Improved Cultural Dynamics
Improved Cultural Dynamics is an overhaul of how cultures and everything related to culture functions in the game and how these interacts with countries. This is a mod meant for those players who wish the entire gameplay related to cultures wasn’t so silly or frustrating, and was simultaneously more historical but also more fun. Sillier parts of assimilation are reined in while introducing new historically appropriate tools for players to deal with their cultural makeup. With Improved Cultural Dynamics, cultures spread more organically, players have more tools at their disposal, the role of cores is changed with integrated locations being less punishing and the general dynamics of how cultures grow and matter are greatly modified. Changes to religion and tribes have also been introduced and more changes are planned for the future.
- Cultures Grow Through Contact: Cultures spread gradually over cultural borders and through incoming settlers, rather than anywhere at any time, with assimilation speed being based on your laws and policies, topography, and other national and local circumstances.
- Political Relationships with Culture: A new Cultural Majority law serves to represent your primary culture’s relationship with the state. Empires ruled by small Mongolian elites can’t assimilate anyone and instead are themselves at risk of being assimilated.
- Integration and Cores: Integration and cores are changed. Integrated locations have the same max control as cores, though their monthly control gain is smaller. As a drawback, they have more separatism.
- Vassals as Local Powers: Vassals no longer can have a culture enforced upon them. A vassal is meant to represent an autonomous local government, not an imposed bureaucracy.
- More Resilient Religious Minorities: New and reworked estate privileges make Jewish and Christian minorities in Europe and the Middle East more resilient for longer. New events encourage the migration of Jewish people.
- Tribal Changes: Tribesmen, tribal promotion and the tribal estate have been changed. They are now less punishing but stickier and harder to remove.
- Setup Changes: Aiming to deliver a more cohesive and historically appropriate setup in specific parts of the world.
- More Cabinet Actions related to Cultures: Improve cultural opinions of cultures in your country, send in settlers of your accepted culture, adopt the Ottoman and Persian policy of sürgün.
- Many other things – including a character interaction to fire artists, content for Sanjiao, unique movements, development of national cultures, various small changes and so on! See the Full List here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/improved-cultural-dynamics.1923966/
The tooltip for the Cultural Majority law already covers significant ground on what to expect and how it all works, but check out the forums for more detail. https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/improved-cultural-dynamics.1923966/
This mod comes with a small fix for colonization in Africa. If you are playing with another mod that changes colonization in Africa, you must put that mod lower in the playlist than this one so that what it changed apply.
This mod should be broadly compatible so long as other included mods don’t edit the culture-related cabinet actions (Promote Culture, Settle Tribesmen), or the modifiers for Integration levels. If a mod does edit these things, this one needs to be lower than it on the playlist in order to apply. Changes to setup and cultures have been done through effects, so ICD should be compatible with mods that also alter setup files though some awkward situations might arise if one of the specific cultures that have been altered has been meddled with.
An ‘Expel Minority’ cabinet action was meant to have been released with this mod but I wasn’t able to get it to work in a rewarding and non-buggy manner so far.
In the future, I hope to also address religious conversion, the cultural setup of China and various other changes around the globe.
Feel free to leave me your feedback in the forums, the modding coop discord thread or here.
