Devolpment cost

[makaramus]

I just thought... how much can we reduce cost to devolp country?
As example: What happens if I create a custom nation with maximum devolp cost reduce in antwerp as free city? pick economic idea and pick everyting policy giving devolpment cost reduction? And use state edict to reduce it even more?
what will happen? How low can it be? How is it supposed to be calculated? is there a limit at reducing this? anyone got any idea?

I doubt if its possible to have "0" cost but... whats limit

 

[Badesumofu]

Cost reductions (other than efficiency) are additive and you can get the cost of developing a province down to about 4 MP. However, the increased cost that comes with higher development in the province also stacks additively with the cost reductions. So while it is quite possible to stack reductions to the point that it will be trivial to make every province you own at least 10 development, you won't be able to cheaply develop to infinity.

 

[makaramus]

Cost reductions (other than efficiency) are additive and you can get the cost of developing a province down to about 4 MP. However, the increased cost that comes with higher development in the province also stacks additively with the cost reductions. So while it is quite possible to stack reductions to the point that it will be trivial to make every province you own at least 10 development, you won't be able to cheaply develop to infinity.

so what you say devolpment cost modifier only reduces base cost and not modified cost ... wich means with every devolpment I did to same city it means even less ? BOOOORING no 0 cost infinite devolpment abuse
(I ... kinda expected this was like this wanted to confirm )

 

[durbal]

-development cost is especially good for colonizers.

 

[Palatinus Germanicus]

I was wondering something along these lines recently... can you create a province that no one can annex? Even with a claim & making it the war goal... still costs over 100%!

And even if they could annex, they probably wouldn't, because the OE would be real bad (I assume the A.I. tries to avoid >100% OE). Have to get some '+core creation cost on us' modifiers as well. No one would want to touch that thing.

 

[hermithill]

I was wondering something along these lines recently... can you create a province that no one can annex? Even with a claim & making it the war goal... still costs over 100%!

And even if they could annex, they probably wouldn't, because the OE would be real bad (I assume the A.I. tries to avoid >100% OE). Have to get some '+core creation cost on us' modifiers as well. No one would want to touch that thing.

No, because the coring cost and the cost in the peace deal are capped at 30 development for a province.