Your First Custom Nation?

[Incompetent]

I'd like to play an Asian republic of some sort, with +1 RT. Either a Merchant Republic for trade shenanigans, or a standard Republic (Oligarchic?) with building monarch point cost reduction so I can turn it into an industrial powerhouse.

Alternatively, a colonial focused nation that starts with some European Atlantic islands, to see how much wealth and power you can get out of CNs and trade companies alone.

A 'troll nation' would be funny, with an extreme focus on espionage and rebel manipulation, but it might be difficult to arrange with the points system.

 

[solidprice]

me?
import my Orthodox roman empire vs Norse Scandinavian empire vs Persian empire. and create a custom mega China owning all of east Asia.

4 super powers stand. only 1 will remain.

...also an unlocked created nation once mods update and new ones come out.

Gotta have my +25% discipline,+50 morale, and +50 infantry combat ability!

 

[Camtheman]

Merchant republic is seriously the 2nd best government type around and I would be really surprised if anyone picks anything different for their custom nations in MP.

 

[generalolaf]

Going to use this for historically based stuff myself, so I'm thinking maybe an independent Orkney or Iceland -> colonising America from the perfect starting position

 

[Loaf Warden]

It occurs to me that, since you can create multiple custom nations and then choose whom to play, this mechanic could be used to make certain empty regions more interesting. Like, one could fill regions like Australia or Polynesia with native tribes, then pick one of them and try to conquer the others to pass the time before the Europeans arrive. That could be pretty fun.

 

[jjake101]

Name: Paradox Interactive
Location: OPM in Sweden (Stockholm)
Culture: Swedish
Government: Merchant Republic (cos PI is a company )
Religion: Catholic
Tech Group: Western

My goal?... world domination

 

[Destinyfaker]

Name: Paradox Interactive
Location: OPM in Sweden (Stockholm)
Government: Merchant Republic (cos PI is a company )
Religion: Catholic
Tech Group: Western

My goal?... world domination

make it a absolute monarchy and the ruler is a 6 6 6 Johan

 

[Fintilgin]

Once the ruler designer came out for CKII I pretty much never played another vanilla character. I'm pretty sure once El Dorado comes out, I'll probably never play a completely untweaked game of EUIV. Definitely planning on popping the point limit off, not for my sake (I'll play fair) but so that I can cheerfully modify the hell out of the starting positions.

This game, I'm playing as an Irish republic, but Iberia is dominated by Al-Andalus, Italy is unified, France is split into Normandy and Aquitaine, and a colonial focused Grand Saxony rules most of northern Germany.

In my next game, I'm playing in the HRE, but Islam was super successful, and Iberia, southern France, Italy, and the Balkans are all dominated by custom Islamic states with strong military/conquest ideas.

In my game after that, I'm playing as Israel, and Germany is dominated by a giant Republic of the Rhine, Scandinavia and Britain are Norse, and there's a western tech level Buddhist Philippines set to dominate Asia.


Okay, okay, and then in my next game...

 

[Magnificent Genius]

Umm... just throwing this out there, even though I would need help making it work, but I would go with Brittania, with its <sarcasm>glorious leader</sarcasm> Lelouch.

 

[Zupanicarr]

New Canada, English culture, naval power, landing somewhere in Scandinavia after fleeing our home from [INSERT APOCALYPSE SCENARIO HERE].

Or alternatively: Awesome Prussia, mostly as another excuse to use that random Scary Prussia image I use on the forums whenever I get the chance, hoping to annoy someone into watching Hetalia. :mellow:

 

[Krajzen]

All these changes are going to be in game at once, as they will make some AI parts of the world more interesting:

- NORTH KOREA with Kim Ir Sen 6/6/6 as leader, Kim dynasty, despotic monarchy, uber military ideas.
- Taiwan Merchant Republic, uber economic ideas.
- more Indonesian tags: Hindu Srivivaya, Buddhist Borneo, Christian Timor, Animist Philippines
- Independent Sikh Punjab from the start, with OP military/religious ideas and good leader
- more tags in southern half of Africa: Zulu, Zimbabwe, Antananarivo etc

 

[Destinyfaker]

i really need to know what happens to province modifiers because.

what would happen if you turn dalakogen (i think that was the swedisch province with the +500%production) into a gold province ?

 

[Pellucid]

Probably the Knights Templar.

 

[DominusNovus]

Not all ideas have 4 levels. RT goes to 1 (which is incredibly powerful as it is).

Harrumph.

 

[ZangoZett]

I'd like to start as a Westernized Horde somewhere in the Americas, but that's about all I got so far.

 

[Redwallzyl]

all the pacific islands in one Polynesian empire would be cool. super trade and naval ideas.

 

[Christopholes]

Form Scandenavia as the Faore islands.

 

[Anastasius.H]

Hong Kong, oligarchic republic, Cantonese culture, with +RT and autonomy change ideas.

 

[Incompetent]

Religion costs nothing, eh? A Nahuatl nation in Europe could be quite amusing.

 

[DeSean]

This

Probably the Knights Templar.

Or some nation in Oceania, either Kingdom of Hawaii or Tonga Empire