Development Cost Rebalance
(Core Culture Timer has been moved to a new mod: See Bottom)
I felt that based on what I witnessed other mods do to curtail the over-development of large nations that this needed to be brought over to the vanilla game. Recent patches have shown that nations big or small managed to gain an excessive amount of development. While this makes sense for small countries and OPMs, it does not for nations that grow really fast but also manage to have enough mana left over to develop a lot in a short amount of time.
NOTE: This mod will increase Development costs so it may mess up with your usual meta of playing. So be prepared to adapt if you subscribe.
This current amount is experimental and will adjust based on my experience and subscriber feedback.
Improve Province Development Base 50 to 65
Development Scaling 3% to 4%
Upcoming:
– Potential devastation modifier which will cause province above a certain dev (like a 10 or 15 dev province) to lose development.
– Potentially adjust institution requirements to allow nations to begin spread on another part of the world (does not mean it starts spreading in Asia in 1450)
– Will add a dev penalty for nations in the HRE unless they are the Emperor, maybe an elector. The German states seem to grow the most out of all the OPMs (aside from Italians).
I do request some feedback in case I need to either reduce the Development base or reduce the scaling (I am NOT increasing either of them further). Especially if it impacts people who desperately need to manually spawn an institution.
SPECIAL THANKS to Aetherum’s Gameplay Extension and Elder Scrolls mods for this inspiration! (They also include dev adjustments). Go check them out!
Colonial Iberia Nerfing Mod:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3042847678
Core Culture Group Expiration Mod:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3324756144
Accurate Country Names:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3285088898
