Originally Posted by
Tilarium
The reason the map looks like it does is because, in a sense, that's what alot of people were asking for. Back in M2 you had people complaining that the regions weren't big enough and that there were to many cities. CA did what they thought was wanted with the map by merging several regions into one (France, Spain, Ireland, England) which lowered the city count and increased the size of the regions. Then there was the group that wanted HUGE maps with lots of regions, and so for those people they made it so there would be no limit to the region count because it was mostly the mod community that wanted more regions. Unfortunitally, they decided to go with this half-baked system for the game files and not provide the mod community with the tools or even just the documentation we needed to mod it. Dont' get me wrong, the mod community has done alot already, but the map is probably the big ticket item that most people want to fiddle with.. and it's the hardest one to fiddle with. I'm sure once things are figured out and we get tools, either from CA or from the mod community, the amount of modding possible will be mind blowing.