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Monopoly Hurts Piracy

Not Ironman Compatible

(It is my policy that anyone can use the work I've done here, and modify or add it to their own mod, and publish it, though please note the original source.)

A simple mod that reverses the rather counter-intuitive feature that makes it so that the more dominance one nation has over a trade node, the easier it is to pirate said node. Now the closer one one has to a monopoly in one trade node, the less effective pirates are in that node, with a maxium -25% penalty to privateer efficiency in a node with a total monopoly. (That is to say, with this mod pirates are more effective in areas where multiple parties fight for dominance, which is more historically accurate for the period.)