Comments - espadajusta

The question is that this was not significant at the time to be considered in the game.
In XIX century there were also homosexuals and in the 1830's - 1850's many countries legalized/illegalized homosexual acts.
Should that also be included in the game? No, this was not significant in the historical period. Same as many of these nationalist, religious movements...

Maybe, but the problem is that you can not apply tariffs to specific goods. That makes tariffs completely useless in the game.
I don't think there is any country in the game that can produce all goods to fulfill their pops and factories needs, so raising tariffs is always bad and do not help to develop your home economy.

To begin with, the game starts with a very wrong concept regarding pops and rgo's. At the time, most world population, did not buy/produce anything in the "world market", and lived in a pure subsistence economy or just in a limited "local economy". That should be like more than 90% of pops in inciv. countries and a large part also in civ. countries too.
The game ignores all pops that do not produce/buy goods in the world marked, like construction workers, local shops, services in general...
Then to make sense, as the game only consider pops that buy/sell in the world market, not only factories, but "industrial" mines and plantations should also need to be build, in order to produce these rgo's to be sold in the world market, and not just locally or for own consumption.
I think that the geme strong tendency to buy local first tries to reflect this, but on my opinion it is still very unrealistic.

I can agree that nationalist ideology have been creating a "catalan identity" since late XX century. The "separate history and culture" you mention is a recent nationalist invention and is part of modern "identity politics". But that did not exist in XIX century.

Show me one example in the XIX century where catalans where considered and "ethnic group"
In the game this makes not sense at all. For example, as "accepted culture" they can not vote unless your party support limited or full citizenship. Show me one moment in history where this ever happened with catalans or basque or other region in Spain.
The only group that can be considered a different culture, according to game rules, is gypsy.

Other thing that I find wrong in the game, and that have not been changed in this mod is the pop's need for goods.
The need of tea for all pops is too high and absurd. While tea was very popular in Portugal, UK and Netherlands, in most other civilised countries coffee was preferred and consumption of tea was really marginal.
The need for fertilizer is too low for farmers, which makes no sense and makes fertilizer factories quite useless.

No, I don't agree, because catalans are not an ethnic group. If you are talking about language, catalan was really minoritary in XIX century. And other regions, like Valencia, Galicia have also language. Andalusians have also a dialect and their own folklore and traits. But they are all spanish.
Then, it is not true that catalans proclamed a republic in 1930's. That's nationalist propaganda trying to rewrite the history at their taste. In 1934, the president of the regional goverment proclamed "the catalan state in the federal republic of spain". It was a unilateral proclamation of a federal state, not independence. And did not have any popular support, as in this region anarquism was very strong at the time, not nationalism. Just do a google search and you can verify yourself.
The fueros were only in basque region and Navarra, not Catalonia.
And yes, I am spanish, and I hate when I play with Spain to see catalan nationalist growing, when that did not exist before 1936.

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Sorry, correction, there is one ethnic difference with gypsies.

I don't understand why you can not take a state with over 600k pops in China, but you can do it in India.

Ok, I didn't see any mention in the descriptions, and I am too early in the game to see it yet.

That is not true. That is only nationalist propaganda. Nationalism in those regions was only invented at the end of XIX century, and did not become strong until entered XX century. It certainly didn't exist in 1836. These regions were mostly carlist, supporters of absolute monarchy in Spain. So quite opposite to regional nationalism.
Ethnically there is no difference in all the iberian peninsula, and genetic studies have demostrated.

The presence of basque and catalan as different population from spanish is purely ideological and not historical. Catalan and basque nationalism was invented at the end of XIX century and does not correspond with any historical nation. Basque, catalan, andalusian, galician, castilian, are all Spanish. So, either we have spanish, or we have basque, catalan, valencian, andalusian, galician, castilian, etc...
In order to introduce regional populations like basque, it would be necessary to do it everywere. For example, instead of french, we would have, bretons, occitans, corses, bourguigons, gascons, etc..

In the case of Spain, is complex. Literacy in 1800 was 34%, similar to other countries like France. During XIX century literacy decreased for some reasons, mostly because the amortizations eliminated the founding for schools. Rua.ua.es

Very interesting mod and great work. I find some things still not correct.

1 - sizes of armies and navies are very unrealistic in the original game. For example, in the second Opium war in 1856-60, the franco-british army was only 20k troops, and that were enough to defeat China. At beginning of WWI Britain had around 20 battleships/battlecruisers and germany 13. Austria had 3. These are the historical numbers.

2 - The province of Huelva, in Spain, was the location of the Rio Tinto mine, the largest mining complex in XIX century. In the game resources of this province is "grain"

3 - The railway level system is also not fine adjusted. Cuba had railways in 1839, but in the game you can not build them until 1860 because the terrain is set as hills…

4 - Canals/Straits: The owner of the Canal should be able to block the passage of military units of other countries (unless agreed). If you own both shores of a strait, like Gibraltar or Bosphorus, you should be able, at least, to block units of countries you are at war with. Also Canals should need investment to build, and provide revenues from passage (be profitable in long term).