Wow man look at a history book, the english were scared to hell of the irish during the spanish armada, the Spainish were allied with ireland (the catholic connection) and were going to use the isle as a base to conquer England, again ireland was one of england/britains greatest weaknesses.
In exactly the same way that England was concerned the spanish armada would be able to gain harbour in Scotland, Sweden, Orkney or the Shetlands.
Ireland at the period was legally part of England (or at least the title of "Lord of Ireland" was held by Elizabeth), it wasn't an independent nation, and thus the Spanish seeking harbour there can't be modelled unless the game allows for them to get friendly rebels giving control of the province to them.
Lol another fellow that knows alot. Geuss you didnt ever read about all the revolts ireland had, many of which were successful in this time period not to mention the plots they were apart of with other countries regarding the downfall of england, so yah i dont know how you cant call that a weakness.The man power the english did get usually came back to haunt them. You could actually say ireland served as manpower for france and spain if you ever heard of the infamous wild geese, all the irish regiments and nobles that served for those countries in hopes of freeing ireland.
Yes, these revolts were so successful that the well know independent King of Ireland took his place at international meetings of kings, and their plots to cause England's downfall were successful, utterly destroying it as a world power.
Irish regiments and nobles serving for other countries would be handled as mercenaries, which ever way these are handled in EUIV, or perhaps, should they rise during a war, as nationalist/separatist rebels.
I just want ireland to be easier to unite, it was hard as hell in Eu3 there should be more events or unique national ideas to help them, because historically they were able to unite and stomp the english out on different occasions. Higher revolt risks wont help anyone but maybe if all the the irish provinces had claims/cores against each other and meath that would help and it would be correct due to the fact that many irish lords were trying to unite the isle at the starting period of this game.
There's a reason why Ireland takes effort to unite - you need to beat England to it. Why should there be something to make it easier to do something ahistoric, whilst preventing the historical result of Ireland being eaten up by England, and essentially held as a part of the English, and later British crown until 1919 or 1922 (depending on your politics).
Just because many lords were trying to unite an area doesn't mean that they should have legitimate cores/claims on each other. After all, England was trying to unite Ireland to itself - does this mean England should start with the whole of Ireland cored? Of course not.