ETTAR said:
Why is Picentis the leader of the war against Epirus in the Pyrrhic war scenario? 0.o
Woops, just a bug
On inspection of the culture files, why are there Muslim names being used for Berber or African names? Berbers aren't Arabs, especially during this time period. They should be similar to North African cultural group and be exposed to some North Levantine/Greek influence. I mean, even the Arab names fall under the South Levantine cultural group. Numidian culture should be merged into Libyan cultural group in addition to that (which should have Egyptian-Nubian family names rather than anachronistic Muslim Arab names, centuries after this time).
I might give some insights into Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Chinese names, and I see quite a bit of anachronisms just by skimming through them. Tibetans, Khmers (Oc Eo/Funan) and Cham (Sa Huynh) would be separate cultural groups. I'll give further input on this issue later.
An example would be that the state for Funan culture would be Nokor Phnom.
The Thais and other related peoples were confined to what is now southwestern China, in what is now modern day Yunnan and Guangxi provinces. They didn't really live in what is now Thailand, that area was mostly inhabited by Austroasiatics related to the Khmers. And the Khmers and Mon should have much larger domains. The Khmers in what is now Laos, Thailand and Cambodia as well as the Mekong Delta. The Mon should be in what is now western Thailand as well as most of Burma. The Sa Huynh (ancestors of the Cham), like I said, should be a subgroup related to the Austronesian peoples, as they had much longer contact with the Indonesian archipelago as well as with India much later on.
I tried to avoid using arab names, so I tried to search only for berber and tuareg names, but these were hard to find for me, the ones I did were modern names which surely have arab influence, but I just don't know enough of it
Do you think making all of those part of the egypt-nubian culture group (with egyptian-nubian names) are the most correct answer?
The same can be applied to chinese, korean, japanese, vietnamese, mongol names, I took them all for modern names lists.
I'm even more unfamiliar with the situation in Southeast Asia than other places (I'm far away from an historian - more a map modder than goes to wikipedia to research
). See how oc-eo and mon-khmer are surely misattributed. Southeast Asia lacked countries and I wanted to add them, so I added these and sort of spread them. If you could help me here I would be much appreciated (and I will expand to 476 AD too).
In the next update I'm planning to add Malaysia and a bit of Indonesia, so an austronesian group is very likely - I would love your take on that
. I will open the Malay strait and it will allow Egypt-Japan sea trade but oh well.
Chinese flags should use seal script typical of the Zhou period. Korean Hangul was not in use until the 14th century, and wasn't commonly used until the 19th century. So I'd suggest Korean symbols/motifs for their flags (they could have bears or tigers, the two animals that were the parents of the Korean mythological figure, Dangun Wanggeom).
So for Zhou, it should look something like this (and you also happened to use the wrong character for 'Zhou'):
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This is the one for Chu, as an another example:
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Since all Chinese states aside from Minyue were (de jure, not de facto) vassals of the Zhou state, there should be some kind of limitations of a DoW on Zhou and that until all of China is reunified by one state, Zhou should be released through an event.
http://www.hanyi.com.cn/font.jsp?id=199 Here is the link to copy and paste relevant Chinese characters into the search bar and you usually get results.
Again, I copied the characters of the chinese dynasties from wikipedia.
Zhou is tricky to work with. It has a special treatment, but far from perfect. Currently it is allied with all the chinese states, and I have an event to give them gold and increase relations with all chinese states. Also, I have an event to make it reappear if they were annexed and the aggressor did not declare himself Emperor of the East or West (like Qin and Qi did), or if the aggressor did not took most of China, unlocking an event that gives it the Mandate of Heaven flag, effectively destroying Zhou's special treatment.
However the AI is very aggressive in Rome and soon or later Zhou is annexed, then it reappears, and again and again. This was the best I could do.
Many thanks for your welcome and feel free to suggest changes!
