Culture

= Primary Culture =

= Accepted Culture =

= Culture Conversion = Culture Conversion fires every year during the January 1 calculation tick provided the province meets the requirements

Requirements
Culture Conversion requires all of the following:
 * Is a stated Core
 * One of the following:
 * Is not your Primary Culture
 * Is either an Ostsiedlung or Frankish Settlers province
 * Is not experiencing separatism
 * One of the following:
 * All of the following:
 * A nearby province (can be one sea tile away) either:
 * Has your Primary Culture
 * Is of your Culture Group and the target province is not of your Culture group
 * One of the Following:
 * Is not your Primary Culture
 * All of the following:
 * Is a member of your Culture Group
 * The province's Culture group is one of: Greek, Oghuz, Tartar, Old Turkic, or Altaic
 * You development is 1,200
 * You have embraced both Nationalism and Academia
 * You are a member of the Greek Culture Group and the province is of your religion and a member of the Oghuz Culture Group
 * You are a member of the Oghuz Culture Group and the province is of your religion and a member of the Greek Culture Group
 * You are a member of the East Slavic Culture Group and the province is of your religion and a a member of the Tartar Culture Group
 * The province is your capital and you own a province of your Primary Culture
 * The province is Hevros/Adrianoplois and you have moved your capital there via the Ottoman Make Thaki Capital decision.
 * Is either an Ostsiedlung or Frankish Settlers province

Culture Conversion Guide
The name of the game for Cultural Conversion is patience. Check the requirements for the process, make sure they are fulfilled and get them fulfilled early. State your territories! Seperatism can be a hard time limit before provinces begin to convert - so taking ideas with -X years of Separatism will start the process that much earlier. Conqueror or Great Conqueror leaders can also help get the ball rolling decades earlier - but once they kick the bucket, Separatism will jump back up to what it would have been without them.

You can speed things up by being tolerant of other religions (or by being proactive in promoting the One True Faith). Negative tolerance hurts a lot more than positive tolerance helps. Taking Culture Ideas and lowering the provinces' autonomy levels will also speed things up. In theory, looting a province into the ground will make it easier to convert - but the economic cost is probably not worth it.

Example: A 10 development province with 33% autonomy province should take around 57 years to change cultures with no other modifiers.

Culture Conversion Speed
Every (insert frequency of conversion tick) provinces that are eligible will advance their conversion percentage by an amount equal to $$Progress$$. Once they hit 100, they will convert.

If you have the Historic Conversion game option on, provinces will convert ten times more slowly.

$$Progress=2 \times \frac{Historic Modifier \times AutonomyModifier \times CultureCostModifier \times ToleranceModifier}{DevelopmentModifier}$$

The more developed a province is, the slower it will change cultures.

$$DevelopmentModifier = \frac{ProvincialDevelopment}{80}+1$$

A province's Local Autonomy has a direct affect on culture conversion speed.

$$AutonomyModifier = \frac{150 - (1.5*LocalAutonomy)}{100}$$

A nation's Culture Conversion Cost modifier can speed or slow down culture conversion. A negative modifier speeds up culture conversion; a positive modifier slows down conversion.

$$CultureCostModifier = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \frac{1}{1+NationalCultureCostModifier} \quad |NationalCultureCostModifier>=0 \\ CultureCostModifier = 1- NationalCultureConversionCost - LocalCultureConversionCost \quad |\text{else} \end{array} \right.$$

Tolerance to the province's dominant religion affect the speed at which they change cultures. Positive tolerance speeds up conversion ever-so-slightly; negative tolerance can significantly slow down culture conversion.

$$ToleranceModifier = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} 1+\frac{Tolerance}{1000} \quad |Tolerance >= 0 \\ \frac{Tolerance+3}{3} \quad |-2.7 <= Tolerance < 0 \\ 0.1 \quad |-3 < Tolerance < 2.7 \\ 0.05 \quad |Tolerance = -3 \end{array} \right.$$

Historic Modifiers
Some areas have innate bonuses to culture conversion for certain cultures, areas may be more resistance to conversion by their overlords.


 * Turkish/Anatolian convert 1.5 times as fast when you are Greek
 * Provinces of Old Uyghur culture convert 4 times as fast
 * Tartar provinces that are not in Central Asia or Nogai province convert 2.5 times as fast for East Slavs
 * For owners with Korean Culture Group
 * Jurchen provinces in the Donggye Area convert 3 times as fast
 * Provinces in Liaoning convert 2 times as fast
 * Provinces in Jilin area convert 1.5 times as fast
 * Provinces in Heilongjiang and Ilan Hala areas convert 1.25 as fast
 * Provinces in the East Manchuria region convert to 1.1 times as fast, unless those provinces are Russian
 * English, Cornish and Northern English provinces convert 1.5 times as quickly for the Anglo-French Union
 * Provinces convert to Vietic 1.5 times as quickly in the Vietnam region and the Champa, Indrapura and Mekong areas
 * Occitan and Breton provinces convert half as quickly for the Iberian and Langue d'Oil Culture Groups and for Southern English culture
 * The Western Manchuria region and Ordos area converts 1.5 times as quickly for the Chinese Culture Group
 * The Yunan region converts twice as quickly for Chinese provided the province has at least 15k urban population
 * Hellenization - For Greek Culture Group Owners
 * Oghuz provinces convert 1.5 times as quickly for Greek Culture Group Onwers
 * Apulia and Calabria convert 1.15 times as quickly if they are Orthodox
 * Sicily (exluding Malta) convert 1.3 times as quickly if they are Orthodox
 * Sicily will convert to Maghrebi cultures 1.15 times a quickly provided Sicily is Muslim
 * The eastern Adriatic Coast will become Dalamatian 1.25 times as quickly provided the province has at least 7.5k urban population
 * Retake the Steppes - For Romanian Culture Group Owners
 * Tartar provinces in Cherson, Zaporizhia, Basarabia become Romanian twice as quickly.
 * Crimea, Poltava, Kharkov, Donetsk become Romanian twice as quickly when converting from Tartar
 * Tana becomes Romanian twice as quickly.
 * Turkification
 * Anatolian culture converts twice as quickly for the Oghuz Culture Group provided it has the owner's state religion
 * Turkoman and Yorouk Cultures become Turkish culture twice as quickly.
 * Turkish culture becomes Turkoman and Yurouk Culture twice as quickly
 * An accepted culture province 0.2 times as quickly (or one-fifth as quickly) if it is of your culture group and your development is at least 1200. This does not apply to the Tartar, Old Turkic or Altaic culture groups.

Melting Pot Cultures
Normally, a province will flip to your Primary Culture. There are some exceptions, listen below.


 * Ostsiedlung provinces will flip to a German culture; German Silesian, Low Saxon, high Saxon or Pomeranian, as appropriate.
 * If the owner's Crimary Culture is Silesian, an Ostsiedlung province converting to German Silesian will also change your Primary Culture!
 * If none of the four are appropriate, it will convert to you primary culture
 * Chinese Cultures and Sinicization:
 * Zhuang and Tay Nung provinces will swap to Pinghua culture for Chinese Culture Group owners, provided there is a neighboring Yueyu, Xiyue, or Pinghua province
 * Provinces in the West Manchuria region will become Dongbei culture
 * Provinces in the Ordos area will become Jinyu culture
 * Provinces in Yunan as well as the provinces of Guilin and Luizhou will become Yungui culture


 * Southeast Asia:
 * Malayan provinces whose owners are in the Thai Culture Group will swap to Dambru if they neighbor a Thai or Dambru province
 * Eastern Europe:
 * Karelian, Sampi and Nenet provinces owned by someone in the East Slavic group will swap to Pomor culture
 * Ruthenian, Lithuanian and Byelorussian provinces in the Lithuanian region owned by someone in the West Slavic Culture group will swap to Litvin culture
 * The Levant
 * Syriac and Aramaic provinces owned by someone in the Mashreqi Culture Group will swap to Moslawi culture
 * Persia
 * Khaliji and Bahrani provinces owned by someone in the Persian Culture Group will swap to Khuzi culture
 * Tartar Culture Group provinces owned by someone in the Persian Culture Group will swap to Sart culture
 * Persian Culture Group provinces owned by someone in the Tartar Culture Group that are not Eastern Persian or Aimak culture will swap to Sart Culture
 * East Persian and Aimak culture provinces owned by someone in the Persian Culture Group will sawp to Tajihk Culture
 * Mongols - Turco-Mongols or Mongolic Turks will have special cultures depending on the province's region
 * Provinces in Europe or in the Khazak region will swap to Tartar culture.
 * Provinces in North Asia (Siberia) will change to Siberian culture.
 * Provinces in Central Asia, The Middle-East and North Africa and India will change to Chaghatai culture
 * Provinces in Asia, Southeast Asia and Oceania will change to Mongol culture
 * Everywhere else (Subsaharan Africa, the Americas?) will change to your Primary Culture
 * The Anatolian Melting Pot
 * For Greek Culture Group Owners of Yorouk, Turkoman and Tukish Provinces:
 * Provinces in the Trebizond area as well and the provinces of Cankiri, Amasya, Tokat, Amastris, and Sinop will change to Pontic Culture
 * Turkoman provinces in the Cappadocian region will become Cappadocian Culture for Greek Culture Group Owners provided there is another Cappadocian province nearby.
 * Provinces in the MENA continent without a port will become Anatolian culture.
 * Otherwise they will become Greek Culture.
 * Greek Culture provinces owned by Turkish, Yorouk or Turkoman Primary Culture nations will become Anatolian culture.
 * Anatolian culture provinces will change to Turkish for Turkish Primary Culture owners.
 * Hellenization - for Greek Culture Group Owners
 * Provinces in the Naples region will become Grecanici culture
 * Provinces in Sicily will become Sikelianoi culture
 * Provinces in the Balkans and Dobrogea will become Slavoi culture
 * Romanians outside of the Doborgea culture will become Vlachoi culture
 * Provinces in the Crimea region (Excluding the Crimea area itself) or provinces of the Tartar and Caucasian Culture groups will become Methoriakoi culture
 * Georgians outside of the Trebizond area will become Georgianoi
 * Armenian provinces as well as provinces in the Malatya, Sophene, and Hakkari areas will become Armenioi culture
 * Provinces in Syria will become Suroi culture
 * Levantine Culture Group provinces outside of Syria as well as provinces in the Diyar Mudar, Diyar rabia, Diyar Bakir and Lower Mesopotamia Areas will become Irakinoi
 * Provinces in Egypt will become Aigyptioi culture
 * Provinces in the Iran and Fars regions, the Shemakha Area, or of the Persian Culture Group will become Perses culture
 * Korean Primary Culture
 * Provinces in Heilongjian, Ilan Hala and Jilin will become Korean Girin culture
 * Provinces in Liaoning and Girin will become Korean Liaoning culture
 * Provinces elsewhere of Neghidal Culture or who belong to the Nivkh or Jurchen Culture groups will become Korean Jurchen culture
 * Provinces in the Inner Mongolia, Kaicheng and Khorchin areas of Oroqen Culture of of the Altaic or Jurchen Culture groups will become Korean Mongol Culture
 * Southen English, Northern English and Cornish provinces owned by the French-Anglo Union will become Anglois culture
 * Sicilian provinces owned by Maghrebi nations will become Siqiliya culture
 * Provinces in the Eastern Adriatic Area owned by Latins will become Dalamatian culture.
 * At 1,200 Development, provinces of your culture group can spread if your primary culture is unavailable. The development requirement is waived for the Greek, Oghuz, Tartar, Old Turkic and Altaic Culture Groups

Ostsiedlung
During initialization certain provinces on the German periphery are flagged as Ostsiedlung province and begin with a certain amount of culture conversion already started. These will help the provinces change to a german culture - even if the owner is not German!

Ostsieldung provinces can be divded into three groups:


 * Pre 1250 Provinces: Lower Silesia, Lusatia, Vorpommern, Mittlemark, Koroshka Stajerska (Austria)
 * After 1250: Middle Silesia, Upper Silesia, Hinterpommern, Neumark, Western Prussia
 * After 1275 Eastern Prussia

Depending on the provinces group and their starting culture, their conversion speed & starting progress differ:

A nation in Low Germanic, High Germanic or West Slavic culture groups can promote the Ostsiedlung in their provinces via decision. This will take multiply your current conversion progress by 1.25

Certain West Slavic cultures can take a similar decision to hinder the Ostsiedlung. (Kashubian, Old Prussian, Latvian, Polabian, Polish, Sorbs, Silesian, Czech, Moravian, Lithuanian, Estonian & Slovenian). This will cut the conversion progress by 3/4. Either decision can only be taken once every 25 years.

In 1450 all the Ostsiedlung will end and all associated bonuses to conversion will cease.

= Relevant Files = Events/MEC-Culture_Conversions.txt [General Conversion Logic]

Events/00-Initial_Setup.txt [Ostsiedlung base modifiers]

Map/ProvinceGroups.txt [Ostsiedlung Province list]

Events/MEC-Ostsiedlung.txt [Ostsiedlung ending]

Decisions/MEC-Ostsiedlung.txt [Promote/Hinder Ostsiedlung]