lol, if that's what he did...not core or vassalize, well that's what he gets for being 100% OE and "living on the edge". Paradox has been driving home the theme/message of a more systematic blobbing where you take breathers inbetween wars/conquests and integrate your lands instead of mindless uncontrolled blobbing of constant warfare and conquest, yet players throw hissy fits when Paradox tries to prevent such careless blobbing. Players still sometimes find ways around it, and then Paradox comes back with another tweak. so either 1) find a new method of CTW or general blobbing, which some players already have successfully devised despite the current corruption changes, 2) don't OE and maybe wait on coring or vassalize, or 3) maybe revert your patch.
this is the same ole unwillingness to adjust. my previous way of letting diplo tech tank didn't work. I tweaked my own style and asked for input from the forums instead of raging on the forums.
What do you mean, "maybe wait on coring". He pays the same amont of money if he expands slower. He just does it in installments. And he has less land to work with. While that will prevent bankrupcy there already exists a Softcap for OE. Why do we need another?
And "dont OE". Y Teach me sensei.
All those fancy events that casualy give you 1 Corruption. If those instead expected you to pay out X00 ducats cash we'd see alot more people throwing fits.
There is nothing fun or engaging about dealing with corruption. It might aswell be an incrasing cost in gold added to coring. A large cost.
Think about this:
Since the Corruption Tax is based off your Development you pay the same amount of money reletive to your size.
The only reason early game Corruption is less bad, is that BloodMoney and WarReps make up a much larger part of your income. So paying based on your DEV cost a smaller part of your average monthly surplus.
Now, if you are big at some point conquering new land doesnt actually increase your purchasing power anymore.
Since the new provinces wont make the cost of their corruption tax back before the game is over.
"Unwillingness to adjust" and "revert patch".
I can deal with corruption and yet i thought about doing it for the first time every recently.
Simple because i done like this "you have less money the bigger you are because the game says so".
There isnt even a payoff to counterbalance it.
Something as simple as "provinces have 0 UNREST while being cored" would give the whole thing atleast some semblence of fairness.
