beware of the Dutch Republic

[Galu]

I just lost Emperial Throne cause that event, so anyone who wants to be HRE Emperor shall pick up maintain monarchy

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like monarchies win out because they occasionally get 6/6/6 rulers. Over time, the average monarch gets 10.5 monarch points per month, which outperforms a noble republic by about 300 points every 40 years and 4 year term republics by about 1200 points per 40 years. That works out to between an extra 4 techs and an idea at base cost and 18 techs and an idea at base cost. Again, that's assuming your rulers are merely average.

So, the Dutch republic getting rulers that are effectively monarchs is actually a good thing in terms of monarch points.

3/3/3 is "average", maybe slightly less. Slightly more if you're Nomad since you can slaughter bad heirs on purpose and let pretenders win on a whim. Your figures overstate the average monarchy over republic on a MP basis.

That said, with higher stab costs (which could more than offset the stabhit on monarch death), worse events, and RM limited to Noble/Dutch republics, there's more to the republic disadvantage than just MP. Plutocratic doesn't cover it.

Short-election republics are good to farm the divine ruler thing though.