A few Colonial Nations changes.

[Camarada78]

I decided to play with some colonies for a while and noticed some weird stuff that could be easily fixed:

1. INDEPENDENCE: When you declared independence there is absolutely No internal resistence to it. There should be at least, a few "loyalist rebels" against you, overlord supporters. It could even vary according to your liberty desire and relative power of overlord.

2. TORDESILLAS: When you break free, you should get an event based on your prestige to renegotiate Tordesillas with the Pope. We could still lose opinion with Portugal or Spain, but not that much with the Pope. Example: we could give more power to the Jesuits and the Church, in exchange for the opinion malus.

3. CULTURE: After 50 years after coring a colony, the culture automatically changes from "Portuguese" to "Colonial Portuguese" or from "Castillian" to "Colonial Castillian" and so on. And as soon as you declare independence you will get more "Colonial Portuguese" as a primary culture and have your former culture as unaccepted for a few decades, popping rebels from your colonial metropolis from time to time.

4. BONUS: Why are colonial nations like Brazil organized as "republics" and not "vice-roys" as they actually were? I might have missed that Developer Diary.

 

[magnusvejby]

1: I agrre 100% with, yes there is should be some Royalist/Loyalist rebels!

2: Tordesillas has not really been implemented good into the game, so I have no opinion on this!

3: Yes i would like some more colonial cultures names, the game really lacks that, to my understanding there is only 1, and that is American. (There could be a few more, maybe Brazilian, im not sure here.)

4: I have no idea lol

 

[Camarada78]

Colonial cultures would be nice. But they would have to be like some sort of culture group based more on Region than on metropolitan culture adding a suffix relative to the metropolitan culture:

Metropolitan culture > regional > new, independent culture.

something in these lines:

Portuguese > Portuguese Brazillian > Brazilian
Castillian > Castillian La Platean > Argentinian
Castillian > Castillian Peruvian > Peruvian
British > British canadian > Canadian

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So when you stabilish a province in a colony they would not get "castillian" or "portuguese", but always "suffix + region". You would have to actively culture-convert it to your own primary culture.

But when two colonial nations with the same regional designation, the first independent one would be the new primary culture for all other colonial cultures in the same region. And the former metropolis culture would be on the "same culture group".

For example:

There is "Portuguese Brazil", "Spanish Brazil" and "British Brazil":

Portuguese Brazil becomes independent, changing tag to Brazil, while spanish and british ones are still vassals.

Brazil now has "brazillian" as primary culture and "anything brazillian" as accepted, making their former masters only "same culture group one" (yellow), in this case portuguese.

Shortly after, Spanish Brazil becomes independent. Since "Brazil" already exists, it will remain with the tag "Spanish Brazil", but its primary culture would be "spanish brazillian", not "brazillian" but "anything brazillian" would be accepted, making their former master only "same culture group", in this case, castillian.

if, British Brazil becomes independent too, it would still maintain its tag as "british brazil", its culture would remain "british brazillian" and "anything brazillian" as accepted and "british" would be in the same culture group.

If its the other way around, Brazil is first formed by British Brazil, the only difference is that the other two - if independent - would remain with their own region-specific culture tags.

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To flavor we could add a decision or an event to chose a full cultural independence from masters:

"Our hated overlords are a thing of the past. Should we purge the remaning traces of their vile cultures in our lands?"

If you say yes, you get prestige, maybe a reduction in culture conversion costs and maybe claims in your colonial region, but your former overlord culture will not be accepted/tolerated anymore and you will get massive diplo hit with that culture group.