Autonomy rising by itself?

[Appolyon]

Hi, I'm currently playing as Castile and aprox. 25 years in the game. In the last war I noticed, that my force limit had shrunk. After incestigating I noticed, that the local autonomy in a lot of my provinces is unusual high, sometimes over 90% - on the mainland, not in the conquered areas. But I never raised it. In the last month my force limit dropped from 19 to 18 without any action by myself. No rebels spawned or conquered a province, no advisor died, was fired or hired. What could be the reason for the rising local autonomy in nearly every province? Do the holy orders affect the autonomy or could the number of subjects be responsible. I have Aragon, Naples and (since the last war) Portugal as Junior Partners.

 

[merilessj]

Did you sell or give away all your crownland? Did you run into any of the events that give monthly autonomy? Those sound like the reason why it is so high because the less crownland you have, the quicker autonomy ticks up, up to .2% per month at 0 crownland

 

[Appolyon]

I'm low on crownland (under 5%). But I didn't expect, that this would have ticking effects. I expected the autonomy to rise once. Or does it rise every month as long the crown land is under 20 percent?

 

[nobodyinparticular]

On provincial autonomy you can check the various modifiers affecting it. You get -0.10 while at peace and -0.125 from your government rank (kingdom). Crownland below 20% will increase autonomy over time, which gets even worse the lower you go. You need to work on your estates, you should have privileges that give enough loyalty so you can call diet and seize land every 5 years. This lets you keep your crownland in check.

You should restart and learn the estate/crownland mechanics a bit so you don't cripple yourself in the future.

 

[Appolyon]

Thanks. I will do so and hopefully I can get the PUs again. ^^

 

[Nostalgium]

I'm low on crownland (under 5%). But I didn't expect, that this would have ticking effects. I expected the autonomy to rise once. Or does it rise every month as long the crown land is under 20 percent?

Under five percent will give you 1% autonomy every five months IIRC. Monthly tick of 0.20 or something. It can get really dire, really fast. Especially if you're often at war, which means the mitigating -0.10 from being at peace doesn't kick in.

 

[Ferdinand_Bardamu]

I'm low on crownland (under 5%). But I didn't expect, that this would have ticking effects. I expected the autonomy to rise once. Or does it rise every month as long the crown land is under 20 percent?

Between 10-19% Crownland your autonomy will stay the same at peace, you will lose -0.10 at war.

Between 20-29% Crownland your autonomy will stay the same at war, you will gain +0.10 at peace.

What you need to do is get to 10% Crownland and then lower the autonomy in all provinces. Rebels are a small price to pay. High autonomy will end your campaign.

Remember that conquering land and developing will also give you some Crownland. You'll need to keep seizing until you get to 20%.

 

[Junuxx]

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