Custom Colonial Nations

[Reverend Belial]

The game already has formable colonial powers such as Mexico or Australia, but many of these nations either have no ideas of their own or have ideas that make no sense for ahistorical cultures. What I suggest is this: make historical nations require their historical cultures to form, and allow ahistorical colonies to form custom nations that use the custom nation designer to decide their ideas. This would not only give the player more freedom and aid historical plausbility, but also potentially make more varied New Worlds as different nations spring up rather than ones that are either predictable or make no sense.

 

[BrokenSky]

The game already has formable colonial powers such as Mexico or Australia, but many of these nations either have no ideas of their own or have ideas that make no sense for ahistorical cultures. What I suggest is this: make historical nations require their historical cultures to form, and allow ahistorical colonies to form custom nations that use the custom nation designer to decide their ideas. This would not only give the player more freedom and aid historical plausbility, but also potentially make more varied New Worlds as different nations spring up rather than ones that are either predictable or make no sense.

The main problem with this is that the main scenario where a historical one forms is where it's just won an independence war vs it's parent country. Allowing the parent country to make the nation's ideas isn't really that sensible considering this.

It does make more sense if the player is playing as a released custom nation for them to get a custom colonial nation, but both of these scenarios would be better dealt with by adding in more a/historical custom nations and putting tighter restrictions on which nations can form which new nations (e.g. trying to stop a small colony in the eastern america forming USA when most of the region is owned by the still loyal thirteen colonies).

I would do it based on owning certain provinces or being the majority in certain regions though. Make Florida and require owning >75% of Florida or make USA need most of the eastern american region.

 

[Reverend Belial]

I didn't mean that the parent nation makes their ideas. I meant that once a colonial nation wins their independence war they get access to a decision to create a custom tag for themself if they don't qualify for a historical tag, and once they take that option then they pick their ideas themselves.

 

[BrokenSky]

I didn't mean that the parent nation makes their ideas. I meant that once a colonial nation wins their independence war they get access to a decision to create a custom tag for themself if they don't qualify for a historical tag, and once they take that option then they pick their ideas themselves.

That makes a lot more sense.