So can you not form rome having a lot of those states in italy vassalised why can you not do that ?

Is there a guide anywhere on how to survive the first few years?
The ottomans declared war less than 3 years in and I keep getting steamrolled by them.

I've had both albanian and ionian, ionian you get something for after taking western anatolia, and albania you get if you own albania long enough I thing?

Theres also some content for northern I believe, although they dont have emergent cultures, because they already have Griko

Very cool mod! Dont really understand the emergent cultures (besides Albanian and Ionian). I assume they just take forever and I dont play long enough. Everything else though is very cool! One thing I would love is some content for Northern Italy, most Byz mods leave it untouched or at most convert it to Roman.

The mission tree seems broken for me. do i need to redownload it, or is something wrong with the mod?

Im having a hard time getting the assyrian and syriac cultural events to pop up, ive had the provinces for more than 100 years, is it normal?

Does this mod get rid of the normal restore roman empire for other nations?

Also is it possible to have it require the Justinian borders for Italy, although not a direct rump state

@KitTheAnkafolk In the culture mod you have to accept the non-Byzantine group cultures and after enough years pass they start to become part of it, AFAIK. I have seen Tourkic spawn in two different playthroughs, but it sure took over 100 years so it must have a LONG MTTH.

how do you convert levatine cultures to byzantine group

Loved the mods in 1.35, so happy to see them updated and improved in this mega-mod!

The Serbo-Bulgarian conversion event doesn't remove all the separatism! Tried triggering it again through the console but it didn't do anything

Also how do you get the new cultures? Culture converting the provinces to Greek???

Any plans to add Hellenism to the mod? Really disappointed they didn't add a Hellenic path to Byz

Also, I almost forgot, if it is not too much to ask, for the same reason as the prior comment, can you potentially make a compatibility patch for this mod and Europa Expanded?

I also look very forwards to when you choose to merge Council of Florence & The Union Revolt into this bundled mod. Your disaster is simply more flavorful and less annoying. The only bad thing I notice about the Union Revolt mod now is that even during said disaster Byzantium sometimes can stack so much unrest reduction in Constantinople that the final decision "Stabilize the Realm" becomes impossible to trigger without console to add some unrest to the capital.

Hi RMS, I have been playing a campaign with your original mods due to at the time of starting this one did not have the Culture mod integrated into it yet. Idk if you have changed how vanilla culture shift events work, but even when I intentionally picked the cultural acceptance options, vanilla "Effect of Pronoia Policies in [Anatolian Province]" made it almost irrelevant, and nearly finished converting Anatolia to Greek before one Tourkic Province even appeared in Germanikeia.

Does this mod either 1) speed up the cultural merge events (admittedly unrealistic) or 2) disable all vanilla Turk-to-Greek culture shift events in Anatolia instead?

Finally, how long in years after each culture group's "assimilate or integrate" does it take for their group to merge into the Byzantine Group? I honestly love the idea, but neither your original mod nor this went into detail of how long it takes.

There is a problem that is needed to be fixed
after pressing mission "Golden imperial reform" Byzantine late autocracy government reform is at tier 6 and I am still stuck with awful -25 absolutism Byzantine autocracy government reform at tier 1.

@Autocrator @reshuram05 you are correct, this mod builds of King of Kings

@Autocrator It probably is, since King of Kings is listed as a required DLC on the mod page.

I use to play with the original mods before the King of Kings DLC and have been wanting to have them in my playlist for a Byzantium save. Is this updated version compatible with the King of Kings DLC missions for Byzantium or should I turn off King of Kings when using this?

Very cool mod, play it all the time. Just came to say you made it to the first page of most popular mods! Hope you keep working on it and improving!

@Esquelamia I'm not sure if there's a "proper" approach for each culture. If you want the Byzantine version, it would be to control and accept all provinces. Hence the Turkish decision has an option which blocks the Pronoiar event from firing in certain areas.

Every "new" Byzantine culture which emerges should receive a heartland in its first province, which is usually the highest development province of the old culture.

@Esquelamia You could choose to convert the entire region to Byzantine, or you could choose to accept all the cultures (there's events to help you, like with Albanian), or a mixture of the two. There's an exception for Dalmatian if you selected to preserve them. The conversion is intended to be manual, yes, I felt extending the Anatolian Pronoiar events to the Balkans didn't make sense as it was far less likely for Greeks to have land holdings in the area, spreading the culture would be more of an effort. In choosing to convert, the modifier is designed to let you bypass waiting for separatism in exchange for permanent anger until you convert the province. Despite the event option you aren't required to convert to Greek, you can convert to whichever South Slavic culture you've accepted. Since you've chosen to accept the culture that should contribute to completing the Balkans instead.

Also, how many heartlands are there? I only got Smirna and Cappadocia so far

I'm a bit confused. Am I supposed to accept all the Balkan cultures, or should I leave them as not accepted and wait for the event? In the initial events, I chose the option to convert them to Greek, but I haven’t seen any changes. Am I supposed to manually convert them to Greek? It's been a while and nothing has happened. Also, if I accept them, the province modifier disappears, so I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do. What’s the proper approach for Turkish, Syrian, and other cultures as well? Thanks!

@RMS Oceanic
So I formed Rome and the greek cultue converted to the new roman culture, except the new capital that I chose, it will be the old roman culture from the base game and wont be part of the byz culture group.
Not a big deal though, but expensive to convert.

Thank you!

@Goschi
1. Own and accept all provinces of that culture (or culture group in the Balkans)
2. Resolve the culture of its "home" region (Balkans, Anatolia, Mashriq/Egypt)
3. Allow separatism to fade away.

If it's not working, let me know.

I love the mod. but how exactly do I get the cultures to convert into my culture group?

@Meroveus270 Ah, got it now. Strange, my own testing didn't have any problems with those events, though admittedly that was integrating the provinces in the console and immediately clicking the decision, so perhaps that lack of a gap covered up the issue. I've added the ITO flags to both events.

Looks like the new update didn't fix the issue about deciding how to handle the Turks and Armenians, but I looked and the events "byz_culture_events.2" and "byz_culture_events.3" are just missing the "is_triggered_only = yes" condition. Adding that to both causes them to fire properly when you click the decision.

@Meroveus270 Thanks for notifying me. The Turkish/Armenian Hellenization events rely on that Anatolian event, which is why they weren't firing. I've updated that event and the Roman reforms, hopefully they should work now.

Also realized that I wasn't getting the all cultures ending for a reason. The decisions about the Turks and Armenians don't fire their related events, and the event you get for completing Anatolia cant fire because it is missing the NOT in front of the nationalism check, meaning it will only fire if all provinces have more that 15 nationalism.

Small bug found. Looks like the new Roman culture in the Byzantine group doesn't let you have the Roman Empire unique Government Reform. When you from the Roman Empire you instantly lose the reform and have to pick a new one.

Version 1.1 with the addition of the enhanced Byzantine Culture Group is now live! Hope you can check it out and enjoy it.

@Nathe235 how did u fixed it

gg

I FIXED IT

the only other mod I have on is a ui mod that I turned on and off and didnt change the bug.

the branching preview doesn't work. And the mission graphics are broken

@Nathe235 in what way? I tested both branches of the Theme System and got every reward and modifier I expected.

the branching missions for Byzantium is broken

@"Pontus Maly Szwed" When was there ever an Ottoman-Byzantium truce? Back when forts could be sniped I often declared against Ottos in December 1444. You sure there isn't another mod it's clashing with?

@Kenadian I believe the current mod shouldn't clash with Europa Expanded, with the possible exception of having multiple versions of monuments. However I am currently working on incorporating my Enhanced Culture Mod into this and it more closely dances around the Vanilla Mission tree, and I can't guarantee it won't behave out of sorts with EE.

@ThomasKR that should answer your question: Not yet but soon.

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Does this add more cultures?

interesting

This mod deletes the early game truce between Biza and Ottomans :(

Your a savior, I loved your "declare the roman empire"

nice mod! can i translate this mod into Chinese?

Hi quick question, does this mod play nice with the Europa Expanded mod?