New syncretic mod Advice

[u/Kind-Offer-3]

Hello,

I finalised my mod to spawn sub roman syncretic cultures(https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3150883882). I would like some advice on what on the mod i could improve. I wont follow on decision or events bc i dont have much time but anything to help me fix performance and quality in the cultures( name etc...) i will appreciate. Also, which other culture i should now expand? I was thinking about a greek sub cultures syncretic mod or germanic one. Let me know what the community would love to have!

[u/Useful-Option8963]

One thing I would like to see is cultural progression: for example, as the timeline continues, cultures may not necessarily syncretize, but evolve depending on what paths you chose! For example, you're playing as one of the Illyrians in the Balkans, and as time goes on, you would eventually progress so that your culture changes to "High Illyrian" to where you get both the heavy Cavalry and the Archers that the neighboring Celts and Greeks utilize in their own levy compositions.

Another idea for this is to give this to Rome, for example, at the beginning of the game, Rome and Marsia starts out with the Latin Culture, which would have a levy composition closer to Etruria's. And only later on would Rome be able to take advantage of its wealth to reform its armies, and become the "Roman" culture, and then, later on as you expand your presence further and further, you would eventually be able to reform into the "Imperial Roman" culture which is like the Erythrean culture which has a bunch of units in its levy composition, which in this case while the heavy infantry would remain the stars of the show, there would also be light infantry, light cavalry, and spearmen like before, but also heavy cavalry, archers, and maybe even war elephants?

This would, of course, be tied to the wealth and ranking that the country in question has achieved, as such a comprehensive military reform would no doubt be very expensive, with some cultures having the limits be different on a case-by-case basis due to the differences in starting conditions, etc.

I think Italy would be the most ideal place to start out with this, I have some more ideas for how such cultures could progress, at least with how they're named.

[u/Kind-Offer-3 → u/Useful-Option8963]

That's a lot of event that might slow the game. I will see what i can think about it. For now my mod spawn on decade the cultures. Give it a try with debug

[u/Useful-Option8963 → u/Kind-Offer-3]

I'm afraid I can't, my only computer right now is a dinky laptop that's incapable of running Invictus because that mod doesn't have Linux compatibility. I so SORELY wish that I could play such an awesome mod, but the best that I can do is to give advice on the improvement of that which I cannot enjoy (at the moment).

[u/Kind-Offer-3 → u/Useful-Option8963]

Hope you can soon have a better pc to enjoy the game better

[u/Useful-Option8963 → u/Kind-Offer-3]

On to your syncretic cultures, I do have some suggestions: for example, in Etruria's 2nd Mission Tree, there is a significant part of it devoted to developing Corsica and one of the final options you have for its development is as a releasable subject: Corsica.

You could have the culture of that particular subject be Rasna-Corsian, which would be an Italic culture that has access to the Iberian and Greek City-State Military Traditions by default.