Balansegang changelog

Main features:
Pagans survive much longer, and are stronger
All Pagan religions have holy orders
Ethiopians survive much longer
Culture spreads more reliably via ports
The Holy Roman Empire is weaker and expands more slowly
Byzantium is weaker and expands more slowly
The conquest of Iberia, by either side, is considerably slower
Expansion in general is slower
Holy wars are more difficult to declare
Tech growth is moderately faster
Fewer peasant revolts. Most sources of unrest give other penalties instead
Improved cultural spread

General changes:
Denmark and Norway now use Primogeniture
Assassinations cost 100 gold and 10 piety, plus 75 gold per title tier
All eligible women can now become spymasters (only your spouse or mother could before)
Made all religions playable (though non-Christians aren't necessarily interesting to play)
Monophysite is no longer a heresy
Increased max duchies held to 3
Made the Pecheneg Company and Pecheneg Band Tengri holy orders
Each Pagan religion has two holy orders
Tengri - 5500 men
Romuva - 3000 men
Suomenski - 3000 men
Norse - 3000 men
The Pagans have an event that ensures they have enough Piety to hire holy orders
Pechenegs can no longer form Bulgaria
De jure empires get 20% less max levy from burghers and bishops, and 30% less from nobles
Doubled the time it takes for pagans to fabricate claims
It is now impossible to forge claims upon a duchy held by someone of another religion unless your realm borders their's

Religious Conversion changes:
Converting pagans takes twice as long
Provinces take twice as long to convert if they don't border any provinces of your religion
Converting a province takes 25% longer if the province borders other provinces of the same religion

Culture changes:
Divided German culture into South and North German
Culture can spread via ports
Made culture changes into province events, so that the number of held provinces doesn't affect the likelihood of culture changes
The culture change event for unconnected coastal provinces can now only fire if there are no neighbors of the owner's culture
Norman counties outside England are now more likely to become English if their liege is English
Added a somewhat rare event that changes a ruler's culture to that of his capital. Also changes the culture of any children he has under the age of 16. Its mean time to happen is affected by his age, his rank, and whether or not the new culture is of the same culture group
Added a somewhat rare event that changes a child's (under 1 year old) culture to that of the province he's living in. Affected by his parents' rank, and whether or not the new culture is of the same culture group
Provincial culture spread takes 50% longer in empires
Provinces change culture 20% faster if they border two or more provinces of the owner's culture with rulers of the same culture
Provinces take 25% longer to change culture if they border any province of the same culture
Rulers change culture 25% faster if their capital borders no provinces of their culture

Holy War changes:
Dukes and below cannot declare holy war on provinces they don't border
Emperors need Limited Crown Authority to declare holy war
Kings need Limited Crown Authority to declare holy war on non-bordering duchies. Emperors need Medium
Muslims cannot declare holy war on Monophysites or Orthodox Ethiopians, and vice versa
Limited Crown Authority is required to declare holy war on pagans
Kings with any dukes at under -10 opinion need Medium Crown Authority to declare holy war on Pagans
Emperors with any kings/dukes at under -10 opinion need Medium Crown Authority to declare holy war
Kings with any dukes at under -10 opinion need Limited Crown Authority to declare holy war
Emperors need to have above -15 relations with all duke/king vassals to increase Crown Authority
Depressed, infirm, or incapable rulers cannot declare holy war
Content rulers cannot declare holy war unless they're Brave or Wroth, Zealous, Lunatic, or Possessed
Craven rulers cannot declare holy war unless they're Ambitious, Wroth, Zealous, Lunatic, or Possessed
Cynical rulers cannot declare holy war unless they're Ambitious, Brave, Wroth, Lunatic, or Possessed
Stressed rulers cannot declare holy war unless they're Ambitious, Brave, Wroth, Zealous Lunatic, or Possessed
Having any two of Cynical, Craven, Stressed, and Content will prevent rulers from declaring holy war (unless they're Lunatic or Possessed)
If the target duchy is not part of a de jure kingdom or empire the ruler holds, he has to be Ambitious, Wroth, Zealous, Lunatic, or Possessed to declare holy war
If the target duchy is not part of a de jure kingdom or empire the ruler holds, he cannot be Cynical, Craven, Stressed, and Content (unless they're Possessed or Lunatic)
Rulers below 100 piety cannot start holy wars

Other Warfare changes:
Commander martial contributes two-thirds more to combat
Sieges are 25% shorter
Most truces reduced to 5 years (from 10)
Reduced reinforcement rates by 20%
Reduced ratio needed to overrun armies to 15 (from 25)
Increased warscore gained from battles by 20%. Reduced defender warscore bonus to 40% (was 50%) to compensate a bit
Forests now give the defender 20% higher defense for light infantry, and 10% offense
Forests now give the defender 15% higher defense for heavy infantry, and 7.5% offense
White peace in independence wars will make the revolter independent if he's revolting from someone who isn't his de jure liege. No prestige will be awarded, and crown authority will be unaffected. His former liege will have claims upon his land
Having any two of Cynical, Craven, Stressed, and Content will prevent rulers from declaring holy war (unless they're Lunatic or Possessed)
Rulers cannot declare claim wars upon dynasty members, unless they're Ambitious, Envious, Arbitrary, or Wroth (rebellions excluded)
Rulers cannot declare claim wars upon dynasty members if they're Craven, Just, Kind, or Content (rebellions excluded)
Possessed or Lunatic rulers can declare claim and holy wars regardless of other traits
Counties under siege's reinforce rate reduced by 100% (castles start at 125%)
Tribal invasions can only be started against Orthodox, Tengri, Muslim, or Komi factions
Kings get de jure CBs on duchies if they're not independent, and the defender is in the same realm. Losing makes you lose twice as much prestige, and 50% more money
Kings get de jure CBs on counties within their de jure kingdom if the county's de jure duchy is uncreated, and the king isn't independent, and the defender is in the same realm
Characters defending against holy wars that aren't involved in any offensive wars get a 10% boost to minimum and maximum vassal levies
Horse archers, light cavalry, and heavy cavalry get offensive bonuses when attacking plains
Horse archers, light cavalry, and heavy cavalry get offensive penalties when attacking hills or mountains
Horse archers and light cavalry get offensive penalties attacking forests
Tweaked movement times, reducing movetimes in most terrain by about 20%
The Norwegian force at campaign start is slightly stronger, and Harald Hardråde has slightly more Martial
The Norman force at campaign start is slightly stronger

Building changes:
Finno-Ugric cultures have access to the Baltic Infantry Camp
Pommerians have access to the Baltic Infantry Camp
Scandinavians have access to the Baltic Infantry Camp
The Welsh have access to the longbow archery range
Lappish castles start with level 1 walls
Pecheneg counties have the Small Riding Grounds building at campaign start. Removed wall-level 2 requirement for Pechenegs
Iberian holdings start with level 1 walls
Removed wall-level 2 requirement from Small Warrior Gathering Ground for Pagans, thus giving them it at campaign start
Warrior Cult gives 110 fewer Light Infantry
Warrior Cult gives 180 more heavy infantry
Warrior Cult gives 20 fewer Archers
Warrior Cult gives 1.0 fort-levels
Warrior Cult gives -10% levy size (causes them to have a larger advantage at campaign start, but it slowly declines)
Warrior Cult gives -25% tech growth
Warrior Cult gives a 10% offensive and defensive boost to heavy infantry
Warrior Cult gives a 25% penalty to garrison size (they're still much larger than everyone else's garrisons)
Added a Warrior Cult building to Pagan temples and cities, giving 50 light and heavy infantry, 50 archers, 0.5 fort levels, and -15% garrison size
Altaic Horse Breeders gives a 10% offensive and defensive penalty to heavy infantry
Castles give 5 heavy cavalry

Law changes:
Split crown authority laws into two, one set for emperors, one set for kings
Emperors get 0/5/10/15/20% minimum levies
Emperors need high authority to disallow internal warfare and strip heathen/heretic titles
Emperors need medium authority to strip titles
Emperors need absolute authority to ban inheritance outside the realm
To call a vote for Limited Crown Authority one needs all duke/king vassals above -25 opinion. -20 if one is an emperor
To call a vote for Medium Crown Authority one needs all duke/king vassals above -20 opinion. -15 if one is an emperor
To call a vote for High Crown Authority one needs all duke/king vassals above -15 opinion. -10 if one is an emperor
To call a vote for Absolute Crown Authority one needs all duke/king vassals above -10 opinion. -5 if one is an emperor
Crown Authority cannot be increased if the ruler is Content or Slothful (unless they're also Ambitious or Diligent)
Crown Authority cannot be increased to Absolute unless the ruler is Ambitious or Diligent (and is neither Content or Slothful)
Crown Authority cannot be increased to High in empires unless the ruler is Ambitious or Diligent (and is neither Content or Slothful)
Taxes cannot be increased beyond the second level if the ruler is Charitable
Absolute Cognatic can be imposed by a female ruler as long as she has almost any of the positive nicknames, and isn't content

Unrest changes:
Removed the provincial revolt risk for different culture or religion (in the same religious group)
Halved the provincial revolt risk for different religious group and heresy
Provinces in the same culture group as their liege, but different culture, get -2.5% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
Provinces in a different culture group than their liege, get -5% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
Provinces in the same religion gorup, but a different religion, get -5% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
Provinces in a different religion group than their liege, get -20% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
Heretic provinces get -20% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
Isolated provinces get -50% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
Technology changes:
Increased base tech growth to 1.25% (from 1.2%)
Reduced the ideal tech years by 10 to 6 years
Pagans have level 1.25 military tech at campaign start (was 0)
Fixed level 5 of heavy armor being a downgrade

Opinion changes:
Upped the length of the 'granted a x' modifiers to 120, 180, 240, 360, 720 (barony, county, duchy, kingdom, empire) (all were 120)
Reduced the opinion penalty for feudal taxes by 5
Reduced the vassal opinion bonus for Feudal Elective by 15
Increased the dynasty opinion penalty for Feudal Elective by 5
Increased the dynasty opinion bonus for Seniority by 5
Increased the opinion bonus for same dynasty by 5
Reduced the opinion penalty for having a female heir by 5
Reduced the opinion bonus from defending against infidels to 15

Character changes:
Made the Ambitious childhood personality event twice as common if one of the child's parents, or the child himself, is vassal to an emperor
Made the Content childhood personality event half as common if one of the child's parents, or the child himself, is vassal to an emperor
Made the guardian twice as likely to encourage the Ambitious trait if one of the child's parents, or the child himself, is vassal to an emperor
Made the guardian half as likely to encourage the Content trait if one of the child's parents, or the child himself, is vassal to an emperor
Gave the Holy Roman Emperor the Content trait
Reduced the Diplomacy of the Polish king by 2 so as to weaken Poland slightly
Removed the Sultan of Marracech's claims
Gave most pagan rulers their primary title 10 years earlier so as to eliminate the short reign penalty (title originally granted at campaign start)

Provincial changes:
Made all Vlach counties Tengri religion and Pecheneg Culture (all but one are owned by the Pecheneg)
Made Oleshye part of Moldau rather than Crimea; should reduce # of wars between Pechenegs and Cumans
Made the Kama province Komi culture and Suomenski religion (was Tengri/Cuman, surrounded by Komi/Suomenski and Turkish/Sunni)
Made the Mozhaysk province Russian culture and Orthodox religion (was Komi/Suomenski, surrounded by Russian/Orthodox)
Made the Derbent province Persian culture and Sunni religion (was Armenian/Orthodox, surrounded by various other cultures and religions, with a Persian/Sunni liege)
Made the Kuma province Alan culture (was Turkish, primarily done to improve survival) and the Semender province Persian (the change to Kuma made it isolated from Turkish culture)
The Livonian rulers are now the correct culture and religion
The Mordevin rulers are now the correct culture and religion
The Komi rulers are now the correct culture
The Ugric-Baltic rulers are now the correct culture
The count of Lappland is now the correct religion

De Jure/De Facto changes:
Moved the counties of Yatvyagi and Jacwiez from Mazovia to Lithuania
Moved the county of Galaz from Karvuna to Moldau
Moved the county of Abydos from the Aegan Islands to Samos
Gave the county of Torki to the Pechenegs
Al-Andalus is formable by non-Andalusians if they hold every duchy in it
Removed the barony of Brzesko from Krakow to weaken Poland slightly
Added a city to Pohjanmaa
Divided the Duchy of Moldau into Moldau and Belgorod
Divided the Kingdom of Byzantium into four: Epirus, Thessalonika, Nikaea, and Trebizond
Divided the Kingdom of Rus into Novgorod and Kiev. The respective duchies are required to form/usurp them
Added a Crimean kingdom. Having the duchy of Crimea is required to form/usurp it
Made Alania a de jure kingdom
Moved the county of Kasogs from Abzhakia to Alania

Flavor changes:
Renamed Irish dukes to kings, and Irish kings to high kings
Norway is now red
Norwegians now have a chance of their children being named after their (grand)parent, the same values as Danes and Swedes have
Syphilis renamed to Gonhorrea as there is little evidence Syphilis was present in Europe at the time
Tweaked the colors of Bohemian and Polish culture to make them more distinct
Irish duchesses and queens are now called queens and high queens
Fixed some cultural titles for females not applying
Fixed there being no cultural consort titles
Most Christian titles (Prince-bishop and similar) now have female versions
Russian kings are now called Grand Duke/Duchess
Changed the colors of several German duchies to something more historical
Changed the color of the Kingdom of Bavaria to something more historical
Changed the color of the Kingdom of Croatia to something more historical
Changed the color of the Duchy of Croatia to something more historical
Changed the color of the Kingdom of Serbia to something more historical
Changed the color of the Kingdom of Bulgaria to something more historical
Changed the color of the Kingdom of Mesopotamia to help differentiate it from Arabia
Changed the color of the Duchy of Novgorod to something more historical
Changed the color of the Duchy of Kiev to something more historical
Changed the colors of the duchies within the Kingdom of Crimea to colors similar to the kingdom itself

Seljuk/Byzantine changes:
Made the Sunni Caliphate remain a vassal of the Seljuks upon starting a campaign
Made the Sunni Caliphate kingdom-level, and the Seljuk Sultanate empire level
The Seljuks start with their army raised in Tabriz
The Byzantines start with their army raised in Byzantion
Byzantium has a modifier until 1075 reducing their morale and morale recovery by 20%
Made the Seljuks a de jure empire, containing Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Armenia. Cannot be created
Byzantium is now de jure only Epirus, Thessalonika, Nikaea, and Trebizond
Gave the Seljuks another castle in Qazwin
Gave the Seljuks another castle in Rayy
Gave the Seljuks another castle in Mazandaran
Gave the Seljuks another castle in Tabaristan
Gave the Seljuks level 1 barracks in all cities and temples
Gave the Byzantine Emperor the Slothful trait
Gave the Byzantine Emperor the Content trait to prevent positive traits being generated
Changed the Byzantine emperor's Clubfooted trait to Hunchback
Increased the Seljuk Sultan's Diplomacy by 4
Azerbaijan is now a vassal of the Seljuks
Gave the Seljuks the provinces of Bira, Taron, and Amida so as to increase their frontage against Byzantium
Gave the Seljuk Sultan claims on eastern Anatolia
Gave the Seljuk Sultan a claim on Derbent
Made the starting Seljuk-Byzantine war a Claim All war
Only provinces of the Byzantine culture-group starts with walls, castle upgrades, and militia buildings within Byzantium (also applies gives walls to any Byzantine culture-group provinces outside Byzantium). Starting buildings in general are tied to the Byzantine culture-group rather than the empire
Removed Ambitious from the duke of Mosul
Reduced the size of the Varangian Guard to 3600 men
Made the duke of Armenia Minor Envious
Made the duke of Antioch Envious
Made the duke of Charisianon Envious
Made the duke of Nikaea Envious
Made the duke of Samos Envious

Plot/Ambition changes:
Vassals are more likely to plot to lower crown authority against emperors
The Prestige, Wealth, and Piety ambitions are no longer repeatable
The Prestige, Wealth, and Piety ambitions now have three tiers, so you're more likely to be able to have the ambition available
The councilor ambitions now require a minimum of 10 points in the relevant skill
All females can now have becoming spymaster as their ambition
Other Included mods, and credits:
Council Shuffling mini-mod - Credit goes to The_Chancellor
Lotharinga and Lowlands mod (de jure HRE changes excluded) - Credit goes to Darrigan
CrackdToothGrin for the Pagan holy order coat of arms and names, and for suggesting some changes to the Seljuks
Humlenerd for his help with flavor and de jure changes