Please change the name of "international organizations" to literally anything else

[Znikii]

Not a single one of the suggestions in this thread have been good.

Well, than they are good enough to have a vote then....

 

[Oglesby]

But it can tell you that France is a land-based country, linking the rules for that kind of entity.

Yes, when looking at the information for the country of France, there will be the three icons to indicate that it is a <Tier X> <land-based> <monacrhy>, each of those will be hoverable and provide an explanation. The name France on that page will not have a tooltip to indicate that it is a 'country name'.

And some IOs might appear or sound quite country-like (like the HRE) and giving some additional information about the type of entity just as a hovertip-hook is a viable use. Even though IOs do not share too many properties. And again, if basically every other entity's detail window states its type, then IOs should do, too.

The term is not optimal (hence this thread), but the concept is not completely useless to state.

I an fully on board with having a tooltip that explains the HRE. I don't think that the HRE is an IO needs to be part of it. I don't think that IO then also needs a tooltip ('An IO is one or more countries together that have bespoke mechanics' doesn't need to be stated).
I am fully on board with having a tooltip that explains the Patriarchates. I still don't think that we need to mention that they are IO.

When the common thing between the group we call IO are that each is discretely made for each individual case then is it really a group? The group is the 'Miscellanea' or 'Miscellany'.

 

[Chieron]

When the common thing between the group we call IO are that each is discretely made for each individual case then is it really a group? The group is the 'Miscellanea' or 'Miscellany'.

"Miscellaneous Political Entity" would be another awful name replacement.

An IO is a grouping of countries of some kind. Many of which are of common types like PUs or alliances, while others are sui generis like the HRE or Ilkhanate. Stating somewhere that what I'm looking at right now is a grouping seems to be useful enough.

Anyway, I doubt that we'll get any further. It's not a big deal either way.

 

[Briloner]

This thread really is the modern incarnation of the Athenian Agora and Plato's Academy

No, not until a cynic throws a dead feastherless chicken into the discussion in order to make a point.

Also some came pretty close - admittedly