Colonial Nations and their Cultures.

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I remember playing EU3 Complete I got at biglots one day a few years ago and have been playing it since and one thing that annoyed me is that when I wanted to export to vicky 2 using a converter it showed the new nations as the same culture as the old one and they'd unify back into their colonial empires. But thats not the point, the natives of the Americas are extremely weak, their tech was backwards and France and East Asia turn into an unholy gobble of shit on the map. Borders are entirely skewed. Japan owns part of Central China while China is splintered into what looks like 25 nations but really only one, same as France. Germany gets a superpower Brandenburg or more often Bavaria. Ottomans, All in all the Eastern Hemisphere is an unholy mess, and for the love of god get rid of any colonial drive for nations that never colonized. Set up claimed areas in the new world so I don't see Austria getting destroyed and moving their capital to L.A, let the colonial nations create their own culture 50 years before they rise up. Set it up so theirs different options with colonization because when I colonised Majerteen as Byzantium it said Greek for the culture. I doubt 4000 Somalis would just turn into greeks when their land gets taken over same with The Americas. Also Trading posts instead of having to conquer S.E Asia. Set it up so we can set up trading posts by paying the government or forcing them into submission as it really happened. Make Africa more tribal and not a sunni empire. One Nation takes over all of West Africa as a sunni empire, Ethiopia would conquer Swahili and colonize parts of South Africa and West Sahara. This is how my games usually turn out and this is just some of the few things that irked me. Alls I'm asking is let the world follow historical action unless interfered with by the player. Because Ulster owning Columbia is funny the first time annoying the second.

 

[Ekyman]

Historical determinism is controversial on the Paradox forums. There's a group of people who (like yourself) want strict historical accuracy, there's a group of people who want a complete sandbox with no determinism whatsoever, and there's a group of people who want something in between. Paradox have moved away from strict determinism like what you are asking for. EU4 will have historical events that can happen if the situation is right, but on the grand scale the game won't be deterministic. Countries will be lightly pushed down semi-historical paths through their national ideas, but those affect a country's development and how it expands, not where it expands, and it likely won't be terribly difficult to go against this path.

 

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I like the loose system too, its just annoying for an irish columbia to exist and what would make the USA split between 12 nations, I'm asking for colonial cultures or revival/mixture of native culture such as Mexico, I see the map go into an utter mess making expansion almost impossible due to China splitting and owning parts of the Americas. Some restrictions in where the AI will expand is a big one, and actually clean borders based on rivers, landmarks, cities, and use of the land through the time would be nice. Trade posts which you forget are what are really needed though.