Better Integrated Locations
Makes integrated status for locations better (control bonus is equal to that of Cores) so players are not encouraged to have all their cabinet members destroying cultures left and right for cores. Also gets rid of the modifier where cores only have accepted or primary culture pops grow. Will try to eventually make coring conditions different as well, although I’m not sure where coring conditions are in game files or if they are hardcoded. Will try to do a workaround if possible. This mod was mostly inspired by the recent 1.2 changes where the developers seem to be sticking to their design decision that not everything should be core territory. I agree to an extent, however the control bonus from having cores is way too high to make this idea a realistic limitation to the player (also the fact that you can conduct state assimilation, which I and a few other people I have discussed this with feel is a bit strange). Also the fact that coring conditions require 50% accepted or primary culture pops.
To give an example of why I think this condition for cores is weird, an Egyptian state has apparently owned the Sinai as early as around 3100 BC. In game this is counted as integrated territory because it is majority Bedouin culture. It was even weirder before pre 1.2 where only the lower tip of the Sinai was core territory because it was majority Coptic culture, which wasn’t accepted but tolerated, implying that previously paradox allowed for tolerated cultures to become cores. Another example is with Morocco which now only has core territory with Morrocan primary culture, which if you look at in game is very weird because now their territory has weird dots of green surrounded by yellow. If a nation were to swallow up Morocco, it very likely would not reunite as it doesn’t even have cores on most of its territory. Considering they have seemed to have mostly maintained their borders from EU5 to now, if not expanded despite being annexed by colonial powers, I feel this is unrealistic. As a final example, the Byzantines in game maintain cores on Bulgarian and Albanian primary culture land. This shows that the developers recognize that the Byzantines have controlled the territory for long enough that they can claim it as their rightful territory, which goes against their culture based definition of core territory. The point is, cores being entirely based on primary or accepted cultures seems to be a rule violated by the developers themselves, and only recently have they become more consistent in their stance (IE lots of nations this patch lost their cores such as with Hungary, France, Morocco, Ottomans, Brandenburg which is the worst one in my opinion just go look at it).
If it were me, I would make it so that owning a location for maybe 50-100 years makes it a core (after integration). I think it is hardcoded which is unfortunate, but I feel this is the second best solution to the problem.
