Too many provinces/provinces too small.

[Armenian Genocide]

Any way to play on previous EU4 maps where the provinces are bigger, while still using modern DLCs and mechanics? There's only one mod for fewer provinces in the workshop, and it's half broken.

[RCMidas]

Wait, I'm confused...are there too many provinces or are they too big? Because making provinces smaller would necessitate MORE of them to fill the same world space?

[Armenian Genocide]

Too many provinces because they are too small.

Spain used to be half as many provinces are they are now.

[RCMidas]

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, no. That's something that'll take someone a very long time to do and they'll probably need to be asked to do it. Through a Patreon or something, because what you're functionally after is a rework of the entire map. Hundreds of tags to deal with, especially within North America, India, and Europe.

[Armenian Genocide]

I'm mostly hoping just playing on EU4 map from like 7 years ago, but without reverting the entire game to the old version. just the map

[Marquoz]

At least the option to revert the game does exist. But you're right--if you want current mechanics, you have to play on the current map. Perhaps you can create the mod yourself. A desire for the otherwise impossible is the genesis of most mods.

[bri]

You might be able to short-cut your mod by reverting to an early version of the game and ripping out the map and province files. There'd likely be a fair bit of work to do afterwards but it would be a lot less work than re-drawing the map by hand.

You may also want to check the user modding forum on the official forums for advice or to see if there are any mods of the type out there.

[Exarch_Alpha]

I liked the map more on release. 1.1 player, looooong time ago.

My opinion of course.

[Rabob]

Originally posted by bri:

You might be able to short-cut your mod by reverting to an early version of the game and ripping out the map and province files. There'd likely be a fair bit of work to do afterwards but it would be a lot less work than re-drawing the map by hand.

You may also want to check the user modding forum on the official forums for advice or to see if there are any mods of the type out there.

Yeah it should work, but gets really complicated probably because we have new trade goods, monuments and perhaps specific events related to provinces as well. Plus I don't think there were states/territories/trade companies etc before a certain point. So it will be a lot of work even with that.

[bri]

Originally posted by Rabob:

Originally posted by bri:

You might be able to short-cut your mod by reverting to an early version of the game and ripping out the map and province files. There'd likely be a fair bit of work to do afterwards but it would be a lot less work than re-drawing the map by hand.

You may also want to check the user modding forum on the official forums for advice or to see if there are any mods of the type out there.

Yeah it should work, but gets really complicated probably because we have new trade goods, monuments and perhaps specific events related to provinces as well. Plus I don't think there were states/territories/trade companies etc before a certain point. So it will be a lot of work even with that.

Yeah, that's why I said there'd still be a fair bit of work. Of course it also depends on how far back he has to go to get a map he can live with. Trade companies have been around for quite a while, states not quite as long but they aren't exactly recent additions either unlike the ridiculous numbers of tags and provinces that were added in 1.31 just over a year ago...

[bri]

Originally posted by Exarch_Alpha:

I liked the map more on release. 1.1 player, looooong time ago.

My opinion of course.

I wouldn't hate going back to the 1.1 map although I did really like the North Atlantic trade node era...

[M82]

Originally posted by Armenian Genocide:

Any way to play on previous EU4 maps where the provinces are bigger, while still using modern DLCs and mechanics? There's only one mod for fewer provinces in the workshop, and it's half broken.

Well then you'd miss out on Trent, which is the single best country to play in this game

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

As somebody who started playing in 1.30, a lot of the old provinces look absolutely horrendous to me whenever I see them in old screenshots or videos.

[Brutal_Mischief]

They looked horrendous back then as well.

Never forget Square Memel.