# 144.2
- fix vanilla bug that made subjects more docile than intended.
- fix: broken military formations and other buildings that was caused by level= being replaced by full ownership check.
- more journals lobby
- tweak to prevent wonky flags
- fixed WRE not being formable
- made the WRE a hegemony

- small hotfix for todays patch 1.10.3 to fix the broken artillery foundries. (They were previously named foundaries in the code)

# Update 144 (1.10 update)

Full Notes: https://github.com/AndHope/Basileia-Romaion/compare/141...144

## HRE impending revolution changes
- subsidize food now adds government expenses and increased welfare cost
- added a reduce conscription button
- taxation level now affects monthly 3de estate dissatisfaction change

## Other changes
- Added a warning tooltip for when you change religion
- Added a conversion event to the PLC, when you research nationalism
- Fixed Sweden getting 'independent german state' modifier when accepting baltic culture

## Cultures & Pops
- Major rework of base culture files and modifiers.
- Added new static cultural modifiers.
- Split Colonial French, Colonial Italian, and Amerigan cultures.
- Added Amerigan modifiers.
- Renamed and removed outdated culture entries.
- Adjusted culture suggestions from community feedback (thanks Capon!).
- Added East German cultural content.
- Romanization Decree now allows homeland assimilation.
- Various pop distribution and balancing changes.

## Religion
- Added tooltip warning when changing religion.
- Added new conversion event for the PLC.
- Updated religion definitions and localization.
- Adjusted discrimination traits and fixed related errors.
- Expanded religious laws and decree updates.

## Laws & Politics
- Overhauled and expanded cultural and citizenship laws.
- Added law variants and unique sub-laws for the ERE.
- Introduced Colonial Slavery law content.
- Updated Palaiologos Reforms and Internal Security laws.
- Expanded global social hierarchies.
- Added national awakenings and new movement definitions.
- Taxation levels now affect Third Estate dissatisfaction.

## Map & States
- Extensive updates to mapdata, state regions, and strategic regions.
- Fixed broken and duplicate states (including removal of STATE_SILESIA).
- Refined treaty port locations for cleaner borders.
- Fixed Sweden incorrectly creating an independent German state.
- Ongoing fixes to mapdata and large Bulgaria game rule (still unstable).

## AI & Gameplay
- Adjusted AI decision weights and chance behavior.
- Fixed AI strategies errors.
- Fixed invalid buildings and incorrect country references in treaties.
- Updated on_actions and prevented broken vanilla event references.

## Events & Journal Entries
- Added JE’s (Journal Entries) visible in nation selection screen, with lobby localization.
- Updated PLC events (including conversion and Memel ownership).
- Added Turtle Island JE for decentralized nations.
- Updated Polish, HRE, and ERE event files.

## Military
- Created military formations in correct states.
- Updated minor military formation definitions for the ERE.

## Buildings & Economy
- Updated building files to 1.10 standards (clothes, headgear, accessories, etc.).
- Reworked economic buildings and state-based building distribution.
- Fixed invalid buildings and updated regional assignments.

## Miscellaneous
- Updated metadata, global rules, and default setup.
- Added new company definitions and updated misc company files.
- Fixed various localization crashes and duplicate keys.
- Gave PLC Memel back and updated Poznan Conference conditions.
- Numerous cleanup passes across laws, decrees, and traditions files.

- Couple HRE JE bug fixes - save compatible.

# Update 142

## HRE impending revolution rework
- The lead up to the revolution within the HRE has been reworked.
- A new JE that simulates the dissatisfaction of the 3 estates within feudalism, you will need to keep the dissatisfaction of these estates as well as revolution progress as low as possible. You will be able to do this by taking decisions in the JE, thru dynamic events and by passing laws that the estates desire. If the revoltion progress reaches it maximum value, than the estate with the highest dissatisfaction will launch a revolution (so not only the peasants can overthrow the monarchy but also the nobles or the clergy).
- 32 new events, many new modifiers, 2 new character ideologies.
- A new social hierarchy Feudalism (along with special laws) will be available for every european nation (that is not greek or greco-roman).
- 2 new political movements pro and anti-feudalism with each a respective pro and anti-feudalism ideology.
- Added a decision that allows you to abolish Feudalism if you have passed the correct laws.
- A new objective screen for the HRE and the ERE.
- A new dlc icon for the mod.
- A gui popup that warns you if you are playing without CMF.

## Other changes
- reorganized the main ai history file
- revert tension changes
- fix bug if EOC disappears
- red clothes for br subjects purple only for BR proper
- various small ai tweaks
- various ai adjustments
- increased irregular infantry defense as it was weird it was the only infantry that did not have higher defense than attack.
- gave hussars the occupation bonus that all other cavalry have
- adjusted country names to be a bit cleaner and more standardized
- adjusted the anatolian ere minors to encourage them to help armenia
- increase the world market goods demand buffer from 10 to 100 to hopefully increase trade demand
- bit more restriction to aegypt ai taking the decision to sumbit to ere
- wee bit more boldness
- add in movements support for mods ai strategies
- Adjusted trains market access to go up with the type of trains you have similar to port.
- adjusted merchant owned and publicly trade to have less clerks to better balance with capitalist.
- lowered amount of clerks employed by trade centers.
- started adjusting ownership share to spread the wealth a bit more and hopefully allow organic liberalization over time especially in western europe.
- Many buildings are now owned by the workers, not done yet but goal should be for the merchant class to be more powerful especially over time.
- more sheep earlier
- add meat mult modifier
- Split the starting Syria thats an ere subject into two tags.
- BR_ANT: "Antiokheías kai Kyprou"
- BR_PAL: "Palaistíneía"
- add flags for antioch and palestine
- added unique tech for English fabric
- company changes and fixes
- rebalance Medici bank again
- remove the double company_br_vinland_fishing_company
- change the modifier for company_br_vinland_colonization_company
- added three new society techs to help fill in the area between tier 2 and 3 thats a little light.
- br_tech_mercantile_companies: "Mercantile Companies"
- br_tech_mercantile_companies_desc: "The establishment of chartered companies that are granted exclusive rights to trade and colonize specific regions. These companies often played a - - - significant role in European expansion and imperialism."
- br_tech_administrative_formalization: "Administrative Formalization"
- br_tech_administrative_formalization_desc: "The process of creating formal structures and procedures for managing government functions and public administration. This includes the establishment of standardized bureaucracies, legal systems, and administrative practices."
- br_tech_constitutional_guarantees: "Constitutional Guarantees"
- br_tech_constitutional_guarantees_desc: "Democratic reforms give rise to legal frameworks that explicitly protect the rights of all citizens. By embedding equality and freedoms into constitutional law, states begin to move beyond representation toward true legal parity."
- added new port pm Wayport to be between anchorage and Cargo Port and added 1 merchant_marine to anchorage
- replaced the icon for prestige_good_br_byz_clothes and prestige_good_br_ven_clothes
- rebalance the br_modifier_romaioi_culture_supremacy modifier
- add another decision to move armenia east once all of eastern and western armenia under control.
- minor decision updates
- HRE performance improvements for the ai
- bit of ownership changes
- some starting pop adjustments
- upgraded the saxony North Sea treaty to a defensive pact to hopefully help NSE not get wiped by Sweden every game
- Turkic, Kipchak, Tatar, and Mongol-influenced names for Tartaria
- Japanese-style hub names for the regions of Okhotsk, Chukotka, Outer Manchuria and Kamchatka
eastern armenia given armenian names

# Update 140

## Companies

### Added 14 new Companies
- company_br_byz_arsenal: "Kentrikòn Polemikòn Skeuastērion"
- company_br_byz_mining_steel: "Metalleutikà Ergastēria tōn Anatolēs"
- company_br_byz_rus: "Rhōsikē Hetaireía tou Emporíou tou Boreíou"
- company_br_elysian_mercantile_guild: "Emporikḗ Syntechnía Elysiōn"
- company_br_elysian_indigo_guild: "Koinōnía tēs Sērikēs kai tēs Baphēs"
- company_br_elysian_great_estates: "Latifundia Magna Elysiōn"
- company_br_kykladian_naval: "Naftikḗ Archē tōn Kykladiōn"
- company_br_elysian_colonization_company: "Oikistikḗ Hetaireía Elysiōn"
- company_br_elysian_ironworking_company: "Siderourgikḗ Koinōnía Elysiōn"
- company_br_vinland_colonization_company: "Landnámsfélagið Mikla"
- company_br_vinland_timber_company: "Viðrfélag Vinlands"
- company_br_vinland_fishing_company: "Haffangfélagið"
- company_br_early_swedish_resource_company: "Norrlandska Gruv- och Skogsbolaget"
- company_br_bavarian_beer: "Bayerische Brauerei"

- Limited various companies to their intended tags.

## Goods

### Prestige Goods
- prestige_good_br_ely_silk: "Auriloma Silk"
- prestige_good_br_new_world_pine: "New World Pine"
- prestige_good_br_new_world_fur: "New World Fur"
- prestige_good_br_prestige_copper: "Kopparklimp"
- prestige_good_br_prestige_beer: "Königsbier"

## Treaties
- Added an ERE–Elysium trade treaty.
- Mass migration now requires active trade and Elysium to have mass migration status.

## Production Methods & Tech
- Replaced all placeholder icons with unique icons.
- Added 6 new Tier 1–2 technologies in the production tree.
- Added and adjusted various techs and production methods.
- Replaced many tech modifiers with production methods.
- New unique techs added:
- Chinese Luxuries
- Steppe Horse Traditions
- Indian Luxuries
- Balanced starting techs for some countries.

## State Traits & Modifiers
- Added: state_trait_ethiopian_highlands
- Fixed and adjusted various state traits.
- Adjusted Greenland, Ontario, and Nunavut "prime land" regions; added fish and whales.
- Added more silk and wine to Elysium’s map data.
- Added more food industry buildings to better balance the world economy.
- Adjusted active PMs to utilize new early traditional production methods.

## Balance Changes
- Rebalanced various modifiers (generally lowered buff/debuff values).
- Slightly increased incorporation time for non-core culture states.
- Made the Palaiologos Italy reform slightly easier.
- Rebalanced ports to reduce early merchant marine excess.
- Added Dalmatia as a releasable nation.
- Updated trade buildings.
- Moved `br_romaioi_india_company` to a directly chartered company of the BR.
- Buffs for Ming.
- Minor EOC population adjustments.
- Added `hostile_climate_colonization` tech to more countries.
- Adjusted trade modifiers down slightly.
- Slightly increased Indian cotton presence.
- Reduced `traditionalism` state_market_access_price_impact from -15% to -10%.
- Lowered prestige of ERE monuments (they start with 3).
- Slightly increased population in North Rhine.
- Changed Chartered Company countries to Corporate Government type from Presidential Republic.
- Linked various unlinked Chartered Companies back to their home country's trade companies.
- Adjusted Frankish pops in Francia.
- Adjusted Serb pops in Bosnia.

## AI Changes
- Updated `br_ai_defines.txt` to increase trade.
- Increased AI neutrality to reduce frequency of global-scale wars.
- If both Aegypt and the Basileía Rōmaíōn are AI, Aegypt will peacefully become a protectorate.
- Aegypt player can choose a decision to avoid war.

## Localization Changes
- Renamed "Shiberia" to "Seihokudō".

## Misc
- Disabled dynamic naming by default (conflicts with custom mod names).
- Added new modifier types: tea and dye mult.
- New logo for Medici Bank.
- Slightly resized VOC logo.
- Removed unused logos.

## Bug Fixes
- Fixed various treaty ports.
- Fixed and adjusted multiple society tech modifiers.
- Miscellaneous error fixes.

# Update 139 So far.

## Treaties
- Revamped various treaties from basic trade/foreign investment rights to Treaty Port(In places where the Port was already owned by said tag)
- Also added in some resource exchanges in treaties instead of trade rights.
- Update 04_ere_treaties.txt, these treaties are meant to go in the opposite of the intended direction
- removed foreign_investment_rights from all the starting treaties because they ai appears to hate giving and receiving it and more likely to cause cancellations

## Production Methods and Tech
- Early Mining added as a new option for all mine types that doesn't require tools. Very good for markets that do not start with access to a good supply of tools but not efficient once tools are available.
- Renamed Picks and Shovels to Improved Mining Tools
- Locations with little to no tools given Early Mining to help with the Global tool shortage
- hand tools made necessary for the improved tools mining and agro method
- renamed from Hand tools to Improved Hand Tools

## New Decisions
- Decision for Cahokia to submit to Elysium in exchange for good relations and protection.
- Added a decision for Aegypt to submit to Basileia Romaion to avoid war in exchange for good relations and protection.
- Added a decision for Basileia Romaion to transfer Emporikē Hetaireia tēs Indikēs to Basileia Romaion from Aegypt once Aegypt is their subject.
- decisions to take Aegypts colonies as Basileia Romaion if Aegypt is your subject.
- various decisions that were limited to certain tags have been opened up to more nations that meet the requirements
- refactored, fixed and additional decisions for Afrika and Aegypt
- added three new decisions for Armenia each with an associated event that are about moving your Capital to Karin, back to Ani or to Yerevan
- New decisions for Russia to make tributaries of any Rus countries that Tartaria subjugates from PLC.
- Various QOL adjustments to BR decisions

## Journals
- added journals to get Afrika and Aegypt homelands

## Events
- Added two new opening events one for GEO and one for ARM
- The event to get rid of Thema deterioration is supposed to fire while getting rid of serfdom but doesn't always fire so I switched it to just happen at a certain date.
- Various QOL adjustments the BR Exarchate events

## Admin Buildings
- Made Nanjing Beijing and Delhi use pm_horizontal_drawer_cabinets to make their local paper factories profitable and get more taxes from these locations
- added couple more admin buildings
- Gave TWT more starting admin buildings due to near 100% tax waste, brings it down to 20% tax waste

## State traits & Modifiers
Indochina forests
- Indochina forest state trait made into a hardwood modifier
- more natural harbors
- Update 11_east_asia.txt, decreased japans starting resources a bit
- moved the irregular buff to a different modifiers and toned down the province defense of Native Conscripts buff.

## other balance changes
- Adjusted Georgia and Armenia military formations
- few more pops for cahokia
- more iron mines in asia
- adjusted certain eastern trade countries overlords ai to give any states they get in the indies to their subject
- light re-balance of various modifiers
- Added a few more pops to Armenia and Georgia
- various pops starting loyalty re-balanced
- Removed El

## misc
- improved various decision descriptions
- removed a duplicate recently conquered modifier.
- New modifiers for ARM/GEO
- New themed Military modifier to replace the generic thema one.
- Also gave Pronoia modifier
- Integrated various Georgian suggestions from skep17
Gave the ere armies more Thematic names get it Carl more THEMATIC

## Bug fixes
- Add various missing localizations
- Update br_society_1836-1936.txt, fixed missing charters and other additions from the society tech
- Fixed scope bug in br_assimilation_effects.txt
- fixed ERE naming decisions not changing the name because the dyn name priority was to low
- fixed the event disappearing after selecting them because old var's were not being removed properly
- added a new decision to change the name back to default

# 🛠️ Update 138 – Total Resource & Balance Redux

## 🧾 General Improvements
- **Treaty Fixes**: Corrected treaties that were reversed from their intended direction.
- **Increased Tax Capacity** from administrative buildings.
- **More Administrative Buildings in Asia**:
- China, Northern India, Java, and several Asian capitals now start with more admin buildings.
- **Reorganized Administrative Buildings**:
- Most start with `simple organization`.
- Added additional admin buildings and **lead mines** where appropriate.
- **Modded Trade**: Manually enforced more trade routes and interactions.

## 🌍 Resource & Economy Overhaul
- All mined resources are now **discoverable** over time.
- Enabled `discoverable_resource` for **Iron**, **Lead**, **Coal**, and **Sulfur**.
- Players start with fewer known resources and uncover more throughout the game.
- **Cotton Expansion**:
- Added more cotton to **India** and **Persia** to help with the global fabric shortage.
- **Ownership Adjustments**:
- Modified ownership ratios of various buildings.
- Added additional **iron mines** to **Northern Europe**.
- Revised ownership of some **ports** and **trade ports** globally.
- **Further Building Adjustments**:
- Increased numbers of **paper**, **tools**, **lead**, and **iron** buildings worldwide.
- **Holland** receives 100,000 new pops to offset major worker shortages.
- **Generic River Trait**:
- Introduced a new **Generic River** state trait (applied to Bosnia for now).

## 🪓 Production & Industry
- **Hardwood Economy Focus**:
- States producing artillery, small arms, and military ships now emphasize hardwood usage.
- Increased hardwood bonuses on state traits to reduce AI reliance on softwood.
- **Artillery and Small Arms** production increased to combat global shortages.

## 🏛️ Government & Law Updates
- **Frontier Colonization Law**:
- Aegypt and Afrika now start with `law_frontier_colonization` being enacted.
- **Palaiologos Events**:
- BYZ AI will now choose the non-revolt option in the Themata decision event.
- **Palaiologos Reforms**:
- Fixed broken separatism journal in `br_palaiologos_reforms.txt`.

## 🏢 Companies & Prestige Goods
- Fixed bugs and optimized building types across various companies.
- Created two unique **luxury clothing** icons:
- One **gold-themed**
- One **purple-themed**

## 🛡️ New Content
- **Hanseatic League**:
- Added as a formal **trade company**.

## ⚖️ Balance & AI Behavior
- **Market Access Debuff**:
- Applied `small_state_market_access_price_impact` to:
- Rainforests
- Mountain ranges
- Very remote regions

## 🤝 Diplomacy & Treaties
- **PLC (Poland-Lithuania)**:
- Trade pact upgraded into a **defensive pact** to prevent early-game collapse.
- **Muscovy–Roman Treaty**:
- Romans gain trade/investment privileges in exchange for military support.
- **ARM/GEO & WAL/MOL**:
- Pacts now include mutual **trade rights**.
- **Ausurias–HRE Agreement**:
- Military assistance from HRE in return for **trade and investment access**.

## 🏛️ Eastern Roman Empire Updates
- **Flags & Governments**:
- Added missing **communist flag**.
- Updated government titles for greater historical/thematic accuracy.
- **Dynamic ERE Names Redux**:
- **Monarchy**: Main name added.
- **Republic (Upper-Class Voting)**: New **Senate** title added.
- Renamed all other government variants for consistency.

## 🌎 Regional Fixes
- **South America**:
- Updated `07_south_america.txt`: Amazonian states now properly affected by **malaria**.

## 🐛 Bug Fixes
- **Modifier Duration (v1.9 Compliance)**:
- All `length_modifier_time` values now use **days**, not months, unless numerically specified.

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# Update 137

- companies and prestige goods
- reworked the mods companies
- added new textiles companies for Venice and ERE.
- added four new prestige goods; new luxury clothing prestige goods for the Venetian and Roman companies and also added a prestige silk for the Roman,Venice and Genoa trade companies.
- I gave all the other mod companies a generic prestige good for now.
- moved a lot of the company building types to extension buildings
- converted and resized all the company logos and added some new ones.

- South American Decentralized merged
- After my earlier merges we got down to 424 which is the max amount before the game lags. That means if a bunch of revolts were to happen prior to any annexations the game would start to lag and stutter.
- This gives us the nessisary space for futher world building
- nativized the names all meaning Culture tribes or Tribes of Culture except for Amazon because it seems there is no dominant language that I could find.

- recolored the maps water to appear more blue less redish especially on the great empires map. Map generally should be a tiny bit brighter idk.

- fixed company HQs not showing up
- updated some diplo pacts to treaties
- made scripted effects for the treaties, to avoid repetition
- fixed tech bugs
- Lots of other 1.9 bugs fixed