Hegemony opinion modifier with vassals

[raphi1985]

So when becoming a hegemon every country gets a −100 opinion modifier towards you.

I generally do not like it, as I dont think clicking the button for becoming a hegemon should have such immediate drastic effects at all. Afterall you are factually in a hegemonial position no matter if you "take the title" or not. Maybe it makes sense from a gameplay perspective, having more of a pros and cons situation. I dont see the point.

But what seems even more odd, is that this applies to vassals as well. I know this has been discussed before, but I was wondering, if this is as intended or an oversight, which will be patched out. Have the devs said something about it?

I am currently in a Castile run and its really hard to even keep the opinions of all my colonila nations and vassals in the positive. Have not tried to integrate a vassel since becoming economic hegemon, but it might be hard to even get the +190 opinion.

Its my first 1.30 run and having good fun with it so far.

 

[RTErk]

The hegemon mechanic is buggy and useless since at that point there is no reason to take it other than some extra bonuses. They should make it a more mid/mid-to-late game buff rather than a buff that you get when you don't even need it.

 

[raphi1985]

The hegemon mechanic is buggy and useless since at that point there is no reason to take it other than some extra bonuses. They should make it a more mid/mid-to-late game buff rather than a buff that you get when you don't even need it.

I do agree, that it would be more fun, if the hegemony mechanic was more relevant during the whole or most of the game. I followed the recent thread on the whole topic here on the forum.

With this thread however I really just wanted to check on information about the opinion modifier. Most people who voiced their opinion on this topic seemed to agree, that it should not apply to vassals. I was kind of hoping for a quick change of this specific aspect. A complete change of the whole mechanic so soon is probably a lot more unrealistic. Untill now I have not encountered any bugs with it anyway.

Thinking about it a bit more, I also do not like, that the pope constantly dislikes me now, as this negatively affects my papal influence gain. And beeing completely unable to diplomatically vassalize even the smallest of countries is an annoying limitation.

I read on the other thread about this topic, that the opinion modifier decays. But this is not the case, as far as I can tell. Maybe a decaying opinion modifier would be a decent solution.