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Sufficient reforms in the voting franchise category (wealth, weighted wealth, universal, etc) will transition your country to democracy.

I've no idea what you mean by "forms" though...
 
That disappoints me. But I suppose one can't simply kick the royals out the door without a little revolution... Here's looking at you, present-day constitutional monarchies.
 
That disappoints me. But I suppose one can't simply kick the royals out the door without a little revolution... Here's looking at you, present-day constitutional monarchies.

A HM's Government is very similar to a democracy. You can also change your ruling party, although you get less immigration (although this doesn't matter much in the Old World).
 
Actually, you can only get to HM's government via reforms. You need a successful Jacobin revolt as an HM's gov. to become a democracy.

IIRC from Absolute Monarchy introducing only landed voting goes to Prussian Constitutionalism. From that via weighted wealth to wealth creates HM's Government. From there weighted universal creates a democracy (as opposed to Republic, which is created by revolution).
 
IIRC from Absolute Monarchy introducing only landed voting goes to Prussian Constitutionalism. From that via weighted wealth to wealth creates HM's Government. From there weighted universal creates a democracy (as opposed to Republic, which is created by revolution).

Then how do i have full political reforms as Scandinavia and am still an HM's gov?
 
Going through the game files, having any sort of voting rights as an absolute monarchy will make you into a Prussian Constitutionalism. Having either secret ballots or non-secret ballots as a PC will make you into a HMs Government.
Also, falling to reactionary rebels as an absolute monarchy will turn you into a Presidential Dictatorship, while falling to Jacobin rebels as a HMs Government will turn you into a Democracy.

The file for the events governing non-revolutionary switching between governments is CleanUp.txt, in the events folder.
 
There is no "republic" in this game. Republics are referred to as "Democracies" (you know this because the events refer to you as "President", ie. "President, _______ has increased relations with ______") which you can only get via Jacobin revolution if you're a monarchy.

My thought is that you're playing a mod or something and mistaking it with vanilla.
 
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There is no "republic" in this game. Republics are referred to as "Democracies" which you can only get via Jacobin revolution if you're a monarchy.

Go to your flags. Notice those TAG_republic.tga files?

Going through the game files, having any sort of voting rights as an absolute monarchy will make you into a Prussian Constitutionalism. Having either secret ballots or non-secret ballots as a PC will make you into a HMs Government.
Also, falling to reactionary rebels as an absolute monarchy will turn you into a Presidential Dictatorship, while falling to Jacobin rebels as a HMs Government will turn you into a Democracy.

The file for the events governing non-revolutionary switching between governments is CleanUp.txt, in the events folder.

Handy to know, thank you. I looked in various others for them.
 
Go to the game and select the USA (or Colombia, or Venezuela, so on and so forth). Notice they're a "Democracy", not a "Republic"?

The engine evidently has republics. Localisation has them as democracies instead. Although as far as the original point you're still right that democracy = republic.
 
im playing as ottoman empire and i dont want to be a monarchy because u cant use forms

Forms? If you mean reforms, you can always use them as long as enough of the Upper House approves reforms (Liberals approve political reforms, socialist approve social reforms).
Anyway, you can't get rid of the monarch unless Jacobin revolution succeeds while you are HM's Goverment... which is not so different from a Democracy... actually I think it is better in some regards.
 
You can get reforms as constitutional monarchy if you use some shrewd political subversion and education/tech moves.

I find it to be the best form of government in game (and outside) except for a fascist state which you can roll back and forward reforms as you please but then you reach the point when you allow elections and the fascists lose. :3