I know that Arnou wanted to start this project, and I am sorry if I have done something he wanted to do, but I was bored and began thinking about what should be improved about the HRE countries. The most important issues in my opinion are:
1. The HRE needs to stay fragmented. We have to find some way to reduce the number of annexations and wars within the empire. Possible solutions so far are:
- A unified HRE as a fantasy option (possibly vassal of the emperor, and it should break up after the reformation or the thirty year war)
- all HRE members are vassals of the emperor. This would become difficult with ahistorical emperors, and there would probably be too much annexations.
- all HRE members are in one alliance. I have already tried this, and it basically works fine, but it usually dissolves after 20-30 years.
- there are some events that make a nation that conquered HRE territory release it as a vassal. The problem about this is that they keep the acquired BB points without significant gain
- Long peace treaties between all HRE countries (probably until 1648)
- Good relations between all HRE countries
2. HRE Meta events (events concerning the empire as a whole)should be reworked or added. The ones I have in mind are:
- Hussite wars
- peasant rebellion
- reformation
- defense against the Ottomans
- Thirty Years War
3. The empire should have a bit more influence; there could be some events like e.g. the Diet of Worms that emphasize its role.
4. Most HRE countries badly need events. AFAIK Austria and Brandenburg-Prussia are the only ones that have something like an event file in original EU, and some countries (Mantua, Savoy, Venice, Siena, Hannover) have events in the EEP, but most HRE countries completely lack events, which makes playing them boring. Therefore it is definitely necessary to script some events.
1. The HRE needs to stay fragmented. We have to find some way to reduce the number of annexations and wars within the empire. Possible solutions so far are:
- A unified HRE as a fantasy option (possibly vassal of the emperor, and it should break up after the reformation or the thirty year war)
- all HRE members are vassals of the emperor. This would become difficult with ahistorical emperors, and there would probably be too much annexations.
- all HRE members are in one alliance. I have already tried this, and it basically works fine, but it usually dissolves after 20-30 years.
- there are some events that make a nation that conquered HRE territory release it as a vassal. The problem about this is that they keep the acquired BB points without significant gain
- Long peace treaties between all HRE countries (probably until 1648)
- Good relations between all HRE countries
2. HRE Meta events (events concerning the empire as a whole)should be reworked or added. The ones I have in mind are:
- Hussite wars
- peasant rebellion
- reformation
- defense against the Ottomans
- Thirty Years War
3. The empire should have a bit more influence; there could be some events like e.g. the Diet of Worms that emphasize its role.
4. Most HRE countries badly need events. AFAIK Austria and Brandenburg-Prussia are the only ones that have something like an event file in original EU, and some countries (Mantua, Savoy, Venice, Siena, Hannover) have events in the EEP, but most HRE countries completely lack events, which makes playing them boring. Therefore it is definitely necessary to script some events.