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Do the Dangers map portray the risk of Tsunami's and Hurricanes? Would Sandstorms be considered just a 'non dangerous' weather pattern?
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Is Malgasy part of the Barito language family? Since at the moment it looks like a one language family
Perhaps we’ll learn more about them next week? Oceania chronologically is the next Tinto Map.
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This is why I'd prefer "language groups" to "language families", there are more practical similarities between languages than strict family categories, though these two things usually overlap. In this case it could just be a loose category for all the remaining languages in western Indonesia/Malaysia
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CLOVES!!!!!!!! Hell yeah!!!! Spice trade between East Asia and Southeast Asia is now possible!!
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I think he was trying to say that every location in the world that has a volcano also has earthquakes. It would just be in the tooltip, to explain. Or a player could learn from the first time it happens.
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1. Will cloves be expensive?
2. Will there be bonuses for the largest production of goods?
2. Will there be bonuses for the largest production of goods?
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Shouldn't the mountaintop wastelands in south Palembang be coloured in?
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The problem with Austronesian and Malay-Polynesian is that it doesn’t really fit the standard set by Europe. Indo-European is a very clean family to split up into 5-7 in-game families and a few individual languages because it has branches of comparable and manageable size. Neighboring Afro-Asiatic is similar (as long as you don’t try to insist that Chadic and Cushitic are a single language, of course). Disputed families like Niger-Congo or Altaic can also be very cleanly split into undisputed branches. Uralic, Dravidian, and Austroasiatic are small enough that they can reasonably be single families.
Austronesian, on the other hand, is a mess. It’s very large, its branches are horribly lopsided with Malay-Polynesian making up almost all of it, and Malay-Polynesian doesn’t have a clean split at all. Having a Malay-Polynesian “family” would probably be the most accurate representation, but it’s going to be huge and possibly unbalanced. It looks like the devs tried to balance it and got something very awkward and clunky.
I would personally be in favor of a united Malay-Polynesian family as well. It would be roughly in line with other language families in the region time-wise (~2000BC vs Austronesian’s ~2500BC, Dravidian’s ~3500BC, Tai’s ~500BC, Old Chinese’s ~1000BC), and I think having 30 million people speak the same language family isn’t too far-fetched balance-wise when nearby Chinese probably has about 70 million.
A good alternative could also be Western Indonesian, combining Bornean, Barito, Javanese, Madurese, and Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa. It's currently an unproven theory, but I think it could make a lot of sense, as it would be decently sized and have clean boundaries.
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Northern Borneo, Sumatra and Java should have some elephants since the local species were used for warfare
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Regarding the earthquake zones on the dangers map:
- remove the eastern rim of Sumatra from the earthquake danger zone
- remove southern Sulawesi (Makassar/Bone/Buton) from the earthquake danger zone
- Andaman islands needs earthquake hazards
- Demak region of Bali should have no earthquake hazards
Regarding SE-Asia: there was no danger map mode posted for southeast Asia, and there seems to be no earthquake hazard in Byrma/Myanmar. Definitely needs earthquakes!
My earlier post this year has some more extensive maps on the topic:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/suggestion-earthquakes-and-volcanism-expanded.1734848/
- remove the eastern rim of Sumatra from the earthquake danger zone
- remove southern Sulawesi (Makassar/Bone/Buton) from the earthquake danger zone
- Andaman islands needs earthquake hazards
- Demak region of Bali should have no earthquake hazards
Regarding SE-Asia: there was no danger map mode posted for southeast Asia, and there seems to be no earthquake hazard in Byrma/Myanmar. Definitely needs earthquakes!
My earlier post this year has some more extensive maps on the topic:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/suggestion-earthquakes-and-volcanism-expanded.1734848/
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How will the game represent the historical conversion to Islam of this region?
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Great to see the updates here!
I agree with Flower_Marlin on renaming the Trowulan location to Majapahit or Wilwatikta. Also, when will we start seeing more duchies on the map?
I agree with Flower_Marlin on renaming the Trowulan location to Majapahit or Wilwatikta. Also, when will we start seeing more duchies on the map?
I've been meaning to ask about this, what sort of feedback would you and the team like on Tribes? Is it just which tags should be Tribes, flavor for Tribal nations, etc.? Will we get some looks at what distinguishes Tribal governments and gameplay from those of Monarchies and the others?
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I think it will definitely be difficult to give feedback on specific countries being tribes without more info on how tribal countries work in-game, since "tribal" is a loose category and can mean anything depending on who is asked
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Yeah it's weird how in some regions SoPs are whole ethnic groups but in others they're very specific political units, like in Costa rica each location is a distinct SoP. The latter is preferable but it's just odd to see them both mixed together in the same feature. I suppose it's just cause they don't have much information on political divisions of some cultures or they would be too granular to be feasible
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Small question are those generic sun icons just place holders or are they planned to be the icon for most minor religions
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