A question about Hellenic Autonomy and Local Colonies

[rhavviepoodle]

So in my Pontos campaign, it appears that I cannot build local colonies in Ephesos. I checked the EDB file and apparently one of the requirements is not to have hinterland_uniques3 threenine, which I believe is Diagramma Hellenon Autonomias (Hellenic Autonomy). This struck me as odd, because I have local colonies installed in Hallikarnasos, which also has Hellenic Autonomy. As far as I can tell, the only other difference is that Ephesos has a polis_two instead of a polis_one.

I guess my question is are Hellenic Autonomy and local colonies intended to be mutually exclusive? If so, is it a bug that local colonies are viable in Hallikarnasos?

[QuintusSertorius]

Yes, they're supposed to be mutually exclusive.

[rhavviepoodle]

Alright, thanks for the heads up. You don't need me to log the Halikarnasos local colonies as a bug, do you? It definitely seems to be an unintentional feature as of right now. On a related note, is there a chance this mutual exclusion could be mentioned in the description of Hellenic Autonomy? It isn't exactly obvious (short of digging through the EDB file like I did).

[myarta]

Go ahead and report that in the bug forum, thanks. I see that Halikarnasos has threenine in the strat file, so it seems that both Ephesos and Halikarnasos should be the same in being unable to build there. The logic is, I think, that if there are enough Greeks to complain about being ruled by other Greeks in a tyrrany, then there are too many to go up the local colonist chain instead.

[rhavviepoodle]

I will likely destroy Halikarnasos' local colonies eventually (after they finish pushing EI culture in the province) and replace them with Greek colonies to be historically accurate. I've already got a Basilike Patris and settler towns in Ephesos, so this Lydian area is turning into something of a recruitment hub. It's kind hard to justify turning down local colonies as Pontos (muh culture creep), but I'll get around to it eventually.