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Balance Ethiopia

Version .55 of a East AFRICAN Balance mod. Updated to fix reported bug and roll in 1.31 patch.

*Creates a East_African tech group with units corresponding with the Muslim units but the defensive and offensive stats swapped. Uses a 65% tech penalty to reflect contact with Muslim group but isolated nature. Newly created Icon for group.

*Creates a Saharan tech group for Mali, Songhai, and Kanem Bornu that uses Muslim units. It has a tech penalty of 55% instead of 65% to reflect closer and more open contact with the Muslim techgroup. However it uses a cav ratio of 33% instead of 80%. What information I've found about the historic army compositions for this area indicate they used 10% Cav but I have increased it for game play purposes.

*Expanded Ethiopian map to include Yemen, Oma, Hadjz, and the Mamluk provinces around the Red Sea along with enough sea squares to see the Indus trade route. There is much historical data showing trade along that route in the period before Ethiopia lost its sea access. Much of this has been rolled out as they have included it in the base game with 1.2 patch.

*East African Tech group stats:
165% tech speed mod (just a little above Nomad group)
-1 monarch power (equal to Muslim)
Start level 3 at 1444 start (equal to Muslim)
1/3 cav to infatry ratio (custom units including horses that have fliped defense and offensive stats from muslim)

*Saharan Tech group stats:
155% tech speed mod (just a little below Indian group)
-1 monarch power (equal to Muslim)
Start level 3 at 1444 start (equal to Muslim)
1/3 cav to infatry ratio (using Muslim group units but lower then 80% ratio to reflect low historical usage)


As requested integrated mods:

*Earlier start date from 1399 - An EUIV Timeline Extension Mini-Mod" by DanJonMin so that you have the choice of starting earlier. I do not recommend this personally as Paradox has not balanced for such a start but it will give you extra time to realize your what if goals.

*New African Union decision based upon the work of the African Union mod by Spectre. Creates an African Empire or Republic. It will maintain your current National Ideas unless you guys comment that you would like custom ones created based upon my supposition of what they should be.

*Inspired by and borrowed from GaGa's "From Darkness" Mod:
Added trade power for Galley and Transport Units. Much less then Light Ships but reflecting the usage.
WESTERNISATION_THRESHOLD = 6 was 8 *Smaller Tech Gap needed
OVEREXTENSION_THRESHOLD = 1.3 was 1.0 *Removed Nerf
MINIMUM_ADVISOR_DURATION = 15 was 10 years *Increased advisor life span
ADVISOR_CUT_OFF_AGE = 40 was 30 *Increased Advisor Life Span
CULTURE_LOSS_THRESHOLD = 0.05 was .1 *Harder to lose accepted culture. Closer to EU3 levels
WARGOAL_MAX_BONUS = 33 was 20 *Increased earned war % for goal capture
PS_MAKE_PROVINCE_CORE = 15 was 20 *decreased MP cost for core creation
MONTHS_TO_CHANGE_CULTURE = 60, was 12 *increased base time for culture change
CORE_TIME_SIZE_MODIFIER = 0.01 was .05 *reduced prov # modifier to MP and time to core. Increases time by given percentage per prov. Example. 50 prov empire gets 150% longer core times instead of 250% longer.
LOOTED_DAYS = 365 was 180 *made looted modifier last 1 year

*Navigator Advisor given +20% Trade Range bonus to go with Colonial Range bonus.

*Balance Changes since .4
SIEGE_ATTRITION = 0.5, was 1% *reduced to deal with manpower sapping issues when stacked with defender ideas.
CORE_LOSE_PRIMARY_CULTURE_TAG = 300, was 250 *Increased time before core tags of the state defined in 00_cultures.txt as primary for that provinces culture is lost.
CORE_LOSE_CULTURE_GROUP = 200, was 150 *Increased time before core tags of a state that has this provinces culture as primary is lost.
NEIGHBOURBONUS_CAP = -0.80 was -.25 *Increased maximum bonus for being behind in tech levels.
NEIGHBOURBONUS = -0.1, was -0.05 *Increased bonus per tech level behind neighbour.

Partial Disc as I learn how to do them. If you have any text to contribute for unit names and descriptions please provide feedback. I have yet to find a way to set starting tech levels to anything but all the same for a given country and am unable to provide a higher starting adm level with a lower mil level.