Hey there. I wanted to start by saying I love this mod and really appreciate the hard work the dev team have put into making a proper medieval 3 experience. Despite the many hours of joy I've had, I did want to mention something that kind of rubbed me (and some others) the wrong way.

While I appreciate the representation allowed by the Jewish Diaspora building chains, some of the descriptions are a bit distasteful. While tongue in cheek, they also lean into some anti-Semitic stereotypes and tropes from both modern and past times. Most lean into the idea of "rich jews" are are jokes based on the premise, and also lean into jokes about them being greedy. The "would it kill you to put a few more dates in there" bit, and the "my RICH nephew" bit both are examples of what I'm talking about. Joking about the diaspora, ("Banished? But I just loaned the king 300 ducats!") also is a little bit tasteless, although I get the reference to real social practices from the era. All that being said, I did find the description for the last tier of building pretty good, so it's not something that I think is intentional or even across the board.


At the same time, some of the mechanics are also a little questionable. "-1 public order across all provinces" confuses me - is this to symbolize rising anti-antisemitism in response to their presence, or is it that the presence of Jewish peoples undermines local governments? There's already natural religious unrest built into the +X jewish population (factionwide) mechanics, so I don't know why specifically the presence of Jewish communities undermines the rule of law with an additional debuff

I raise these concerns only because I love this mod, and love the hard work that your team has put into it. I raise them not because I think you guys are anti-semitic (I do not), but because I thought it relevant to share how a jewish person may interpret some of these mechanics and building descriptions. I'm still playing and would still happily recommend it to others - I just thought there are some items that may be worth changing, as they are not core mechanics.

Edit: Wow, came back to one dumpster fire of a thread. Appreciate those who took the post at face value, glad I'm not the only one. The types of replies that have come in this thread are honestly indicative of the reason I brought it up in the first place.

When you program mechanics that encourage users to expel Jewish Populations because the unrest for even one can destabilize your entire faction, intentionally or not, it's worth having a discussion, even if just one from a gameplay perspective. With just a few of the basic tier 1 jewish settlements my entire empire was collapsing in rebellions after having no problems for 100+ turns.

Even outside of any historical context, from a gameplay perspective it feels like a broken mechanic. From a historical perspective, one jewish neighborhood hundreds of kms away from my capitol shouldn't cause my entire empire to destabilize. And unless the idea is for you to not want to build any in your empire,and to instill the idea that tolerating even one jewish community will cause them to infiltrate and undermine your empire, that debuff should be nerfed. That's literally all I'm suggesting lol.

I'm not saying the unrest mechanic should be removed entirely - believe it or not I understand that people in medieval times were typically anti-semitic. And any benefits a building gives should be balanced with debuffs. But the way it manifests could stand to be nerfed, especially given that Total war ALREADY HAS BUILT IN REILGIOUS INTOLERANCE in the religion mechanics. And frankly the building descriptions speak for themselves.

Again, I'm not saying the devs are racist/antisemites or that the mod is racist, I've played it a ton and I respect people creating incredible works of art for the pure love of the game. I'm not here to 'cancel' anyone or say anyone should not be playing this mod. They should! It's great!

I'm here because I love the mod and just wish to offer a spin in someone in else's shoes for those who don't have the same perspective. Based on this thread it seems a lot of folks could use some more empathy.