[Mod] Minimal Cultural and Religious Diversity

[miov01]

Minimal Cultural and Religious Diversity​

Want better performance but dont want to ditch culture mechanisms completely? Me too.

This mod merges cultures everywhere and eats up smaller ones.
There are no more multiple cultures in the same state (perhaps the biggest factor performance wise), except for the USA where the Afro-American culture is a core part of the civil-war.

The total amount of cultures is reduced to 25.

Europe for example:

There are also no more special religious definitions. All cultures default to their own religion without exception.

Based on my tests with a Ryzen 3 2200g, the base game takes between 7 and 19 seconds to pass one tick. (in 1836)

This mod improves the speed at which ticks pass. It also reduces RAM usage.

You can download the mod from Paradox Mods.

Thank you and have fun!

 

[miov01]

Released version 1.1

- Removed Australian and Irish culture. Both are replaced by British.
- Removed North American Native culture. Territorry is given to adjacent cultures based on state ownership or trajectory of colonization.
- Removed Filipino culture. Replaced by Indonesian.
- Some population clean-ups in East Asia, India and South Africa.
- Zanzibar is South-African instead of Tigray.
- Rostov is Russian instead of Ukrainian.
- East Galicia is Ukrainian instead of Polish.
- West Prussia is Polish instead of German.

Total number of cultures is 33 instead of 36.

 

[miov01]

I have tested the mod with other mods now to see what conflicts there are. It only conflicts with total-overhaul mods like Victorian Flavour Mod or The Great Rework.

For both of them, to get around the conflict the following directories need to be renamed/removed:
/common/country_definitions
/common/history
/map_data

 

[miov01]

Another fix update:
- Fixed most countries from regressing back to vanilla cultures.
- Fixed unification plays for Germany, Italy and Scandinavia.

 

[miov01]

Released version 1.4

- Completed all country culture definitions.

- Made Corsica Italian culture.

- Made Alsace-Lorraine German culture.

- Merged Polish and Ukrainian culture together.

- Dissolved Czecho-Slovakian culture. Czechia becomes German and Slovakia becomes Polish-Ukrainian.

- Turned Balkan-Slovakian into Balkan. Merged into it Romanian, Hungarian and Greek cultures.

- Merged Turkish culture into Middle-Eastern.

- Replaced Mexican and South-American culture with Spanish.

- Replaced Hausa culture with Fulbe.

- Replaced Tigray culture with Swahili.

- Turned some American islands back to European cultures due to ownership and no considerable population.

- Reworked cultural borders in Africa. Equatorial Bantu significantly expanded. Borders look nicer and make more sense.

- Updated screenshots on mod page.

Number of cultures is reduced to 25.

 

[Eddie121]

Will you make it available for steam as well?
Or a direct download link?
1.2 has pushed the envelope a bit, but one will still reach the point where the game is unworkable.

 

[miov01]

Will you make it available for steam as well?
Or a direct download link?
1.2 has pushed the envelope a bit, but one will still reach the point where the game is unworkable.

I am working on a version for 1.2 as the current version is not compatible with it due to some changes to countries.

The Paradox page allows to download regardless of ownership, only account. But sure I'll make a direct link as well.

As for Steam I never sent mods there (seems like you need some kind of program) and their anti-freedom of sharing stance and monopoly for mods makes me avoid them.

 

[miov01]

So turns out the 1.2 version has some kind of problem with changing cultures. I have to give up on it for now since it seems to be out of my hands...

This was all supposed to be west european instead of blank

 

[NarcomancerPL]

Ok, but what's the point of this mod? It isn't historical, so why bother?

 

[miov01]

Performance?

 

[NarcomancerPL]

Performance?

Weird tbh, but sure you can mod everything you want

 

[EwaldvonKleist]

How much does this mod improve performance?

Thanks to all modders who make performance mods for people with standard computer production method.