A thought on missionaries

[Hive]

I was thinking: how about making it possible to send missionaries to other nations at a higher cost and/or lower success chance? Doing so could give the nation a temp cb against you and lower relations (if the nations is a religion other than your own).

Alternatively, this could be possible for defenders of the faith only - as that option currently ain't worth much.

 

[Ayeshteni]

Originally posted by Hive
I was thinking: how about making it possible to send missionaries to other nations at a higher cost and/or lower success chance? Doing so could give the nation a temp cb against you and lower relations (if the nations is a religion other than your own).

Alternatively, this could be possible for defenders of the faith only - as that option currently ain't worth much.

I certainly agree. especially about only giving it too the defender of the faith. (to begin with at least )

unfortunately, having this ability can be abused. send missionary, it fails, REBELLION WAAHOOO! chew on that sucker!!!

(of course it would then cover those people who would like to see the ability to incite revolts in another nation - myself for instance)

It would be nice, but alas I fear not feasable.
yours
Ayeshteni.

 

[kurtbrian]

it has actually been suggested multiple times...

 

[Hive]

Originally posted by kurtbrian
it has actually been suggested multiple times...

Didn't know that... have Johan ever commented the suggestion?

 

[unmerged(23005)]

Originally posted by Hive
Didn't know that... have Johan ever commented the suggestion?

Not Johan himself, but mods and other members of this board have countered it always with the: "It will be abused". And that is true 100%!

 

[saskganesh]

Re: Re: A thought on missionaries

Originally posted by Ayeshteni
I certainly agree. especially about only giving it too the defender of the faith. (to begin with at least )

unfortunately, having this ability can be abused. send missionary, it fails, REBELLION WAAHOOO! chew on that sucker!!!

(of course it would then cover those people who would like to see the ability to incite revolts in another nation - myself for instance)

It would be nice, but alas I fear not feasable.
yours
Ayeshteni.

that would rock. that's not abuse, its a special ability. other countries stirring up revolts is not unheard of.

 

[Hive]

Re: Re: Re: A thought on missionaries

Originally posted by saskganesh
that would rock. that's not abuse, its a special ability. other countries stirring up revolts is not unheard of.

Exactly. And if it's only the defender of the faith who can do it, I can't see how it's easy to expoit. On the contrary, it would finally make that option interesting... which it most definately is NOT currently...

 

[unmerged(9563)]

Well it might make DoF interesting, but IMO because the only people that actually spend the 1000 ducats to get the title are the ones rich enough to afford it (at least I don't know many that would save up a whole shitload just to get the title rather than spend it on a manufactury), that would mean they'd be rich enough to start converting all those one province minors...

 

[Hive]

Originally posted by KwangTiger
Well it might make DoF interesting, but IMO because the only people that actually spend the 1000 ducats to get the title are the ones rich enough to afford it (at least I don't know many that would save up a whole shitload just to get the title rather than spend it on a manufactury), that would mean they'd be rich enough to start converting all those one province minors...

Not necessarily. It should of course cost a bit more than if it was your own province. But why not give an alternative to spending cash on manus, shipyards and CC's? Perhaps it could be extremely expensive and difficult to convert another nation's capital, that could solve that potential problem - if it actually is a problem...

 

[unmerged(17563)]

I like the idea.

Limit to only DoF and maybe it should come with a huge BB hit and give a CB for all countries of the opposite religion. eg Catholic Spain tries to convert Reformed Holland and thus all reformed nations get CBs against Spain or something.

I don't know what I'm talking about....

 

[ForzaA]

biggest problem IMHO would be that the AI wouldn't use it/wouldn't know how to use it.... and thus would simply be an extra advantage to the player.

 

[Hive]

Originally posted by ForzaA
biggest problem IMHO would be that the AI wouldn't use it/wouldn't know how to use it.... and thus would simply be an extra advantage to the player.

How can you say that ai wouldn't use it?

Well anyway, would still be interesting...