Tinto Talks #50: Formable Countries

[Marquoz]

The link to today's dev diary is https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/tinto-talks-50-12th-february-2025.1728609/

This one is courtesy of Saint Dave UK instead of Johan due to him being busy. It's short one on formable nations. One section in particular stands out:

Generally speaking, the vision behind Formables is to offer roleplaying and historical immersion, and support player fantasies, rather than modifier stacking. They will change your country name, national flag, and map color. So while you may unlock some content such as advances or other minor unique content, the tag change is often the goal in itself.

If true, this will prevent many if not most of EU4's most ridiculous tag-switching shenanigans. The fact that you can only form nations of the same or higher tier than your current one could also help. We shall see.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Remember, a past Tinto Talk mentioned that unique Advances (replacement for National Ideas, technologies, probably tech-group-based unit types too, and whatnot) tied to certain cultures, tags, religions, etc. wouldn't even start becoming available until the next Age you reach. That already hard-limited any tag-switching shenanigans, because it may be as much as a hundred years before you actually start seeing any of the major benefits of the tag you just switched to.

[Ashling]

More Belgium eraser

[Dumah]

Same tier based system as was implemented in Imperator.

Oh oh oh, looks like they finally fixed Russias flag.

[Medicles]

Man, i am so going to form Europa in my first playthrough.

[MarVerine]

Why are the devs still on board with the Ilkhanate goverment organisation. That brain fart they had about the Ilkhanate was not a thing, even when it was still a united entity it was just a horde!
Golden Horde government organisation next?! what about the Chagatai Khanate?! Oirat?!

I have a hunch this might have been Johans idea, and that is why he is still keeping this horrible "mechanic" in the game.