Assimilation & Homeland
This mod introduces a new pops assimilation mechanic simulating how a state-controlled schooling system shapes the minds of the people. All eligible pops living within your border will align their culture and faith with the state on a steady pace. And with the passage of time, people lose touch with their cultural roots, and the place they once called homeland fades away.
Education plays a central role in shaping and sustaining national identity. In the 19th century, compulsory education was quickly recognized as a powerful political tool states use to unify populations, cultivate loyalty, and turn diverse subjects into modern national citizens. These functions education has are not well represented in game, or they are only represented as improved assimilation rates. However the assimilation mechanic itself is tied to other mechanics that cannot be controlled by normal play such as cultural homeland, or mechanics that rely on pure luck such as cultural communities. As for the history similation part, the "compulsiveness" of education is largely if not entirely omitted. To simulate this "compulsiveness" is what this mod tries to achieve.
- Assimilates and converts pops by new independent mechanic, regardless of homelands or cultural communities.
- Adds & removes cultural homelands dynamically.
- Game rules controlling how new mechanics work and if you want AI to use these features.
- Supports custom cultures.
- If playing with more than one primary culture. Due to unknown game mechanic, after loading a save the game resets your selection to random on which culture to assimilate into. Please reselect after reload.
- For using custom cultures: due to unknown game mechanic, if your country has only one primary culture at game start you have to add any culture from base game before adding your custom ones, otherwise they cannot be recognized by this mod.
- For using total conversion mods: this mod works as long as total conversion still has education institutions. Make sure to put this mod below total conversion in playsets load order.
- No vanilla files touched. New features introduced by this mod are parallel to base game assimilation mechanics, they work together.
English/ Simplified Chinese/ Russian (Thanks to: Catholic Cardinal)/ Japanese (Thanks to: 総帥閣下)/ Spanish (Machine Translated)
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
