Destroy cathedrals in different-religion conquered provinces

[ChildeR]

Say France has a Catholic province with a cathedral. The filthy English Protestants take it so of course it's.... easier to convert than the adjacent no-cathedral province? Makes little sense that a province with a more developed Catholic presence is the easier to convert.

I suggest that cathedrals should be deleted on conquering the province if the province is a different religion than the conquerer's.

 

[kviiri]

It's historical for religious buildings to be refitted to serve the religion of occupying nations. Hagia Sophia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia) is probably the best-known example.

 

[ChildeR]

It's historical for religious buildings to be refitted to serve the religion of occupying nations. Hagia Sophia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagia_Sophia) is probably the best-known example.

Yes, but that has a cost in establishing a new congregation, retrofitting the building (in case you need different icons or whatever) and lost goodwill. I think having to rebuild the cathedral would model that well enough.

Or it could be downgraded to a temple, I guess, to make a new cathedral cheaper (after the change in 1.13).

 

[Denkt]

Maybe just remove all buildings on provinces you don't have a core on similar to it was before.

 

[lolada]

A chance to destroy building or reduce development slightly would be ok. And chance would need to be low, like 5% or whole HRE for example would be ruined in 100 years due to constant wars.

 

[lolada]

Maybe just remove all buildings on provinces you don't have a core on similar to it was before.

This would be too harsh, we had something like this before and everyone hated it.

 

[Denkt]

A chance to destroy building on reduce development slightly would be ok. And chance would need to be low, like 5% or whole HRE for example would be ruined in 100 years due to constant wars.

Destroying all buildings upon annextion of the province if you don't have cores on the provinces is better.

 

[lolada]

I think we agree that we disagree there. Its so nice to have some extra buildings when conquering provinces. Conquer Paris and find it totally empty and sad i wouldn't like that.

 

[ChildeR]

Destroying all buildings upon annextion of the province if you don't have cores on the provinces is better.

Why?

 

[Denkt]

Why?

To reduce the spoils of conquest, it is very unlikely that the defeated nation will ever be able to regain the provinces anyway.

 

[lolada]

i wouldn't mind also higher chance to destroy cathedral if different religion.. why not, it makes sense if PI want to code for it.

 

[ChildeR]

To reduce the spoils of conquest, it is very unlikely that the defeated nation will ever be able to regain the provinces anyway.

There's already LA for that. Would you have forts also destroyed (it would be weird since you can make use of and garrison them while at war) or just non-fort buildings? If the latter, what's the rationale?

 

[Sheriff Godwin Law]

Ah, but you incorrectly identify the existence of a Cathedral as meaning a religiously devout, loyal and steady populace got together and constructed a giant building in honor of their strong faith. Cathedral's don't mean that in EU4. In EU4 a Cathedral means the leader of the nation you were just at war with either wanted to extract taxes more effectively from this province, or recently converted it himself from a different religion.

Either way, don't take the abstraction too seriously.