Will Venice be an island?

[Johan]

Currently its not.

The island of Venice is tiny, and barely 5 square km big. That is 1/10th of the size of Manhattan, or Gozo.

 

[Johan]

Leaving Venice vulnerable to just being occupied from Italian mainland when it was almost impossible to invade and occupy this city would be a huge missed opportunity, any country not able to blockade the lagoon should not be able to occupy city of Venice.

Yes, I agree.

it will look really "unhistorical" on the map though, with a huge island

 

[Johan]

The problem here isn't that Johan thinks the city of Venice's location on an Island isn't important, but that the developers seemingly are prioritising a consistent map when it comes to scale of Islands over a functional map. That is similar to the UI/UX mistakes we have seen over and over again in Imperator, CK 3 and Vic 3.

One of the points of these forums existing is to provide feedback before it is too late to change things. "Let's wait and see" seems like a rather bad idea.

There are plenty of islands so far that has been exagerrated in size to fit, but they were already about 50 to 100 times as big as Venice island, so in this case it would be a dramatic change from real life to the game.