Unrealistic but fun randomised mod by Pengo

[Pengo]

Hi

I have an idea for a mod that I want to make, and would like to get idea's from others about. This mod will not be realistic but rather be a fun idea I have thought about for a while.

What my mod would be is not so much a mod like others but a seperate program that when run will open the relavent MTW2 files and randomise the starting locations of all the factions. I figure if I tell it to give all factions one starting province and start with all generals and starting troops in the city then this should be possible.

Second feature would be to randomise the factions religions, perhaps the game may be more interesting if europe is a more a patchwork of the religions, rather than the three clearly defined area's in vanilla.

What do people think?, would others be interested in giving it a try?

I have no coding experience and after reading a bit on the web figure python would be able to do what I need, I would have to learn how to use python first and so the mod may take a little time to get working......

Initially I would get this working with the Stainless Steel mod as I like the XAI for campaign which is aggressive which I figure would be great for the AI, and thus would need to ask permission from those involved in those mods.

Again my idea is just about having fun and making the game have some more replayability.

[Orko]

Sounds nice.
but only if you use a ne map .

[Pengo]

what do you mean by a "ne" map?

can't I just alter which provinces are owned by which faction in the descr_strat.txt file?

[Orko]

I ment to say "new".
I mean, with more provinces. that would be much funner.