Mercenaries outside of Europe?

[captainradish]

I would very much like to allow mercenaries outside of Europe. Is this doable? I have been searching through my files to see if there is really any way to do it besides changing the continent of a province, but I have not been able to find anything. Is the fact that mercenaries are restricted to Europe hard-coded?

 

[MichaelM]

I believe so, yes. As you mentioned, the only workaround is to change the continent in province.csv.

 

[captainradish]

Does this have any side-effects that anyone knows of?

 

[MichaelM]

Some random events have "continent = europe" in their triggers (religious turmoil, reformation of the navy, Italian engineer, etc.). Also, cavalry and ships would be allowed (which only makes a difference if the provinces were in America).

 

[Incompetent]

Continents affect whiteman, manpower, BB for fighting pagans, BB wars, and any event that refers to a particular continent. You could make the world one continent, but it would be a pretty big change to many other aspects of the game than mercenaries.