Economy expansion mod v2.1.6 file

There is a new game bugs when playing on 1366*768 resolution. The main menu text don't fit on the portrait it goes outside of it & when I press province features and goods on the political view menu some of the trade goods and exotic goods icons are missing like amber, pearls etc. & another is the letter h on hostel building is lower case. I also tried running the Fix 3 on the fix folder of the ultimate edition but, it doesn't work only runs the game on windowed mode. Please game dev fix those bugs to fit on the screen coz we really love this game.

I see you published the bug fixes, well done friend! Amazing work!

Nice. I'll notify you if any more bugs are found.

For ideas, here are a few things I tried while attempting to mod for myself:

- Changing town template so that each country can have at least 1 town that has all the necessary buildings to allow access to advanced units right from the start. This makes the AIs actually build some better units in their armies, making the game more challenging. With this modification I actually had to fight through quite a lot of cavalries and armors during my play, which was very enjoying. Normally, they'd just build very basic units, and never attempt to build the necessary buildings to access better ones.

- Buffing the range of trebuchets a lot, to justify building them. As it stands now, nobody'd build trebuchets, since catapults are cheaper, almost same range, can move, overall just way better.

- Increasing the shootdispersion in some UNIT files for range units. More specifically, I increased the value to 64 for catapults and some low level archers (I think it only works in multiples of 32 for some reason). This nerfed the catapults down a bit, which didn't mean much, just taking more time to take down walls. But the nerf for low level archers was actually very good in simulating their low level skill and dropping their power. Of course you'd need to buff their damage up a bit to compensate, or they'd just be garbage. But it's actually more realistic than just giving them low damage.

Some other ideas I was still testing:

- I tried to overhaul the economy, by making food and workers more important. Basically, I made building construction cost workers and food, made some buildings reduce food and workers, while others (like windmill, in the reasoning that it'd save you labor to mill the wheat) to produce much more food and workers to compensate (also a way to increase their importance). Overall, it worked, only a tad disappointing that you can only do negative bonus on 1 type of value, so you can't make the same building reduce both workers and food for example. Still have to work out the balance, which I haven't got into due to lack of time.

- Readjusting the economy. I tried to divide the economic buildings into types, one type was quick cash that was cheap and fast to build, give you a bit of gold, good for starting, and another required a lot of upgrades and other prerequisite buildings, which cost a lot and actually reduced the gold/other resources, but when you get to the final buildings, they give you big boost in gold/resources. The gold reduction midway of upgrading is a good thing to keep your income low well into the late game instead of just adding up. Again, the issue would be in balancing.

- Different building upgrade routs depending on assets. There are some buildings you can only build at certain territories that have all the necessary assets for the prerequisite buildings. I tried to copy that for more economic buildings, each had different requirements to get to the final buildings (like some needed the territory to have both silver and minerals, others required pasture, fertile soil and river). This'd force you to choose carefully which rout of economic buildings you'd want to invest in for each territory, depending on the combination of assets each had. However, the issue was some assets were pretty rare, making their combinations sometimes nonexistent.

Some other things I'd love to have but haven't figured out:

- Changing the frequency of assets. As I said above, some assets like silver are very rare, sometimes only in a handful of territories in the entire world. I'm still trying to figure out how to increase that, as it would be essential for my last idea.

- Adding more assets (and also valuables and exotics). I think it's possible, and would be very good for my last idea. The issue would be the icons in the UI. Don't know if there's a max number for it.

- Reducing the attack rate of some units (particularly seige weapons). I suspect this one is hardcoded though.

- Creating more unit groups in the [groups] section in defs\Units\Military\bonuses file, so you can have more dynamic strength and weakness between different units. This one I think is possible, although haven't tried it out yet.

- Having more battle maps. I'd love to have a bigger variety of battle maps. Hope you can make more of them, or teach me how to code the maps.

Of course if you want to pick up any of these ideas to try for yourself, feel free.

Thanks a lot for the instruction. I'll try it out and if manage to make some, I'll send you to see if you can add in the new version.

For bugs, after trying these few days, I found some:
- For some reasons, armies from ally countries don't come to reinforce me anymore. I remember the last time I played, ally countries reinforced me every time they had an army in the same region. Now, I try fighting very near them, but they just don't show up. Enemy reinforce and my own reinforce work as normal.
- Sometimes entire unit disappears when they're on the wall. They just turn into puffs of smoke and gone. Happen to both enemy, ally and my own units.
- Castle assaults end when there're still enemy units left.
- Range units resupply arrows very slowly when camping. Not sure if it's intentional, but the speed of arrow resupply is about three times slower than before.