With the upcoming estate changes, I'd like to revisit the granting of provinces to estates.
In the past, I have had a rather simple (and sub-optimal) strategy:
What is your estate strategy? Will you adapt it with the upcoming changes? If yes, how and why?
In the past, I have had a rather simple (and sub-optimal) strategy:
- Only grant the minimum number of provinces as granting increases influence which also increases the probability of a disaster if one of those influence-increasing events pop up
- This also minimizes the provinces which can spawn rebels if there are problems with estates (revoke and so on)
- When distributing, give high-autonomy provinces to minimize autonomy effects; ideally those with minimal development so I can profit from 0 % autonomy after a few decades (I mostly play peaceful with wars of opportunity once I reached a certain size)
- When distributing, prefer connected areas so I have single red and yellow (seldom blue) blobs in the estate view
What is your estate strategy? Will you adapt it with the upcoming changes? If yes, how and why?