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Great.
What about scenarios?
Do you consider add scanario for "Spring of the Nations" from 1848 ?

Well there are some scenarios made by others like 1815 and 1898 which might work still or will be changed to work with this mod, but I have no plans to do this my self.


Huh? I can't see the download link. Where is it?

I believe that is for Arabia Universalis. ;) WATKABAOI 2.00 still needs some work before we will release it or else we will get bunch of error messages from people that we already know about.
 
Well yes I understand. We strife to consider the game mechanics and historical accuracy. And I don't see how a divided German culture will ruin the game? As I have stated the German nations will not only gain their own culture as accepted. Nations like Brandenburg and Austria will get events where they gain accept of cultures. We just don't like having 52 provinces with the highest population and highest income and manpower under the same culture. Austria as it is now has it too easy to take over Northern Germany, though they would revolt because of local difference like every other place. The problem is people might relate this time's "Germany" with today's. That is a problem because of the national feeling and that Germany was divided i many nations back then.

Well German culture should be split up but with regards to Scottish culture I don't really see the need for it other than for historical flavour. A flavour that gets old fast in MP.
 
Well German culture should be split up but with regards to Scottish culture I don't really see the need for it other than for historical flavour. A flavour that gets old fast in MP.

So you say Lowland Scottish or English Scottish is the same as Highland Scottish or Gaelic Scottish ? There is a great difference and other mods have this division as well.
 
So you say Lowland Scottish or English Scottish is the same as Highland Scottish or Gaelic Scottish ? There is a great difference and other mods have this division as well.

WATKFTG has Scots and Scots-Gaelic in Scotland.
 
Now Assyrian has been added, we still need to add the Buddhist branches though.. And change the two late scenarios for the new reformation. And then we only need to add the new culture setup and fix events and scenarios for it. :) Graphics for nations is being worked on as well so you'll just all have to wait a bit more. :)

Just to let you all know. We have these scenarios: 1337, 1419, 1492, 1701 and 1792.
 
Well really there were five cultures in Britain and Ireland prior to the Norman Conquest.

Gaelic (or Irish) which is a cultural continuity between Ireland, the Scottish Western Isles and Highlands and the Isle of Man.

Brittish, the rapidly-dwindling Celtic inhabitants of pre-Anglosaxon Britain, who's culture differed from Gaelic culture in many very important respects, found even in 1066 in Cumbria and much of west Britain and in Cornwall and Devon, as well as Brittany.

Anglic, the old language and customs of the Angles, creating a cultural continuity from East Anglia north to Lothian and up the coast to Perthshire.

Saxon, the old language and customs of the Saxons, creating a cultural continuity from the Welsh Borders and the West Country and most of southern England.

Kenish, the old language of the men of Kent

After the 1066 invasion Kentish and Saxon and most of Anglic were all merged into Anglo-Norman to form the English cultural continuity, but Anglic survived in Scotland and came to be known as Scots or Lallans, though eventually English consumed them too, and most of Ireland as well.
 
My recommendations for Central Asia:
1. You could merge Persian and Tajiki. Lingustically/culturally speaking, they are the same (Persian language = Farsi = Dari = Tajiki, with regional variations of course) and certainly were in the period. This would make it more reasonable for a Persian Shah to rule in Tajik areas, etc., which was quite common.
2. Bukhara and especially Samarkand should probably be Tajik/Persian (whatever you end up deciding w.r.t. point #1) They are "the historical centers of the Tajik people in Central Asia," and Samarkand is even still Tajik-majority, even after Uzbekification during the Soviet period. Of course, the surrounding areas in those provinces are majority-Uzbek. Your choice. (Here's a decent map of Central Asian ethnicities, although it's fairly modern of course.)
3. You could rename "Afghani" to "Pashtun"; the two are historically synonymous, but the latter might be clearer, given the modern terminology.
4. Not sure if you want to include Turkmen or Kirghiz as cultures; if not, including them under Uzbek/Kazakh is probably a good solution.

Otherwise:
1. I agree that Egyptian/Arabic should be split.
2. Good that you've included Ahwazi Arabs and Azeri Turks in modern Iran, lots of people miss those. Unfortunate that the Kirkuk and Mosul provinces are so large, the Kurdish zone is pretty restricted relative to those...but what can you do?
3. As someone else noted, Panjabi.

Awesome work!
 
I would like it better to have Persian and Tajik splitted, the same arguments as the German question and others like it.
The other suggestions I like. ;)
In that case, might I recommend replacing Persian culture with Tajik in Khorasan? Specifically, that would be PROV #'s 1529, 1530, 1531; Kuhistan, Khorasan, Merw (which incidentally might best be transliterated "Merv"; transliterating مرو as "Merw" looks like Arabic? Modern Persian, at least Farsi, doesn't have a "w") The historical region of Greater Khorasan encompassed those provinces and the Tajik areas of the current culture might.
 
In that case, might I recommend replacing Persian culture with Tajik in Khorasan? Specifically, that would be PROV #'s 1529, 1530, 1531; Kuhistan, Khorasan, Merw (which incidentally might best be transliterated "Merv"; transliterating مرو as "Merw" looks like Arabic? Modern Persian, at least Farsi, doesn't have a "w") The historical region of Greater Khorasan encompassed those provinces and the Tajik areas of the current culture might.

I think we should stick with Persian in Merv and Tajik in the other provinces as it is now according to:

Wiki said:
(...)the Bukharans razed the city to the ground, broke down the dams, and converted the district into a waste. The entire population of the city and the surrounding area of about 100,000 were then deported in several stages to the Bukharan oasis. Being nearly all Persian-speaking Shi'as, they resisted assimilation into the Sunni population of Bukhara, although they spoke the same language.

Will they even survive rising sealevels? :p:)
Yeah :rofl:
 
New setup for East Asia. I would like some feedback on this as well. East Asia is far from my strong side.

eastasiancultures.jpg
 
I think we should stick with Persian in Merv and Tajik in the other provinces as it is now according to:

Wiki said:
(...)the Bukharans razed the city to the ground, broke down the dams, and converted the district into a waste. The entire population of the city and the surrounding area of about 100,000 were then deported in several stages to the Bukharan oasis. Being nearly all Persian-speaking Shi'as, they resisted assimilation into the Sunni population of Bukhara, although they spoke the same language.
Well I guess that depends on whether you want to lean toward language or religion as a basis for culture. If the former, I'd recommend Tajik culture for those provinces, because the dialect of Eastern Iran is closer to that of Afghanistan (Dari) than to standard Tehrani Persian. But if you wanted to base it on religion, then I'd certainly agree with you--those provinces, as Shiite, would be more connected to the rest of modern Iran. You might want to consider that they would not have been Shiite in 1419 (that section in the article is about 1784).

Either way, again, fantastic work! East Asia looks good to me, but I have absolutely no familiarity with it, so that's fairly meaningless praise. :p