Paradox Studio Thread

[Lurking no more]

I live in hell. I have been working with Claude on what I want for my mod and I have ran into a roadblock. I want to give the first person to discover the Cape of Good Hope the ability to choose whether the area becomes a colonial or trade region. I have the feeling it will take a while before it works, but I don't want to give up on it. If anyone has seen this work in the past with other mods, please let me know.

I haven't modded EU4 in a while, but I think what you'd have to do is make it a trade region, and then make a custom event fire if a European country owns enough provinces in the region to create a new subject. The problem is that while you could have a custom name and color for the colony based on who the overlord is, I don't think there's a way to give it a custom colonial flag based on who the colonizer is. Not to mention you'd also have to custom code events so that this fake colonial country gives the overlord the proper bonuses when it reaches certain sizes.

I can ask around and see if there's a way to do it more properly, but I don't think so.

Edit: Also, if you want some custom tags for post-colonial nations, I have some files still floating around from an old abandoned mod I was making, and I can dig them up if you want. Think things like a proper New England tag (making Vermont more like an Iceland style formable) or the CSA. However, it's old enough that PDX has added in a decent amount of the countries I made tags for, like Sonora or Cuba.