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I'd play the mod in a heartbeat if somebody compiled it.

Don't worry about if it works, that's what we players are for.

While I have no ability to help in designing, I'd imagine recruiting a replacement would be easier if the mod were easily made available as is.  Then you'd have players going, "Hey, this part here is messed up, but if I do this, it'll work...", and then they've taken over the mod.

In regards to not working on it since Fall, no problem, just glad it still exists.  I've only just recently resumed working on my mod for DF, which I stopped working on mid-Summer.  We understand that stuff comes up.

Fixing things for the sea nations isn't that hard, either set all but five or so sea provinces as nostart, or use fixed starts with 21 or so starting positions.

I'd figure that sea players would be less adverse to having the players know where they are from the start than the land players, as most land nations won't be able to invade water provinces until mid-game or later.

I'm ok with anything.

The greatest crime of the liberal should be on their profile.

2)  Flag flying makes your safehouse slightly more discrete.  Flag burning has a slight effect on free speech.

By slight, in regards to flying a flag, we mean 30% added...

Question: Can my liberals get arrested while volunteering?  I like the ability for them to lose heat, but:
Death Penalty=Arch-Conservative-->Failed Trial=Death
Unless I jailbreak the liberals, but then they never get clear records, and keep mondo heat.

Well, that guide relates to Early Age Eriu, not Middle Age Eriu, although a lot of the same principles hold.

Ugh, I gotta get back to playing, been too busy with MtG. My arthurian duke is falling apart from old age, which is sort of a relief since his ridiculously low intrigue keeps him from managing multiple provinces properly. I'm just sitting around upgrading my provinces and accumulating prestige and piety, watching my sons (all counts) manage their own provinces. My youngest one turned out to be my favorite, he's a brilliant tactician with 14 martial and 11 intrigue, he'll make a fine leader, too bad he's the 3rd in the line of succession.

My old Serbian kingdom is falling apart, my king was wounded when hunting, the wound made him ill and the illness gave him consumption, leaving him able to control only 3 provinces directly, unfortunately I had 7 because that was how many he could control before getting majorly ill. Then my vassals and my vassals' vassals all start rebelling and my damn bastard son who has terrible stats wise decides that because I gave him a single county to control he can declare himself my successor, placing him in line before my legitimate son who has the really good stats and is due to inherit all the cool claims from his grandfather.

You both have the wrong succession laws.  It's funny that if you both switched sucession laws, you'd be happy!
Dakk: Change the laws (under laws in the kingdom menu where you enter for research, laws, and council members) so the strongest son inherits, and make sure your favorite has more or equal counties under his control than his brothers.
Jreengus: Change your sucession laws so the eldest son inherits.  That should make the bastard ineligible in the line of sucession, even if he is the eldest (going by age ignores all bastards).
Both of you should save before messing with the laws, as you want to get it right on the first try, due to the distress to the subjects that changing laws does.  Also make sure the kingdom is stable and making a profit.  Check your character to determine who is the successor before and after law changes.

I glanced through the map editor and see two ways of "introducing randomness" (please correct me if I'm wrong E. Albright or anyone else):

Editing out and editing in refers to disallowing a site as a starting site with random, and allowing a site as a starting site with fixed.  Unless we're desperate for start sites, the map is unlikely to see any other alteration.

On retrospect...map editing will require editing the map file and using the ingame editing (mainly for convenience).  The question is whether to select predetermined start sites and edit in eligible sites, or not select predetermined start sites and edit out bad start sites.  It'll basically come down to two things:
Which list (bad start site or good start site) is longer, and
Which list is produced more or less first?

Also, if someone is going to edit the map, one idea I'll mention is the removal of the worldwrap.  While it will lead to cornering and other bad things, it just seems more authentic to the area.  You can't go south of Alaska and get back to Alaska without hitting the South Pole (not shown).  There is no land bridge between North America (mostly missing, but Alaska is part of it) and Europe (not shown), except the Bering Strait.  It seems more accurate to me to assume that the nations can only get from one land mass to the other by the Bering Strait, or water travel.

Because of the balance problems removing the worldmap would produce, editing in good start sites is more likely.

What may also be an option to accomidate the balance/suspense equation is implementing more start sites.  So instead of having 7 nations for 7 start sites (current Bering Strait), we have something like 14 start sites for 7 nations.

Admitedly, the water nations will benefit more, as it will be easier to find alternate start sites for them.