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Looks nice! Does this mean we're getting more work done on the 1000 bookmark as a whole?
splitting the German blob looks good.
I'd have one little nitpick though:
the south of Bohemia and Moravia were not German. The German colonization of the area started in about 1250's and despite using German names, the nobles were "Czech" well until 1640's, when after the 30-years war, the face of Bohemian and Moravian nobility changed.
Some Czechs might then argue, that the regions shouldn't be German during the entire CK2 era (and strictly historicaly speaking, I could both agree and disagree with them). I wouldn't be that strict, since the foundation of towns across the country had huge impact on the country with majority of the settlers being German. Thus making the regions German in 1260's (south Moravia) to 1300's south Bohemia can simulate this phenomenon. But certainly the regions should stay "Czech" all the way until that time.
I know that historicity isn't your main concern, but since you're improving the cultural face of the mod making it closer to historical reality, this would be logical step.
I'd have one little nitpick though:
the south of Bohemia and Moravia were not German. The German colonization of the area started in about 1250's and despite using German names, the nobles were "Czech" well until 1640's, when after the 30-years war, the face of Bohemian and Moravian nobility changed.
Some Czechs might then argue, that the regions shouldn't be German during the entire CK2 era (and strictly historicaly speaking, I could both agree and disagree with them). I wouldn't be that strict, since the foundation of towns across the country had huge impact on the country with majority of the settlers being German. Thus making the regions German in 1260's (south Moravia) to 1300's south Bohemia can simulate this phenomenon. But certainly the regions should stay "Czech" all the way until that time.
I know that historicity isn't your main concern, but since you're improving the cultural face of the mod making it closer to historical reality, this would be logical step.
This is already the case now instead for few dev builds; that pic was before we did a QA pass on the province history
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The use of "Swiss" culture (instead of the German, Italian, French and Ladin meltin pot) is a gameplay choice or what?
Just asking!
Thanks for the answers!
Just asking!
Thanks for the answers!
There's not a Swiss culture "sensu stricto". Swiss people are a federetion of German, Italian and French folks.
In that case Swiss is just the name we opted to use; we could just as easily call it what we internally call it, namely "Alemannic" or some variation there-of if confusion is an issue though.
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Ah, ok! Thanks! 
I believe it's better to use something that underline the German part of the Swiss people (i.e. Alemannic or whatever it is), to better represent the area of the map it should cover.
I believe it's better to use something that underline the German part of the Swiss people (i.e. Alemannic or whatever it is), to better represent the area of the map it should cover.
Ah, ok! Thanks!
I believe it's better to use something that underline the German part of the Swiss people (i.e. Alemannic or whatever it is), to better represent the area of the map it should cover.
That's a fair point, it certainly wasn't meant to imply something akin to "modern" Swiss but a part of the division of the "common German" root.
Are there any plans to break up some of the other massive culture blobs like Russian?
Nope. There's only so many literal tens of thousands of character history lines one can tolerate in any given time span. I think germans.txt is nearly 1mb of raw text alone.
Though for your specific example, Russian doesn't actually exist in early bookmarks already.
