Tiny states

[DaddySugar331]

Why didn't you make Athens a separate state? Why didn't you make the capitals separate regions at all? Berlin, Vienna, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Rome - these cities should be separate regions. Better yet, Berlin and Vienna are divided into 2-4 zones, in accordance with the post-war occupation.
Seriously, capitals and big cities should be separate states, because big cities have always been more difficult to control in terms of guerrilla and strike action. There have always been major uprisings and riots, so more forces and equipment had to be brought in to maintain order. Moreover, it will make the borders more beautiful, when I no longer have to take all of Brandenburg if I want to occupy Berlin. Your dislike for small regions is absurd. Without such regions, the borders in the game look just disgusting no matter how hard you try. Moreover, without small regions it is impossible to make modern borders, the administrative division of that time and occupation zones. I think you should decide what is your priority, and not try to do everything at once. It would be possible to make a separate mode and game setting for modern countries and regions.

The game has a lot of wrong borders. I would like to see more historical states.

 

[Shaka of Carthage]

I think you should decide what is your priority

Think it is safe to say that they have established their priorities.

 

[GSP Jr]

The game has a lot of wrong borders. I would like to see more historical states.

"Historical" borders.....for what date? 1000 bc, 1936, 1945, or "modern".

After you push start, there is no more historical.

 

[Bunnytob]

More states = a lot more construction slots and a lot more potential state buildings. It's not really a good thing unless those are somehow limited.

 

[Áurum]

Think it is safe to say that they have established their priorities.

No, they haven't. They don't know what they are doing. They changed the Polish borders for the modern ones, however, getting modern borders is completely impossible in a historical game. I don't know if they don't know those borders aren't reproducible or if they don't care, but they clearly don't know what they are doing.

 

[TheGlop]

It's fair to say that the borders in HoI4 are subject of contention. I myself believe WW2-era accurate borders should be the priority before any post-war borders, but am not averse to the idea of certain alt-historical borders (Like a better division of china by a victorious japan post sino-japanese war as an example that comes to mind. The concession ports and cities could be modeled better, as well as certain states. Japanese Shanghai. etc...).
The tiny states problem is a balance problem however. Maybe if they introduce a system whereas some states can't have factories or a limited amount of them depending on different factors it'll be more palatable.

But this is from the perspective of a player who enjoys a simulation of WW2 and its different outcomes. HoI4 has many types of players.