Cultural Union Explaination

[Miles]

Can someone explain to me how exactly the new Cultural Union mechanic works. The dev diary is unclear about exactly what culture is unified. Is it the Region your capital is in?

[Radene]

Your primary culture is what makes you able to form a cultural union.

[Miles]

This explains nothing. My primary culture is gothic, so I can form a Byzantine cultural Union?

[Rajorn]

Originally posted by Karkoff:

This explains nothing. My primary culture is gothic, so I can form a Byzantine cultural Union?

Yes.

When you reach empire rank, all cultures in your culture group become an accepted culture.

[Fat Ungrateful Squirrel]

Originally posted by Rajorn:

Originally posted by Karkoff:

This explains nothing. My primary culture is gothic, so I can form a Byzantine cultural Union?

Yes.

When you reach empire rank, all cultures in your culture group become an accepted culture.

If you don't have Common Sense then it is 1000 Development for the Cultural Union.

[Miles]

Originally posted by Rajorn:

Originally posted by Karkoff:

This explains nothing. My primary culture is gothic, so I can form a Byzantine cultural Union?

Yes.

When you reach empire rank, all cultures in your culture group become an accepted culture.

So the mechanic is really only useful for large culture groups. Got it thank you for your assistance.

[SubutZ]

Cultural unions should be able to be moded on demand.

[Fantastic Fwoosh]

Originally posted by Karkoff:

So the mechanic is really only useful for large culture groups. Got it thank you for your assistance.

The Ottomans already have a cultural union over the Levantine group from being gamestart Empire rank, but otherwise the usual method of 1000 development = Empire applies.

Since it condenses 'brother cultures' into 1 which takes up significantly less space and invalidates accepted brother cultures to just squeeze more profit out of them, you will have to switch outside of that group to another culture in order to get any specific 'head' culture.

Syrian etc. to Turkish (Levantine for both) for example has the advantage of being able to form 'Rum' as slightly faux formable Ottomans without being a Anatolian minor.

[Drakulas]

Wait, this is just getting added in? I could have sworn this was already a feature...

[Psychotic Fury]

Your capital has a culture say turkish since other ppl have said that, if you were a turkish minor (like karaman) turkish is your primary culture, and the other levantine groups (egpytian etc) are classed as same culture group, so you take less of a penalty to tax etc than you would if you took say persian land.

When you become a cultural union, all of the cultures in the levantine group will become accepted and have the same unrest etc as your turkish ones.

[Miles]

Thank you for necroing a 3 year old thread. The original question had already been answered

[Psychotic Fury]

Originally posted by Karkoff:

Thank you for necroing a 3 year old thread. The original question had already been answered

Lol, did not even notice, thought it was a bit odd saying unions were coming up haha.