Changing AI HRE elector criteria

[Clausewitz_]

While it may be funny to see OPMs get elected emperor, I see it as potentially game-breaking and totally unrealistic/immersion-breaking. I believe the impact of relations needs to go down to only +100 not +200 at 200 relations, and the modifier for strong nation needs to be greatly increased. Also, during the league wars, the modifier for heretic electors not wanting to vote for the leader of the Catholic league(the emperor) needs to go away. The hit in relations for a heretic religion is enough. This ends up with really wacky results, like in my case OPM Cyprus being elected emperor 3 times in a row. In my mind, in the beginning of the game the only true candidates to the imperial throne should be Austria and Bohemia. Nobody else is strong enough to actually defend the empire, and the AI electors need to take this into account.

 

[Anatur]

Agreed,when i see Ansbach or Hess become emperor i dont know if i should lol or cry.

Best option would be to tie it to the number of regiments the country has,since the main duty of the emperor is to defend the HRE.

 

[Franz Limit]

Well it depends on the fact if you want to have it realistic in a gaming mather or in a historic mather. The historic HRE-Electors wanted weak Emperors (especially if there wasn't an immideate threat to the empire itself) whenever possible, since this provided themself with the most autonomy -> it isn't that unrealstic if they vote for minors + they allready vote for the strong nations 90% of the time. So I kind of think it is fine as it is.

 

[Chlodio]

The historic HRE-Electors wanted weak Emperors (especially if there wasn't an immideate threat to the empire itself) whenever possible, since this provided themself with the most autonomy -> it isn't that unrealstic if they vote for minors + they allready vote for the strong nations 90% of the time. So I kind of think it is fine as it is.

Isn't that more 13th/14th way of thinking? It is actually interesting, because the electorates were active, yet 16 emperors were elected 1444-1806, 14 of them were rulers of Austria. Thus if historical accuracy is needed there should be about chance 12,5% that you're elected if you aren't or lead PU with Austria, making the emperor heraldic from the start would give most historical accurate results.