I live in Zurich and: Neither Zurich, nor geneva nor Basel have 'severe winters' - we have normal winters at least in those areas

hey, whenever you feel like doing something to mainland mexico, i'm most than willing to help you figure the terrain/climate/winter thingy, i could even help on which provinces have river crossings from which :D, for the time being, i can say what you did with baja and sonora is as right as it can be on EU4

Originally posted by Rickter:

hey, whenever you feel like doing something to mainland mexico, i'm most than willing to help you figure the terrain/climate/winter thingy, i could even help on which provinces have river crossings from which :D, for the time being, i can say what you did with baja and sonora is as right as it can be on EU4

Fantastic! Sometimes reading Wikipedia articles about climate and geography just doesn't cut it and I haven't had the opportunity to visit Mexico in person yet, so I was concerned about my work in that area. It is good to hear that my research hit the mark.

If you remain willing, I would very eagerly welcome your aid in looking over my work in that area. Thanks.

Well, I live in Brazil and I have a good sense of the weather and climate of various regions of Brazil.

So starting with the South Region, nearly to Uruguay, the terrain is grasslands and not savannah, more than half of Rio Grande do Sul, there is no marsh and on the north part of the state area is forest, not jungle, forest; for Santa Catarina, on the West, is grasslands, on the cost and in the center, hills; for Paraná near to the coast is jungle, in the middle(currently Castro province) is jungle too and for the west savannah; all the climate at this region is temperate.

For the Northeast, the are that it says that is temperate is actually, arid, from Segipe province to Pernambuco, it's jungle, and Inhambupe its arid.

The Goias province is not a marsh, its savannah.

And the provinces of Sao Vicente(that by the way, the climate is temperate), Santo Amaro and Rio de Janeiro are jungle and not grasslands, the province of Araquara is jungle and Campinas savannah.

If you are going to add Fernando de Noronha islands, the climate is tropical and terrain is beach.

And for the amazon the biggest part of the largest wasteland is of brazil, so if you can, make some provinces to make then "owned" by Brazil, one small province for Colombia too, to make the area more similar to the borders at the independence time.

I Hope I have been useful for you and this mod.

@NiaziGamer

Oi, I had forgotten this thread even existed!

Thanks! I'm actually quite unfamiliar with the area, so hopefully I can work all that out properly. As for the wasteland and new provinces, I'll do what I can, but I probably won't go into too much detail until it is overhauled (which for Brazil isn't an imnediate priority, but I definitely intend to get to it eventually).

Hey about the forest area, here we call it Mata de Araucárias, which is a pine, a diferent pine, but in geography books and others stuff they say that's is part of Atlantic Forest which is a jungle, so I don't really know what you should put as terrain in that area. The image in the game show us pines for a forest, that's why I said to put as a Forest, but I don't know

@NiaziGamer

Without 50+ different terrain types (which, in all fairness, we really don't need), there has to be a few compromises. I haven't yet gotten to doing the terrain there, but when I get to it, I'll keep that in mind.

For what it is worth, several North American and European provinces with "woods" terrain actually are mostly pine, as well. I've been mostly saving forest terrain for the really thick, somewhat cold, rugged sort of provinces. By extension, I might use jungle closer to the equator for the same sort of situation. I planned to google some real life photos, though, and that may change my mind.

Thanks for helping out here!

Yeah, just search Mata de Araucarias in images and see what you think that looks like.