Ai is developing too much now?

[Laurent1944]

By the way your GC is not equal to your total development, possessions are only counting for 25% of their dev. So with 800 GC you can have 500 DEV in full cores and 1200 in possessions. By the way, possessions are anything not fully cored: you can have states everywhere, with automony at 50%. And can use edicts on such states.

Other than that, I think the AI is developping too much now, and some weird places. For example when I conquered Portugal to become the overlord of its CNs, I discovered that for one reason it had developped Galapagos Islands to 31 DEV... Half of the provinces of Portugal itself were below 15.

 

[Razor Feather]

It was not that bad before when the ai was in debt spiral so could be that it increases the development of all cities by quite a lot. Austia starts with its provinces at roughly 10 development when you conquer them by 1650 they are all over 20 (I mena the vienna state and the one below).
Also to the guys up there yeah you can go for the 3 more from estate but you will loose them later in the age of absolutism. Also building courthouses is just booring as mechanic the same with the new manufacturies. And spamming mannufacturies is already the meta on increased money. The only reason why you dont have money problems in later stages of the game is when you do a wc you also build them for your colonial empire. Greatly increasing your trade revenue. If you dont force with england you will have an income of 100 from trade in the 1550 if you take all of holland even more...
But my main point was that it is too much development, also with more provinces you will have more to conquer now. The new mechanic is just stopping me from developing anything but my capital state if I where to play effincently. I have conquered the map several times already with all kinds of nations, but even state corruption was less of a hassle, than to look into each province, delete anything but workshop and manufactury (barracks) and then build state house and manufactury. Which is another step added, where you now need to look into each state sea if their is grain or fish and build it there.

Frankly I feel the solution for you here is to just use statehouses. You have to pay 5% gc instead of 1% in territories compared to using courthouses, but it takes one manufactory slot per area, and that's it. Even paying 5% gc, the entire world includes what, 20-30k dev generally by endgame? That ends up being a fairly manageable 1000-1500 gc for the whole world, with far less micro then courthouse spam. If you combine it with using courthouses in exceptionally high dev provinces, you can get it down lower without too much extra work. Its also really not a huge deal to be over GC once you get big enough that coalitions and money don't really matter, since at that stage the only real issue you have is a moderate increase in corring cost.

 

[Battlex]

Yes, the AI is definitely spending too much on development. Should save to spend on tech even with a 100% (2 institutions) penalty.

I hate running into 4 10 4 provinces or a 12 13 7 province that is a desert type in some obscure location that otherwise would had been 2 2 2 if not for a single province tag sitting on it as a capital for 100+ years.

AI should only develop if it literally at max mana points for the type and unable to purchase technology.

Perhaps a better solution would be to require a combination of gold and mana to develop. That will ensure tiny nations do not ‘magically’ create metropolises and large rich non European nations can still dedicate a province to institution spawning (more likely to involve a province that would plausibly be a metropolis).

Capitals being high dev due to centuries of development is fine, you just need to have sacking events for conquest of tags

 

[Battlex]

By the way your GC is not equal to your total development, possessions are only counting for 25% of their dev. So with 800 GC you can have 500 DEV in full cores and 1200 in possessions. By the way, possessions are anything not fully cored: you can have states everywhere, with automony at 50%. And can use edicts on such states.

Other than that, I think the AI is developping too much now, and some weird places. For example when I conquered Portugal to become the overlord of its CNs, I discovered that for one reason it had developped Galapagos Islands to 31 DEV... Half of the provinces of Portugal itself were below 15.

What was the trade good of galapagos islands?

 

[Big Bad France]

By the way your GC is not equal to your total development, possessions are only counting for 25% of their dev. So with 800 GC you can have 500 DEV in full cores and 1200 in possessions. By the way, possessions are anything not fully cored: you can have states everywhere, with automony at 50%. And can use edicts on such states.

Other than that, I think the AI is developping too much now, and some weird places. For example when I conquered Portugal to become the overlord of its CNs, I discovered that for one reason it had developped Galapagos Islands to 31 DEV... Half of the provinces of Portugal itself were below 15.

I doubt Portugal put that much development there. It's more likely the CN was using its colonist to add development.

 

[Laurent1944]

Galapagos had either fish or naval supplies, nothing extraordinary. And it is outside CN area, so was belonging to Portugal even if it had a CN on the continent.

 

[grotaclas]

By the way, possessions are anything not fully cored: you can have states everywhere, with automony at 50%. And can use edicts on such states.

Stated provinces which are not fully cored have the same minimum autonomy as a territory(usually 90%). In some cases this is displayed wrong for one month(e.g. after reloading).

 

[Laurent1944]

Stated provinces which are not fully cored have the same minimum autonomy as a territory(usually 90%). In some cases this is displayed wrong for one month(e.g. after reloading).

I stand corrected, I should have seen it just after a reload. Anyway you can use edicts on theses "fake" states, and that can be useful sometimes. Also you can create as many states as you want and only fully core the interesting provinces.

 

[Beagá]

Maybe the main reason for this are new missions from estates.

Good question.

 

[Battlex]

I doubt Portugal put that much development there. It's more likely the CN was using its colonist to add development.

Oh yeh I forgot about colonists cuz I'm always rushing to get other provinces, does it cost 2 ducats per month to dev your provinces with a colonist I forget, maybe Portuguese AI was trying to save money