AI Ming and mandate

[grandadmiralbob]

I'm playing as Champa. I declared a jihad against them and their mandate was at 30ish. The war is over after 5ish years and now their mandate is 80ish. They were losing .3 mandate after the war, and .5 during. But during this war it went from 30 to 80. So my question is, can AI Ming buy mandate or what? After the war I watched it tick down, but it would pop up by 5, twice in one month.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2857878773
I know, 40k troops vs. Ming, but I like it like that....

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2857888199
Another war.... same thing... They passed their last reform and at the beginning of the war their mandate was 30ish. Now, while losing from .3 to now .5 mandate, it's up to 70.

 

[Nostalgium]

Did they also get a lot of separatists around the same time? An event can fire on low mandate that lets you spawn seperatists, but restores some Mandate. It can cause them to rapidly gain mandate, but to the outside perspective, it looks like it's basically just regenerating through magic. If their Mandate gain is still negative, though, it won't last - they'll crumble eventually.

 

[grandadmiralbob]

Did they also get a lot of separatists around the same time? An event can fire on low mandate that lets you spawn seperatists, but restores some Mandate. It can cause them to rapidly gain mandate, but to the outside perspective, it looks like it's basically just regenerating through magic. If their Mandate gain is still negative, though, it won't last - they'll crumble eventually.

While at peace, it went up by 5 every few months and I don't know why. And I only use graphic mods, so I dunno...

 

[Nostalgium]

Well, that'd make sense - five is the amount your mandate goes up if you pick the option that triggers rebels. It can fire on a monthly pulse at any time if the Ming have the "Crisis of the Ming Dynasty" disaster. This does mean the event can fire every month if they are "lucky".