Can free cities purchase the electorate?

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I'm playing as Hamburg, and I have the decision to purchase the electorate in the list.
If I subjugate some electors would I be able to fire the decision to purchase the electorate?
 
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I agree, I don't think it's possibly to simultaneously be both a free city and elector. The HRE interface would get confusing if you both types of "special status" applies to one country.
 
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The decision(s) also appeared when I was playing as Dortmund, but I didn't have enough trust for Austria to transfer it from my subject until I had multiple provinces. Looking at the wiki there's nothing in the decision conditions that bars you from completing it as a free ciy, I had a look at the event but it doesn't have much info. I feel like the Emperor probably wouldn't let a free city also be an elector though...also what would your ruler title be? It may also be worth noting that you cannot use the usual 'Grant Electorate' option to give it to Free Cities.
 
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So I was curious and did a quick test and you can indeed Purchase the electorate as a Free City!
Started as Frankfurt, used console to vassalize Mainz and get cash.
Clicked the button and bam, I am a Free City Electoral Republic. I let a few months pass just to make sure it won't change but it didn't
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What is interesting that HRE screen shows 12 Free cities but no longer displays Frankfurt as one of them. It only displays 11. I am though correctly displayed as an elector
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I expect it works the same with 'Request the Electorate' decision
 
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So I was curious and did a quick test and you can indeed Purchase the electorate as a Free City!
Started as Frankfurt, used console to vassalize Mainz and get cash.
Clicked the button and bam, I am a Free City Electoral Republic. I let a few months pass just to make sure it won't change but it didn't
View attachment 966605

What is interesting that HRE screen shows 12 Free cities but no longer displays Frankfurt as one of them. It only displays 11. I am though correctly displayed as an elector
View attachment 966606
I expect it works the same with 'Request the Electorate' decision
That seems like a suitable case for Bug Report.
 

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So I was curious and did a quick test and you can indeed Purchase the electorate as a Free City!
Started as Frankfurt, used console to vassalize Mainz and get cash.
Clicked the button and bam, I am a Free City Electoral Republic. I let a few months pass just to make sure it won't change but it didn't
View attachment 966605

What is interesting that HRE screen shows 12 Free cities but no longer displays Frankfurt as one of them. It only displays 11. I am though correctly displayed as an elector
View attachment 966606
I expect it works the same with 'Request the Electorate' decision
Very interesting graphics, what mod is it?
 

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Aw, hell, I got used to another version of Nuremberg:
View attachment 966655
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But who is the 12th Free City if you, as Frankfurt, stopped being on the list when you've purchased Electorship?
There are only 11 Free City flags displayed while the UI says 12 Free Cities.
There are still 12 in reality, me being one of them
There is just an empty space instead, you can see that the bottom of the Free City list ends with a blank, if there were 12 there would be 3 flags in each row
 
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Aw, hell, I got used to another version of Nuremberg:
View attachment 966655
Thanks!

But who is the 12th Free City if you, as Frankfurt, stopped being on the list when you've purchased Electorship?
Not about free cities but that is a really nice flag for Nassau...What mod are you using? Is it the same one that had the better Gaeldom flag?