AHD DD11 – Rise of the Noble Savage
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Had a thought about the new primitive tier: could this be used to represent natives in at least some of the "empty" areas?
It rather annoyed me that American Indians and most African provinces will just sit quietly and allow themselves to be colonized. IRL conquering these areas took both force and diplomacy. Representing them as full fledged nations in Victoria II wasn't a better solution though.
Maybe having them in game as primitive could work, especially if you had different rules for primitive-v-civilized diplomacy and warfare. This could allow for more realistic westward expansion in the US and colonization in Africa. A player should have to weigh the pros and cons of giving up some of their land or autonomy to a big hungry power (like US or UK) in order to buy time for reforms.
It rather annoyed me that American Indians and most African provinces will just sit quietly and allow themselves to be colonized. IRL conquering these areas took both force and diplomacy. Representing them as full fledged nations in Victoria II wasn't a better solution though.
Maybe having them in game as primitive could work, especially if you had different rules for primitive-v-civilized diplomacy and warfare. This could allow for more realistic westward expansion in the US and colonization in Africa. A player should have to weigh the pros and cons of giving up some of their land or autonomy to a big hungry power (like US or UK) in order to buy time for reforms.
This is exactly the sort of change I was hoping for in the "rest of the world" EU3 expansion. *sigh* This sounds well-thought out and nicely done.
This is going to make playing uncivs - which are like half the countries on the board even in vanilla (to say nothing of mods which fill up Africa and the like) - a heck of a lot more fun. I can't wait.
Do any of these reforms simulate the economic isolationism of countries like China and Japan (by imposing heaving export/import restrictions for example) that could possibly be demanded with a war (as was the reason for the Opium Wars and the Opening of Japan)? Some countries shouldn't be that prevalent on the world market at the start of the game (like the aformentioned countries or isolated ones like Sokoto for example).