v0.2.1

[LT-Rascek]

"By God Alone" DLC Preparation:

• Removed Cypriot culture and faith to prepare for BGA
• Readded Bogomilism, Lollardy, Catharism
• Touched up heresy emergence events

Mechanics:

• Culture Drift:
  • Standardized terminology for Culture Drift
  • Culture Drift heritages block hybridization between the ancestors and descendants, preventing certain odd edge-cases from appearing

User Interface:

• Improved the Senate Family interface notably

Culture:

• Culture Changes:
  • Fixed up "Southern Arabian" culture
    • Re-localized to be "Soqotri"
    • Uses "Dexterous Fishermen", "Maritime Mercantilism", and "Isolationist" Traditions
  • Replaced "Gothic Warfare" with "Cavalry Skirmishers"/"Horse Lords" for Heruli
  • Replaced "Devoted Horsemanship" with "Cavalry Skirmishers" for Taifali
  • Irish gets "Pastoralists" Tradition
• Renamed various references to "Old" and "Proto" within languages and cultures
  • Used Vulgar for Proto-Romance
  • Diversified language names to better correspond to historical cultures
• Culture Creation Names:
  • Adjusted language-based creation names for more endonym usage
  • Adjusted some Romance culture creation logic for consistency between language and name lists
• Updated cultural graphics for more consistency
  • Mauritanian Architecture is Iberian
  • Phrygian and Galatian Architecture is Byzantine
  • Carthaginians use Arabic COAs and Iberian Architecture
  • Latin Cultures heavily overhauled:
    • Romano-Gallic uses French clothing
    • Roman-African uses Iberian COAs, Iberian Architecture, and Iberian Clothing
    • Romano-British uses British Clothing and Byzantine Military Units
    • Romano-Hispanic uses Iberian Christian Clothing
    • Romano-Aramean uses Iberian Architecture, Middle Eastern Clothes, and Byzantine Military Units
    • Romano-Punic uses Iberian COAs, Iberian Architecture, and Iberian Muslim Clothing
• Added special clothing triggers for sub-Roman cultures, allowing them to wear Roman-style clothing but automatically transition to appropriate medieval clothing when they stop being Latin
• Traditions:
  • "Pontic Horsemanship" Tradition no longer provides light cavalry bonuses
  • Added "Cavalry Skirmishers" Tradition for Taifal and Heruli culture, reflecting their use of light cavalry in contrast to Gothic heavy cavalry

Governments:

• Because of state faith limitations, with "All Under Heaven", Sub-Roman Dynastic is applied for all Sub-Roman titles duchy and below
  • If one acquires a kingdom, with the DLC enabled, the government automatically transitions to Sub-Roman administrative
  • If a realm shatters or Sub-Roman Administrative title ends up independent with less than a kingdom, it automatically becomes a Sub-Roman Dynastic realm
  • Sub-Roman Dynastic titles that end up under Roman Administrative titles become Roman Administrative
  • On the off-chance a player has only a noble family title when the government changes to Sub-Roman Dynastic, the player will become an adventurer
  • Slightly Tweaked government colors for (Sub-)Roman Dynastic governments to make them more distinguishable

Decisions:

• Clarified "Restore the Western Roman Empire" and "Restore the Eastern Roman Empire" requirements
  • Three Kingdoms no longer required for the decisions
  • To ask the Eastern Emperor for the Western Empire, you only have to have 50% of the Western Roman Empire territory, instead of 80%
  • Provided additional effect descriptions to elucidate how to influence the Eastern Emperor's decision
• Clarified the Holy Roman Empire creation decision
  • Re-localized the decision to be "Ask the Pope for Imperial Recognition"
  • Provided additional effect descriptions to elucidate how to influence the Pope's decision

History:

• Some Alan characters in Hispania are fixed to be Alauni (Western Alan) culture
• Caucasian Albania's capital is Partav in the Vth Century, as per history
• Applied Level 5 education traits to certain historical characters who deserved it.
• Modified some dynasty names of historical characters to better match history

Tweaks:

• Reduced lag on certain dates
• If a Federate has a kingdom title (or greater), then it adopts Sub-Roman Government upon independence
• Added new links and icons for WtWSMS concepts
• Generalized some tradition unlocks to be more consistent throughout the Late Antique and Early Medieval Periods
• Removed superfluous truces relating to some polities tributaries
• Removed Childeric's War against Sigobert at start to be more in line with history
• Increased applicant pool for MO offices
• Added duplicate candidate influence interaction to handle edge case of titular titles
• Nomads no longer have Border Raid CBs, as they have plenty of CBs already

GFX:

• Moorish Architecture requires counties of that culture rather than being intrinsic to the peninsula
• Added WtWSMS emblems to the COA designer
• Updated assets for a number of innovations
• Updated generic temples for Hellenism, Judaism

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed a bug where Feudal/Clan governments could sneak in early from Nomadic Migration
• Fixed a bug where Roman Federates couldn't grant titles to anyone not already landed
• FIxed a bug where Noble families could have Ministry-style appointment
• Fixed a bug where most top liege's lacked a noble family at start
• Fixed a bug with Vernerius Noble family being duplicated
• Fixed an edge case in which Cilicia could end up independent of the ERE on succession
• Fixed a bug with granting of multiple noble family titles to some characters
• Fixed a bug with AI granting individuals counties to create federates instead of duchies, as intended
• Adopting Sub-Roman Administrative Government will adopt the appropriate acclamation/appointment succession laws
• Fixed Nyitra not being part of Germania Magna region
• Fixed bug where not enough Noble Families were populating in the WRE and ERE
• Proper handoff of Imperial Diadem during the Fall of Rome
• Removed a number of duplicate artifacts
• Fixed a bug where certain decisions were being checked too often by certain title tier rulers
• Fixed a bug where nomads would adopt feudal government when settling in conquered lands
• Fixed a bug where Language Isolates would trigger the Creole flag
• Fixed part of the Don River being impassible
• Fixed bug where ERE was not getting many noble families at start
• Blocked the ability of liege's to convert the culture of the counties of Roman Federates
• Increased number of noble families in the Eastern Roman Empire at start
• Fixed a bug where Ravenna had no development
• Fixed bugs with being unable to Request or Restore the Western Empire
• Fixed a bug with title creation triggers
• Fixed bug where influence costs were not scaling correctly as Aristocratic Control increased
• Meritocratic rulers will spawn noble families appropriately at game start now
• Fixed a bug wherein Titular Titles could not have candidacy influence
• Fixed a bug wherein Federates could flip to feudal governments in some edge cases

Localization:

• Fixed some specific localization and formatting issues (Thanks @Awak!)
• Fixed up grammar and localization in various places
• Cleaned up a number of flavorizations of Semitic, Latin cultures
• Made certain innovation localizations culture-dependent
• Updated localizations to be more neutral in tone
• Fixed a duplicate localization that incorrectly identified some tributary types
• Updated the name of the Vistula, Rhine, and Danube River to be the Late Antique Latin names
• Changed a number of localizations for seas and rivers to better reflect the Late Antique period
• Improved Roman Empire Request/formation localizations, including highlighting conditions which help and hurt the changes for approval
• Replaced "Pre-Feudal" with "Aristocratic" as the term for all the non-tribal, non-nomadic, non-centralized governments before the Era of Feudalism