Europa Universalis IV

Europa Universalis IV

Proper Lost Cultures
48 Comments
Brother Daniël 14 Dec, 2024 @ 12:02am 
How about the Batavi?
Spaceracer 11 Sep, 2024 @ 5:12pm 
is it le ded?
Bolty218 25 Feb, 2024 @ 5:36pm 
*there is physically no
Bolty218 22 Feb, 2024 @ 8:17pm 
I'm guessing this mod is now dead? Also when this mod is active, it is physically no ability to vote for an emperor in the HRE killing the HRE upon the death of Frederick III of Austria
Toxic_saint 15 Sep, 2023 @ 3:46am 
Is there ever going to be updated?
Jayshua_Lyn 31 Jan, 2022 @ 11:05am 
Why is there a blank localization popup on game start from this mod?
FinePhenomena  [author] 8 Jan, 2022 @ 7:18pm 
@Kangarus - Update coming soon, thanks for your patience!
Kangarus 18 Dec, 2021 @ 6:36am 
Hope this mod gets updated soon. I've been experiencing a crash when I zoom in over Australia on the map. Not normally a problem but what if I want to play as a custom nation there?
FinePhenomena  [author] 22 Mar, 2021 @ 4:38am 
That's true, there'd have to be some to fill in the gaps.
As for the renaming, yes, I believe I did change it to Prusic.
Spaceracer 21 Mar, 2021 @ 7:34am 
Many new culture groups would remain anyway since the vanilla ones might not suffice.
Also, I got confused, did you rename Pruthenian to Prusic?
FinePhenomena  [author] 21 Mar, 2021 @ 6:24am 
@Verlurion & Spaceracer - Fair enough, I totally hear what you're saying. I have gotten that suggestion before, and although I'm not super keen on completely discarding the custom groups at the moment, I do want to do something about it.

It's been quite a while since I last did any work on the mod, but when I do get a bit more free time, I will try to either make a compromise within this mod, or create a separate version of the mod with lost cultures integrated into already existing groups 👍
Spaceracer 5 Mar, 2021 @ 1:35am 
The same as the guy below me
Verlurion 11 Jan, 2021 @ 12:15am 
Rather than creating new culture groups why not just move them into already existing ones? Athenian and Spartan into Byzantine, Roman into Latin, Anglo Saxon into Germanic etc. etc. It would make them far more useful and to be honest I think its what most people are looking for.
FinePhenomena  [author] 10 Oct, 2020 @ 5:14am 
@bobbyhalliday373 - Great suggestion! I'll do a bit of research and consider adding a Romani culture in a future update!
bobbyhalliday373 15 Aug, 2020 @ 2:07pm 
Not sure if it would neccisarly fit the mod, but a gyspy culture could be cool
FinePhenomena  [author] 26 Jul, 2020 @ 8:02pm 
@26th | Sch. Chihiro Cyrille - Yes, the extra cultures that the mod adds will still work, though I believe Emperor added some new cultures to the base game, too, unrelated to lost-cultures, which will be broken when using the mod.

Other than that, everything should work normally (though I'm about to put through the update right now, so you won't need to worry about all this for long ahaha)
FinePhenomena  [author] 26 Jul, 2020 @ 7:56pm 
@Oretan - Thanks man!! Hope you enjoy the update :)
Chihiro Cyrille 26 Jul, 2020 @ 12:41pm 
Does some of the culture still work in this update?
Oretan 19 Jul, 2020 @ 5:13am 
Ayyyy thats nice dude
FinePhenomena  [author] 19 Jul, 2020 @ 12:46am 
@26th | Sch. Chihiro Cyrille , @Oretan - Indeed it is still being worked on, slowly but surely lol. A lot has been going on for me recently, but I do plan to continue expanding this, as well as putting out compatches to get it working with a few large mods. Within the next few days I'll release a new update with a scattering of extra cultures along with some other changes, and I definitely have more planned to come!
Oretan 18 Jul, 2020 @ 7:13am 
The same as the guy below me
Chihiro Cyrille 7 Jul, 2020 @ 1:23pm 
Is this still being worked on?
FinePhenomena  [author] 19 May, 2020 @ 3:35am 
@RoxyWodka - Cheers! Also, thank you, all excellent suggestions!

The only reason that I'm hesitant to unite Roman and Etruscan groups, though, is that I feel like the culture shift when you re-form Rome should be to a 'modernised' roman culture that probably wouldn't be similar enough to ancient Etruscan to warrant being in the same group. I think you're definitely right in tying them together, though. I might just make 2 'roman' cultures, one 'ancient' and the other 'modernised' to adress this, similar to what I've done in regard to the ancient-greek / byzantine split.
RoxyWodka 13 May, 2020 @ 11:44am 
This is great, but I suggest some changes:
Unite: Roman group and Etruscan group > Italic group *1
Rename: Melampodic group > Kemetic group
Rename: Ptolemaic culture > Demotic culture
Unite: Phoenecian group, Israelite group, Aramean group> Syrian group
Rename: Akkadian group > Mesopotamian group
FinePhenomena  [author] 4 May, 2020 @ 1:30pm 
@Nichl - Well pointed out! Thank you for the explanation and the suggestions. I'll be sure to amend it into something that translates a bit better!
Nichl 1 May, 2020 @ 4:21am 
"Verus Romana" doesn't translate to "Real Roman", it translate to "A real (male) one, a Roman (female) one."

You have to remember that Latin isn't an analytical language, but an inflectional language. "Romanus", "Romana", "Romanum", "Romanam", "Romano", "Romani" and "Romanae" all translate to "Roman" - you have to have a decent understanding of cases to even begin building sentences.

I'd suggest something like "Romani veri", "Romani reales" or "Cultura vera/realis Romana", though I'm not the best at Latin myself.
FinePhenomena  [author] 18 Mar, 2020 @ 10:27pm 
@Bill Nye the Russian Spy & Boucanier québécois - Thanks!

@foxyminecraft12 - I'll make sure to add more in the Baltic group in the next update! :)
foxyminecraft12 18 Mar, 2020 @ 8:43am 
I hope you'll add more in the Baltic group. :)
Bill Nye the Russian Spy 17 Mar, 2020 @ 5:20pm 
Nice
Capharnaüm 17 Mar, 2020 @ 9:28am 
noishe
FinePhenomena  [author] 15 Mar, 2020 @ 12:59am 
Keep in mind that I may, at some point, add unique 'cultural union' events that occur if you possess both medieval *and* ancient Greek cultures as accepted, too.

Also, I might have accidentally deleted one of your comments before, sorry if this is the case. I was typing through my phone, so accidentally duplicate-posted, and was just trying to delete my own second message lol
FinePhenomena  [author] 15 Mar, 2020 @ 12:57am 
@Typhoon - Perhaps Afghan should be its own culture group, I don't think that's too unreasonable.

But yes, what you say is totally true. Modern Greek is very much a direct descendent of Ancient-Athenian Greek. I hear that the latter is even somewhat intelligible by speakers of Greek today. Still, I think, for the purposes of this mod, it's appropriate to categorise these Hellenistic-Era Greek Cultures together. As I said previously, while language is clearly a very important element of what culture is supposed to represent in eu4, I personally feel that non-linguistic elements of culture, such as customs and generally held beliefs, are more binding then just a shared tongue or language group.
Typhoon 14 Mar, 2020 @ 2:21pm 
modern greek is directly descended from the attic (athenian) dialect of ancient greek
Typhoon 14 Mar, 2020 @ 2:01pm 
@finephenomena by that logic, afghan should be its own culture group instead of iranian
Typhoon 14 Mar, 2020 @ 2:00pm 
@chickeness sumerian was part of its own language family, that wasnt related to any neighboring language, similar to how basque is part of its own language family
FinePhenomena  [author] 14 Mar, 2020 @ 1:57pm 
@Voxsmash - Thanks, great suggestions! I definitely plan on adding many of those! 👍
FinePhenomena  [author] 14 Mar, 2020 @ 1:53pm 
[continuation] ...Even with that being said, the Greek spoken in 1444 is obviously very different to the Greek spoken 1700 years prior to that (ie: the period from which the cultures of ‘Athenian’ and ‘Spartan’ in this mod are taken from, the Hellenistic period). This is even more so the case with Roman. The Latin culture group in base eu4 just represents Italian culture, which has gone through huge, huge changes from when it could realistically be called ‘Roman’. If you included Roman in the Latin culture group, you might as well include French, Castilian, Portugese and Romanian, too, since they’re all Romance languages, which is just silly, since that’s clearly not what the culture group is supposed to represent.

Also, just for clarity Ptolemaic is supposed to represent Hellenised-‘Old Egyptian’ culture.
FinePhenomena  [author] 14 Mar, 2020 @ 1:49pm 
@Typhoon - Thank you for the suggestions! I’ll take them into consideration. The reason that the ‘old’ cultures aren’t grouped with the ‘new’ cultures, though, is because they’re different enough (even the ones that are very similar linguistically) that I think it makes the most sense to separate them. Culture shouldn’t just be a representation of language spoken, it should represent customs, folklore, worldly attitudes and whatnot... [continued]
FinePhenomena  [author] 14 Mar, 2020 @ 1:21pm 
@Lisbon Mapping - Thanks! You’re right, it isn’t comparable with BT at the moment, but I plan on adding a BT version soon, I love BT! :)
FinePhenomena  [author] 14 Mar, 2020 @ 1:18pm 
@Shard, @Blizzards - Many thanks! I didn’t put Scanian in with the Scandinavian group, despite it indeed evolving with Danish, because I think that Scanian as it’s depicted here is supposed to represent viking culture of the region, hence being in what I plan to be a viking culture group, ‘Ostic’. I can try to add a non-viking ‘1444 Scanian’ if you’d like, though.
Voxsmash 14 Mar, 2020 @ 4:57am 
Paleo-Balkan
Thracian
Illyrian
Dacian
Phygrian
Paeonian

Celtic
Gaulish
Celtiberian
Ivernic
Cumbric
Lepontic
Gallaecian

Vasconic
Aquitainian
Nuragic
Corsian
Old Ligurian
Iberian
chickeness 13 Mar, 2020 @ 6:21pm 
I would lump Sumerian in with Caananite
Typhoon 13 Mar, 2020 @ 7:50am 
heres some constructive criticism on how they should be distributed
- Byzantine -
Atlantean
Athenian
Spartan

-Sudanese-
Old Egyptian bc thats the language family (ptolemaic isnt a culture)

- Latin -
Roman
Etrurian

- Caananite -
Hebrew
Pheonecian
Aramaic

- Baltic -
Pruthenian

- Scandinavian -
Scanian
Jan Mayanese

- Sumerian -
Babylonian

- Iranian -
Parthian
Scythian

- British or Germanic -
Anglo-Saxon
Arahja 13 Mar, 2020 @ 7:43am 
I agree with Typhoon dude
Typhoon 13 Mar, 2020 @ 7:33am 
hmmm yes i also think the people who speak latin shouldnt be in the latin culture group
or that the greek speaking spartans shouldnt be in the same group as the rest of the greek speaking cultures. this is sarcasm.
Lisbon Mapping 13 Mar, 2020 @ 12:35am 
Nice! Sad it's probably not compatible with BT though.
Blizzardz 12 Mar, 2020 @ 9:38am 
Yeah, I feel like Scanian should be in the Nordic culture group since it evolved together with Danish.
Shard 12 Mar, 2020 @ 2:33am 
This is very cool! Though I wonder why you wouldn't put Scanian in the Scandinavian group.