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HoI4 Dev Diary - A Post-Colonial World: Map Changes and New Tags

Hello everyone, and welcome to yet another dev diary for the 1.6 “Ironclad” update and the Man the Guns DLC! As this diary goes live I'll be on vacation in Norway (where among other things I visited the Gneisenau's "Caesar" turret located at Austrått Fort in Ørland, close to Trondheim, Norway), so my replies in the thread below may be a bit slower than usual :). As a little bonus, some pictures and info on the gun emplacement are in the spoiler below.

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The Gneisenau 283mm (11-inch) cannons in their turret. After being bombed in Kiel harbor (where she had just finished repairs for previous damage), the ship was so heavily damaged (including the destruction of the forward "A" turret), and Hitler was so disillusioned in the performance of his surface fleet, that it was decided to have the ship scrapped altogether. The turrets were to be used as coastal gun emplacements, and the "Caesar" or "C" turret was moved here to defend the harbor of Trondheim. Extra armor was added, especially to the top (an extra 200 metric tons of steel). Total weight of the turret was 1,000 metric tons (compared to the 800 metric tons it would've weighed when placed on Gneisenau). Located on an elevation of about 50-60 meters, the range was 42,6km, reaching all the way out to the Atlantic, and also to the Trondheim harbor. Considering it was placed on solid ground, accuracy was also markedly improved over ship-based artillery.

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Some of the Gneisenau's engines were also relocated here, in the complex inside the mountain. These provided all the power to the turret and the facility. It could rotate 360 degrees (but no further, or the electrical cables would snap - on a ship, due to the superstructure, this was never a problem anyway) in 50 seconds. Alternatively, if power failed, the entire five-story turret (every level rotated as one along with the visible part of the turret) could be hand-cranked and rotated by 4 soldiers. The engines (one shown here) are the original ones, and still operate to this day.

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The guns could fire 9 rounds each minute (so a full salvo of 3 each 20 seconds). The 315kg (for high explosive) and 330kg (for armor piercing) shells were launched at 890-900m/s (by means of a 76kg cartridge and additional 41kg powder bag), with a gun elevation of -8 to +40 degrees. They only fired a handful of test rounds in the 1940s and early 1950s, after which population density became high enough that they could no longer test-fire the guns because doing so blew out all windows in a 3km radius. It never once fired its guns in anger at an enemy. This was the "C" turret, located at the rear of the Gneisenau. The "B" or "Bruno" turret was used as a similar emplacement near Bergen, Norway, while the barrels of the destroyed "A" or "Anton" turret received new housings and were used in fortifications in Rozenburg, near Hoek van Holland in the Netherlands, to defend Rotterdam port.


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The range finder. It was originally located at the command post at Lerberen, 2-2,5km away from the emplacement. The turret therefore had 2 periscope binoculars so they could double-check whether they were actually firing at enemy or friendly ships (in case the rangefinder had been overrun by enemy forces and they were feeding 'bad' info to the fort).

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South-facing picture of the fjord the gun emplacement overlooks (the fjords leading to the Atlantic are to the right, Trondheim harbor is far off in the distance to the left). The facility was manned by 125 soldiers, including the original turret commander and some other personnel from the Gneisenau. In addition, it sported an anti-tank wall, bunker, and 20 smaller-caliber cannon emplacements around the periphery for duty as anti-tank guns or for firing flares (one stationary Skoda 4,7cm anti-tank cannon still remains, now). After the war's end, the whole fort was taken over by the Norwegians, until the late '60s when the threat of the USSR became less, and they decided to get rid of it. It was turned into a museum in the early '90s.

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Glorious Real-Life ErrorDog approvingly observing shell fire raining down upon his enemies.

Last week we had a look at the new, reworked focus tree for the United Kingdom, including a whole new path for decolonization. Naturally, this elicited a flurry of questions that (because of this week’s dev diary) I could not answer at the time...

I notice one focus talks about a Three-Nation solution in India, does this mean we'll be seeing a tag for Burma or Sri Lanka? Will there be other new tags involved in the decolonisation tree beyond those which are already present?

Also, will Burma finally have its own tag? It was historically separated from the British Raj one year after the game begin.

@Bratyn the focus the three nation solution does mean a tag for bangledesh/east Pakistan, Burma or something else altogether?

Since there is a decolonisation path does that mean that there are more releasable nations in the colonies, like for example Malta or Ghana? Also, is the third nation in the Raj going to be Burma?

Are y'all going to make the African releasables...well...more like real African releasables?

Does the three state solution release Pakistan, India and Burma? Or India, Pakistan Bangladesh. Or India, Pakistan and a Sikh state?

-WHY ISN'T KAZAKHSTAN RELEASABLE YET???

I can now answer all these questions with a single resounding “YES!” (and in the case of the last one; a “sorry it took a while but it’s now finally in” ;) ).

As the design for the UK focus tree rework began to take shape, it was clear we needed decolonization of some sort, and all the tags and map changes that come with it. Now, we could have simply done the British Empire with the current in-game borders and be done with it, but I wanted to do things thoroughly and so chipped in a sizeable amount of my “personal development time” to create new provinces, new states, adjust existing ones, add new tags, and to not only do so for the British Empire, but also for the French, Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian, Spanish, and Italian colonial empires, and even for the Soviet Union.

Due to the sheer number of modern-day countries (and especially microstates) this process is by no means complete, and I may well continue to use some of my personal time to develop things further. However, as most of this is, in the end, done in my own time, I will not be making any promises…

Before we delve into the meat of things, I do want to give ample credit where credit is due. This would not have been possible without the help of our Community for making the flags that I needed for these tags (as I could not bother artists with it). A big thank-you to everyone who chipped in! I would like to single out one of our Betas in particular (you know who you are!), as he alone did close to 95% of all 236 new flags. Another shout-out to the Modern Day 4 mod team for allowing me to use their namelists and saving me a heckuva lot of research time!

Now, let’s begin.

Asia (Central, India, and Papua New Guinea)

As some may have noticed, flags and even tag files for Kazakhstan have been present in the game folders for a while now. The reason this tag never made it in before was because of certain border changes that were required, but we never had time for before. These have now been made.

Extensive work has been done to properly represent the tangled mess that are the borders of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, and also the northern border the latter two of these countries have with Kazakhstan. Further minor changes were made to the “Orenburg”-”Magnitogorsk” borders with Kazakhstan in the northeast. This now allows us to have…

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Central Asia before.

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Central Asia after. Second picture with released nations to make the borders more visible.


Next up, we’ve had Pakistan for a while, but no possibility for further splitting up the Indian subcontinent. After ample adjustments to the “East Bengal” state, it’s now possible to release Bangladesh as well.

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East Bengal before.

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East Bengal after.

Total list of new tags:
  • Kazakhstan
  • Uzbekistan
  • Tajikistan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Bangladesh
  • Sri Lanka
  • Burma
  • Papua New Guinea
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All Central Asian tags released.

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All new tags in India.


Middle East

Though some attention has been given to this region before (with Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Jordan being releasable), there was more work left to be done. Here, map changes were limited to splitting up the “Abu Dhabi” state by adding the “Qatar” state.

Total list of new tags:
  • Kuwait
  • Qatar
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Cyprus

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All old and new Middle Eastern tags released.

Americas (Caribbean)

This region did not see any map changes. However, I added a total of 9 tags to the region:
  • Belize
  • Jamaica
  • Bahamas
  • Puerto Rico
  • Guadeloupe
  • Trinidad & Tobago (for convenience also including the British windward & leeward islands)
  • Guyana
  • Suriname
  • Curacao

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All new American tags released.

Africa

Oh boy… Where to start. Clockwise? Let’s do this!

First, to make Sudanese-Egyptian borders possible, I split the “Western Desert” state in two, with the Sudanese part called “North Darfur”.

Next, the “Rhodesia” state in southern Africa was huge, encompassing three countries. It was split up into three parts, making it possible to separate Malawi and Zambia from Zimbabwe. In addition, cores were redistributed so that Kenya no longer controls all of Uganda and Tanganyika (which are now represented by their own tags).

In addition, Belgian Congo was not without its flaws either, and so new one-province states were split off from “Stanleyville” state to make Rwanda and Burundi possible.

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South-east Africa before.

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South-east Africa after. Both pictures with released tags so the changes are actually visible.

If “Rhodesia” was bad, basically all of French Africa was enough to give me a headache… In possibly the most sweeping map changes, the borders of the “Gabon”, “Equatorial Africa”, and even the impassible “Southern Sahara” states were heavily redrawn, provinces were moved between the states, and the states themselves were heavily balkanized. This resulted in the addition of 4 all-new states: “Middle Congo”, “Cameroon”, “Chad”, and the “B.E.T.” (Borkou-Ennedi-Tibesti region). In addition, “Cameroon” state’s border was adjusted slightly at the expense of “Nigeria”.

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Central Africa before.

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Central Africa after.

The next set deals with the extremely low-effort “French West Africa” state. 6 (!) new states were introduced: “Guinea”, “Ivory Coast”, “Upper Volta”, “Niger”, “Togo”, and “Dahomey”. The state itself was renamed to “Mali”, and lost an additional province to the impassible “Mauretania” state. The border with “Mauretania” was then ‘flattened’, and “Tombouctou” state was split off from the “Mauretania” state (and their borders redrawn) to enable proper Malian borders.

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West Africa before.

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West Africa after.

Finally, the remaining minor changes include splitting the single “Gambia” state’s province into two, as well as splitting off the Sidi Ifni enclave from “Rio de Oro”, turning it into its own state.

In addition, (1 point) victory points have been added throughout the continent so that every releasable African nation now has at least one VP. (EDIT: Since the writing of this Dev Diary I have added 1-point VPs to all other releasable tags as well, so that each tag has at least one VP.)

Mauretania, as it is fully impassible in the game, unfortunately did not make it in as a tag.

Total list of new tags:
  • Morocco
  • Algeria
  • Tunisia
  • Sudan
  • Eritrea
  • Djibouti
  • Somalia
  • Uganda
  • Rwanda
  • Burundi
  • Tanzania
  • Malawi
  • Zambia
  • Republic of Congo
  • Gabon
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Nigeria
  • Niger
  • Dahomey
  • Togo
  • Upper Volta
  • Ghana
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Mali
  • Sierra Leone
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Senegal
  • The Gambia

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"Family Portrait" of all African tags.

Europe

“Bessarabia”’s borders were the victim here, as to make modern-day borders possible it had to be split up into two. A new state “Southern Bessarabia” was added, with cores of both the Ukraine and Moldova.

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Bessarabia before.

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Bessarabia after.

Next, Poland. Yes, again. Some of you may remember that I adjusted the states and provinces in Eastern Germany to allow for the Oder-Neisse line for the 1.5.2 update. I now decided to do the same for Poland’s northern and western borders. A new state, “Königsberg” was split off from “Ostpreussen”, along a roughly east-west border. Virtually all Polish states in the East had provinces redrawn and moved between states, now enabling true modern-day borders for Poland in all directions.

Furthermore, I split up “Wilno” state, renaming it to “East Wilno” and adding a new state “West Wilno”, the division between which follows modern-day Lithuanian borders. In addition, there’s a little secret for those players who lead Lithuania to victory against whoever controls “West Wilno”, and wrest control of the state from them…

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Poland before.

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Poland after.

And finally, after the dev diary showcasing the Oder-neisse line border changes there were some requests from the community to adjust the “Vojvodina” state borders so that there wouldn’t be an ugly ‘jab’ of the “Serbia” state protruding into Austria-Hungary’s borders. At the time, I quickly hacked this in by making the “Vojvodina” state gobble up the provinces in question from the “Serbia” state, but this then upset people because it made historical occupation zones impossible to recreate. I now put in some time to fix that, as well. A new state was split off from “Vojvodina” called “West Banat”, representing the territory that previously was a part of the “Serbia” state. In addition, province 11580 was moved from “Vojvodina” to “Croatia”. This now makes it possible to have both historical occupation zones and ‘clean’ Austria-Hungarian borders. :)

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Vojvodina before.

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Vojvodina after.

Total list of new tags:
  • Malta
  • Moldova
  • Scotland
  • Wales
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Showcasing new releasable tags and new Polish borders.

The final tally of all additions world-wide is thus (so far):
  • 8 new provinces
  • 22 new states
  • 59 new releasable tags
  • A lot of province and state border changes
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Drool-worthy picture of a balkanized world (ironically not the balkans (yet) :( ).

All this will be included in the free 1.6 “Ironclad" update. In addition, because of the sheer number of new tags added, we are looking at possible ways to prevent people who go down the Empire path to manually release tags and get the ‘best of both worlds’, with an unstoppable zerg rush of small nations who use their generic trees to build up industry. To this end, decolonizing via the British decolonization tree currently only keeps 20% of all decolonized nations - the other 80% will leave the faction when they become independent. Naturally, this number is subject to change - we want decolonization to be attractive, but not the automatic go-to way to play the game as UK. In addition, I saw multiple people wondering if we'll be representing semi-autonomous regions as puppets rather than integrated colony territories. This is something that hasn't been decided yet.

That’s it for now! There’s always more map changes to be made, but I’m quite happy with where we’ve come so far. This also marks the last dev diary of July, as the rest of the team is following (or, like myself, has already followed) Dan’s lead and heading off on vacations (a true leader leads from the front, after all! ;) ). This results in a two-week Dev Diary hiatus. You can expect the regular Dev Diary schedule to resume on the first of August, when we’ll talk about a little something we’ve stolen from a certain other PDS game, and which we think will have incredible potential for HoI4... Have a great summer vacation, everyone! :)

Rejected Titles:

Putting that Sausage Factory in Tanzania Tanganyika on the map

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Colonialism... Not even once...

Implementation of these map changes was accompanied by regular exasperated cursing in despair

We now have the ability to put country_name_here on the map

We now have the ability to wipe country_name_here off the map

Rated R for bordergore

The Bratyn giveth and the Bratyn taketh away

Trinidad and Tobago World Conquest when?

"Screw this war, I'm off to do my own thing in the Bahamas!" is now an actual thing you can do

I don't envy whoever has to update the "Anti-Colonialist Crusade"... Oh wait, that's probably me :(

"Hello, and welcome to the 59th episode of 'Beta Presents: Fun with Flags'!"

A beautiful tapestry of Ruina Imperii

If I stop responding it's because the team finally got sick of me breaking their savegames

New resource to replace oil: potassium
 
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Nicely done. I always love to see good boarders. I am going from memory here, but it looks like you are getting pretty close to being 1914 compatable.

To be done:
  1. North Schleswig
  2. Eupen
  3. A veriety of further boarder fiddling for Camaroon (good luck with that);)
 
I'll bring it up (sounds like a cool idea), but no promises.
If you start looking at country colour changes don't forget to give non communist russia a way to turn beautiful green and for civil war countries to take on their correct colour when they win.


No he's not, but my dog (especially in that pose) bore a striking resemblance to him :) Consider him petted, though!
He's such a good boy.
 
If the USSR manages to annex Königsberg, will there be an option to rename the state "Kaliningrad" and the VPs within by their modern Russian names? Also, will aspects of decolonisation such as changes in city names such "Salisbury" to "Harare" be implemented by decision? Or "Lourenço Marques" to "Maputu"? And what about the change of the capital of Kazakhstan from its original location in Alma-Ata to Astana?
Considering what The USSR did to make that a core territory and issues tlparadix avoid It would be odd for them to include the post war border changes in eastern Europe and especially how those were given permanency. Especially since the other side had plans on doing similair things which relates to other topics they want to avoid.
 
This is great and it would be amazing if you added Northern Schleswig, Eupen and Malmedy,
old colonies like german new cameroon, german new guinea and accurate namibia (Caprivi Strip).
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I know it's not really a "decolonization" thing, but would it be possible to have something for Alsace-Moselle ?
I recently played France, go rogue, return victorious with the Free France and allies, but...lost Alsace-Lorraine because Germany became democratic (my mistake, I had plans for a global destabilization, but revolters did not wait for me to retake Alsace-Lorraine :() and naturally retained Alsac-Lorraine. Problem is, historically people weren't all german supporters (majority wasn't), and it is somewhat strange that it stayed german if Germany didn't win.

Political and social situation in Alsace-Lorraine was very, very tense after WWII, especially after the Bordeaux Trial, and there was resentment for both Germany and France. When the "Malgré-Nous" have been tried in Bordeaux, there was fear for riot in Alsace-Lorraine, and it led to an unsatisfactory sentence for everyone. The risk of uprising was real and endorsed by mayors and other representatives, whose called for an amnesty. Without this amnesty, who knows what can have happened.

Perhaps not decolonization, but situation is globally the same. Resentment against biggest country judged as unfair and disrespectul towards history, culture and people, even langage (France took great efforts to make local langage to disappear in the years after WWII). After WWI, Alsacians weren't granted french citizenship (also they were french in 1870), they were granted varying citizenship levels depending on the level of "francophilia".
With a brutal integration by Germany in 1871 and 1940, and by France in 1918 and 1944, it would have been a possibility for Alsace to go on its way after WWII.

Do you think it could be a thing for a new state, and perhaps even a event chain ?
 
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I am sorry but I didn't like this middle east update, where is Hatay state and country which historically broke free and joined Turkey?
It appears it broke away from French Syria to Turkey in 1939. Seems like a good event for revised France to get in the future. My guess is the core(s) will be fixed then too.
 
@Bratyn In my oppinion, all of these should have their own tags:
Europe:
-Brittany: Breton independentism had some popularity at that moment, and even far right nationalists helped the nazis.
-Catalonia: They proclaimed independence in 1931 and also got a Statute of Autonomy in 1932.
-Basque Country: The next to have a Statute of Autonomy un 1936 in Spain, one of the causes of the Spanish Civil War.
-Galicia: Also got a Statute of Autonomy, but it was during the Civil War. Galicia had a government in exile and also proclaimed an independent republic in 1931.
-Bosnia: One of the countries in Yugoslavia that can't gain independence in game, Bosniak muslims even formed part of the SS.
-Slovenia: The other country that should be able to be released in order to completely split Yugoslavia.
-Faroe: If Malta can gain independence, Faroe may have an opportunity too.
Africa:
-Western Sahara: Independentist movement has been very strong here since the Cold War, first against Spain and now against Morocco.
-Mauritania: Don't know why every country in French Africa gains independence except Mauritania.
-Namibia: They suffered a lot with South African Apartheid and had a revolution in Cold War.
-Rif Republic: First proclaimed in 1921 and lasting 5 years, they wanted independence from both Spain and Morocco.
-Canary Islands: They've never been independent, but they're part of Africa and the African Union supported the independentist guerrilla in Cold War.
-Cape Verde: This could also be part of Guinea-Bissau, as it was at some point.
Asia:
-Punjab: The creation of a Sikh state was a real claim, but the INC said no.
America:
-Greenland: Independentist parties have been gaining a lot of popularity here since the last decades.
 
It appears it broke away from French Syria to Turkey in 1939. Seems like a good event for revised France to get in the future. My guess is the core(s) will be fixed then too.
Yes Its historical event that should be included even in base game. But looks like people prefer fantasy over history. They gave me lot of negative votes over it. :rolleyes:
 
Yes Its historical event that should be included even in base game. But looks like people prefer fantasy over history. They gave me lot of negative votes over it. :rolleyes:
Or maybe devs didn't had time to add it since Turkey didn't do anything in WW2... i'm pretty sure when Turkey will get focus tree your wish will be granted.
 
Considering what The USSR did to make that a core territory and issues tlparadix avoid It would be odd for them to include the post war border changes in eastern Europe and especially how those were given permanency. Especially since the other side had plans on doing similair things which relates to other topics they want to avoid.
The game already gives Poland cores on German land after the Yalta conference so I see no reason why the USSR can't get a core on Königsberg.
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Under any circumstances the event need to be reworked to take Königsberg into consideration when "fixing" Prussia
 
Next, the “Rhodesia” state in southern Africa was huge, encompassing three countries. It was split up into three parts, making it possible to separate Malawi and Zambia from Zimbabwe. In addition, cores were redistributed so that Kenya no longer controls all of Uganda and Tanganyika (which are now represented by their own tags).
Will it be possible to form the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland ?
 
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All this will be included in the free 1.6 “Ironclad" update. In addition, because of the sheer number of new tags added, we are looking at possible ways to prevent people who go down the Empire path to manually release tags and get the ‘best of both worlds’, with an unstoppable zerg rush of small nations who use their generic trees to build up industry. To this end, decolonizing via the British decolonization tree currently only keeps 20% of all decolonized nations - the other 80% will leave the faction when they become independent. Naturally, this number is subject to change - we want decolonization to be attractive, but not the automatic go-to way to play the game as UK. In addition, I saw multiple people wondering if we'll be representing semi-autonomous regions as puppets rather than integrated colony territories. This is something that hasn't been decided yet.
Good news. Regarding the optimal strategy for the UK I would like to stress that before the decolonization there was a British empire i.e. the biggest empire in the world. After that there was a crippled island full of issues and left on its own. Are you sure that your solution is ok?
 
@Bratyn
First of all I want to thank you for the Vojvodina changes that I really criticised for a while now. Second, I would like to ask you about the modernization of the maps (for e.g city tiles for balkan cities that have 500k or more population to utilize the city differences in Europe better) also adding more victory points to each state have a minimum 1 (like Craiova, Nis etc). Third, why didn't you added more states to the polish Ukranian border to recreate the northern borders of the Austro-Hungarian borders + have the correct post war border of poland and ukraine (see attached image) +1: Vojvodina had wrong population data since the change + i think prospect for resources should be available for oil (right now Yugoslavia has a focus that adds extra oil, but Hungary also gathered oil from that area) +2: There are countries that have wrong population data (like, Hungary had around 9,1m population in 1936, not 8,3).
Thank you for the fixes and I hope that more changes like this can happen
 

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They plain on redoing Spain in the future. The states for Spain will probably be redone at that time as needed.
I think it has a lot of priority, perhaps could be brought in "Ironclad" or release the next expansion about countriesin the mediterranean (Italian and French rework as many people demand, Turkey, Greece, Spain and Civil War etc.)
 
Man at this time the Partido Galeguista was very important and Castelao was the main defender of the republican government after Civil War. Also, Galician is a language, not a dialect, and I don't know how can you say that independentism has never been important in Galicia, like half of the Galician parliament is independentist (and I even form part of a Galician independentist party).
I never said Galego wasn't a language, and I am happy to debate with you about what about Spain you hate so much. HALF OF THE POPULATION SEPARATIST?!? Please cite facts that are actually true. Here in Canarias we have this Movimiento Canarias Libre which pushes for a referenddum but nobody actually takes them seriously, pretty much like you guys.
 
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@Bratyn Quick question, if the UK goes completes the decolonized tree, does that mean that Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales becomes independent too? Or is that a manual thing?

As it stands right now, Wales and Scotland are manual, while Northern Ireland gets returned to Ireland through the decolonization tree :)

Cool, I will say things you already know and from what time is needed, but I like to do that:

About Mauretania. This at some point should be adressed, it's strange that France hold only a piece of impassable desert. You could just divide the area to create another passable area, the rest will be coloured by ownership.

About Western Sahara, you could simply add it a little like palestina, adding with an option for Morocco to put cores on there.

Maldives could receive a tag too.

I'll see about this - I'd have to clear this with other people on the team first (I don't want to mess too much with the impassible terrain there). About Maldives; this is true, but there's a bunch of other nations as well, especially in the pacific. Who knows, if I get the time, they're definitely on my list ;)

Many of these territorial claims are spurious to begin with or significantly outdated by the beginning of the game. Canada hasn't made any claims on the Pacific Northwest since the 1850s, for example. Maybe some some of these countries should have claims on the territories in question, but cores wouldn't make much sense at all. I like the idea of a releasable Native-American nation, although realistically there wouldn't be a significant enough native population or political influence anywhere in the U.S. to even come CLOSE to achieving independence.

Claims are more problematic in HoI4 than in our other games, as they often result in the AI declaring war using them. Cores are less of a problem.

A fully releasable word has been something I've always wished for but I have a few suggestions/more accurately questions as a modder who has poked around the game files as well as someone who plays a ton of HOI4 multiplayer. Sorry if this seems like a game of 20 Questions, I've just been thinking about what such an update would do for a while. I'll bold the ones I want answered most.

- Since Kazakstan had cores on its land that were hashed out in the code even before this update and a tag already set, will the Kazakh nation use the same flags or will they be adjusted? (they're kinda well basic to say the least)

- Will India be able to have a choice of the release of Burma/Pakistan/Bangladesh or will Decolonization not give the choice?

- Will the U.S.'s Monroe Doctrine national spirits and guarantees affect released countries in the Americas? I feel like if not they should as that would be an accurate representation of U.S. Foreign Policy?

- I noted in the "Family Portrait" photo that Madagascar's color is also on the islands near to it. Will they get cores on them as well?

- Will the USSR get cores on Königsberg after the Yalta event or will it be a claim?

- This is sorta hinted at towards the end, but will the final Yugoslav countries be releasable?

- Will Istria be split up to accommodate the Italian/Croatian/Slovenian divide in the modern day?

- Right now they're using the flags currently in the game files.

- If UK decides to split off Pakistan/Bangladesh, India gets no choice. If UK decides not to split off Pakistan/Bangladesh, India gets a choice to grant them independence or get the region engulfed into a series of nasty civil wars.

- They should.

- Yes.

- Probably it will be a colony state.

- Not currently. I would like to add them, but decolonization was (and still is) more of a priority right now. I can't make any promises for when this might happen.

- Not currently.
 
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