Welcome to Tinto Talks number #28, another Happy Wednesday, the day in the week where we give your information about our almost entirely super secret Project Caesar, so we can listen to your feedback.
This week, we will delve into more details about buildings, and how buildings are not just something you do inside your own borders, but something you do outside them as well. We usually call these types of buildings ‘foreign buildings’.
Common Foreign Buildings
One common building many countries can build in foreign towns and cities is a Trade Office, which requires that the owner of that location has an opinion of at least 100 of your country. This is one way to get a foothold into another market. The caveat is that the merchant power is relying entirely on the maritime presence it can provide,
Time to build in every port, town or city….
Another building that you can build in capitals of countries of the same rank or above is an Embassy. They increase your diplomatic capacity by +0.10 and lift the fog of war over the location, but it is rather costly in upkeep, requiring lots of paper and jewelry.
Not all foreign buildings can be built in an owned location though. And some require that the location has no current owner to be allowed to be built.
One such building that you want to build in any area where you are doing a colonial charter is a mission. This is a building that will convert 100 pops every month to your state religion if the building is fully staffed and has access to its goods.
Saving souls for God!
Unique Foreign Buildings
There are many unique foreign buildings in the game, many depending on what type or which country you may be playing. Today we will show off a few of these unique ones that make some countries play differently.
While the Hanseatic League has multiple buildings they can build, one of their truly unique is their shipwrights, as this can be built in any port of their subjects, giving sailors to the owner of the building, while also increasing the ship building capacity in the location.
If you play a banking country, you can always place a banking office in any town or city, which will give you a small amount of merchant power, while also giving you a fair amount of gold.
Military Orders in the Catholic faith can set up an Order Commandery in any location in another Catholic country, if they have negotiated a Sponsorship. If a country agrees to Sponsor a Military Order, they will gain religious influence and prestige every month. Each of these commanderies that you build will give you some gold and manpower.
Each does not give much, but it all adds up…
Destroying Foreign Buildings
For the foreign buildings in your country that require good relations to build, you always have the option to destroy them if your opinion of that country goes below 0, and you are at peace again. This will obviously lower their opinion of you further, and give them a casus belli to be used against your country. Other buildings may require a peace treaty to be removed though.
While this may be very interesting and fun, I realize that this Tinto Talk is a bit short, so let's do some more information here..
Recent Changes
We constantly update and tweak the game from feedback and such, and today I was gonna show off a few examples of what we have changed recently, mostly due to the great feedback we have been given.
First of all, we have added a small staging time to all explorations, where they need to prepare, and require resources, tying the exploration mechanics closer to the economy system of the game. For the first few months of an exploration, there will be a type of construction in the closest location that fits, requiring goods to progress.
You can’t go sailing without a lot of rum can you?
The cooldown on assigning generals to armies was not too popular when we talked about it, so instead we now have a system where it takes time until you get the benefits of a new general in your army. This time is connected to the travel time it takes from your capital to the army, and some extra time for the character to get up to speed. This will make assigning generals and admirals much more of a strategic choice.
One topic that has been raised in various map talks we have had has been the lack of ethno-religions. Now we have made it so we can lock some religions from allowing their pops to be assimilated before they can be converted.
Yes, there is more than one israelite religion…
Stay tuned, as next week, Winter is coming…
This week, we will delve into more details about buildings, and how buildings are not just something you do inside your own borders, but something you do outside them as well. We usually call these types of buildings ‘foreign buildings’.
Common Foreign Buildings
One common building many countries can build in foreign towns and cities is a Trade Office, which requires that the owner of that location has an opinion of at least 100 of your country. This is one way to get a foothold into another market. The caveat is that the merchant power is relying entirely on the maritime presence it can provide,
Time to build in every port, town or city….
Another building that you can build in capitals of countries of the same rank or above is an Embassy. They increase your diplomatic capacity by +0.10 and lift the fog of war over the location, but it is rather costly in upkeep, requiring lots of paper and jewelry.
Not all foreign buildings can be built in an owned location though. And some require that the location has no current owner to be allowed to be built.
One such building that you want to build in any area where you are doing a colonial charter is a mission. This is a building that will convert 100 pops every month to your state religion if the building is fully staffed and has access to its goods.
Saving souls for God!
Unique Foreign Buildings
There are many unique foreign buildings in the game, many depending on what type or which country you may be playing. Today we will show off a few of these unique ones that make some countries play differently.
While the Hanseatic League has multiple buildings they can build, one of their truly unique is their shipwrights, as this can be built in any port of their subjects, giving sailors to the owner of the building, while also increasing the ship building capacity in the location.
If you play a banking country, you can always place a banking office in any town or city, which will give you a small amount of merchant power, while also giving you a fair amount of gold.
Military Orders in the Catholic faith can set up an Order Commandery in any location in another Catholic country, if they have negotiated a Sponsorship. If a country agrees to Sponsor a Military Order, they will gain religious influence and prestige every month. Each of these commanderies that you build will give you some gold and manpower.
Each does not give much, but it all adds up…
Destroying Foreign Buildings
For the foreign buildings in your country that require good relations to build, you always have the option to destroy them if your opinion of that country goes below 0, and you are at peace again. This will obviously lower their opinion of you further, and give them a casus belli to be used against your country. Other buildings may require a peace treaty to be removed though.
While this may be very interesting and fun, I realize that this Tinto Talk is a bit short, so let's do some more information here..
Recent Changes
We constantly update and tweak the game from feedback and such, and today I was gonna show off a few examples of what we have changed recently, mostly due to the great feedback we have been given.
First of all, we have added a small staging time to all explorations, where they need to prepare, and require resources, tying the exploration mechanics closer to the economy system of the game. For the first few months of an exploration, there will be a type of construction in the closest location that fits, requiring goods to progress.
You can’t go sailing without a lot of rum can you?
The cooldown on assigning generals to armies was not too popular when we talked about it, so instead we now have a system where it takes time until you get the benefits of a new general in your army. This time is connected to the travel time it takes from your capital to the army, and some extra time for the character to get up to speed. This will make assigning generals and admirals much more of a strategic choice.
One topic that has been raised in various map talks we have had has been the lack of ethno-religions. Now we have made it so we can lock some religions from allowing their pops to be assimilated before they can be converted.
Yes, there is more than one israelite religion…
Stay tuned, as next week, Winter is coming…
