Getting OPMs in the HRE to flip to Free Cities

[Steel_atlas]

So from what I have gathered free cities will eventually all die out.

As a monarchy whenever you force a release even if the tag was previously a republic it will be a monarchy.

And even with max relations I havent been able to convince an OPM monarchy to turn into a free city.

Is there a trick to getting them to flip or to getting OPMs to release as republics?

 

[holyvigil]

So from what I have gathered free cities will eventually all die out.

As a monarchy whenever you force a release even if the tag was previously a republic it will be a monarchy.

And even with max relations I havent been able to convince an OPM monarchy to turn into a free city.

Is there a trick to getting them to flip or to getting OPMs to release as republics?

No and yes.

Client states.

 

[LukasYork]

With high enough dip rep in most cases you will be missing only a few reasons for them to agree
Important thing to note is that Friendly or ally attitude gives only +10 reasons while THREATENED attitude gives +20
Just mark their territory as strategic interest and there you go, 10 more reasons for them to flip

 

[Cancerofthehead]

So from what I have gathered free cities will eventually all die out.

As a monarchy whenever you force a release even if the tag was previously a republic it will be a monarchy.

And even with max relations I havent been able to convince an OPM monarchy to turn into a free city.

Is there a trick to getting them to flip or to getting OPMs to release as republics?

You can’t force them to be republics that I am aware of, but if you get good relations and high Diplo Rep then monarchies will accept Free City status.

 

[holyvigil]

With high enough dip rep in most cases you will be missing only a few reasons for them to agree
Important thing to note is that Friendly or ally attitude gives only +10 reasons while THREATENED attitude gives +20
Just mark their territory as strategic interest and there you go, 10 more reasons for them to flip

I tried last night getting free cities from monarchies. In 1.30 I haven't been able to even with all that.

 

[LukasYork]

I did recently as Hungary in 1.30.3
+200 relations, threatened attitude, had both influence and diplo ideas, at least one policy with dip rep and papal boost to influence but I managed.

 

[grotaclas]

In my current game I just became emperor again and there are three countries that would accept to become free cities even though I have not really improved relations with them. One of them has +2 reasons from opinion and +10 from friendly attitude, the other two have +20 because of threatened. The rest comes from my +13.8 dip rep. Of course so much dip rep is hard to get.

 

[Tavald]

I once decided to ally every single irish opm during a scotland run.
Most of them turned in to republics.
Now, to put them all in the hre...