Here's the thing about province changes.
There's probably a few that need to be done, but every time it gets done, one needs to do some rearranging of province numbers and it can cause a lot of issues and get messy quick if it's done willy-nilly. What we (I) should do is write this down and record other suggested province changes, so they can all be done at one time and we can be done with it. There have also been purported rumors of Camara doing a US update that marries his map with vanilla's India. Idk how far along this is or if it's even happening, but we should probably incorporate those around the same time.
While we're on the subject, I'm not a big fan of province sizes in some places (I didn't draw all of them); in the steppes it makes sense because populations are more dispersed and settlements are further apart, so in order to keep provinces balanced with the rest of the world, they need to be bigger. Africa does not have such a wide population spread, yet on average one province in sub-Saharan Africa is the size of 3-5 provinces elsewhere (this affects both West and East Africa). I have no problem dividing them up further, but the one thing that stands in my way is the fact that I haven't seen much attention being put towards it as it is. I understand that it isn't a focal point of the mod and it's also not a big attraction for history buffs, but at the same time, I'm not too keen on putting a significant amount of work into something no one will really care about. Nonetheless, if this is something more people would like to see, it should be put in around the same time.
There's probably a few that need to be done, but every time it gets done, one needs to do some rearranging of province numbers and it can cause a lot of issues and get messy quick if it's done willy-nilly. What we (I) should do is write this down and record other suggested province changes, so they can all be done at one time and we can be done with it. There have also been purported rumors of Camara doing a US update that marries his map with vanilla's India. Idk how far along this is or if it's even happening, but we should probably incorporate those around the same time.
While we're on the subject, I'm not a big fan of province sizes in some places (I didn't draw all of them); in the steppes it makes sense because populations are more dispersed and settlements are further apart, so in order to keep provinces balanced with the rest of the world, they need to be bigger. Africa does not have such a wide population spread, yet on average one province in sub-Saharan Africa is the size of 3-5 provinces elsewhere (this affects both West and East Africa). I have no problem dividing them up further, but the one thing that stands in my way is the fact that I haven't seen much attention being put towards it as it is. I understand that it isn't a focal point of the mod and it's also not a big attraction for history buffs, but at the same time, I'm not too keen on putting a significant amount of work into something no one will really care about. Nonetheless, if this is something more people would like to see, it should be put in around the same time.
