Context: The “Civilized” mechanic in Victoria 2 won’t be coming back in 3. It was an arbitrary system which gave “uncivs” (countries that haven’t westernized) maluses and an inability to access the normal research “tree”.

Instead, the countries in question will be modeled after their actual circumstances that put them at a disadvantage to Western powers (agrarian society, decentralization, no infrastructure, poor literacy, etc). You know, a materialistic approach that’s in line with the rest of the game.

Also, white chuds won’t shut up about some capeshit that came out years ago and it’s hilarious.

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I do think there is a discussion to be had about how PDX has resorted to DLCs and blobbing in order to for example sell you “Europa Universallis” at release and then slowly make it into “Rest of the World Universallis”

    That reminds me of what a pleasant surprise it was when CK3 released with a bunch of content and concepts from CK2's DLCs integrated into the core game, and generally how it decoupled systems from completely bespoke cultures and religions into more generic systems that mean for the most part anywhere you look you're working with a full-featured set of tools instead of how vanilla CK2 only had the Catholics as playable and fleshed out and every CK2 religion was a bespoke and idiosyncratic system with special mechanics.