Thanks, I shall.
Lol, I saw it. So it was a arbitrary desision. Let the people vote and than make the desision regardles. To bad, I was realy hoping for some goor deason. Thanks once again for your time.
That's not true!!! If I may defend the decision and the people who took it.
First most people voted vor an EU, that's completely clear. Yes they voted for an special type of it, a sort of compromise between the two possibilities, but that would have been very difficult to implement in the game in fact I can imagine. Furthermore I don't really think it would have worked well with the current civ-mechanis. So it's better that they didn't make it like that.
Moreover there was actually a very massive and long debate in many threads, although you might not have read all of it.
I live in a member state of the European Union (Austria) and therefore followed very closely and with great interest the whole debate. I brought up my arguments like many, many others and there were many very good arguments (for both solutions)! Eventually I'm very content with the decision the modders made and think it will work very well and also be quiet realistic. And I can also explain why:
The EU isn't a type of superstate like the US, that's entirely true. But it's nor a loose alliance of states which share a common market and nothing more. Maybe you might think that if you only learned about the insitutions of the Union and the power it has, but there's more. The european countries aren't only binded together via the EU (which is also already much more than only a trade-agreement)! They share many common values and although the national states fiercely defend their national power and privileges, in fact they act in many political fields very similiar and often also beforehand arranged. What I want to say is, that the EU might not seem as a superpower itself because many important decisions are still made in Berlin, Paris, Rome and not in Brussels, but in reality Europe acts in agreement in many, many political fields and therefore should also be represented in the game by one european civs for the states of the EU.
Well, I think the decision was a good one and the modders let go the debate fairly long enough and I also explained why I think it was a good one. I hope that helped you a little bit
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greetings
Ben