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Heres an update.
Revolution starts hitting, since its after 1750. Any country that does NOT have stability 3 can get it. Ever since 1750, i make sure i stay at stability 3 Always. Iu se the pope for this, if i hit 100 papal influence i can buy +1 stability with influence to get free stability.
In the subjects and the colonies the revolution is manageable, but a global +10 unrest in foix would give... a lot of rebels. Hence why i'm little cautious...
Business as usual, invading whatever i can. I'm trying to core all of it. Luckily all of it is overseas, so it costs less to core. I annexed champa, lan na, Khmer etc etc.
I finally had a chance to calculate the entire subject integration cost. Its way too much. I'm gonna give up my subjects Khazak and Oirat and hope for the best.
Using the same method (forcing an "offer" peace deal on a 100% occupied country), and if things don't go as planned, i intend to knock timurids, assam, lan na, dai viet and Korea out of my subjects
to lower integration cost. Luckily that i knew this trick, cause otherwise i would failed integration on all for sure. You need to own one province of the nation you want to knock out of the subject, and then it will knock all the cores out if you do release nation in offer peace deal. As you can see, i already knocked out persia, bengal, gujarat and cored them myself.
I now realize i probably shouldn't have teched up admin so much. I could have done with the lvl req for constitutional monarchy, or even lower, and i should have started coring waaaaay earlier. Oh well, live and learn.
On the bright side:
a one tag is still possible, but the problem is my diplo reputation goes lower if i take 9X overextension. Its gonna be real close, since i can't integrate as fast as i'd like. It takes juggling around with bonuses, to make sure subjects finish integrating at same time. That way the -3 diplo rep malus effect you get for ten years (after integration of a subject) will only be 10 years for 2 integrated subjects.
Castile integrated, and that gave me entire Asian Ottoman territory, the north african west coast and a load of land in india.
Portugal integrated soon after castile (juggled with diplo rep to make them finish close to each other to limit the malus for diplo rep, as mentioned above). I know got no distant overseas from Black sea to ashanti in west africa... And Castile and portugal gave me a nice modern fleet (i can't build one, i'm at dip tech 8.). Portugal finished the suez canal while they had the mamluk land. Thanks a lot, Portugal!
Now the real challenge comes, integrating Muscovy, Japan and England in time.
Heres where i'm at now. I have been coring whatever i could, and i'm trying to put each nation under the 9x% cost to annex.
Did the calculation again, i can still integrate all subjects with my current young king. But the real problem is going to be diplo reputation.
I made a maybe desperate move, and i went reformed in the entire foix nation. I then took the stability fervor bonus, which gives me +1 diplo rep and -2 unrest. I also have trading in Ivory now, for another bonus. In 1796 the -3 diplo rep malus from integrating castile and portugal will be gone..
Muscovy and Japan got a colonial nation too now, so i *must* integrate them or i don't even have an offical world conquest..
I'll carry on and keep you posted.
