PATCH NOTES — REFORMS and RELIGIONS - UPDATE: 1.7.018b

Changed 1 flag, Blambangan..

PATCH NOTES — REFORMS and RELIGIONS - UPDATE: 1.7.018

I personally made over 5000 new changes, it's too much to list. TLDR:

New Govt reforms:
- VERY UNIQUE, New govt T1 reforms been added and are active upon start, I tried to be flavorful and display the power structure of each tag. Mainland will be done soon.

Religion Updates:
- Spiritism: (ancestor mechanic + sync) Reflects folk beliefs.
- Stuff with deities, we split anito into two new religions borrowing hindu mechanics and made new deities and art for it. We split it into two pantheons. One Tagalog, One Bisayan.
- Rice paddy folk god cluster (Katuhanan) (Diety mechanic, around Sumatra + Jawa sphere)
- Another cluster Kaharingan, placeholder Karma mechanic for now.
* I'm lookling into GUI + UI modding and new Mechanics for these. It's subject to change.

New flagschip traits:
- For Filipino and Malay culture group. More to come. Proof of concept.

Culture:
- Minor adjustments done.

Graphics:
- I added around 400 new graphic elements of my other mod to make buildings appear more nice. I also Rearranged and gave all tags in SEA (mainly maritime now) their new proper GFX. No longer East Asian looking architecture in South East Asia!

Tweaks:
- Color fixes in mainland and Sumatra.
- Localization of everything in randomizations is done, each tag has 5-40x more than vanilla names in our S.E.A. Sphere. We are slowly adding more female names.
- And ofc few locl fixes for accuracy.
- Rolled back secondary religion on nations who had not access to this mechanic (to remove and change).
Fixes:
- Over 600-700 error lines (2kb) have been reduced to just 4. (from 1.6.017)
- Squashed some other bugs in vanilla PDX with certain start dates.
- Merged most of the Grotaclas Bugfixes to make it compatch. (fixes 92 bugs in version 1.37.5 https://github.com/grotaclas/grotaclasBugfixes/blob/main/CHANGELOG_summary.md in SEA we did edit ours back in. Credits in the memo.

New Nations:
- New tags: Mainly in Sumatra.

Development:
.. I'm are looking into new monuments and province addons. Also will slowly work religions out. But updates will slow down from here a little. Been eyeing my dead projects on whole map overhauls that I never released.

lots of more things, forgot to mention prolly.

EDIT: PLB is Hindu. Unlike on our 2nd infograph. New Trade notes temporarily disabled. You may use other mods or go into the modfiles and use our old one. (it's not error free)

PATCH NOTES — SRIVIJAYA UPDATE: 1.6.017

Balance Changes:
- Mong Mao's general Si Renfa has been buffed. He now acts as a weaker version of Skanderbeg, enhancing early military capabilities.

Religion Updates:
- 22+ provinces and countries have received updated or additional religions.
- Secondary religions were added to reflect regional syncretism and to support better gameplay balance.
- This is part of an ongoing effort to improve the religious and cultural mapping in the region.

Gameplay Changes:
- Maja now begins with 6 tributaries (up from 4), to match their increased tribute upkeep introduced in recent updates.
- 4 provinces had their Mataram cores adjusted to reflect more accurate historical claims.
- Formation restriction implemented: Srivijaya and Malay formables are now mutually exclusive.

Province Map Edits:
- No new provinces added in this update.
- Impassable terrain in Sumatra reworked to improve AI behavior and general pathfinding during warfare and colonization.

Culture:
- Numerous Silk Road cultural fixes and additions implemented.
- Adjustments include naming, assignments, and new entries to enhance regional diversity.
- Special thanks to contributor TheAuditor for significant work on these changes.

Fixes:
- Mewati culture typo corrected ("i" was previously missing).
- A syntax issue caused by a prior commit has been resolved.
- Main development branch is now protected against unintended direct changes.
- Flag Icons are now showing in all decisions, also vanilla.

New Formable Nation:
- A new formable tag has been added: Srivijaya.
- Includes full flavor content: localization, custom national ideas, and event integration.
- Comparable in theme to Malay, with a focus on institutions and statecraft.
- Restricted to specific Sumatran ethnicities (excludes Aceh, Gayo, Nias, etc.).
- Custom sound effect added on formation.
- If formed as Palembang, the mission tree continues seamlessly, converting into the Srivijaya-specific branch.
- Non-Palembang nations will unlock a fresh Srivijaya mission set upon formation.

Development:
- GitHub repository is now public for community collaboration.
- Contributions are welcome via forks and pull requests.
- README file added with setup and contribution guidelines.
- CodeOwner file configured for merge management.
- Legacy files removed; mod directory cleaned of deprecated assets.

1.6.016

New Tags:
- 3 New tags on Taiwan, everything added for them to make it flavorfull
(except new events, decisions and mission trees yet!)
- Cirebon Released.

New Art:
-Menu, Loadingscreen, On Steam and thumbnail.
- Lots of new flags!
-- 50+ resharpened and recolored again
-- Some remade and made more thematic along others.

ReDev Balance:
- Over 145+ Provinces got looked at for tradegood revamps due to having more data.

ReTrade Goods adjustments
- Over 20+ provinces adjusted, again due to more data.

Scructure:
- Massive Filecleanup.

Bughunted:
- Removed a Pattani bug for NI being in vanilla at an odd place of PDX

Localization:
- Some localization changed to tag names like Kelatan and Majapahit, (thx to Yumi)
- Almost all overall edits for new localization finer fixes done by TheAuditor.

Cultures:
- All the way from Indo till the middle east @TheAuditor did some finer additions to portray correct cultures and add more. Especially India's area has gotten more love!

Religion:
- Dharmic Religions been buffed. (Yumi)
- and Yumi did some prov and nation rel minor tweaks.

New Govt Reform:
- Minag's main tag got parliament function (Yumi)

Other:
- T made some fixes for Mainland S.E.A.
- I've revamped the bookmark, so vanilla mission-trees important nations are highlighted for now.

And a lot of other things I probably forgot to mention.

1.5.015

- Mayor bug fixed of Idea's not showing properly in game.

Localization (Ruler name pool, monarch, female, ships, etc.)
- Thanks to @TheAuditor, many more countries got additional localization as a bonus on top of the already finished Indonesian tags, but now also a big begin for extra localization for Filipino tags. Also several other fixes made.

New Indo Content (Lead by Auditor):
- We added new tags, with full new NI's, Rulers, Flags, etc,.

New tags:
- Mempawah
- Toraja
- Nias
- Pariaman

Also added Mandar culture. And a lot more fixes.

Mayor Culture overhaul for Mainland SEA and the sphere around it from China till India. (Thai, Tibetan, Mainland, Nepali and Burman culture)

New Mainland S.E.A. Content (Lead by T):
- We added new tags, with full new NI's, Rulers, Flags, etc,.

New Tags:
- Uthong
- Suphan
- Lavo
- Nan
- Lamphun
- ChiangMai
- TboungKhum

- unite ayutthaya decision and much more, incl in concept.

New GFX
- I've redrawn. color corrected and sharpened over 70+ flags of our mod + vanilla flags..
(Most are now more historical or come close to thematic vanilla flags. More Info in the Discord.)
- Sulu got better tag color to make it noticeable.

Rebalance:
- ALL NI's of all tags are rebalanced in the mod!
Some nerfed, a few buffed. It's all way closer to vanilla. Institution and Idea cost Idea's are pulled forward in the tree. To give sum more impact.
- Temporarily added 2 extra diplo upkeep slots because of Majapahit mission tree being not reworked yet.

And some more stuff but I forgot to mention it here, nothing big.

1.4.014:
Done some more reading.

- Jambi province sunni dominant (kinda iffy but for gameplay-wise to apply pressure)
- Indragiri from Sunni to Buddhism (rebalance pressure off)
- Lingga from Animism to Hinduism (post-maja)
- Dharmasraya Ruler now Buddhism Dom. sunni syncretic.
- Pagarruyung got Hindu syncretic. (main Bud.)
- Palembang got Tulang as Tributary (to reflect sphere of influence and mix up dynamic)
- Changed Palembangs Start idea from 1 extra diplomat to improve_relation_modifier.
- Changed smth in the Bookmark of the mod. Will make better text later. (switched out ceb and ternate)
- Animism syncretic for Lampung tag, Palembang tag for Buddhism syncretic
- removed core off Perak, for balance of Malacca.
- There are mentions of Kelantan as a tributary paying tribute to Siam during the reign of King Trailokanat of Siam (r. 1448-1488) however for now we decided for 1444 to remove it as tribute for balance.
- removed Tributary Lampug tag from Maja sphere (towards Palembang).

GFX:
- I made a new flag for Tanjungpura, old post-modern sign removed, inc new color with elements of the royal matan tanjungpura. Fits nicely imo.(increasing pre islamic color blue instead of yellow)
- Made a new flag for Johor, original needs to be white, however we mixed the modern flag with smth else.
- I redesigned the Majapahit flag, again. It looks better now I guess.

Localization:
- Thanks to @TheAuditor 13 new tags got their respective localization of native shipnames, leader names, monarch names and much more! So we done all now so far.


MAYOR NICHE UPDATE for Sumatra:
- Set for 13 tags all historical rivals and allies for Sumatra tags, also historic ties to Ming and Indian tags. (Arab-Persian tags we couldn't ping down well) (over 50+ cross relations set within those 13)
- Also made a beginning (historic friend and rivals) for Majapahit and Malacca (for balance). We will gradually do for all, just need more time and reading. These two aren't fully implicated yet since we need to rework the other tags to make it bilateral.

(Note be aware of the religion changes.) I'll continue to work on historical rivalries and friends.

1.4.013:

- Debugged a decision, converting to Sunni mod decision now works for Sulawesi culture group.
- Decision no longer hidden and showable upon req. = For all culture groups of that decision (Filipino, Malay, Sulawesi) showable.
- Europa Expanded decision icon showing when having it in your loadorder as gimmick for the sunni decision.
- Thanks to @TheAuditor over 50+ tags got their respective localization of native shipnames, leader names, monarch names and much more!
- Nerfed Luwu NI, and sm minor tweaks here and there.

1.4.012:

* Added new monarch names, leader names, female names and culture names, over a couple thousands native names to their culture and tag were added. Much thanks to TheAuditor
* tweaked some files, and debugged some stuff, added our Git to work from. Rewrote the Culture file.

NOTE: Not so much changed, just more flavor and randomization. Don't pick the first name you get, try to reroll to get variation!

Currently looking into reworking provinces, might be a submod, or included; Personally not sure. Also looking into formables to get more flavor. Other stuff is listen in our discord. The next updates might be a bit slower since it's less fluff, more buff.

1.4.011:

- New culture for Sula, Buru, Makassar, Gorontalo, Banawa. Countries have proper culture of these now
- Localization now capitalized on Pangasinan culture.
- MKS has Sunni Syncretic
- Rebalanced NI's of Palembang

1.4.010:

- Flag of Kelantan (1912 - 1923) used instead of vanilla fantasy.
- Kedah's flag used before plain red (common theme in S.E.A.)
- Adjusted Kelantan's color
- Nerfed KUT 1st NI
- Added Palembang culture to Palembang
- Gave PGR another core on South.
- New tag, Tulang Bawang
- Indrapura reintroduced, new flag made. (revised colors and slight difference)
- Relations set from above mentioned
- Muko-Muko is now animism
- Indrapura is now animism with Buddhism syncretic
- Indrapura now got correct culture

- Buffed some weak rulers at the start by 10-20% -/+ inside our mod's nations

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