I saw a couple of posts here from a few months ago (latest was 1.9.0 era IIRC) that French Union is completely RNG dependent and it appears to be the case now.
I was trying out Taureor's max compliance strategy with Communist France to use focuses and get collaboration govts out of all my colonies. I had it set on local autonomy while Democratic and switched to civilian oversight once I became communist. By the time I went develop the colonies on the focus tree, by early 41 I had all but two (Djibouti, and Libya, which I conquered from Italy in 39) above 80% compliance and in collaboration govts.
I was really tempted to take "encourage immigration" to solve my worker shortage/recruitable pop problem, but I said to myself come on, I will just go French Union and all that Africa and Indochina Manpower will more than make up for it. After all, if they are 80+ percent compliance, they cant possibly refuse right? Right?
By the time I completed France Indivisible, all my subjects were collaboration govt. When French Union rolls around, only central Africa agreed. Everyone else refused. Good news was those that said no didn't declare independence and stayed collaboration govts so I didn't lose anyone, and I can still use their manpower via colonial templates . In retrospect, there is no reason to go French Union. If you are Communist / Fascist going for collaboration govts, you don't need the extra compliance from France Indivisible (develop the colonies with all regions was enough plus natural rate over time) and you give up the ability to solve your worker shortage / full employment problem (you can nerf it as communist with collectivized agriculture but not totally eliminate it) You can solve the full employment problem with a focus on the Democratic side of the tree, but then as Democratic you can't do collaboration govts and risk full independence when you complete French Union.
As it is, there is no upside to selecting it. Shouldn't the likelihood of France's subjects accepting it be more strongly tied to their level of compliance? It seems pretty logical to me.
I was trying out Taureor's max compliance strategy with Communist France to use focuses and get collaboration govts out of all my colonies. I had it set on local autonomy while Democratic and switched to civilian oversight once I became communist. By the time I went develop the colonies on the focus tree, by early 41 I had all but two (Djibouti, and Libya, which I conquered from Italy in 39) above 80% compliance and in collaboration govts.
I was really tempted to take "encourage immigration" to solve my worker shortage/recruitable pop problem, but I said to myself come on, I will just go French Union and all that Africa and Indochina Manpower will more than make up for it. After all, if they are 80+ percent compliance, they cant possibly refuse right? Right?
By the time I completed France Indivisible, all my subjects were collaboration govt. When French Union rolls around, only central Africa agreed. Everyone else refused. Good news was those that said no didn't declare independence and stayed collaboration govts so I didn't lose anyone, and I can still use their manpower via colonial templates . In retrospect, there is no reason to go French Union. If you are Communist / Fascist going for collaboration govts, you don't need the extra compliance from France Indivisible (develop the colonies with all regions was enough plus natural rate over time) and you give up the ability to solve your worker shortage / full employment problem (you can nerf it as communist with collectivized agriculture but not totally eliminate it) You can solve the full employment problem with a focus on the Democratic side of the tree, but then as Democratic you can't do collaboration govts and risk full independence when you complete French Union.
As it is, there is no upside to selecting it. Shouldn't the likelihood of France's subjects accepting it be more strongly tied to their level of compliance? It seems pretty logical to me.
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