When will EU 4 become a country simulator?

[DrZoidberg]

When will EU 4 become a country simulator?

How about next expansion improve interior and peacetime management.

Some ideas:
Have a parliament where different politicians comes from different provinces and from different factions.
And the king (the player) has to listen to the parliament.
Every province could have different govenors depending on what what faction is powerful there.
The factions could request that you do different things and you could influence what faction is strong in different provinces.
You could then get monarch points depending on which is the leading faction in the country and not just like now where you get a random score depending on your monarch.

This system could tie everything together.

 

[Nirmara]

Victoria 2 is more a social and economic game than a country simulator like "Master of the world" or "Democracy" are. That being said, it's still a good game even if it aged quite badly.

Have a parliament where different politicians comes from different provinces and from different factions.
And the king (the player) has to listen to the parliament.
Every province could have different govenors depending on what what faction is powerful there.
The factions could request that you do different things and you could influence what faction is strong in different provinces.

Eu:Rome have all of theses.

Having to put a governor in charge for all provinces (or even per region) would be tedious and introduce too much micromanagement for the extra depth it would add.

The actual direction taken by PI seem to be adding specifics mechanics to each government. While I like your first, second and fourth idea, I don't think they will implement it since they would have to rework all special government they add in all the DLC.

 

[BrokenSky]

Probably never.

Notably, the PDS title that is a country simulator (Vic2) was considerably less popular than its contemporaries.

That's because it's older and Paradox Grand Strategy Games got a lot more popular recently. Mostly.

 

[Nirmara]

That's because it's older and Paradox Grand Strategy Games got a lot more popular recently. Mostly.

Age is not the only factor influencing V2 lesser popularity. The UI is a total mess and a lots of mechanics are opaque making the game seem more complex than it really is, even to experience PI games.

I'm still confident that we will get V3 one day since the game still sold enough to justify the production of two expansion which isn't nothing. In comparison, Ck1 didn't sell that much and they still produced CkII and we all know how popular it is.

 

[grommile]

That's because it's older and Paradox Grand Strategy Games got a lot more popular recently. Mostly.

Its contemporaries. I'm not talking about its popularity relative to CK2 and EU4, but relative to EU3 and HoI3.

 

[BrokenSky]

Its contemporaries. I'm not talking about its popularity relative to CK2 and EU4, but relative to EU3 and HoI3.

Ah I see. I thought you said "To contemporary [games]". Misread it. So yeah; Fair enough.