Automatically assign missionaries and colonialists

[Secuter]

In the tap where you can assign diplomats, hire mercs and whatnot, why can't I make my missionary actively go out and convert provinces? Maybe even sort it by religion just like you can make diplomats target neighbors/subjects/allies/threatening/outraged countries.

This also goes for colonialists, where it would be really nice to be able to assign them to a specific colonial region, which they then would start colonizing.

It is unnecessary micromanagement constantly having to assign your missionaries and colonialists.

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Missionaries are particularly egregious, because of how commonly they're used. Many times more frequently than diplomat improve relations. If they aren't synced, they by themselves add half a dozen menu navigations + several times that in inputs, per year. They were/are reasonably a higher priority macro builder option than options we actually got.

 

[FishieFan]

Its not unnecessary micro, its just micro, letting the player pick where he wants to send them to. The diplo macro builder was added in mandate and hasnt been updated much since, we still cant sort by continent on it, or make it ignore rivals and focus on the borderline outraged neighbours

 

[TheMeInTeam]

I would classify "unnecessary micro" as inputs where a better UI lets you do the same thing more quickly/easily. The obvious examples of this are things like the "grant province" interface, where you have to repeatedly navigate the menu for each individual province granted, or needing to buy each potion one at a time in the first Final Fantasy game. These are examples of outright "unnecessary micro".

Having the option to pick which provinces to convert is useful. Even then, however, we're missing features that have been a thing in other games like queues or binding hotkeys to it.