India: Please do something about it

[Lord_P]

This is not a "remove India" -thread. No, on the contrary, I would like to see something done to make India better. Right now it's an insignificant corner of the world that's not very nice to play in, the CBs are dull and limited and there is hardly any flavour at all for Indian rulers.

Something needs to be done about this problem! Make India great for a change!

 

[Chlodio]

What kind of flavour would they need?

They have unique events, heir designation, caste system, deities, resurrection, war elephant, two portrait packs.

I would argue that they have generally more flavour than Muslims.

 

[Fishman786]

India is pretty fun IMO. Particularly if you play as a Turkic or Iranian empire and invade it from the north or create some interesting mixed culture/religion kingdom.

 

[mrstevehazzard]

I think the shifting religions in India is one of the most interesting flavor mechanics in the game, to say nothing of the patron deity system and caste mechanics. If anything, India is so fleshed out that it makes the Near East look a little bare bones.

 

[TCWolffe]

You're going to need to be more constructive than "do something." Can you be more precise in your criticism, perhaps? Make some suggestions for improvements you think would address deficiencies?

 

[Lord_P]

What kind of flavour would they need?

They have unique events, heir designation, caste system, deities, resurrection, war elephant, two portrait packs.

I would argue that they have generally more flavour than Muslims.

India is pretty fun IMO. Particularly if you play as a Turkic or Iranian empire and invade it from the north or create some interesting mixed culture/religion kingdom.

I think the shifting religions in India is one of the most interesting flavor mechanics in the game, to say nothing of the patron deity system and caste mechanics. If anything, India is so fleshed out that it makes the Near East look a little bare bones.

Really?

Wow, I should start a new India campaign...

 

[Narvait]

India was quite cool for my short-ish Bhaumakara campaign.
Short since I got to Chakravartin somewhere 1000s and expanding out of India would be pain for Bhuddist.

 

[DC123456789]

Yeah, I don't really understand this sentiment at all. India is one of the most and best fleshed-out factions, in my opinion; if you really want to complain about lack of flavour, complain about the Orthodox, or the Miaphysites, or all of the save for except the Norse and Tengri.

 

[Voy]

India definately deserves attention regardless since large parts of the counties and titles aren't even defined in 1066 or any of the other bookmark dates. One would hope at least the bookmark would have every county with a ruler, sadly this isn't the case.

 

[A Swedish Goat]

Lack of county owners is definitely to save on computer processing. If they filled that place entirely, the game would lag that much further behind.

India, in all, really only needs a little more definition in the later eras (post 1000AD), since that's when it is much more historically active to outside forces such as the Turks, Sogdians and Bedouins.

 

[DC123456789]

No, lack of county owners is almost certainly due to lack of historical sources to that degree of specificity and not wanting to spend the time and effort to just make up rulers.

 

[Marvoch]

I think the shifting religions in India is one of the most interesting flavor mechanics in the game, to say nothing of the patron deity system and caste mechanics. If anything, India is so fleshed out that it makes the Near East look a little bare bones.

Except that India tends (and for tends I mean that is always this way) to become full Hindu in less than 2 century. They need to fix this. And IA usually don't (never?) changes religion branch, another major problem that kill the religious differences in the subcontinent when Hindus took the lead.

 

[Voy]

No, lack of county owners is almost certainly due to lack of historical sources to that degree of specificity and not wanting to spend the time and effort to just make up rulers.

Negative. There is plenty of sources that they just haven't bothered to add into the game. I've looked into it myself.