Grand Strategy

[Te. Kenzo]

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eheh i have modified before your answer

 

[RedRooster81]

Maybe simply in a lesser population growth rate. Provinces of a kingdom that are at its borders (not borders between vassals within a kingdom) should get a growth penalty. People don't want to settle in probable war zones.

Good point. +defensiveness, -growth for frontiers between realms. In some cases, these areas have grown by trade or simply being able to work between two big powers, so it should not be an absolute. Think of Flanders, or Barcelona, or Gascony, or Provence, all border duchies (and that's within the part of Europe I know the best).

 

[Infocalypse]

Yes, but you could somehow reflect this again by a population increase bonus for special buildings, like for CoTs in EU3.

 

[Nick B II]

Yes, but you could somehow reflect this again by a population increase bonus for special buildings, like for CoTs in EU3.

Keep in mind that in CK1 there was no such thing as province population, and that the devs haven't even hinted it will be present in CK2.

We'll probably end up with province traits, similar to the ones we had in CK. Events giving border provinces more problems make some sense.

If we're incredibly lucky the province-incomes won't be hard-coded, and the events that can change that income will be sophistacted enough to tell a March from the Kingdom's capital.

Nick

 

[RedRooster81]

Nick. So true about provincial taxes. Having base taxes really hurt in CK1, because it affected what buildings you could construct, which meant that I always tried to get my richest province as my capital. Which also meant that Salamanca never got a university in my alternative reality.