Each country has a cabinet. The Cabinet consist of ministers with different fields of responsibility. The fields of responsibility are: prime minister, treasury, justice, army, and navy. The titles of ministers are dependent on culture and country.
Ministers have a skill from X to Y, just like current advisors. Each post affects particular national modifiers, modified by the minister's skill and by technology. For example, prime minister affects prestige decay, treasurer affects taxation efficiency, justice revolt risk, army land maintainence, and navy naval maintainence. Exactly which modifiers will be affected by which minister post and to which degree, I leave open.
Ministers can either be appointed or elected, depending on your government form. All countries have classes and each minister has a class. The classes are: Noble, Clergy, Bourgeois, Commoner. The classes have different and competing interests, and they want to gain power at the expense of other classes. Depending on your government form, each class has a harder or easier time influencing the government. If they feel ignored and mistreated, a class will show their discontent, with each class having a different way of doing that. On the other hand, positive relations with the classes bring benefits, each class giving different ones. How elections to posts would be handled is something I must leave open for now.
In addition to helping the country with their skills, ministers will try to use their power to further the interests of their class. Each post has different amounts and kinds of power for a minister to use. For example, naval and treasury ministers have more power over trade matters than does the army minister. Different classes and provinces will be more interested in some posts than others, due to their powers. For example, burghers are very interested in the treasurer post. The dilemmas facing players would be if they should hire a very skillfull minister who would upset many classes, or if it is worth appointing a mediorce minister to appease a class.
This was yolo brainstormed. Hope you like it. It is a rough sketch.
edit: I see great potential in this. Sweden could start off having more influence to the commoner class. And it would be great if EU4 could model how the nobles and clergy really dominated society in the beginning, but that the burgher class grew in size and power throughout the era, and even did revolution as in France if they were ignored.
Ministers have a skill from X to Y, just like current advisors. Each post affects particular national modifiers, modified by the minister's skill and by technology. For example, prime minister affects prestige decay, treasurer affects taxation efficiency, justice revolt risk, army land maintainence, and navy naval maintainence. Exactly which modifiers will be affected by which minister post and to which degree, I leave open.
Ministers can either be appointed or elected, depending on your government form. All countries have classes and each minister has a class. The classes are: Noble, Clergy, Bourgeois, Commoner. The classes have different and competing interests, and they want to gain power at the expense of other classes. Depending on your government form, each class has a harder or easier time influencing the government. If they feel ignored and mistreated, a class will show their discontent, with each class having a different way of doing that. On the other hand, positive relations with the classes bring benefits, each class giving different ones. How elections to posts would be handled is something I must leave open for now.
In addition to helping the country with their skills, ministers will try to use their power to further the interests of their class. Each post has different amounts and kinds of power for a minister to use. For example, naval and treasury ministers have more power over trade matters than does the army minister. Different classes and provinces will be more interested in some posts than others, due to their powers. For example, burghers are very interested in the treasurer post. The dilemmas facing players would be if they should hire a very skillfull minister who would upset many classes, or if it is worth appointing a mediorce minister to appease a class.
This was yolo brainstormed. Hope you like it. It is a rough sketch.
edit: I see great potential in this. Sweden could start off having more influence to the commoner class. And it would be great if EU4 could model how the nobles and clergy really dominated society in the beginning, but that the burgher class grew in size and power throughout the era, and even did revolution as in France if they were ignored.
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