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When are you releasing the beta
Now I deal with the decisions that create countries as you wanted and in the process I forgot that I was supposed to redo the provinces because I didn't like the ones in the game, to put it slightly. This will probably be the last thing I will do before releasing the mod. We'll see how long it will take. Tomorrow I will write more.
 
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You won't believe it, but I ran into a funny bug that swaps the keys in the game after about 5 minutes. In addition, I had other technical difficulties and I am changing jobs again. When I fix the problem, I will write something more. As for beta, I'll do as much as I can and release it on Saturday evening.
 
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Looking at the morass of cultures I can't help but be reminded of the religious map of Ck2s Lux Invicta. It's so dense with cultures and peoples that you feel should be long gone, but in the context of the mod and with our forever limited knowledge of the era could very well of existed well into the timeframe of the mod.
 
Anyone trying to play an Anatolian faction is effectively screwed the moment they move beyond being a city state. As the -25% Threshold for Civil War with the additional -3% for any growth of power means that you'll be stuck in constant civil war.
 
Anyone trying to play an Anatolian faction is effectively screwed the moment they move beyond being a city state. As the -25% Threshold for Civil War with the additional -3% for any growth of power means that you'll be stuck in constant civil war.
Well, I didn't manage to do everything. As for this region, the rulers of Gordion apparently conquered Ankara around this time. Today I will also finish decisions and other elements. I'll throw in corrections tonight. Actually, I was supposed to wait with the publication of the modification, but as I promised, I promised and I was curious what the noise was about difficulties during uploading mods to steam. And I still have the error that I said before, but it's probably unrelated to the modification.
 
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Well, I didn't manage to do everything. As for this region, the rulers of Gordion apparently conquered Ankara around this time. Today I will also finish decisions and other elements. I'll throw in corrections tonight. Actually, I was supposed to wait with the publication of the modification, but as I promised, I promised and I was curious what the noise was about difficulties during uploading mods to steam. And I still have the error that I said before, but it's probably unrelated to the modification.
That's okay. Other than the issues I had with the Anatolian faith's civil war thing everything on my end ran smoothly.
 
Dev diary 13: Beta version release
Dev diary 13: Beta version release
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Hello everyone and I would like to announce that the first version of the modification, although incomplete and far from what I wanted to achieve, landed on the steam workshop. If there is something new to be uploaded, I will announce it earlier here and in the comments on steam, and then I will add it on Sunday evening. Apart from that, I will briefly tell you what I have been doing recently.
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From the pictures above, you can guess that of course I was dealing with flags, which is something that has been catching the eye from the first DD. I tried to follow historical symbols if they existed and so Assyria has Ashur on the flag in all its belligerence, and the Kassites of Karduniash (Babylon in their language) a chariot which is an allusion to their horse breeding tradition for which they were known throughout the Middle East.
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Formable factions (of which there are still not enough which I regret) have also made flags. Examples are the flags of Urartu, a centuries-old thorn in the ass of Assyria with their god Haldi on the flag (from the royal seal) and the kingdom of Mittani, which may form out of the remains of this Bronze Age power that existed at that time. Mittani, in turn, has the Shaushtatar seal (their greatest ruler) on the flag, used for many years by his successors.

In addition to flags and decisions, I was also dealing with treasures, which I will be reviewing and adding from the scratch, which was one of the reasons for the delay (because I simply forgot about them). As I'll dig out from the above topics, I will deal with historical events, and there will be a lot of these because this period was full of Scythian invasions (at least two towards the Middle East, one towards the west and one towards today's Poland), not to mention the Celts. Don't worry, we have a lot of interesting content. Take care.
 
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Looking at my post about the Anatolian faith it's obvious that it sounds way harsher than I intended. I'm sorry if it sounded too critical. The mod is great.
 
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Looking at my post about the Anatolian faith it's obvious that it sounds way harsher than I intended. I'm sorry if it sounded too critical. The mod is great.
Nothing to worry about. This is the point, if something does not work, you have to say about it. As I said before, I'm not doing it for myself, but for you. But also a bit for myself ;)
 
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I am still wondering how to deal with it, so if you have any opinion, say it. Would you like to present them as proto-Slavs? Meanwhile, we will visit the Middle East.

Not a good idea IMO. The origin of Slavs is very mysterious, but so far majority of historians tend to agree they migrated there in V and later centuries CE. So they simply did not exist during the timeline of your mod just like Russians or Portuguese did not exist yet. In southern Poland there was Celtic influence, in north-western - Germanic. In north-eastern - some proto-Baltic I think.
 
Having some trouble with the game crashing. It's happened eventually in most games I try and play. From my saves it always seems to come about in the late 1290s.
Don't worry, I was able to chat with the snowlet and the crew and they will help with the mod. You may associate them with the Bronze Age mod and Invictus. And as for the Slavic gods, I threw them in because the only thing I know about the beliefs of the Lusatian culture is that they had some kind of sun worship. After we deal with the rest of the topics, I'll see what I can do about it.
 
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Loving the mod thus far, I'm really thankful for your work on this.

Some suggestions for formables -

Canaan (Kick out the israelites from canaan as a canaanite nation)
Carthage (Take the tunisian coast as any Phoenician colony)
Persia (Unite region of Persis as Persian tag)
Rome (Take province of Latium as Latin tag)
Hyksos (Take lower Egypt as Synaic tag)
Sumer (Kick out babylonians as Chaldean or Dilmunite culture)
Philistia (Unite Shardan, Tejeker and Philistian lands)
 
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Loving the mod thus far, I'm really thankful for your work on this.

Some suggestions for formables -

Canaan (Kick out the israelites from canaan as a canaanite nation)
Carthage (Take the tunisian coast as any Phoenician colony)
Persia (Unite region of Persis as Persian tag)
Rome (Take province of Latium as Latin tag)
Hyksos (Take lower Egypt as Synaic tag)
Sumer (Kick out babylonians as Chaldean or Dilmunite culture)
Philistia (Unite Shardan, Tejeker and Philistian lands)
Israelites are not canaanites but synaic. There were a couple of related nations to them at the time. Hmmm I will add formable Canaan to canaanite remnants.
Carthage will probably have some colonisation mechanics connected to Tyre
Persia will be formable tag when Iranian nations form their respective kingdoms like Anshan by Persians or Media by Medes.
Rome, Hyksos are wery good ideas and I have them alredy planed.
Chaldeans historicly took over Babylon so Chaldean empire was wery much a thing.
Philistines had large shotly existing kingdom in north Levant called Pallistin so maybe Philistine Empire formable from Gath, Dor, Hamath, Pattina?
 
Synaic? Actually there is a theory that Israelites emerged from the Canaanites. They did not arrive from Egypt as it's told in the Bible, but emerged in time from the indigenous population of Canaan. Since the bronze age there was a long cycle of settling down and abandoning the settlements both in Israel and Judah. At the end of next such cycle, when people achieved appropriate "civilization level" and countries were forming - Israelites simply emerged just like Moabites and Ammonites next to them.
There's also a possibility that the whole "exodus from Egypt" myth from the Bible is a distant echo of Philistines pushed back from the Nile Delta and settled in Canaan.
 
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