My basic question is: Why do I have "unlawful territory," and is there anything I can do about it?
I don't understand the HRE, and I don't understand "unlawful territory" and I don't know what "holding non-core imperial territory" means. And I think my lack of knowledge has killed my best game yet.
I've played through 3 times as England, and this time I took France--I considered Austria, but realized very quickly that the HRE stuff in the manual and the wiki didn't make sense to me, and I didn't want to make the massive time investment for a huge game, and then get screwed because I didn't understand what was going on.
Well, it happened anyway. I was going great guns as France--had assimilated Burgundy, Britain was under my boot, Castille and Portugal carved up, Austria was too scared to join wars against me, I had unified the entire boot except for Roma, which I couldn't take because you can't keep your relationship over 150 with the papal states when there is no papal states to relate to so you'll get excommunicated if you take Roma (in my experience), and basically my expansion was limited only by infamy. My best game yet.
In 1663, to my great surprise, the HRE electors decided to make me Emperor, apparently because I had vassalized 3 electors. I saw this as a learning opportunity re the HRE, and began to figure out how to tweak electors and create imperial reforms. I had plenty of imperial provinces to return to the empire, so was able to enact the first reichreform. I saw that one big elector factor was that I was a non-HRE member, so I added provinces in a line toward Paris and then added Paris to become a member. Looked like I was going to get to stay Emperor indefinitely, with the sweet extra diplomats and magistrates.
Then I glanced at my infamy, and it seemed to be going up. I thought I had just mis-remembered, or there had been an event that didn't stick in my mind, or something. So I didn't think much about it and kept playing a year or two, and looked again and it was definitely up. I mouse-hovered infamy and I am getting -4.0/year for "unlawful territory!" WTF!!!!!! I'm the Emperor! So even with a 6-star dip, an embassy, and Cabinet, I'm adding 1.6 a year, which is obviously not tenable.
I looked at my province decisions page, and none of my provinces have the "return unlawful territory" tag.
By the way: I know what a core is, I'm very familiar with the "formal demand" event, and I've basically put hundreds of hours into this game, but despite all that I do not have a clue why this game seems to have been ruined. I'm not sure I have a backup old enough to repair this.
Can anybody tell me what happened to me? Even better, is there anything I can do?
TIA.
(And by the way, this formal request event sucks anyway. When I have already basically crushed the main part of the HRE, why on earth should my pop back in London destabilize because of something some powerless schmuck in Eastern Europe says? It's totally gamey, and beyond silly to boot.)
I don't understand the HRE, and I don't understand "unlawful territory" and I don't know what "holding non-core imperial territory" means. And I think my lack of knowledge has killed my best game yet.
I've played through 3 times as England, and this time I took France--I considered Austria, but realized very quickly that the HRE stuff in the manual and the wiki didn't make sense to me, and I didn't want to make the massive time investment for a huge game, and then get screwed because I didn't understand what was going on.
Well, it happened anyway. I was going great guns as France--had assimilated Burgundy, Britain was under my boot, Castille and Portugal carved up, Austria was too scared to join wars against me, I had unified the entire boot except for Roma, which I couldn't take because you can't keep your relationship over 150 with the papal states when there is no papal states to relate to so you'll get excommunicated if you take Roma (in my experience), and basically my expansion was limited only by infamy. My best game yet.
In 1663, to my great surprise, the HRE electors decided to make me Emperor, apparently because I had vassalized 3 electors. I saw this as a learning opportunity re the HRE, and began to figure out how to tweak electors and create imperial reforms. I had plenty of imperial provinces to return to the empire, so was able to enact the first reichreform. I saw that one big elector factor was that I was a non-HRE member, so I added provinces in a line toward Paris and then added Paris to become a member. Looked like I was going to get to stay Emperor indefinitely, with the sweet extra diplomats and magistrates.
Then I glanced at my infamy, and it seemed to be going up. I thought I had just mis-remembered, or there had been an event that didn't stick in my mind, or something. So I didn't think much about it and kept playing a year or two, and looked again and it was definitely up. I mouse-hovered infamy and I am getting -4.0/year for "unlawful territory!" WTF!!!!!! I'm the Emperor! So even with a 6-star dip, an embassy, and Cabinet, I'm adding 1.6 a year, which is obviously not tenable.
I looked at my province decisions page, and none of my provinces have the "return unlawful territory" tag.
By the way: I know what a core is, I'm very familiar with the "formal demand" event, and I've basically put hundreds of hours into this game, but despite all that I do not have a clue why this game seems to have been ruined. I'm not sure I have a backup old enough to repair this.
Can anybody tell me what happened to me? Even better, is there anything I can do?
TIA.
(And by the way, this formal request event sucks anyway. When I have already basically crushed the main part of the HRE, why on earth should my pop back in London destabilize because of something some powerless schmuck in Eastern Europe says? It's totally gamey, and beyond silly to boot.)