On the PC part - I play on an Asus notebook with a processor a good bit slower according to passmark and the game runs flawlessly. The only time it seems a bit choppy is when I have the trade map mode up, which I only need to look at occasionally.
As to rebels - nah, disagree completely. In fact, I'd hazard to say that 1.8 is far far far, and one more far, easier to manage when it comes to rebels. In the cases where I cared about the tax loss for the duration that there would be one, putting troops on the province and, if need be, using some harsh treatment until my coring finished was more than sufficient. Likewise, I can grab a lot more provinces in any given peace than before, albeit, there's a lot more provinces to grab mostly at lower base tax.
However, if you aren't doing non-stop claims so as to minimize coring costs and/or taking admin ideas to help with that and you run out and thus take longer to core, then sure, it's entirely possible for things to get out of hand.
So, check the coring costs up front and be sure you have the admin points to core everything you're going to take. If it's over that, don't take everything. Coring basically shuts down most of the unrest straight off.
If you really, *really* bothered by unrest, grab humanism and simply wipe out all the modifiers and keep a theologian around whenever possible.
Rebels in 1.8 seem to be almost irrelevant now, if you're careful about managing coring and OE. I have yet to have a single revolt other than from an event and I've certainly conquered a bit of land -> Narry a rebel along the way
As to rebels - nah, disagree completely. In fact, I'd hazard to say that 1.8 is far far far, and one more far, easier to manage when it comes to rebels. In the cases where I cared about the tax loss for the duration that there would be one, putting troops on the province and, if need be, using some harsh treatment until my coring finished was more than sufficient. Likewise, I can grab a lot more provinces in any given peace than before, albeit, there's a lot more provinces to grab mostly at lower base tax.
However, if you aren't doing non-stop claims so as to minimize coring costs and/or taking admin ideas to help with that and you run out and thus take longer to core, then sure, it's entirely possible for things to get out of hand.
So, check the coring costs up front and be sure you have the admin points to core everything you're going to take. If it's over that, don't take everything. Coring basically shuts down most of the unrest straight off.
If you really, *really* bothered by unrest, grab humanism and simply wipe out all the modifiers and keep a theologian around whenever possible.
Rebels in 1.8 seem to be almost irrelevant now, if you're careful about managing coring and OE. I have yet to have a single revolt other than from an event and I've certainly conquered a bit of land -> Narry a rebel along the way
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