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What I feel would be good is a proper national focus. If you click on a national focus for extra monarch points, the. It should stay that way for the life of the ruler.

If you're militaristic, you get bonuses. Increased manpower, decreased recovery cost, increased prestige from battles, increased morale for army, increased tradition for army by 10% etc.

If you're diplomatic then you get increased trade range, more powerful embargoes, reduction in war exhaustion cost, cheaper culture conversion, cheaper dip cost on annexing land, increased morale for navy, and increased tradition for navy by 10%.

If you're administrative, then you get cheaper core costs, cheaper integration costs, and better bonuses for reducing revolt risk (say a -5% revolt risk), 10% reduced liberty desire of colonies and subjects.

However if you pick 1 focus over the others, the costs of the others increase, so you pick diplo, the coring costs increase by 5%, decreased morale for armies etc. That would be a good way to improve peace time abilities, as well as make a player think tactically for a long reign ruler.

Also you can only assign a ruler as a general if you pick military, and if you assign your heir ad a general, he automatically assumes military upon ascending to the throne.

Exceptions being for Republics where they get none of the bonuses or maluses due to the nature and speed of the Republic voting compared to a monarchy, so they just get the extra monarch points per month and none of the above bonuses or maluses.
 
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So, wait. Picking Admin focus not only gives me more ADM monarch power, it lets me spend less ADM monarch power.

Why am I supposed to think this a good idea again?
 

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Because everything else can have increased costs, and it's for the life of the ruler, so your Mil tech is more expensive, your dip tech is more expensive at the benefit of your admin tech and costs being cheaper.
 

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Because everything else can have increased costs,
So? In SP, at least, my DIP and (especially) MIL points are not nearly as valuable as my ADM points.
 

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Yeah but if the malus lasted for 50 years, and you ended up say 4 techs behind in military, that wouldn't bother you?
 

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Yeah but if the malus lasted for 50 years, and you ended up say 4 techs behind in military, that wouldn't bother you?
It would bother me for reasons completely unrelated to game mechanics and entirely related to the game designer being a sadistic moron. To put you 4 techs behind in the space of 50 years as a Western tech country, the tech malus has to be large enough to make it literally impossible to buy tech.
 
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It was an example. The malus could be a -4 monarch point per month in the 2 that you're not focused on. So it means it's very slow to increase the points.
 

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It was an example. The malus could be a -4 monarch point per month in the 2 that you're not focused on. So it means it's very slow to increase the points.
Or, y'know, we could just leave the mechanic as it is, somewhat flavourless but actually worth using.