Does anyone know if any of the improvements for the Nation Designer made it into 1.14?
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Improvement for the Nation Designer
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- May 6, 2015
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# Nation Designer
- Nation Designer now allows Native Councils in South America.
- Random Setup: Less tendency to create superstates.
- Doubled the Distance at which you can pick provinces that are not connected to your capital in Nation Designer.
- Ruler skill now costs less points in governments with term durations.
- Changed maximum number of Custom Nations, Client States and Colonial Nations to 75 each.
- It is now possible to use historical country names in random/default setup (ie 'Corsica' instead of 'New Corsica').
- Added support for Saving/Loading Custom Nations.
We've also added support for more emblems and backgrounds, but that isn't in 1.14.
- Nation Designer now allows Native Councils in South America.
- Random Setup: Less tendency to create superstates.
- Doubled the Distance at which you can pick provinces that are not connected to your capital in Nation Designer.
- Ruler skill now costs less points in governments with term durations.
- Changed maximum number of Custom Nations, Client States and Colonial Nations to 75 each.
- It is now possible to use historical country names in random/default setup (ie 'Corsica' instead of 'New Corsica').
- Added support for Saving/Loading Custom Nations.
We've also added support for more emblems and backgrounds, but that isn't in 1.14.
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Will the UI allow us to use our own emblems in the future?
Would you consider allowing the players to use RGB values to paint our custom nations how we want?
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Oh yeah a RGB picker would be sweet. The scripts already use RGB anyway to define country colors and stuff
Nice! Native Councils in South America will be cool, I guess I will have to wait for more religions D:
EDIT:The change to naming in Random Setup is awesome too
And FINALLY we get to save our Custom Nations!
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Why have any limitations at all when it comes to designing a nation? As long as it isn't Ironman Mode it should be possible to create a nation with territory in both Australia and Europe. This is the player's freedom.
The nation designer is not intended to be total sandbox/cheat mode, it's intended to create relatively challenging starts with default settings. If you want total freedom, you can mod away the restrictions.
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So if we have the option anyway, why not make it easier for us to do? Isn't it up to the player to cheat or not? Or to even decide for him/herself what cheating is? Especially when creating nations that can make a game more fun and challenging for you. Like a western nation already have tons of colonies in the new world.
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Balance in Multiplayer, this is a good compromise if you are a Single Player only you can easily mod it to your hearts content, if you are a Multiplayer guy the default is balance and you don't have to depend on house rules.
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Two reasons:
1) Multiplayer
and more importantly
2) When 'cheat mode' is enabled by default, far more players end up creating massively overpowered nations and then grow bored with the nation designer. Having it be balanced gives it longevity.
More player freedom is not always better.
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It's interesting to read design decisions, such as the above. I don't want to appear nagging, but would it be possible to one day add our own emblems?
Well reason one, isn't really a reason since you have to option to still have limitations for multiplayer.
And number two make some sense, but why not have an option in the actual options to turn on or off a cheat mode? Making it easier to create a world to your liking.
And I do create large nations sometimes, yet I never play them. Last time I did was when I created a large jewish nation and see what would happen after that (it was eaten). I dunno, if you start feeling bored because you created an OP nation, then the solution is to stop creating OP nations, not to stop playing EU4 or to stop using the nation designer. Have more faith in players.
I find it irritating that I can not speed up the colonisation process, by giving Spain/Portugal/Great Britain (or their substitute nations) a piece of they pie from start. I mean I could and did edit the files one time, but it is too much of a hassle.
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In short, any 'cheat mode' that can be enabled by in-game option isn't really seen as cheating by players, and loops back to the issue of them ruining the challenge for themselves. When you have to mod, it's more explicitly viewed as cheating.
It's like how players will exploit loopholes in mechanics to make money and view that as regular gameplay, when the effects are no different than opening the console and typing 'cash'.
It's like how players will exploit loopholes in mechanics to make money and view that as regular gameplay, when the effects are no different than opening the console and typing 'cash'.
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These people only fool themselves. And I think you mean the players who play the game in a more gamey instead of a historical way. I belong to the last group and I like to play 'what if' scenarios.
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Is there any chance government rank could be set by the player, in the future?
It would be cool if we could create custom Revolter Tags as well, but that is a bit too niche.