that their future lies in the development of that continent and choose to concentrate power there (and avoid the 75% autonomy penalty). An early aggressive or late resurgent Grenada / Andalucía might also find the choice valuable.
  
• This change is fine to import into any existing saved game and will show up.

Note:
Enjoy!

Updates:
Please see the Change Notes section on this page

Future Plans:

• Savy players may have guess my future plans based on the localization changes introduced in this mod. I'm going to create some colonizable land in the Paracel and Spratly islands. Not going to happen anytime soon however. If anyone else does this please let me know, I'd love to just go ahead and use your work.

Compatibility:
Compatible with most mods that do not radically alter game mechanics or add very similar content.
Not Ironman compatible.
This mod requires no DLC but can be used with all DLC
Think of this like an extension of the vanilla experience.

Bugs, Feature Requests, Comments, Feedback, etc:
I’d love to hear from you. Leave a note in the comments. If I don’t respond within the hour, please don’t despair. I will get back you, and I will try to address your concern(s)!