==== General Changes and Fixes ====
* Dynamic city names introduced; currently only active for a few provinces.
* No longer possible to call a crusade in 1444 bookmark (since the Crusade of Varna just ended)
* Human players can now generate a second Anabaptist centre of reformation if they convert after the first one is created by event
* Converting to any post-reformation faith now earns you the age objective (instead of just Lutheran or Calvinist)
* Centers of Trade Added
* Major fixes to legacy governments
* Tweaked attrition values down
* Vanilla estates are now added and functional
* Fix an issue where the policy for a human to resist integration as a vassal was limited to only the 4th stage
* Fixed some UI issues with the province view
* Fix a number of bad government names (nogovernmentname or norulertitle)

====States & Territories====
* When Integrating/Annexing nations full cores are only created in the proper circumstances now

==== Estates ====
* Activated standard estates
* Culture-based estates for Europe and N. Africa (except for German and Italian)
* Disaster for culture-based estates at low loyalty.

==== Events/Missions/Decisions ====
* Unique mission branches for Delhi prior to 1345 collapse (10 missions)
* Unique mission branches for Mamluks (7 missions)
* Effects of the Declare Reconquista decision moved to the mission tree
* Fixed an issue where multiple league events could fire simultaneously
* Integrated Dharma missions
* Burgundian missions adjusted to make sense for the alternate start
* Winning the trade wars now gives Venice or Genoa in increase in Center of Trade level

=== Dynasty System ===
* "Cadet Branch" designator now defined as female to prevent making it a general
* Cadet Branch is now broken if a new dynasty appears in the cadet nation
* Cadet Branch is now broken if a female rules the cadet nation and the main branch is a Salic Law nation
* Heir Apparent is now a possible heir where the son of a ruler sits on another throne (e.g. Flanders/Nevers in 1309)
* Fix an issue where a female inherited and then was also her own heir
* Fixed a crash that could be caused by a cadet branch inheriting while being a vassal.

==== Setup ====
* Anjou now follows a Salic Law succession rule
* Seats in Parliament now properly defined for post War of the Roses bookmarks
* Henry Tudor is no longer still running around as a pretender in Wales while also king
* Moved Maltese to the Latin culture group
* Savoy now has a full core on Cuneo and only territorial core on Nice in later bookmarks
* Fixed normal/territorial cores during Delhi's 14th century expansion
* Fixed normal/territorial cores for Spanish/Portuguese Colonies
* Fixed normal/territorial cores for later English holdings in France
* Adjustments to cultures in North Africa (some more maghrebi, some less berber)
* Labourd is now in the Gascony area (Iberia/France regional border looks right now)
* Nevers is now an independent county in 1309; in union with Flanders 1322 - 1404
* Split up a number of areas in Southeast Asia for smaller areas
* Split Brittany into upper and lower Brittany; added Gallo culture (French group) to Brittany

==== General Changes and Fixes ====
* Finally restored the Vintage Map submod to working order
* Fixed the province manufactory view; you can now build manufactories from the provinces and not just the MacroBuilder (HOTFIXED)
* Put some colors in the tooltip about not being able to make a core to make it easier to note the important words
* Fixed major calculation issues with the culture spread mechanic that resulted in almost no conversion (previously HOTFIXED)
* Now get a small war exhaustion reduction while at war to combat the unbalanced attrition WE (previously HOTFIXED)
* Ideas that gave bonuses to max_states now give reduced state maintenance
* Fixed a localistion issue where the duration of modifiers was not displaying (previously HOTFIXED)
* Autonomy can be promoted in any province again, but the action gives less unrest reduction (still same unrest reduction for the total autonomy value)
* Adjusted requirement for Agricultural Revolution Institution to start (often no grain-producing province in Britain had sufficient development)
* Fixed calculations that resulted in abnormal/lack of growth in some areas
* Fixed the fact that Galway and Mayo had no country names

====States & Territories====
* Fixed an issue where State Capital buildings would vanish as soon as another buildings was built in the area (previously HOTFIXED)
* The emperor can no longer continue to demand the same province while you are waiting to make it a core

==== Subjects ====
* Senior Union partners who are notably smaller than their junior can transfer their seat of government to the larger nation (e.g. James the I and VI ) via diplomatic action
* Fixed a balance issue (typo) where 10 liberty desire reduction was only 15 prestige (20 in vanilla; now 25 in VeF)
* Fix an error where the horde enforcer modifier was never removed from Moscow; even if they broke free or were replaced as enforcer

==== Events/Missions/Decisions ====
* The Naples events related to the Caltabellotta agreement now only give a territorial core on Djerba (if Sicily still holds it)
* Toledo is restored only as a suzerainty following Juan Manual's rebellion
* Spanish missions now give claims in N. Africa that do not compete with Portugal's
* Unique mission branch for Savoy (4 missions)
* Unique mission tree for Byzantium (36 missions); the "Byzantine Resurgance" events were removed and the bonuses rolled into the tree (previously HOTFIXED)
* Unique mission tree for Poland (13 missions); Poland forming the Commonwealth is now by mission not decision
* Unique mission tree for Lithuania (22 missions)
* Unique mission tree for Moscow (17 missions)
* Unique mission tree for Novgorod (14 missions)
* Unique mission branch for Russian princes (6 missions)
* All Russia nation formation decisions moved to mission trees/branch.
* Hire privateers decision is now a policy so it can be turned on/off
* Fixed some faulty localisation keys in event options
* Fixed an issue where the event to colonise the Canaries would result in double buildings
* Osman/Beylik missions now give claims to YOU instead of to Turkey who hasn't formed yet
* Fix an issue in the French mission tree that required cores you might not get if the HYW doesn't happen
* Fix an issue in the Moscow mission tree that required colonising empty provinces to wipe out Novgorod

=== Dynasty System ===
* Characters beyond rulers/heirs/consorts can now be defined in history files and appear at startup
* Now supports the historical definition of Cadet Branches; if your dynasty fails the realm will fall into a Union with a cadet branch before changing dynasties or a random union
* Military prowess events for the heir and ruler now actually fire
* Military prowess events added for high negative win/loss ratios (both heir and ruler)
* Fertility and infertility ruler (and consort) traits/personalities are now taken into account for the birth of heirs
* Event that suggests sending your wife away to a convent now activates a decision so you can change your mind later if circumstances change
* Balancing adjustments to the death rates of characters
* Exempt Elective Monarchy from the dynasty mechanics for now
* Fixed localisation where the name "No Consort" would appear or the name of a regent would appear in place of the ruler who just died
* Fixed the order of succession in many places (ruler's granddaughters would be skipped over; ruler's daughters were in the wrong place in the succession order)
* Reduced the chances a bit for character death

==== Setup ====
* A number of Area adjustments
** Moved Murcia from Toledo to Upper Andalucia area (keep cultures separated)
** Split Northern Naples between Naples area and Abruzzo area
** Yotvings area now takes all three Yotvings culture provinces (getting them out of three separate areas that had other cultures)
** Albania gives up it's southern province with Greek culture to northern Greece
** Divide Moldavia into Moldavia and Chilia
** Portugal's two areas are now three (added Lisbon area) for smaller areas
** Divided North Serbia from Serbia for smaller areas
** Divided Sofia from Bulgaria for smaller areas
** Divided Minsk from White Ruthenia for smaller areas
** Divided Oka from Smolensk for smaller areas
* Anjou (nation) starts as a cadet branch of France's royal house
* Achaea starts as a cadet branch of Naples' royal house
* Fixed an issue where the war definitions for the Hundred Years War could accidentally cancel the next phase of the war
* Added interim bookmarks Treaty of Troyes (1420) and Duke of Romagna (1503)
* Any province that does not start with at least a territorial core will begin with some separatism at game start
* Province names in Hispanola are now based on the local tribes there when Columbus arrived; dynamic province names set up for the colonial powers
* Ajuuraan is now in the correct tech group (was indian should be muslim) (previously HOTFIXED)
* Adjusted historical province ownership and subjects in Galich-Voldynia (across multiple bookmarks)

==== General Changes and Fixes ====
* New dynastic system; tracks the ruler's family and heirs to determine succession for the throne
* Tracking battles/sieges won and lost by the ruler and heir for benefits
* Fixed an issue where Iceland was not available in the Realm Management interface
* AI will now actually build Jeu De Paume hall if they neighbor a player who isn't boycotting (thus they will actually invite you to play)
* Boosted cost of HRE reforms (was too easy to unite the HRE too often)
* Fixed Byzantine ideas having a Theme System modifier (which caused confusion with mission-driven modifiers); now matches with vanilla
* Significantly boosted trade value available in the game
* Some missing event pictures added (More to come)
* Fixed the policy window to line up prettier

====States & Territories====
* Significantly reduced overextension values
* No arbitrary limit for states, instead states vs territories is decided by culture and region
* minimum autonomy for territories reduced to 50%
* Sheriff's offices (and higher level buildings from them) are now 1/state (functioning as a state capital); the bonus to stability they provide is dependent on the % of provinces covered by these buildings. Having one of these buildings in a state gives bonus to development growth, culture conversion, stability, and reduces autonomy.

==== Subjects ====
* Now actually possible to recover a rebellious vassal after the ten-year modifier

==== Events/Missions/Decisions ====
* Converted most vanilla missions; extended mission trees for Venice, Genoa, Aragon and Castile
* Tuned down the Justinian's Realm modifier for Byzantium
* Limit events that create colonies to actually check the province is empty first
* Mission tree for Osman and other Turkish Beyliks; Turkey is now formed by the mission tree not by decision
* Forming the Netherlands as emperor no longer removes you from the HRE
* Second option for "Bribes Becoming More Accepted" event


==== Setup ====
* Added 1492 and 1508 bookmarks
* New provinces in Ireland and Scotland; new nations in Ireland (Ulster, Galway, Mayo, Desmond, Ormonde)
* Movable type starts in the right provinces in the 1453 bookmark now
* Fixed a localization issue where some province names weren't being replaced (Stockholm in Greenland)
* Many starting provinces now defined as territorial rather than full cores in keeping with new state system
* Starting fleets now at 80% instead of 50% of force limit
* Adjust Toledo subject type for the 1357 start (to facilitate the civil war)

==== General Changes and Fixes ====
* Taking land from a horde no longer results in base separatism in the province (though separatism can still be added if you reduce the province's freedom)
* Extensive tweaks to the reformation (including that Anglicans don't immediately become Lutheran now)
* Setup for the Schmalkaldic League and 30-Years War (now have two separate league wars with potential benefits/losses from each)
* Reduce possible rivals to 2 (limit the diplomatic problems it causes as the AI still rarely reevaluates)
* Pretty pictures for the institution tabs!

====Governments====
* Yuan Monarchy now benefits from most of the same exemptions that Celestial Empire does
* Angevin Union no longer gives way more accepted cultures than it can handle

==== Subjects====
* Fixed an issue where you still had to wait ten years after you finished the integration process
* Fixed the tooltip for creating client states to accurately say diplomatic tech 46 is needed
* Lowered the development limit (from 70 to 50) for a personal union to reverse after a defeat in war due to the Kalmar Union constantly turning around
* Fixed an issue where Genoa would become a tributary of Kipchak
*New subject types for Bohemia and the Hanseatic League

==== Events/Missions/Decisions ====
* Fixed an issue with the papal supporter events where it would have you guarantee yourself
* Missions in line with the new system; not all the vanilla ones were added yet
* New system missions added for major GoB submod nations (BYZ, EGY, PER)
* Fixed an issue where the wrong advisor would publish The Three Kingdoms
* Fix localisation in the Golden Bull of 1356 event

==== Setup ====
* Revolt triggers completely overhauled for a host of issues including Ilkhanate rebels spawning later in the game, Persia never showing up, and Bavarian separatists in Bavaria
* Fix a Japanese area that wasn't in the Japan region
* Added unique subject types for the Bohemian Union and Hansa Union
* Added a bunch of missing cores to Lithuania for the 1419+ starts that was causing them to quickly collapse
* Tver no longer a vassal of Lithuania in 1453 start (was not supported by historical record)
* Changed the Sicilian tag so it no longer matches a vanilla nation in East Africa (wrong sprites)
* Fix a culture that didn't exist in GoB submod
* Map changes splitting the provinces of Augsburg, Hannover, and Kleves into smaller pieces; also adding Julich, Passau, Durres, and a second province in western Australia (so the wasteland can change color)
* A few new areas to better accommodate missions

== Release Information ==

== Changes ==

==== General Changes and Fixes ====
*Fix On-actions and static modifiers which were causing crashes (already released in the hotfix)
*Adopt vanilla changes to losing mandate of heaven (legitimacy loss, greater battle damage, possible mercy)
*Events to replace diplomacy options that previously required acceptance (to get around the bugs PDX has)

====Governments====
*Rework the Bohemian Crown mechanics; now uses a unique subject type which doesn't need the bugged event to declare war.
*Bohemian government bonuses now match a standard elective monarchy

==== Culture====
* Forced conversions (deportation and extermination) now take longer in rougher terrain
*Culture spread from realm management options is now greater (About double)
*Culture spread now affected by the percentage of surrounding provinces in it's culture

==== Events/Missions/Decisions ====
* Some random events affecting

==== Realm Managment and Government ====
* Fix flags that were causing certain finesse options in realm management events not to appear
* Fix localisation in realm management finesse

==== Setup ====
* 1444 and 1453 Bookmarks now available
* Fix an error where Venice could have two arsenale buildings in 1419 start
*Fix Venetian historical subjects
*Venice now at war with Aquelia in 1419
*Age of Discovery now fires even if you start after 1400 (wasn't firing since renaissance was already active)

== Release Information ==
Release Date: 2017-12-12 <br />

== Changes ==

==== General Changes and Fixes ====
* Compatible with vanilla 1.24
* Byzantine decline now requires fewer provinces to get out of
* Fixed a major issue where the startup routine could repeat itself when loading a save
* Raised max attrition in a land province to 7
* Reducing corruption using muslim piety now reduces corruption by 10 instead of 2
* Chinaware now gives bonus to any government; not just legitimacy to monarchies

====Advisors====
* Imam now gives more meaningful war exhaustion bonus
* Added Chief Inspector advisor who reduces corruption

==== Ideas====
* Adjusted Turkish ideas to reduce stacking of siege bonus modifiers
* Expanded Zaporozhian ideas to apply to more Cossack states
* Fixed an idea for Hatori (Daimyo) that had no effect (espionage idea); now gives a diplomat

==== Events/Missions/Decisions ====
* Fixed significant errors in the muslim piety events

==== Realm Managment and Government ====
* Fixed localization for realm management event detailing finesse of changes
* Fix an issue where the government type of some free cities was not displayed
* Fixed an issue where supremacy (for the Emperor of China) was referred to as meritocracy in multiple places
* Fixed missing pictures/buttons for Iqta government
* Fixed a logic error that resulted in multiple Janissary modifiers for the Turks

==== Setup ====
* 1419 Bookmark for Hussite Wars
* Mamluk fleet now properly starts in the Mediterranean not the Red Sea
* Osman has a few more soldiers at start in 1309 bookmark

== Release Information ==
Release Date: 2017-11-19 <br />

== Changes ==

==== General Changes and Fixes ====
* Compatibility with 1.23 and Cradle of Civilization DLC
* Adjustments to reinforcement rate and costs (slower rate and lower the cost) in an attempt to give the defender some advantage on their home field but without bankrupting the attacker
* Make use of the new development cost modifier that is Common-Sense only to address balance issues for those without the DLC
* Development cost modifiers in national ideas now affect development growth events
* Reduced Imperial Authority from free cities and number of princes (AI was forming the HRE way too frequently)
* Performance enhancements by limiting some cyclic maintenance operations to relevant provinces and reducing resource-based triggered modifiers to a five-year cycle check
* Modifiers for each age to add general adjustments and help counteract the effects of late-game development growth
* Rise of the Ottomans is significantly nerfed for humans; they get a lesser bonus and only up to 8 cities
* Limited startup text currently available; more to follow

==== Governance====
* Expand the Bureaucracy policy is obsolete; replaced with alternative policies which do not affect governance
* Governance is now based on administrative technology level instead of a general variable
* Inefficient Bureaucracy now increases autonomy at the edge of the realm first (provinces are internally calculated into layered rings) then moves inward
* Corruption is no longer reduced by spending gold; instead it reaches an equilibrium based on modifiers including the current age. Sources of corruption have been adjusted extensively
* Meritocracy gain and limits based on corruption level
* Meritocracy modifiers now move in smaller stages to minimize the jumps in discipline modifier between levels
* AI nomads now get help building their capital (unlike a human, it doesn't know how to reform) which will allow nomads who should be reforming to meet the requirements to do so

==== Diplomacy====
* Hanseatic League now uses diplomatic actions to join/leave/invite/expel instead of decisions
* Diplomatic action for colonizers to displace migratory native nations with a colony; European nations can no longer declare war on these nations (but your colonies can)
* Pope can now offer the Virtus Post Solium benefits via diplomatic action
* Annul marriage diplomatic action available
* New diplomatic action to bring together the Swiss cantons diplomatically

==== Subjects====
* Fix an issue where Hedjaz would revert to a normal vassal but never integrate
* If your subject forms a new nation no longer reset the integration progress
* If a union senior shrinks sufficiently the primary crown may switch
* Ethnarchies now confer lower liberty desire in exchange for slower integration
* Speeding up integration no longer costs extra MP but does raise corruption for overlord and subject
* New Swiss Confederate subject type

==== Events/Missions/Decisions ====
* Rise of Timur should now properly deal with Chagtai as a vassal state to Timur
* Generals bored event can no longer fire if you have any war exhaustion or overextension
* Stricter limits on pragmatic sanction (higher imperial influence, legitimacy, and heir claim)
* Fix some event localizations caused by conflict with vanilla

==== Realm Managment and Government ====
* More finesse is given to land disposition options; you can now choose to reduce/raise the particular type of ownership by a set amount or to a set level (reduce all noble ownership by 1 level; donate church land until they own 40% in all provinces in the area)
* The people being exterminated or deported through the culture options now have a chance to spawn rebels and resist
* Addressed some edge cases where you could end up with duplicate nobility buildings
* Theocratic governments will change if a country changes religion as appropriate (no more protestant archbishops)
* Fixed an error where the Knights could constantly spawn new rulers when the first one died

==== Setup ====
* Reduce the amount of Romuva provinces (Kurland and Wenden) in the Livonian order for balance and gameplay (the AI seemed incapable of remaining Catholic)
* Fix an issue where dynamic province names put the Bahamas in the middle of Bohemia
* Adjust the starting autonomy in Yuan based on distance from the capital
* Move slovak culture to the more appropriate west slavic culture group
* Change the government of Bohemia from 1353 so they don't immediately lose the emperorship
* Fix the starting institutions in Fantasia submod and allow them to instantly spread to all capitals when started (for balance)
* Make Aydin and Karesi dislike Osman so the AI will stop getting trapped on the Aegean islands
* Saxon is now an accepted culture for Mecklenburg
* Byzantium no longer starts with War Exhaustion in Fantasia submod
* New bookmark for the Red Turban Rebellion in China (1356)
* Lots of history added up to 1444; an issue with Bohemia and the Hussites regarding religious conflict in the HRE meant the bookmarks didn't make the release
* Lots of natives added to the Native submod
* Flags now properly set in Toledo history file to allow the Castilian civil war events to work properly

==== General Changes and Fixes ====
* Ideas graphic fixed to properly reflect changes to Exploration Ideas
* Adjust forcelimit downwards to bring it more in line with costs
* Fix Russian idea Siberian Frontier for consistency across all nations who have it (now uses frontier mechanics)

==== Subjects====
* Adjust which subjects may have their own subjects to allow Burgundy to properly receive it's Personal Unions from the events for the Low Countries
* Romagna States will now fight (only) defensive wars for the Pope; will be converted to regular subject progression of their overlord changes.
* Can no longer offer tributary status to a nation you are guaranteeing; there is a PDX issue where the guarantee is not removed when they accept leaving the player locked into the guarantee (which takes a diplomatic relations slot) with no way to remove it.

==== Events/Missions/Decisions ====
* Move the capital event when forming Spain now gives more options for where to locate it (Madrid, Toledo, Sevilla, Barcelona, Castile)
* Complete overhaul of Burgundian Inheritance events including preference for shared dynasties
* Complete overhaul of Dutch Revolt events; nations that agree to ally the new Dutch state will now actually be involved in it's independence war and also cleaned up the events for efficiency and changed their claims on other Low Countries provinces to permanent claims
* No longer receive a mission to form an alliance with your own tributary
* Celestial Empire will not change government when forming a new nation (most notably Mughal Empire).

==== Setup ====
* Adjusted Kinai and Kansai areas in central Japan; there is no longer a one-province area.
* Fix two provinces in Manchuria that were discovered by India and Byzantium at start instead of Chinese

• Adjust scaling manual development cost upward to limit capitals maxing out late game
  
• Adjust cost and effect of Placate Rulers action (15 prestige for 5 LD)
  
• Trade Wars now has a clear display event for the factors affecting victory
  
• Changed the technology requirements for Exploration and added events for early Spanish and Portuguese exploration

• Several adjustments to ultimately fix French Fealties not shifting to normal subject integration
  
• Dynastic event for Personal Unions to swap in the event the union senior becomes too weak
  
• Fixed an issue where Client States could never be annexed

• Numerous events for the Castilian Civil War and Trastamera dynasty.
  
• Genocide will no longer drive displaced people to your subjects (where they're likely to just die later)
  
• Change localisation in Crusades events to make it clearer which provinces are being targeted
  
• Opinion to discourage the AI from reconquering the knights after granting them a new home
  
• Republics can no longer seek investiture for Papal Influence

• Addition of 1370 'Rise of Muscovy' bookmark
  
• Proper Trade Wars values throughout the game progression up to 1400
  
• Provence added to 1337 Saluzzo succession war
  
• Further subject adjustments in East Africa; Adal and Dawaro now subject to Ethiopia for longer

• Byzantine Decline and Rise of the Ottomans/Turks modifiers will now expire over time if the nations don't fall/expand
  
• Adjusted the penalties of the Black Death; any development loss will be offset by adding growth progress (so that when the development growth starts those provinces will recover faster).
  
• Seat in Parliament can now only be given to your culture group (still must be primary or accepted culture)
  
• Fix Scandinavian units (sailor cost on light ships and localization for tech 21 infantry)

• Internal Conflicts now only requires 0 stability to end (vice 1) and some event choices from the disaster will boost national stability.
  
• Internal Conflicts now spawns nationalist rebels; stability restored to the realm if nationalists spin off independent nation
  
• Fixed the old Mandate of Heaven disaster to no longer effect those with the DLC

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• Fix an error that allowed the stability return from Liberty Desire to be realized against that nation after you/they were free
  
• Message that a republic will never accept diplomatic vassalage now prioritized over the message that +190 relations are required.
  
• Suzerainties can no longer ally with independent nations; their independence can still be supported (this was to address some buggy effects of allies during independence wars and also balance in the Suzerainties had a huge advantage over other subjects when they could bring outside allies).

• Fix an error where a colony could end up with multiple ownership buildings of the same type
  
• Can now see the development progress of each province in an area by consulting the area in Realm Management events

• Forming the Roman Empire or Roman Republic no longer changes your culture to Roman; you'll keep your existing primary and accepted cultures
  
• Removed the Civil War in Novgorod event which fired after Muscovy was often defeated but referenced them as a cause
  
• Fix a potential loop where the Knights would be forced to constantly elect new grandmasters

• Fixed the 1309 position of East Africa: expand Ethiopia to their historical holdings and make Adal (sultanate of Ifat) a rebellious suzerainty.
  
• Basic Forts in Anatolia protected from destruction in the initial 1309 BYZ/OSM war (could lead to a scenario where both were destroyed meaning OSM couldn't demand the provinces in peace).
  
• New events in the 1337 start for the 1343 succession disputes in Naples