Hello!
One thing that has always annoyed me in EUIV is cores, and since the update, how capitals are conquered (Primairly how Sweden always conquers Copenhagen and Akershus).
What has annoyed me more, however, is how certain cores disappear over time, even though they have no reason to, as their theoretical resurgence is possible. Furthermore, this is often dependent on culture, but there are several examples where a culture has been culturally assimilated, but has broken free as the original nation, albeit now with the new culture.
Also, city states (Lubeck, Hamburg, etc), shouldn't lose cores, as their city-nature will always be relevant for revolt, and independence. Or Siciliy. The very nature of it being an island, will always make it possible for it to want to secede, or be a separate state.
I thereby suggest:
TL;DR:
- Let some cores never disappear
- Let the country who forms a unified country keep its original cores
- Make capitals more expensive to conquer, than it is now
One thing that has always annoyed me in EUIV is cores, and since the update, how capitals are conquered (Primairly how Sweden always conquers Copenhagen and Akershus).
What has annoyed me more, however, is how certain cores disappear over time, even though they have no reason to, as their theoretical resurgence is possible. Furthermore, this is often dependent on culture, but there are several examples where a culture has been culturally assimilated, but has broken free as the original nation, albeit now with the new culture.
Also, city states (Lubeck, Hamburg, etc), shouldn't lose cores, as their city-nature will always be relevant for revolt, and independence. Or Siciliy. The very nature of it being an island, will always make it possible for it to want to secede, or be a separate state.
I thereby suggest:
- Have historic core regions. These core regions will be more expensive in terms of aggressive expansion, as it will change historic and cultural norms, and hinder the unrelenting expansion the AI now does (for example Scandinavia into Muscovian core lands), or French expansion far into the Iberian Peninsula, which divides the Spanish populace. This will still be possible, but much more costly for relations.
- These historic core regions will also never disappear. Say Bohemia gets annexed, and all of its provinces culture-converted to Austrian. The cores will remain, but the new state will have Austrian as primary culture. This will also ensure that countries (such as Scandinavia) which unifies, will still have the cores of the coutnry who formed it (now they disappear, which makes it hard to dissolve a unified country. If these suggestions get rejected, at least make unified countries keep the cores of the country who forms it, as in Victoria 2).
- I also wish capitals got more expensive to counquer, especially if it lies in a core area. Conquering Paris, Copenhagen, for example, should be expensive. But I am not saying all countries should have core areas that equals their modern borders, or their borders in 1821, but rather that certain areas should be recognized as intergral to a historical nation, and firmly in their core lands, which will thereby cause more of a fuss when conquered.
TL;DR:
- Let some cores never disappear
- Let the country who forms a unified country keep its original cores
- Make capitals more expensive to conquer, than it is now
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