Encyclopaedium: Historical Enhancements [BETA]

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Author: vadorgrafett

Last revision: 31 Mar, 2025 at 09:34 UTC (4)

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Description:

A collection of different major and minor changes to steer the world in a more historical or logical direction – especially if the player isn’t involved. This is an open beta. Suggestions or problem reports are very welcome.

• Game Rules: choose which Encyclopaedium mechanics to include in your campaign at game start!
• Expansion
  
  • Expansion into particular regions will be reverted: e.g. no Europeans in the African interior
  • Certain minor countries will be "kept alive" until it’s their time to shine: e.g. Brandenburg will always survive into the 17th c.
  • Some historical border changes and country partitions (e.g. of Hungary) will take place dynamically
  • Army sizes massively slashed (taken from Responsible Warfare)
• Colonization
  
  • Countries will not set up colonies outside of their respective historical regions
  • Minor colonies (e.g. New Amsterdam, Goa, New Sweden) will appear dynamically
  • North American tribes somewhat nerfed (taken from Natives Rebalanced)
• Dynasties, unions and formables
  
  • Prominent dynasties (e.g. Habsburgs, Hohenzollerns, Timurids &c.) will stay in power
  • Persia, Mughals, Qing, the Netherlands etc. will appear much more consistently
  • Much higher chance of historical personal unions (e.g. England-Scotland or Austria-Bohemia) taking place
  • Charles V event chain – historical division of Habsburg realms included!
• Reformation and HRE
  
  • Historically protestant regions will become protestant, historically catholics ones will stay catholic
  • Provinces outside of Germany, Italy and France will not join the Empire
  • Historical incident outcomes will be preferred
  • The religious league wars will usually end in the Peace of Westphalia
• Technology
  
  • Institutions spawn locked to Europe
  • Embracement speed massively slashed
  • Non-european institution embracement made more tedious
• Map changes
  
  • Much more accurate and aesthetically pleasing borders (mostly taken from Heavy Europe)
  • East European borders remade from scratch
• Further plans
  • Localize everything – even AI-only events
  • Add events for other prominent historical leaders
  • Revamp institutions so that Asia stays on par with Europe until ~1650 and then falls off
  • And much, much more!