Well, the airplane was invented by a Brazilian (for a Paris fair admittedly), so...
He did nothing that hadn't been done before, and a lot less than what the Wright brothers did. Only Brazilians claim Dumont invented the aeroplane.
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He did nothing that hadn't been done before, and a lot less than what the Wright brothers did. Only Brazilians claim Dumont invented the aeroplane.
He did nothing that hadn't been done before, and a lot less than what the Wright brothers did. Only Brazilians claim Dumont invented the aeroplane.
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I have no idea if this has already been said, but will ports play a role in the economies of their nations? In Vic 1, ports were purely a military structure, and commercial ports weren't represented on the map, but a huge bottleneck in terms of production, infrastructure, and efficiency in trade is port capacity. A England could have all the factories it wanted, but if it does not have the port capacity to import the goods it needs to work all those factories, who cares. New Orleans, New York, Baltimore, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Tianjing, Shanghai, and Canton were all examples of great ports that funneled a nations goods to the rest of the world. This would also allow blockading and necessitate a navy for large trading nations. England was able to throttle Argentina when they tried to default on their loans because all goods left Argentina through Buenos Aires and Argentina didn't have a strong enough navy to protect it. Further, if a country somehow blockaded the Thames, English industry would almost shut down since a majority of the goods that entered England went through London.
*I know this seems off topic, but I'm only it saying since I notice how many ports there are in Japan, and it wouldn't have been economically viable, especially for pre-meiji Japan, to have that many active commercial ports.
*I know this seems off topic, but I'm only it saying since I notice how many ports there are in Japan, and it wouldn't have been economically viable, especially for pre-meiji Japan, to have that many active commercial ports.
They have mentioned that you can blockade the enemy to mess with their economy, but I don't know how ports play into this.
And I think those Japanese ports are just fishing ports - non upgraded, but that is just a guess.
I know that we can blockade, but what I was saying is that a country doesn't need to blockade the entire coastline of a country to effectively cut off trade, especially if a country only had one large commercial port. A wealthy nation like the USA can support multiple large ports, but I doubt a poor Japan can. A country at war with Japan shouldn't need to have a fleet on every province, and I doubt any but England would be able to do that anyways.
IMO at the very least, coastal provinces should use for calculating it's infrastructural efficiency either port or railroad level, whichever is higher.
wow i recon it will be lot like people also get modern uniforms out in the early 1900s?
It could also mean that Irregulars get different sprites.
I want to believe what you said to be true though, and if that is the case, I only hope the amount of sprite levels is moddable.
Would be interesting if each country have some unique units: samurais for the Japanese, redcoats for Britain, cossacks for Russia...
I don't expect it anyway. :rofl:
I don't expect it anyway. :rofl:
+1
good ideas
it would be good to see the circumstances of the country impact its reasearch
some circumstances can't be helped eg Switzerland shouldn't become a leading naval innovator
but some could eg the government fosters some kind of free-enterprise society and encourages the smart business men types to come up with economic innovations
could make the game individualised for each country while allowing real control over the direction of that country
Yeah. "Culture" reseach always sounded stupid.
Dostoevsky simply is bloody f**king awesome, yet Russia was seen always as backward. Cultural movements, artistic forms of expression, political development, psychological zeitgeist and et cetera represented in the infamous "culture research" should have a proper separate gameplay system for added historical depth AND historical freedom... Of course, this isn't for now - a super-patch or even expansion pack is a far more appropriate way of doing this, hehehe.
Dostoevsky simply is bloody f**king awesome, yet Russia was seen always as backward. Cultural movements, artistic forms of expression, political development, psychological zeitgeist and et cetera represented in the infamous "culture research" should have a proper separate gameplay system for added historical depth AND historical freedom... Of course, this isn't for now - a super-patch or even expansion pack is a far more appropriate way of doing this, hehehe.
I don't know, I think it has pretty good outcome, even if the process is unrealistic. If you spend your time coming up with a Dostoyevsky, you've neglected your military and industry, leading your country's economy to be piss-poor and your army outclassed and outgunned.
Precisely my point. Russia didn't pursue a specific path that led to world class artists. In fact, it was quite the opposite.
Hey, we still didn't get the Fellowship or Two Towers and you want the Return of King already?
In CK you DO play the king (or duke or count... in the short term at least).
I thought the port icons were supposed to represent naval bases à la Ricky. Looking the screenshot of Bergen earlier, it was even grouped together with the fort level in the UI. As such, I would expect it to at least affect colonial range, and probably also have an effect on the blockading system as a new feature. The basic wharf sprites seem to be on all coastal provinces, and represent a level 0 port/naval base (fishing wharfs, natural harbours), much like the horse&carriage was level 0 railroads in Vicky.