The Lordship of the Isles are ruled by one Eòin mac Dòmhnuill (John McDonald)
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Generally locations across the same region need to be similar in size, if we tried to get 6 locations out of Westmorland they would be tiny.
Consider the Dublin market to be more of the "Irish Sea Node". Merchants in Lancashire were certainly transporting things via the Irish sea rather than lugging them up from south England by land.
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In the case of the Bradford example in your map, we would lose Bradford and have to replace it with a no-name village that nobody has ever heard of. In these cases we have erred on the side of preserving more recognisable names and more important places based on rough cardinal directions of the county, even if they are not satellite-correct.
Replacing Liverpool with 6 locations or Sheffield with 4 locations is not what we want to do here either. If we go too granular the game basically becomes impossible to manage.
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Since the community seems about 50:50 split on separating English culture, here's a sketch of how a Northern English culture could look. It's far from a definitive choice, just to extend the discussion a little.
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Yes there is content surrounding Balliol's obligations to the English crown.
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Here's the topography including marshes. I just forgot
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I wouldn't rule it out from appearing in flavour text to justify conquest if you are playing as England for example.
But there isn't a geographic feature called "British Isles".
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No, Ireland and GB are are two seperate regions as mentioned in the opening of the diary. They are both in the same subcontinent.
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A culture is not necessarily the same as a dialect, it is first and foremost a gameplay feature with gameplay ramifications, and so we need to be sure it reflects the design we want for each region.
We know English had many dialects. But splitting English up into multiple cultures weakens England in a variety of different ways and we need to be sure it creates better gameplay, and matches the narrative of England's story better than without.
We know English had many dialects. But splitting English up into multiple cultures weakens England in a variety of different ways and we need to be sure it creates better gameplay, and matches the narrative of England's story better than without.
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The distinction between Britain and Ireland is highly significant. Culturally, politically, historically, physically, and most importantly, gameplaywise.
They weren't united until 1801, and even that only lasted another century or so, so they weren't a natural union. Most importantly for Caesar, it easier for us to work with Ireland-specific mechanics like the High Kingship.
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The Lordship of Ireland and Kingdom of Ireland are also both tied to the Ireland region and have their own mechanics surrounding the Ireland region. It's much much clearer to everyone than tying mechanics to 4 areas.
I know, it's a bit unfair on you guys at this early stage. Hopefully once we are ready to talk about culture more in depth it will help the discussions.
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Provinces at least are likely to get the culture naming changing.
Countries I'm less sure about. We generally name all our countries in English. I see the appeal of Tír Eoghain Vs Tyrone but it's inconsistent with how we do elsewhere.
Some really fun history but I think they are too small.
We already have some content in for that
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Yes the functionality for that already exists in the game for modders
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We don't have official minimum specs yet so we can't comment properly. Common sense says that you might need to invest in a proper laptop GPU instead of relying on integrated graphics if you want a smooth experience playing games though.
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I'm also familiar with Anglesey, in fact I crossed the Menai suspension bridge just last year
While you are correct that Anglesey is an island, at its narrowest point the Menai strait is only about 10m deep and 300m wide. I don't think you could sail a warship up it. As such it's represented as a river, as its strategic attributes are much more akin to a wide river than a coastal sea.
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Berwick is owned by England in 1337 (recently conquered, in fact), but it is 'naturally' part of the Lothian province.
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Well, the Solent between Isle of Wight and the mainland is 5km of open sea, over 100m deep. The gameplay implication of a strait is that a warship can block army movement, which IMO isn't the case on Menai
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What would the correct level of stratification look like to you? I'm curious about the general ratio of peasants (petty landowners) vs tribesmen (landless mobile) and how that would vary in each part of Ireland.
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Not necessarily, its a square-peg round-hole situation for the whole world so I'm just trying to figure out good boundaries for Irish peasants vs tribesmen.
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