Centers of reformation....what am I missing?

[awelltrainedfer]

So how exactly do center of reformation work? I'm curious because I'm currently playing a Sweden game for the Sweden is not Op achievement (very OP, btw) and even though it's really none of my business, I decide to get involved in the religious wars in the HRE.

Here's the problem: I chose Reformed and got the conversion center, and I took over and converted 2 of the 3 Protestant conversions centers. However, MY conversion center simply stopped converting other provinces after about the first 10 of so, while the last Protestant center is still going full bore.

At first I thought it was maybe a range or maybe a base tax factor, but that's not it. The Protestant center just converted Paris, so base tax obviously means nothing. And as for range, it converted freaking Corsica despite it being located in Northumberland. Meanwhile mine has a Catholic 1 basetax province right next to it.

Is this just another case of "lol human player", let's ignore the rules to screw him over?

Or is there something I don't understand here?

Foul language removed - Seelmeister

 

[Jeggred86]

I'm playing a Commonwealth game right now. One Protestant Center in Brandenburg is converting like crazy but the two centers in Scandinavia only converted a few provinces around them and stopped working after a few years while Brandenburgs Center is still converting in 1620+

Sounds like you encountered something similar.

 

[Illianor123]

CoF just seem inconsistent. You can convert the provinces yourself with a missionary though.

 

[Ktanzei]

No, if it really has stopped converting that is a bug. In my Denmark game (heresy, I know) my reformed center is converting north coast of France right now. I don't know the exact rules governing it but it should definitely keep going if there's more Catholic provinces close by. Are you absolutely certain it isn't off converting in like Iceland (no idea if it can do that, honestly) or some place really far off and hard to see at a glance?

 

[birincikalite]

AFAIK it always keeps converting unless converted. It may convert far away provinces but it does, in my games. If you encounter a different scenario then it may be a bug I guess.

 

[awelltrainedfer]

Wow. It simply never occurred to me that this could be a bug. That really makes the whole League war completely pointless then because my religion will never be dominate. Unless I turn this into a conquer all of Europe playthrough. And sadly, I really don't want to bother. The silly AE mechanic versus human players means you either ignore AE completely and world conquest right through every single coalition for the entire game, or you only expand one province every 50 years.