OK, people, GMI's point occurred to me late last night (great minds, all that), and I said unto myself, "Boy, am I stupid!" Now, I've looked at the EU2Vic forum, and it seems there is some MYmap-related activity. Also, given the source code for that utility, I'm pretty confident I can modify it rather quickly to produce a good conversion for MYmap. (At this moment I don't have the code, though, only the compiled utility; without that, I am a little less confident - I don't know how flexible that code is, it might well make some assumptions that aren't true for MYmap.) So it's not a deal-breaker, as I thought yesterday. But it is something to take into account.
About the other numbers in the province files, bin is correct for the items he mentioned. The number after the province name is just the base income, in CK, of the province; this doesn't change when moving to MYmap, so you don't need to worry about it. (That's why I didn't mention it, not wanting to confuse anyone - this seems to have backfired.) Only the two numbers I highlighted are important, and you only need to change the second one.
Let me go through the process in a little more detail, with the province I am currently dealing with. This is 645, and here is the original data for it :
645;Hendjan;3;532;SHIR;PERS
So; the first thing I do is to find Hendjan on the CK map. There are several ways of doing this. My preferred method is to look it up in the utility I linked in the post above, just brute-force searching through the whole map; I am helped somewhat by knowing roughly where I am, namely Persia. As a general rule, province 644 is right next to 645, so once you've found your starting point, you can ust look around the previous province. Hendjan, as it happens, is right north of the Persian Gulf :
Having found Hendjan in CK, I want to figure out where it is in MYmap. I take a look at
this post, in
this thread, which also contains the MYmap versions of other parts of the world. It looks to me as though Hendjan falls into either Kuhgiluya, or Dashtistan; not wanting to spend a lot of time on it, I assign it to Dashtistan. (Sometimes these names are a bit hard to read; for such cases, I have an EU with MYmap running.) Now then, what number is Dashtistan? The map I linked doesn't say, although some of the maps in that thread do have numbers. I could use EU2 with the 'showid' cheat, as bin suggested. Or I could look it up in the file 'province.csv' in the 'db' folder of the my EU2 installation - being sure, of course, to use the MYmap EU2, not the vanilla one! I find the second option quicker. A rapid search for the string 'dashti' in the province.csv file brings me this line :
1719;Dashtistan;inland;shiite;persian;0;20;1;0;0;0;2;5;0;0;0;0;0;0;grai;0;0;7;0;0;0;0;0;6054;3113;6017;3100;0;0;6049;3148;0;-100;-100;0;-100;-100;0;-100;-100;0;-100;-100;0;Persia;Middle East;Asia;Dashtistan;0;0;0;1;0;0;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1;-1
Most of this is ignorable bumph; the only important thing is the province number, which I've highlighted. So now I know everything I need, and can change the original line to this :
645;Hendjan;3;
1719;SHIR;PERS
(You'll note that if I had assigned Hendjan to Kuhgiluya instead, then 532 would have been correct and I needn't have made a change, since Kuhgiluya is indeed number 532 in MYmap. This happens about 50% of the time, since MYmap doesn't move many provinces around, it just adds new ones.)
Done! I now move on to the next province, which is
644;Shiraz;5;533;SHIR;PERS
Shiraz, Shiraz... Ah, there it is, right next to Hendjan. Falls pretty naturally into Kuhgiluya, I'd say. 532 it is :
644;Shiraz;5;
532;SHIR;PERS
Next province!
Note that many CK provinces can fall into one EU province; that is not a problem. (I could happily assign Shiraz to 1719, if I thought that was the best palce for it.) But try to make sure that each EU2 province does have at least one CK province assigned to it.
It sounds complicated, but it goes fairly quickly once you get into it - lookup CK, decide EU2 province, lookup EU2 province number, change, next. It's just tedious, not difficult. Hence my requests for help.
About the Hungary situation - certainly, we would at some point have forced Hungary and Spain to give up their conquests in the Middle East; but I do not feel it is right to deprive them of the pleasure of struggling against that outcome. Who knows, maybe Hungary could have won! After all, he should have a natural ally in Spain, who could surely see himself as next on our little list; and it has to be said, while Norway views the Middle East situation with concern, a quick backstab against our immediate enemy Poland, while his armies are busy in the South, has considerable attraction. And if not, well, it can be quite fun to be on the losing end of a long-drawn-out struggle, as I (recently) and Sterk (in the past) have every reason to know. But to just miss a session, and find that somebody has quite arbitrarily chopped off half your kingdom - I don't think that's very fun at all. We have protections against AI-bashing for a reason. (Although Lurken, having now missed four or five sessions in a row, is getting dangerously close to the point where we're going to have to declare him AI, and do whatever we like to his kingdom.)
Now, I admit that this is a bit of a special case, since it was actually Ear's AI that DOWed, and Poland was likewise AI when it won. I'm not saying Hungary should get off scot-free. Still, I think the loss of three king titles is a really major, un-fun punishment for missing a single session. Could we go back to the autosave, and fight it out from there? If so, I think Italy should pull his armies out of Hungary for a bit (as should Byz) to give Ear a chance to recover - after all, the occupied territory was taken against the AI, which is hardly a fair match. Or we could let Ear choose a Hungarian Duke of his dynasty, one with a claim to his kingdoms, and see how much of Poland he can grab in the total and complete collapse that is certainly coming.
