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JacobMunro

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I'm sure everyone appreciates the ability to make tall provinces, but the idea that small countries should suddenly be viable against large ones is silly. That's not even how development works. What makes development more available for smaller peaceful countries is the fact that they are unlikely to be rapidly expanding and spending their monarch points on wars and cores. Development can't make small countries better than large ones, because large ones can elect to stop expanding via conquest and, when focusing on a similar number of provinces, will be able to build provinces just as developed as small ones. In fact they could probably do it faster given that they will be able to afford higher level advisors at an earlier stage.

Development which is too cheap will not make small nations better per se, as a large nation can just decide to do it faster. It'll just be better in a per province kind of sense. Decreasing the cost too much however will introduce more problems, particularly in the HRE.
 
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