First of all, I love your observation and analysis. Please stick around, we always need more smart people helping with ideas, lest you be left with just my ones.
Yep, that's just a default for now. It'll be resolved in the next version (0.5). There was a post just recently that also includes how we'll do governments. It's all linked in the OP.
That'll be handled in version 0.6, with all the diplomacy stuff.
There's a section in the FAQ about it, and we've some zany ideas with the converter that may resolve it.
When we fix the blobification, that should be one of the possible results (we're going to have to reopen that discussion sometime soon).
They at least got the cores, right? Also, the province mappings really need some review. care to look into it a bit?
Hopefully that will be a bit resolved when we deal with blobification.[*]Balance is going to be terrifying, as if this game were to be started as it is both myself and France are already currently super-scary empires. It'll get scarier in a few months when England wins their current war for the French crown.
Yeah, I need to deal with all the territory-less titles. Many of them get considered for mapping to EU3 tags, which doesn't make much sense. Though there's some half-formed ideas in my head about de-jure terrritory and cores that I need to make into full ideas and share here first.
Use the converter mod. It'll turn that sad face into a happy one.
[*]Not related to the converter, but lordy I hate that Persia and the Golden Horde are almost identical colors.
There's only one solution: destroy them completely. Or induce Russia to do so.
An interesting thought. However, I like that one of our sample saves has Franks ruling a completely Greek Latin Empire (well, it gets mapped to Byzantium). The difficulty of that situation should come across. But overall it will tend to work out that way. In fact, I'll do a post about that soon, since I've implemented this already. Of course, if it turns out to work poorly, it can be changed.
[*]Accepted cultures should be treated base purely on EU:III's rules. For example, my Persian's would probably be accepting of both Armenians and Greeks at this point, as they're a large portion of our Empire (probably over 5% minimum for keeping it accepted, easily). Not to mention I'm fond of giving them their own rulers, but that's irrelevant. Armenian Emirs just amuse me.
Done. Using EU3 base tax and province culture. It seems to work pretty well.
Yes, we plan to do so (I don't think any of us are fans of the current blobification). I've just been focusing on entirely missing mechanics. And also we entirely disagree about how it should be done. Always makes things interesting.
All of that is tweakable in the latest release. There's a whole bunch of options for the details of converting population, base tax, and manpower. Please play with them and inform me what groups of setting work well. Ideally, I'd like to leave the historical/blended/converted option in for each and have the others hard coded to good options. Too many options to end users can be entirely unhelpful, after all.
We've had some discussions before. I'm planning to go with the existing ideas, but if you've alternate ideas or improvements to the existing ideas, we'd love to hear them.
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