Tinto Talks #58 - 9th of April 2025

[Pavía]

Good dev diary. Can anyone (outside of the HRE) be elected as emperor?

Yes, it will be possible.

 

[Pavía]

What happens when the Emperor rules over multiple countries?

The votes are for the country, not for the ruler.

 

[Pavía]

Is the next TT just the IO or also the religion and its mechanics ? Not all religions will have IO's im assuming

IO and Religion, I'll correct that in the main post.

 

[Pavía]

Why are most Italian states a non-mentioned colour? And what does it represent?

Most are Republics...?

 

[Pavía]

I hope it will be doable to change the number of electores, like as long as eveyone is catholic and if the pope jions the empire, it should be easier to make him an additional electer (who would dare to say no to the pope).

And I hope there is the possibility to make the HRE more democratic with the time maybe that every (free,noble,thecratic,...) member can vote, after a bunch of reforms
(that would be really nice, since it encourages members to be smaller and have more votes, and maybe one day the empire can be 1000 city states under 1 emperor)

It is possible to change the number of electors, yes.

 

[Pavía]

What does Golden Bull impact exactly? I was expecting 7 elector status to be established with golden bull in the game not before, but this may be due to my lack of historical knowledge

There were already 7 more or less established electors (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Rhense), but the Golden Bull clearly established which ones were to be. In this game, it works similarly, and you can also change the Electorship laws after enacting it.

 

[Pavía]

Could we see what that looks like?

Also, does the united HRE tag have additional flavour?

We have to keep something for the players to discover after the game is released, right?

 

[Pavía]

If Dynastic Power is Great Power Score multiplied by pops within the HRE, it looks kinda weird to have both Dynastic Power and Great Power Score as reasons for supporting a country for emperorship.

Now, admittedly the Dynastic Power is well, dynastic, so I assume it takes the GPS of all realms held by the same dynasty. Though that begs the question how it's calculated in such a case. Is it just the grand total of all GPS for all Wittlesbach (as an example) lands combined? Is it an average? The tooltip doesn't clarify that.

Also, what are "reasons to elect"? There's no tooltip to mouse over there at all for players to even check that in game.

It's the total of all the countries ruled by a certain dynasty. Design-wise, we want to portray/abstract with this the concept of Hausmacht.

 

[Pavía]

Does Orthodox count too or is it only protestant faiths?

There's a policy that makes it possible for any religion in the Christian religious group.

 

[Pavía]

I had no idea England was in the HRE, let alone in there three times!

Even Cornwall is in there!

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The Cross of Saint George is popular, isn't it?

 

[Pavía]

Can members of the HRE be vassals of countries that are not members?

Yes.

 

[Pavía]

The HRE has how many republics and imperial princes? The dev diary shows the amount of prince-electors, archbishop-electors, imperial prelates, free imperial cities and imperial peasant republics, but not these two.

184 Imperial Princes and 57 Republics.