Tinto Talks #71 - 9th of July 2025

[Pavía]

Also there's something nagging on the back of my mind, @Pavía. Do we still have Religious Views? Because this was the only time we ever saw this screen, none of the Religion tooltips ever mention it. Did you drop this idea?

No, it's already there, in the 'Religious Breakdown' tab:

PS: God, the GUI has undergone some breaking changes since the first Tinto Talks, doesn't it?

 

[Pavía]

Why is there no holy site?

We need to do a balance pass, some religions have a humungous amount of holy sites (Hinduism), others regular numbers (Christianity, Islam), and we should add some for the Tonal religions.

 

[Pavía]

Are the religion and god icons placeholders? I hope they will get some unique icons like the Hindu patron gods do

Checking if we can add some unique icons for them, yes.

 

[Pavía]

Now, regarding DOOM (yes, this is the proper way to write it), I'm not really happy to see it again in EU5. I understand at this point it's iconic and kind of a meme, but there are much better ways to represent how the Aztec religion worked, like this one.

Also, since you're writing ejectives (as you should), Kukulkan should actually be written K'uk'ulkan. The difference is important: K'uk'ulkan means "feathered serpent" (k'uk' quetzal + -ul adjectival suffix + kan serpent), while Kukulkan would be something more like "beetle-serpent" or "insect-snake" (kukul beetle, insect + kan serpent, although I don't know if that's actually grammatical).

Just fixed K'uk'ulkan and Tláloc.

 

[Pavía]

Will the Maya also have a reforming system or is it exclusive to the Nahua? If the Maya do have a reforming system, how does it work without Doom?

It is exclusive to Nahua.

 

[Pavía]

Really not happy to see Doom come back. I'm also kinda confused by the nature of having the religion need to be reformed. What about the existing history of Aztec religion implies the necessity of reformation?

Also, there's are typo here, 10 yeas should be 10 years
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Just fixed the typo, thanks.

 

[Pavía]

What no Chutulu???

*Cthulhu​

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

 

[Pavía]

I've just finished all the posts in the Tinto Talks, so first things first, thanks for your feedback! I've been bookmarking posts and taking notes, with your suggestions to improve the current mechanics of Tonal religions.

I'll ask you for a bit of patience on any major changes, as they need to be discussed and scoped internally, then implemented, and later tested and debugged. Let's see if in some weeks from now, I can present you with some changes based on the aforementioned feedback.