By the Ballot: An Elective Succession Game

[cuendillar]

Economically, war tax and no maintenance gives appr 260 ducats/year at no extra inflation. Expanding our SoI to 10 provinces (+0.5) and swapping government to Admin Rep. (+0.5) gives us 2.5 magistrates/year.

We need 16 big/light ships to reach 100% tariffs if our colony count remains constant - 18 if we annex 2PM Ashanti which I support doing. This brings us well over our naval force limit. Dump the base-2 grain provinces and we save a bit on ships. If we get rid of grain-3 and wool-2 provinces too (unless otherwise worthwhile) our prospects do look brighter.

I'm willing to concede about accepting extra inflation - it was probably not necessary. I'll remove that from my candidacy.

My reason for being merciful to Segu is that they are our only sphereling and thus useful to us. We simply have no use for more undeveloped land. The only useful thing about them is their gold province - but it carries with it two more grain provinces and 12 infamy - and we're only losing 0.2/year. Annexing Segu would be insane! Vassalizing them and possibly gifting/selling them some junk provinces might be a compromise? We'll still get half their tax value for nothing that way...

We definitely need an Embassy in Cremona due to our infamy (and extra diplomats sure won't hurt, building the SoI is vital). We should also fire our theologian(conv. chance) and replace him with a diplomat(infamy) for the same reason.

As to the shorter term for the other republican goverments - we could always vote to change the constitution to allow two 4-year terms instead of one 8-year term.

 

[vidmizz]

Look mate, I'm too lazy to run against you so make this easy for me. If you promise not to sell or give up any of our provinces i will vote for you. Do what you want with them Segu people I don't care but don't lose land that we already have.

But until you do I will be running even if I'm too lazy for this
Election:Vidmizz
(I promise you to crush those Segus and just let the infamy drop afterwards nothing fancy)

 

[kingofeurope]

Von Estonie stands up in the Signoria.

"I promise to you, fellow leaders of Tuscany, that during my term, I will not commit to full pacifist ideas, neither to fully agressive one. I plan to bring Full stabilty in economy, technology and all other major areas to our magnificent Nation. The rebels of Segu must be destroyed, before other people, see, that It might be possible to defeat us. By showing, that we cannot defeat a minor rebel country, we show the world, how weak we are. Vote for me, and I bring more glory to Tuscany, just like my Fathers have.

 

[PanzerCorps]

​Election: Vidmizz

 

[thawitchking]

Election:Vidmizz

im changing my vote to vidmizz

 

[cacra]

The pacifist deviation must be victorious!

Now who is our candidate?

 

[vidmizz]

I am pretty sure the elections are over and kingofeurope won.

 

[Andre Massena]

So...

 

[kingofeurope]

I have kinda been waiting for the official vote report so... idk

 

[Andre Massena]

I have kinda been waiting for the official vote report so... idk

Just start

 

[kingofeurope]

I just read the votes, i could see, I have 3(recount gave 2) votes and vidmizz has 3

 

[vidmizz]

Oh crap, sorry I didn't notice him changing his vote. I guess I shall start my game now

 

[cacra]

Tyranny!!

 

[vidmizz]

1583-1591​

When the De Lituanie dynasty was elected again the country was at "war" with some pathetic primitives. This war was finished quickly and both of these "countries" were annexed.

When the war was over, more colonists were sent out to colonise more of africa, south america and even north america.

Ivory was being produced somewhere in Africa.

New South American colony

Sugar is being produced in this new colony. Screw salt, sugar is the new way of life.

Some unknown country was constantly supporting rebels inside our country, they failed but the african primitives revolted anyway

They were crushed quickly but they revolted yet again. Just proves me right that ethnic cleansing is a very needed thing in our empire if we truly want peace one day

The unknown country attacked us with their covert attacks yet again. They supposedly succeeded but no revolt happened

Please note that there were like 15 more revolts and like 8 of them were supported by some country so we should be very concerned

Core gained on De Lituania

The HRE Emperor pestered us two times to divide our country. He was only laughed at as he is in no position to tell us what to do

Our first North American colony was established

A comet was sighted and the country went into a short period of anarchy. A new law was then issued that fines all people for looking at the sky

Alcoholism spreads all over Tuscany. Wine merchants happy

North American colony became self reliant. Renamed to New Rome

Some more colonies were created and my term is over. Here is your save

And here is the map at the end of my term

India Is colonised it's just that the country occupying those lands are the same colour as the uncolonised land

 

[Tabanese]

I have kinda been waiting for the official vote report so... idk

Sorry about that KingofEuorpe. I went AFK without so much as a peep. The reason, and my sole excuse,: I'm overwhelmed by my current workload. Doing a Master's and the deadline for approval is Friday, so I'm not getting much opportunity to look up from my books. Again, sorry.

On a more useful note: We have a vote! Yeah!

As standard, election-slider-DEFCON votes should be cast now and the voting cycle will finish at 20:00 GMT on the 14th of November.

So get campaigning.

Lastly, Vidmizz. Why 'New Rome'? Why not 'New Florence'?

 

[vidmizz]

Lastly, Vidmizz. Why 'New Rome'? Why not 'New Florence'?

After that picture was taken I colonized another province up north, you can see it in that map at the bottom, and actually named it New Florence but it isn't self reliant yet and there's a high chance of a native attack so it's survival is uncertain as of now.
I say whoever wins this next election focus on colonizing north america. There's a chance to have the majority of it because the english seem to have stopped colonizing completely and the french only focus on the most northern parts like Canada. The rest are just native american countries.

 

[Andre Massena]

Sounds like you did a good job, Vidmizz. Our infamy must be a bitch, though. We should be at the non-war DEFCON if we're not already.

And ugh, that hideous EU3 colonization map that I sort of miss in EU4.

Does France own most of Egpyt? They are pretty damn scary, even if they refuse to destroy Burgundy for some reason.

 

[vidmizz]

Sounds like you did a good job, Vidmizz. Our infamy must be a bitch, though. We should be at the non-war DEFCON if we're not already.

And ugh, that hideous EU3 colonization map that I sort of miss in EU4.

Does France own most of Egpyt? They are pretty damn scary, even if they refuse to destroy Burgundy for some reason.

Well I didn't gain any infamy from annexing those africans but it's still pretty high. And yes Egypt is pretty much divided between Great Britain and France

 

[cuendillar]

Well I didn't gain any infamy from annexing those africans but it's still pretty high. And yes Egypt is pretty much divided between Great Britain and France

Is there any reason why you didn't hire a diplomat advisor to speed up the infamy decrease, -0.25/year seems pretty valuable when it only goes down by 0.2/year otherwise? Not critizising, just wondering. I fully recognize your playing style is very different from mine (compact, with well-developed choice territory and strong vassals) so I'm probably unfamiliar with handling sprawling empires with huge amounts of undeveloped land.

I actually just made a tentative start as Tuscany in a game of my own - it's probably rather telling that, in spite of having only 6 provinces and being 140 years earlier in the game, I've already built about 20 more (non-fort) buildings than this Tuscany has to date...

 

[Tabanese]

So absolutely no votes is kinda shocking but people living in glass houses ought not to throw stones.

As per the rules, the vote is extended by 24 hours. We have until tomorrow, 20:00 GMT to cast our votes. As for the save, Vidmizz, can you upload it? I would like to check it out if I get a chance as it may influence my votes.

(ELECTION: Cuendillar)

This is on the grounds that play a compact empire and development is needed. As per the Empire doctrine, I do not advocate any reduction in the speed of expansion, nor do I wish to see the removal of any lands from the empire, as a result of emancipation*, trade** or negligence. However, we must rule the empire in more than name, so province building will be needed. Churches and forts would seem the best options at this point in time.

(SLIDER: NAVAL)

Empire Doctrine and all.

(DEFCON: 1)

The empire need not fund any wars; money should be used for stability investment. (DEFCON 1 means no aggressive war; DEFCON 0 gives the ruling regime power to execute attacks.)