Listen

I know how this sounds to everyone here who isn't you and me

But le racisme really did need an update

Me when Victoria 3 was prerelease "wow all these new systems sound clever and elegant and extensible."

Me since then "wow all these new systems are counterintuitive messes"

It's like it's actual software

yeah, it really did.

I still don't understand why heritage traits are considered more 'powerful' than the more specific traits

like don't people usually associate more with people who have the same language group and culture than people who are just from the same continent?

It's to account for the "scientific racism" of the time where Euro-American countries cared about skin color over anything else

tbh it should be different in other nations but it's kind of impossible to make a general toolset for a game set in 1836-1936 that isn't Eurocentric, no matter how hard they try