How does Paradox staff create flags for countries?
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Me too, especially with the native flags cause I'm not even sure they actually had flags (like Inca).
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Also so that we can fix atrocities like the German flag, maybe extending that to all the other flags that use that same fat bird.
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As far as native flags are concerned, I'm pretty sure that for some of them they just take random pieces of [native?] artwork and turn it into a flag. The Potiguara standard, for example, depicts a Jangada which I'm pretty sure is technology that natives made no use of and was only introduced after the original colonies were established. The Malayan flag, if I recall correctly, is also a naval ensign from a british protectorate.
It would be great if they have a folder of symbols and they upload it to the internet.
As far as possible historical flags from the period.
If that's not possible or if it is more recognizable a coat of arms used in the period.
If that's not possible then a historical symbol used by what the tag represents in the period (the flag of Chanda for instance is a detail from motives they put on their castle walls and the Bahmani flag is using a symbol they put over the gates of their city walls).
If that's not possible either then a flag of some other entity in the same time and area (Jaunpur or Gondwana are examples of this).
If thats not possible either then a flag or a symbol associated with the tag either by geography or culture (but from another time, often more modern). Examples of this would be the flags of Sadiya, Ainu or Potiguara. Too clearly modern looking ones are not chosen.
A few flags don't fit any of these categories (and some are simply legacy from eu3 but nothing more fitting exists that we know of) but the overwhelming majority does.
If that's not possible or if it is more recognizable a coat of arms used in the period.
If that's not possible then a historical symbol used by what the tag represents in the period (the flag of Chanda for instance is a detail from motives they put on their castle walls and the Bahmani flag is using a symbol they put over the gates of their city walls).
If that's not possible either then a flag of some other entity in the same time and area (Jaunpur or Gondwana are examples of this).
If thats not possible either then a flag or a symbol associated with the tag either by geography or culture (but from another time, often more modern). Examples of this would be the flags of Sadiya, Ainu or Potiguara. Too clearly modern looking ones are not chosen.
A few flags don't fit any of these categories (and some are simply legacy from eu3 but nothing more fitting exists that we know of) but the overwhelming majority does.
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So has anyone from the company ever came out to explain the German chicken? when you play Brandenburg > Prussia > Germany > HRE game, it goes from Eagle, Eagle, Chicken, Eagle. Is this WAD?
What's to explain? It seems to be the exact image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Germany, Banners of the Holy Roman Emperor, 14th Century
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I thought this was it because it's on the eu4 wikiThat is not the vanilla flag. This is
I thought this was it
Nope. That is the flag that is used in my mod, which I believe you play. If so, easy mistake to make
that and it's on the eu4 wiki page for Germany (http://www.eu4wiki.com/Germany)Nope. That is the flag that is used in my mod, which I believe you play. If so, easy mistake to make
Actually, I think that paradox based the flag on this:That is not the vanilla flag. This is
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Yeah a lot of the flags on the wiki are not the ones used in game.
Technically both flags show a black eagle with a red beak and red talons on a gold background so they are correct but the image you posted is not the one in game. It would be simpler if the Wiki admins just used the EUIV images though.
I do not get how this is so hard to understand. The picture I posted comes directly from the EUIV files. It is the exact picture that EUIV uses.
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Well then, that is something to explain.That is not the vanilla flag. This is