In order to ensure timely, consistent and most importunity accurate responses on the Paradox and Steam Forums, VeF is appointing "Golladan" as Community Manager. In this role, he speaks officially for the team. He will be responsible for collecting feedback and bug reports from the community and ensuring they are properly reported in our internal bug tracker, as well as answering questions about the mod.

This is not to say that others on the team won't respond as appropriate on matters, simply to say that Golladan speaks authoritatively for the team.

Please don't bombard him with private messages - requests for enhancements, suggestions and bug reports should continue to be posted in their appropriate threads here or on the Paradox Forums.

• A vastly updated map, with over a 100 new countries (both formable and already in existence), including hybrid nations such as the Celtic & Angevin Empires!
  
• A hugely redesigned Anatolian map, courtesy of CanOmer!
  
• Nation specific factions, noticeable in nations such as Great Britain, Byzantium, Persia, Russia, Japan, Osman, the Angevin Empire, and a great many more!
  
• Several custom and updated religions, including Pagan religions such as Romuva, and the integration of religious minorities in provinces, too!
  
• The addition of nearly 100 Great Historical Persons available as advisors, and featuring new portraits all advisors (including vanilla ones)!
  
• A total of 48 available historically-accurate and geographically-relevant trade goods (e.g., Millet, Glassware, Timber), each with their own custom portrait!
  
• New government types for Archbishops, Counts, Dukes, Vassals, and many others!
  
• A completely reworked trade map, including new trade nodes and trade routes!
  
• Numerous new policies to customize the scope of your realm!
  
• A significant reduction in download size through optimization of graphics files (70MB smaller).
  
• An updated user-interface, including many new icons and images!
  
• A colorful collection of event pictures!
  
• And new background music, including original works!

• The Stability System, designed to entirely separate Stability from Monarch Points!
  
• The Administrative Capacity System, designed to more historically manage your realm, and to add extra depth to the gameplay that already exists!
  
• An Aristocratic System, where the opportunistic nobles who reside within your lands will routinely pressure the government, providing an extra layer of depth, alongside the various bonuses and effects that come with or without them!
  
• A Vassal System, featuring a steady integration process for vassals you wish to annex, and an improvement process for vassals you don't!
  
• The Research System, allowing you to spend our new currency - the Ruler Point (???) - on a various stream of tech-tree upgrades for your nation!
  
• The Provincial Government System, where various factors such as stability and aristocracy power are calculated separate from vanilla mechanics!
  
• The Raid and Tribute System, where you can ensure your well-being from the occasional raids of the hordes through periodic gold subsidies!

• The Hansaeatic League: Join this historic trade conglomeration, where the individually-puny members of this merchant league combine their strength to rule Baltic and German trade. Each elected leader dominates the other member nations for a term of eight years, until which time the member nations are gathered once more to vote and determine which nation will become the next leader of the great Hansaetic League!
  
  
• The Daimyos of Japan: Experience our hugely remastered feudal Japan! Take control of any one of several historic daimyos, each with custom and unique ideas, and relive the brutal days that led up to the Sengoku Jidai era. Watch the chaos unleash itself upon this unseemingly brutal island, as every faction is forced to choose between two sides. Either vie for the Emperor's favor, bringing together the country through its imperial roots, or unite Japan under the banner of the Shogun!
  
  
• The Hundred Years' War: Engage in the the last great Medieval war, engulfing nearly a dozen separate French and English factions in a war that spanned almost a century, and attempt to lead your respective country out of these dire straits and into historical (or not so historical) glory!
  
  
• The War of the Roses: Participate the great English melee itself, as the Houses Plantagenet, Lancaster, and York vie for supremacy amongst this massive, internal war for the throne of England!
  
  
• The Spanish Inquisition: Live the days the Spanish Inquisition, the most infamous religious order dedicated to the investigation, interrogation, and execution of heretical members of Spanish society!
  
  
• The Reformation: Watch as Europe is engulfed in religious turmoil, as the Calvinist reformation sweeps through the streets of Europe like a plague, shifting alliances, splitting households, forcing countries to war with themselves, and shifting the geopolitical map of the European continent!
  
  
• The Black Death: And speaking of the plague... witness the devastation wrought by the Black Plague, as it flows through your nation like a deathly wind, brutally rebalancing the population of each infected province, as it leaves hundreds of thousands of corpses in the wake of each outbreak!

• A complete overhaul of the Idea Groups, including:
  
• Many new and unique Idea Groups.
  
• A branching tech tree for Idea Groups.
  
• A complete overhaul of Military Units, including:
  
• Rebalanced units and localized ship types.
  
• An auxiliary military improvement system for "modern" nations.
  
• A historically-representative merging of Western, Byzantine, and Scandinavian military units from Military Tech 40 and onward.
  
• A complete re-imagining of the Catholic Papacy, including:
  
• Massive, continent-churning events (e.g., The Papacy in Avignon).
  
• A restructured system for Cardinals.
  
• A redesigned system for excommunication.
  
• A complete revision of Provincial Buildings, including:
  
• New building icons.
  
• New descriptions.
  
• New trade buildings.
  
• More varied, and far more relevant effects.
  
• And updated map shaders, for a more brilliant looking experience!

• Serenissima Italia, a base for our vastly improved Venetian and Italian experience.
  
• Scandinavian Flavour: a base for our rich Nordic experience, filled with many intricacies and flavors to keep the perpetually-frigid north alive and interesting.
  
• Hordes Unlimited, a base for our improved experience amongst the various Hordes.
  
• Bigger Diplomacy Mod.
  
• Bigger UI Mod.
  
• And the More Provinces Mod.[/lilst]
  Plus, thousands of distinctive events, missions, flavors, decisions, modifiers, and localizations