Spice Island Kings

[Old Man Jenkins]

Hello fellow forumites. Just a minor thing, I've noticed the three small states in Sulawesi in Indonesia, are all Kingdoms. Now I don't know the exact rank of the lords of Sulawesi at the time of the games start, I know they were influential merchant something-doms, but i'm not sure OPM's, the highest province development being 8:8:5, warrant the kingdom rank. Should it be lowered to duchy rank?

 

[Fluffy_Fishy]

Hello fellow forumites. Just a minor thing, I've noticed the three small states in Sulawesi in Indonesia, are all Kingdoms. Now I don't know the exact rank of the lords of Sulawesi at the time of the games start, I know they were influential merchant something-doms, but i'm not sure OPM's, the highest province development being 8:8:5, warrant the kingdom rank. Should it be lowered to duchy rank?

Yes and no, while they seem unlike European Kingdoms, the heirachical structure of the far eastern islands were much flatter, while in the context of the game they would be more realistically a dutchy, in real life they make more sense to be kingdoms. I suppose it was a design choice for a reason to better represent their dynamics in their own context.

 

[Mattius]

It's not like there's no government rank disconnect anyway. Kindom of Navarra? One province. Kingdom of Brunswick? Takes half of the HRE to get the government rank for that.