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I have two new mods coming for you all. Both based off of this one. They will be two separate variants. The first will be a diamyo/shogunate Freed up france which should create a unique experience. The second will be a Freed Up france that is integrated into the HRE creating a completely new German and French region.

These two mods will be added to a collection which I will name 'The Freed Up France Mod-pack'. I have changed the name of this mod aswell so it will be better explained to those who see my mods. The other two mods will be named in the same fashion as this one, but HRE or Diamyo after the dash.

If anybody has any questions then please do ask.

(These mods will also be part of my generic mod collection which can be found above.)

This mod has been updated so it can be played on the recent patch (.11)

Yes it would be. Maybe in a new version of the mod that i would upload separetly? I don't know...

Give the French nations Daimyo governments, that would be interesting to see.

Sounds good to me. It will definetly be in the next update.

A good lazy alternative might be removing france still and diving up those provinces to the minors like Orleans in the area. Ile De France can be sacked and have alot of it's taxes moved to other capitals, then if France forms a descision can be made which restores it to it's normal levels and makes it the capital (similiar to the ottomans city of worlds desire descision)

I hate the idea of ...ideas being removed hehe, and Frances cultural union makes it pretty powerful still too. This mod might be to remove big bad blue while playing other nations but I think it can make playing France as fun as playing Brandenburg-Prussia-Germany (which btw has just as powerful NIs if not more so than France)

Dekent: That is a brilliant idea! Making an nation called Paris would work well.
As for the burgundy bit; I guess i could split it up.
Thanks for the ideas.

Instead of removing France's national ideas, why not remove France? Make up a Parisian nation with some generic ideas to start in that area, and any nation that unites France can form France and get the national ideas.

For Burgunday, why not split them up too? They have several nations that can be released to greatly weaken them and it fits with the mod since they are still really part of France anyway.

Thank you! :D

nice work man, keep it up!

More people will use this mod. You just need to give it some time, and fix some of the problems. Then the people will start using your mod when they start inside the HRE.

I have not fixed the Burgundy issue although it is not a major issue and can be avoided.
Thank you for all you have said and i'll keep updating this even if your the only person using this mod ;)

So you fixed the Burgundy Warning problem then? And no, I am not an editor of any game because I have a Mac for Steam. Can't help you there, but good luck anyway. Can't wait to use it once it has updated again.

I have already updated the mod to add most French provinces. I did that Friday. I will add Brittany aswell though in the next update. My only issue with the HRE is Agressive Expansion... It's stupidly bad. If you have any ideas on how to tackle this issue then please let me know. Thanks for the sugggestions and feedback :)

Expanding the HRE into the French Reigon is a very smart move. With that made, then Europe will not have an incursion of the British into Continental Europe. So yes Kaos_darkness, I suggest you add Brittany and the rest of Former France into the HRE. Then I can see more wars of destruction that have a very bad end, such as Austria decalres war on Bohemia then sieges fully and accpets a peace with Bohemia giving 30 ducats.I like those kinds of deals. Anyway, that is my suggestion and my opinion, and that is all I am saying. Update this when you have time though, don't want to have an all-nighter, right?

Ahh. Yes this was pointed out to me when i was playing as Champagne. Do you think it would be worth me adding Brittany to the HRE? Let me know :)

This looks awesome and usefull, but can't England just expand into Continental Europe if they attack Brittany, then their neighbors? I'm just saying that to people who will use this mod to be carefull. It's still an awesome mode though, and I'm going to use it, but first allying with England.

Okay, the update was put up yesterday. I'm still looking for a way to stop Burgundy warning everyone so if anyone knows how to stop that then please tell me. Also, Agressive Expansion is horrible in the HRE. If anyone knows anything to edit this too then please let me know :)

Looking through all the comments i still think i'll lower Ile-de-France's base tax although i have made it steadily increase to it's vinalla 1444 basetax so paris is still worth taking.

I am still going to add all the French nations to the HRE because of the following reasons:
1: It defends against any large neibouring nations
2: It gives French nations the ability to invade HRE principalities without going to war with Austria
3: It is unlikely that Austria will unite the HRE so most principalities will stay free,

I have also removed the over-powered 'French ideas' from France. I considered adding all the other French nations to the idea group but thought that would create a huge French powerblock which would be un-invadable by the other more central-european HRE members.

Tell me your thoughts on this. The update will be going up either later today or tommorow.

IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW TO STOP BERGUNDY FROM WARINING ALL THE FRENCH PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

Thanks :D

As an alternative to lowering Ile-de-France's BT, increase the BT of other provinces, like Poitou, Normandie and Loire for example. Mostly capitals and/or centers of trade.

Though, that will make things OP for anyone conquering France.

Also, IMO, adding the provinces to the HRE would be bad, mostly because it would give too much power to the emperor and give uneccesary AE to squables there. And if someone wants to invade the french area, hey c'est la vie.

Hmm... it might go against what you said about giving HRE members more room to expand, but I think it might be interesting to make all the released nations be vassals of France along with the vassals they have in the vanilla game. Sort of like a european Japan.

It'd make France less of a powerhouse but could keep Castile/Aragon/etc. from dominating the region too easily. Also, any wars lost by France would likely have vassals split off making the region much more open to HRE expantion a little later in the game.

Just a thought.

Hi everyone. I will be updating this mod over the weekend. Planned changes are
: Add provinces to HRE and to lower base-tax in Ile de france. If you'd like any new or chnaged things in the mod then please comment

Thanks :)

That would most likely be the Independent Balkand Islands mod. I recomend changing to Independent islands which frees up all islands (before 1.8) and doesn't have that bug active

Hey I'm not sure which mod of yours it is but all national ideas like Austrian and Swedish ideas are not there. See if you can find the bug. Thanks

I think i will Adod + Nolan013: I didn't think about that. Aragon might end up invading. Oh well ;)

Aren't they? I'm pretty sure I see the Aral Sea's and Caspian Sea's shadows in the Atlantic.

Add them to the empire too for protection from GB and SP.

lol how unbalenced for the iberians

Have they?

What's wrong with your seas? Why did they all move westwards?

:D