Nation Designer improvements on the horizon?

[Pellucid]

Given that Wiz said that Custom Nations are the most popular choice among all players, can we expect any improvements to the nation designer in the near future? The things I'm most concerned with:

1. More emblem choices for banner.
2. Ability to use owned DLC unit models for custom nations.
3. Optional RGB input for map and flag colors.
4. More religion choices, especially those already in the CK2->EU4 converter.
5. Ability to save idea sets.

Feel free to add things you want in the designer to this thread.

 

[Basileios Makedon]

Diplomacy
Set your nation's cores, claims and owned provinces separately
An option to keep historical nation's cores in owned provinces

 

[Wizzington]

There's some time planned for this after the vacations, don't expect anything until next major patch though.

 

[Zak Preston]

Options to save:

• Custom Nations presets;
• Custom NI's (including description)
• Custom territories.

 

[FrigidSoul]

Given that Wiz said that Custom Nations are the most popular choice among all players, can we expect any improvements to the nation designer in the near future? The things I'm most concerned with:

1. More emblem choices for banner.
2. Ability to use owned DLC unit models for custom nations.
3. Optional RGB input for map and flag colors.
4. More religion choices, especially those already in the CK2->EU4 converter.
5. Ability to save idea sets.

Feel free to add things you want in the designer to this thread.

FWIW, there's a mod on the Steam workshop called something like, "Extended Nation Designer." I haven't played with it in awhile because I generally play Ironman, but it does just about everything you ask for. (Except the saved idea sets, the lack of which is perhaps my biggest pet peeve with the nation designer.)

 

[Pellucid]

FWIW, there's a mod on the Steam workshop called something like, "Extended Nation Designer." I haven't played with it in awhile because I generally play Ironman, but it does just about everything you ask for. (Except the saved idea sets, the lack of which is perhaps my biggest pet peeve with the nation designer.)

Yeah, I've fooled around with it. It's definitely the kind of thing I was expecting out of the designer to begin with. We shouldn't have to rely on mods to have a satisfying experience with a feature of the game that's so popular though. Plus, Paradox will likely balance it better and, of course, it's easier for those who play multiplayer not to have to try to get mods working.

 

[Chaos_TLW]

Maybe the option to select from a few preset NI depending on your culture, like the ones for German or Russian minors? Sometimes I am not in the mood for copying and pasting all of it and just want to tear down , France, England, Muscovy and Novgorod to have some more diversity and ahistorical outcomes in these areas.

 

[WeissRaben]

What I really want is a checkbox for "Can form nations". I never stop at one custom nation; I usually build some kind of scenario around it. Custom Nations being forbidden from forming nations and Custom Nations being able to form nation can both wreck these without terrible ease.

 

[FrigidSoul]

Yeah, I've fooled around with it. It's definitely the kind of thing I was expecting out of the designer to begin with. We shouldn't have to rely on mods to have a satisfying experience with a feature of the game that's so popular though. Plus, Paradox will likely balance it better and, of course, it's easier for those who play multiplayer not to have to try to get mods working.

Agreed, and normally I'd never mention a mod in a suggestion(ish) thread for all of those reasons -- but nation designer is such an exceptional toy-within-a-game mechanism that I thought people might like to know.