How to Deal with Revolts/Unrest?

[Panzerschiffe]

So what's the best plan to deal with unrest now? Harsh treatment is pretty much an MP sinkhole with no benefit not to mention it's insanely expensive and has short term effects.

I haven't really had the opportunity to play much because of the performance bug so I can't really test anything but I'd like start off on the right track next game.

What's the best way of dealing with unrest now?

 

[Beagá]

Putting troops and keeping stability at 1+ or more.

And it´s expected probably that you take a veeeeeeeeery long time to decrease autonomy everywhere, or even raise it. If it´s good balance I dunno, but I probably think it´s Paradox goal that decreasing autonomy isn´t a no-brainer in the slightest.

 

[Niebulheim]

Pre-emptively place troops where the rebels will spawn. It's usually easy to deal with since you usually have 2-10 years to prepare for it. You may sometimes want to speed up certain rebellions so they revolt sooner so you don't get 2 revolts on roughly the same time. The new system gives you a lot of options to deal with rebels

 

[Ethanol]

Well now you need to be much more attentive to your unrest, especially if you're decreasing autonomy (which is always a goood option, increasing autonomy should just be used when you're desperate to stall some revolts).

Troop stationing, stability, theologian, religious tolerance, etc...

I was skeptical when reading the dd's but I think we know have a very interesting system to simulate internal country management, local autonomy and the new unrest system are really more realistic together.

 

[lordelenath]

In my current Theodoro run I simply increased autonomy on all wrong culture (group)/wrong religion provinces, since I couldn't afford to kill rebels with my puny resources. After 30 years decreased it again + the natural decay worked out pretty well. I had two event rebels in 100 years as of yet, that's it. I did a lot of vassal feeding though and the admin idea group has a random event which adds -0,05 autonomy / month for five(?) years, which adds up quite a bit.

 

[unmerged(576153)]

I played only one game a hundred years as Croatia(released as Hungarian vassal then won independence war with help of Austria) and I had no problems with it, mainly because I love having a lot of vassals(big, too...). No revolt spawned, though it was mighty close at times. To be fair, I haven't expanded that much, I've just taken the chances the game gave me(I own all of present day Croatia, in-game Bosnia, Serbia, Hungary and Wallachia, and I also have Byzantium with Constantinopole(the Ottos where busy elsewhere, by the time they could get around to eating Byz I already snatched them under their noses) as my vassal, still waiting for a chance to return the last couple of provinces to them, and Venice as vassals.)
Anyways, in my opinion, it's a bit more of micromanagement problem which is easy to deal with as long as you do not attempt exceptionally warmongering/WC-type shenanigans. The best advice, though, should the rebels spawn, if it's not a house-rule you set for yourself, to pre-place your troops to where the rebels will spawn.

 

[IIWW]

The new system basically reduces the threat from rebels to almost 0. They sure are stronger, but they can never surprise You, so summa summarum they become a problem only during a very long war (and not "very long cause I'm waiting for this stupid 5-years counter to pass).