Let's talk about Pontus. You can form Pontus via either playing as Pontus or Kios to start off as, but that's not the whole picture. The real Pontus (with all of its features) can only be formed by event chain. Before 2.0, this was very unlikely to happen, but it was definitely possible though it took quite a lot of waiting and luck. Basically you would play as Pontus (not Kios) and wait until Mithridates moves to Paphlagonia, and then wait until Mithridates comes to Pontus, and then you got the few things which makes Pontus unique, which are the Sinope and Amaseia Capital buff and the Hellenistic Omens.
That no longer works. One of the reasons you could never form Pontus (with all the unique flavor) as Kios, was because the decision to form Pontus does not change your tag to PON (which is what is required by both of the special Pontic decisions) but for some reason to PTU (why?). This was not a big deal, because you could get all the unique Pontic flavor by starting as Pontus instead of Kios. Now the devs have added a flag which requires you to start as Kios to get the unique Pontic flavor, but you can't get the unique Pontic flavor because those decisions require you to have the PON tag, which can you never get as Kios. Which means that it is currently impossible to get the unique Pontic flavor without editing the game files. This is an oversight, which can be easily fixed (literally just changing PTU to PON in the pontic decisions file fixes it.) If that was my only grievance, I'd just file a bug report and call it a day.
The same thing is true for the Hellenistic Omens, the game requires your tag to be "PON" and for you to have the greco-pontic traditions flag, which is not possible right now. Kios can get the Greco-Pontic traditions flag and Pontus starts with the "PON" tag, but neither can obtain the other piece necessary to actually have Selene and Zeus Stratios as Omens.
Let's talk about culture. You can start as Pontus and remain Cappadocian, you can start as Kios and flee to Paphlagonia and become Paphlagonian, and you can start as Kios, invade Paphlagonia and stay Propontic. None of these options allow you to become Pontic culture, which is what I want to do. I just think that's lame.
I don't really like how Kios can start with access to all Greek military traditions and then lose access to them if the primary culture becomes Paphlagonian. It's also not very convenient, because while you can from Greek traditions to Persian traditions easily, its much harder the other way because you have to go from Persian to Levantine to Greek, and that requires having a sizable amount of pops in those groups (closest of which is Syria). Surely Kios becoming Pontus should be an exception of some kind. The whole point of the Pontic decisions is the mingling of Persian, Anatolian, and Hellenic cultures.
What's the deal with the Mithridatic heritage? Is it supposed to be a permanent heritage for the country, or just a boon to help Kios establish the Kingdom of Pontus? I honestly prefer the Pontic heritage, so I don't really like not being able to choose it when playing as Kios and trying to establish the kingdom.
I really like playing as the Mithridatic kingdom of Pontus, and I really love the care and attention that has gone into improving Pontus over the updates, but I think it's clear that the successive updates while amazing and awesome on their on, are not functional with each other; Less than careful integration of the succesive additions to Pontus' uniqueness is probably what led to the oversight that makes its impossible to get the Pontic decisions and Pontic omens. For my own part, I am quite capable of making a personal mod that fixes these issues for me, but I wanted to point out the current inconsistencies that currently arise when trying to recreate the Mithridatic kingdom of Pontus.
That no longer works. One of the reasons you could never form Pontus (with all the unique flavor) as Kios, was because the decision to form Pontus does not change your tag to PON (which is what is required by both of the special Pontic decisions) but for some reason to PTU (why?). This was not a big deal, because you could get all the unique Pontic flavor by starting as Pontus instead of Kios. Now the devs have added a flag which requires you to start as Kios to get the unique Pontic flavor, but you can't get the unique Pontic flavor because those decisions require you to have the PON tag, which can you never get as Kios. Which means that it is currently impossible to get the unique Pontic flavor without editing the game files. This is an oversight, which can be easily fixed (literally just changing PTU to PON in the pontic decisions file fixes it.) If that was my only grievance, I'd just file a bug report and call it a day.
The same thing is true for the Hellenistic Omens, the game requires your tag to be "PON" and for you to have the greco-pontic traditions flag, which is not possible right now. Kios can get the Greco-Pontic traditions flag and Pontus starts with the "PON" tag, but neither can obtain the other piece necessary to actually have Selene and Zeus Stratios as Omens.
Let's talk about culture. You can start as Pontus and remain Cappadocian, you can start as Kios and flee to Paphlagonia and become Paphlagonian, and you can start as Kios, invade Paphlagonia and stay Propontic. None of these options allow you to become Pontic culture, which is what I want to do. I just think that's lame.
I don't really like how Kios can start with access to all Greek military traditions and then lose access to them if the primary culture becomes Paphlagonian. It's also not very convenient, because while you can from Greek traditions to Persian traditions easily, its much harder the other way because you have to go from Persian to Levantine to Greek, and that requires having a sizable amount of pops in those groups (closest of which is Syria). Surely Kios becoming Pontus should be an exception of some kind. The whole point of the Pontic decisions is the mingling of Persian, Anatolian, and Hellenic cultures.
What's the deal with the Mithridatic heritage? Is it supposed to be a permanent heritage for the country, or just a boon to help Kios establish the Kingdom of Pontus? I honestly prefer the Pontic heritage, so I don't really like not being able to choose it when playing as Kios and trying to establish the kingdom.
I really like playing as the Mithridatic kingdom of Pontus, and I really love the care and attention that has gone into improving Pontus over the updates, but I think it's clear that the successive updates while amazing and awesome on their on, are not functional with each other; Less than careful integration of the succesive additions to Pontus' uniqueness is probably what led to the oversight that makes its impossible to get the Pontic decisions and Pontic omens. For my own part, I am quite capable of making a personal mod that fixes these issues for me, but I wanted to point out the current inconsistencies that currently arise when trying to recreate the Mithridatic kingdom of Pontus.
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