Enforce religion on vassal not working as expected

[Zuiderzee]

So I am currently playing a game as Manipur to get the 'Animal Kingdom' achievement. I managed to vassalize Orissa, and enforced religion on them. After a while, I looked at the religious mapmode and noticed that Orissa's state religion was still Hindu and that they were not making efforts to convert any of their provinces. I figured this might have been because of their 100% liberty desire, so after winning their war for independence I tried enforcing religion again and immediately dumped 60 prestige into placating their rulers so that liberty desire got below 50%. Looking at the religious mapmode, I noticed that their state religion did change to animst for a day or so, but then immediately flipped back to Hindu. Also the 'enforce religion' interaction became available again - but there is no way I'm clicking that button a third time.

Can anyone explain what is happening here? My current game version is 1.19.2.0 and I did update my savefile from v1.18, so maybe this is causing problems.

 

[Republic of Mercury]

I imagine they're taking the "convert to hinduism" decision.

 

[londoner247]

As @Republic of Mercury says, Animist nations get decisions to change religion. Unlike the Christianity conversions which are disabled once you force religion on a subject, these decisions are not disabled.

Nobody from Paradox has confirmed whether this is intended or an oversight, at least as far as I am aware. If it is intended then I would argue that the Enforce Religion option should be disabled in such circumstances.

@Trin Tragula is this one for you? Can those decisions be locked for AI subjects who have been forced into Animism (or similar situations in other faiths)?

 

[Trin Tragula]

It's been changed to not be available for subjects for next patch

 

[Zuiderzee]

Thank you both! I agree that either the option for the vassal to take this decision, or the interaction to enforce conversion to animism should be disabled then.

 

[Zuiderzee]

It's been changed to not be available for subjects for next patch

Cool, thank you!

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Cool, thank you!

The requirements for the paltry conversion % decisions these religions do get preclude the AI taking them. Even with the change, you will be lucky if subject convert anything. Same-culture religious ideas nations that aren't Islamic are the only ones that will convert to animist for you, and they will do so slowly.

 

[atwix]

I bet DDRJake arsked to do that change

 

[Trin Tragula]

I bet DDRJake arsked to do that change

Indeed he did.