HRE electors

[Jonsnow76]

I don't know if this is a common knowledge, but I just found out that in the Country.csv file there is a column that states which countries are electors and how many votes they put in the elections. Given that I would like to exclude from elections ahistorical electors leaving only Bohemia, Maintz, Pfalz (which should include Trier), Brandeburg, Saxony and Cologne, are some gameplay reasons for keeping the standard settings as they are?

 

[unmerged(23019)]

Is it the column before ;X?

And how come Cologne gets two in that case?

Anyway, yeah that would be good. I asked why everyone in the HRE gets a vote and I only got "So if the original electors are bumped off, there are still electors". So unless you get an error, go for it.

EDIT: There is a minor issue: You can't add new electors. So Bavaria, which received a vote in 1648, wouldn't get that vote, unless you manually edited it yourself. Also when Brandenburg becomes Prussia it would lose its vote as Holy Roman Emperor.

 

[Jonsnow76]

IIRC the tag PRU has a vote too and yes, if you want to be close to electors evolution you must edit manually. Cologne has no reason to have 2 votes rather Maintz (whom Archbishop was ArchChancellor of Empire and had a great influence in the elections).

 

[Havard]

Cologne has no reason to have 2 votes rather Maintz (whom Archbishop was ArchChancellor of Empire and had a great influence in the elections).

I believe Köln has two votes to represent Köln and Trier. Mainz had only one vote, although it could be discussed if not the Trier vote could be added there just as well as to Köln...

 

[Jonsnow76]

I always thought that Trier was located near Heidelberg (Pfalz) but I am not a gargantuan expert about Germany's geography. However both Cologne and Pfalz have 2 votes therefore it could be for another reason.

 

[Havard]

I always thought that Trier was located near Heidelberg (Pfalz) but I am not a gargantuan expert about Germany's geography. However both Cologne and Pfalz have 2 votes therefore it could be for another reason.

Trier is just by the present border to Luxembourg (abt. 10 min with train is my guess). On the EU2 map it would be along the river separating Pfalz from Luxembourg and Köln, right on the border between the two latter.

(Mainz is really to the north-west of Heidelberg, so the map is kinda... incorrect in that area... )

 

[Taelyn]

A question related to the original post. If you can change the number of votes each elector has, can you reduce the unalterable bonus that the Habsburgs get in HRE elections? I mean, is the Habsburg bonus a set number (+5 votes)? If it is, then increasing all of the votes of all of the electors should result in a more democratic non-historical election, right?

 

[unmerged(23019)]

The Hapsburg bonus gives them +50 relations with all the electors. So if Prussia's relations with Austria are 151, then Austria automatically gets that vote.