It's interesting. What would be a large mistake for you then? A mistake in Scandinavia, especially in Sweden? A mistake in your region or country?
Is EU2 map, which had Polish regions completely swapped and so in wrong places also a minor mistake?
Of course mistakes happen, and Paradox games are full of them. In this case we are not speaking of single mistake though. Polish region has a lot of duplicated or misnamed towns, and this wasn't corrected for six years. In general, in Paradox games Poland has plenty of mistakes and is one of the least developed.
For me, such mistakes and lack of care to fix them shows lack of respect towards said nation and country. Furthermore such mistakes don't happen that often in other regions. If someone from Paradox finds this region uninteresting or unimportant, or they dislike it because of history with plenty of wars between Scandinavians and West Slavs, this could be a case of racism and nationalism, something Paradox is seeming to despise.
If it would prove true, it could create a lot of bad press for Paradox, and not only in the press, but even further.
It didn't knew that having towns with proper names in proper places makes strategy hardcore.
So after all those years they have finally taken your country into notice, as you would say, and what is your reaction?
Honestly. They are digital games makers, not proffessional historians. With a very small team of programmers and developers, they made a game with insane database of rulers, and a map with hundreds of provinces full of thousands of cities, castles or towns they have never heard of before. To make everything easier, they took a map they had at their disposal - from CK1 - and tweaked it slightly. Poland was among the few regions, which were corrected back then. Unlike Germany, for instance, unlike other regions, which have been neglected for years with no revision at all. In fact, for Crusader kings (1 and 2), Poland is getting its second map overhaul. Germany got 0. North Africa got 0. Are they anti-Polish? Who is nationalist here who can't see beyond the corner of his small village?
What is major and what is minor mistake? It is a mistake, which is visible at first sight. For instance having 2 provinces placed the other way around... for instance if Gniezno was placed
west of Poznan. That is a big mistake in terms of the map, not having wrongly named barony inside a province - a barony whose name will be noticed, but only if you play directly in region, while that major bug would be noticed in every game. Yet even a big map mistake is still nothing compared to a glitch causing the game to crash (they're programmers, just to remind you).
As for towns - they were just filling holes they needed filled. Sometimes they picked a city that was there, sometimes they picked a modern one, sometimes they used one with various names. We know this from all parts of the map, Poland, Bohemia, Germany, Greece, Italy. In Poland they actually used a city, which was located few kilometers away and misspelled one its letter. What a miracle that they missed only one! Have you got any idea how hard it is to get your spelling right for foreigners?
While I understand your concerns about them using the same town in 2 or more provinces and some of them even having misspelled (I have been criticizing and suggesting corrections for years!), you might have missed that Poland is no exception in this. These kind of inaccuracies are everywhere. There are regions like for instance Germany, North Africa or Romania, where this is regular and where there are much worse inaccuracies. Many of them were in the Middle East.
They certainly didn't know the geography of those regions. Should they better have everything done propperly? Sure. Have you got any idea how long it takes to do a propper research for a region like Poland to have all provinces, but also their settlements, rulers etc. propperly researched? For Poland only it would take few months! And you've got several dozens of such regions on the map. Overhauling Persia for SWMH map mod took me almost a year and I didn't even cover half of CK2 timeline and guess what? right when other guy replaced me, he noticed that I made some mistakes, because i didn't read a source, which had proven that the ruler I used has not really ruled some territory (where I used him as placeholder), but another... and that I overlooked a city or two... or used wrong transcription and I didn't realize those 2 were the same. But were they using these standards, we might be now discussing a state of CK2 map right after its release in 2017 - 5 years after its actual release.
They certainly did mistakes in regions they didn't know well... so perhaps instead of whining and accusing them of nationalistic bias or even racism (how can a Swede be racist against Poles???), how about helping them like others do? If you think they did it intentionaly, let's do this. I will give you two weeks and you will give me a map of West Africa fixed... or Germany... or Italy - they all need to get fixed much more than your Poland (and I guess you know the same background about them as the PDX guys knew about Poland). With all the rulers, settlements, provinces shaped propperly. Oh and I forgot, you should also put it all in script (like CK2 Landed_titles.txt). Okay?
This:
But, you don't really need a historically accurate map to see that Hradec Králové is not a part of Moravia, or Znojmo is a part of Austria. Or the fact that the map looks terrible in its current state.
@[Arthur-PDX]
btw, what is that third map? Bohemian empire? It is some alternative-history, or are these
alternative facts? Since when did emperor Charles IV died in 1381, and since when was Bohemia ruled by Charles VI in 1480?
