Tinto Talks #12 - 15th of May

[Johan]

Do dynastic empires such as the Habsburgs and Jagiellons use this mechanic, or do Personal Unions have their own unique mechanics?

They use the Union as mentioned .

 

[Johan]

There can be multiple unions with different integration progress (if any).

Yes

 

[Johan]

Does that mean that we'll have characters in this game alike to Imperator? Or they would be just names with traits and skills like EU4?

EU4 had characters.

The leader of the HRE was the character that was ruler of the country.

 

[Johan]

Does this means that player can restore former Patriarchal seats like Antioch, Jerusalem or Alexandria or for example that player can restore Patriarchate of Rome, again with some military encouragment?

Should be able to yes.

 

[Johan]

Is this moddable, or is the impossibility of creating new organizations outside of certain types hard coded?

A modder can do whatever they want.

 

[Johan]

Will it be possible to define something like the Confederation of the Rhine in the game files and then create a decision for some non-German empire to establish it?

yes

 

[Johan]

So does it mean that they cannot join in offensive wars?

no, you'd need to sign an alliance for that.

 

[Johan]

Would it be possible as a modder to, say, model the Catholic Church at an individual diocese level using this mechanic, with all of those sub-organizations eventually "feeding" into the Papacy?

pretty sure you could.

 

[Johan]

A capacity system is better because of its flexibility. Under slots it's a binary whether something is free or takes up a full slot. Under capacity you can have a close vassal take up 4, membership in a tight organization be 6.5, a guarantee of independence on a minor country be 2... basically have a finer grained view of how much work the foreign ministry has from different relation types.

Yeah, but it is also less obvious to the player. This is the constant debate.

 

[Johan]

I guess Aquitaine and England are led by the same ruler ?
Hope we can recreate Black Prince enormous principality of Aquitaine

yes

 

[Johan]

If PUs are a type of international organisation is it still possible to unite two countries that are part of a PU?

There are ways to make a PU integrated.

 

[Johan]

It's very odd that Wales is a subject of England,

Things that happens when the guy making the British Isles is Welsh

 

[Johan]

This way, abandoning the percentage chance system that is in previous EUs?

That abonimation from eu3/eu4 is not something Project Caesar will have.

 

[Johan]

Great! Does this also include AI logic and internal calculations?

A lot of AI is still hardcoded for performance reasons,.

 

[Johan]

May I ask when will you back to talk about the military system?

early autumn, got LOTS of other stuff we need to show off before.

 

[Johan]

Can someone help me budget this:
-10 ducats for maintaining my army and forts
-5 ducats for maintaining my court
-100 ducats for papal tithe
-3 ducats for importing food and goods

Please help, my country is going bankrupt and my loans to the burghers are up soon!

This Luther guy may have a solution..

 

[Johan]

I like the Idea of these IO a lot but please tell me that whatever interface we have for them won't just be some generic interface. I don't know if the UI for the HRE in EU4 is necessarily the best UI but it is thematic and the loss of thematic UI from CK2 to CK3 for instance was very disappointing to me.

All are unique, and show have their own flavorful building blocks

 

[Johan]

Can the player country call a country which is in a PU with it into a aggression war, for a price?

not atm.

might be part of a future "union benefit/integration" we may add during development.

 

[Johan]

I think capacity is better, especially if the overall capacity pull is scalable.

It abstracts the diplomatic corpus better. Think of "we have 100 people working in foreign relations. We can send 10 of them to each country we're interested in working with, but it will result in only symbolic alliance. Or we can send 5 groups of 20 people, who can actually maintain diplomatic ties. And if we will invest half our GDP we can actually maintain 120 diplomats". The numbers are of course arbitrary, but I hope my idea is understandable

Yeah, I am leaning towards that as well.

 

[Johan]

Can rebellion forces form an organization? e.g. separatists from different regions?

Not before they are proper countries