Speaking on forming the Romania Tag, it is rather strange that forming the nation requires to player to control all of the Transylvania/Erdély region, considering that this area was not taken by Romania until after WW1, or more than 50 Years after the modern nation was formed by the united principalities. It's especially odd that Paradox would make this requirement as Romania is represented within its original borders in Victoria II. Also, with the latest update, holding Tolcu makes much more sense, and looks cleaner, than Silistre as a requirement.
Purely from a gameplay perspective, being able to form the Romania tag earlier would make more sense in this being the mechanism for permanent claims to Transylvania, as well as it potentially being a more useful vassal or ally a human playing a different tag, since the tag has quite strong manpower ideas.
For both historical and more importantly, gameplay reasons, I also propose moving Romanian Culture into the 'Byzantine' Culture-Group (along with Albanian), as this particular group has no relation to ethnicity or language (Gothic, Greek, Pontic) is very small group considering it represented a multinational empire, and there is a strongly argued theory that Romanians originally descended from Latin/Byzantine refugees from the Balkans. Even the name 'Romania' was originally a direct claim at inheritance of the Byzantine Legacy.
Hungarians and Romanians have very little in common, religiously, culturally, historically or linguistically, and Hungary never ruled directly over Romania or vice-versa. Hungary (and especially Transylvania) itself is for another post, there is so much missed potential for events and ideas here.
More pertinently to the game, the 'Dracula's Revenge' achievement requires the player to control the Balkans as Romania, all of which are outside of the fictional 'Carpathian' culture group. Similarly with Albania, which is incongruously included in 'South Slavic', which is now a very large group with the inclusion of 'Bosnian' and 'Slovene' cultures. For Albania, gameplay considerations require the player to expand east towards Georgia anyway, there's no good reason for Albania to expand north to fight Hungary or Austria.
So basically, I am proposing:
1. Remove the Transylvanian Provinces for forming Romania.
2. Move Romanian and Albanian into the 'Byzantine' Culture-Group.
Purely from a gameplay perspective, being able to form the Romania tag earlier would make more sense in this being the mechanism for permanent claims to Transylvania, as well as it potentially being a more useful vassal or ally a human playing a different tag, since the tag has quite strong manpower ideas.
For both historical and more importantly, gameplay reasons, I also propose moving Romanian Culture into the 'Byzantine' Culture-Group (along with Albanian), as this particular group has no relation to ethnicity or language (Gothic, Greek, Pontic) is very small group considering it represented a multinational empire, and there is a strongly argued theory that Romanians originally descended from Latin/Byzantine refugees from the Balkans. Even the name 'Romania' was originally a direct claim at inheritance of the Byzantine Legacy.
Hungarians and Romanians have very little in common, religiously, culturally, historically or linguistically, and Hungary never ruled directly over Romania or vice-versa. Hungary (and especially Transylvania) itself is for another post, there is so much missed potential for events and ideas here.
More pertinently to the game, the 'Dracula's Revenge' achievement requires the player to control the Balkans as Romania, all of which are outside of the fictional 'Carpathian' culture group. Similarly with Albania, which is incongruously included in 'South Slavic', which is now a very large group with the inclusion of 'Bosnian' and 'Slovene' cultures. For Albania, gameplay considerations require the player to expand east towards Georgia anyway, there's no good reason for Albania to expand north to fight Hungary or Austria.
So basically, I am proposing:
1. Remove the Transylvanian Provinces for forming Romania.
2. Move Romanian and Albanian into the 'Byzantine' Culture-Group.
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