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Improved southern Europe traits (OUTDATED)

The main purpose of this mod is to remove the Alps negative trait from the provinces of Lombardy and Piedmont, and the Pyrenees from Catalonia, since it makes no sense from both gameplay and historical perspective.

While I was at it, I noticed that southern Europe had very little geographic flavour compared to the rest of the continent, so I added a few traits.

These changes should bring more life and coherence to southern Europe without fundamentally altering the balance of the game, and make it somewhat more satisfactory to develop the capital cities of Rome, Lisbon and Istanbul, as well as the historical industrial hearts of Catalonia, Basque Country and the Po valley.

• Removal of the mountain penalties from the provinces of Navarra, Aragon, Catalonia, Lombardy and Piedmont.
  
• Po river extended to include Emilia and Romagna. (Other than being geographically coherent, this has the fortunate side effect of palliating the frustrating lack of infrastructure when integrating Luca, Parma, Modena and Romagna)
  
• Tiber river: 15 infrastructure
  
• Ebro river: 15 infrastructure
  
• Guadalquivir river: 15 infrastructure
  
• The Triano mountains: Basque rich iron deposits in the 19th century. 10% iron mine throughput.
  
• Tagus river: 15 infrastructure
  
• Tagus estuary: same as the natural harbour trait
  
• The port of Piraeus: same as the natural harbour trait
  
• Strait of Bosphorus: 20 infrastructure (same as the Danish straits)

The game currently adds a 15% construction AND infrastructure penalty to the provinces of Lombardy and Piedmont due to their being next to the Alps. I think this a very unfortunate oversight. These regions may be surrounded by mountains, but the Po valley is one of the places on Earth best suited for human settlement, one of the most urbanised regions in history and the industrial and economic heart of Italy. From a historical or geographic perspective it makes very little sense. From a gameplay perspective, it only makes it more difficult for Piedmont-Sardinia to reach the range of major necessary to form Italy as it historically did.

A very similar problem occurs in the north of Spain. Navarra, Aragon and Catalonia are all affected by the Pyrenees trait, but actually the Pyrenees are but a fraction of the territory of these regions. Most of Aragon is comprised of the Ebro valley, with Zaragoza being one of Spain biggest cities. The Basque Country and Catalonia were by far the most industrialised and urbanised regions in 19th century Spain. Having the Pyrenees negatively affect Zaragoza and Barcelona makes as much sense as having it affect Toulouse and Bordeaux.

So it's not only that these regions are not unfavourable to urban and industrial developement, like the game pretends, but they are especially favourable, and both have been indeed very important industrial centers throughout history.

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If you would like to see this in the base game, please make sure to upvote the Forum post and join the discussion:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/fixing-northern-italy-a-tale-of-two-mountains.1595444/

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This mod only alters the file 01_south_europe.txt and should be compatible with any mod that doesn't change the file.

I'm open to feedback and suggestions, so make sure to share your thoughts in the comments.

Check out my other fully compatible mod: