Thanks for creating this forum.
I would like to propose a more organic approach to "distant overseas" provinces. It is not news that the binary same-continent-or-not logic has been somewhat unpopular with players back to at least EU3. In the current iteration, "distant overseas" (where distant could mean right across the Strait of Gibraltar) provinces get a minimum local autonomy 75%.
I propose replacing this mechanic by making every province have a monthly local autonomy gain based on distance to the capital. So let's say you were playing France with your capital in Ile-de-France. You could have:
Provence +0.01 LA/Month
Tunis +0.03 LA/Month -- while on a different continent, still within easy sailing distance from motherland.
Moscow +0.07 LA/Month -- on the same continent but still very far away and hard to control directly from Paris!
Martinique +0.12 LA/Month -- the Atlantic is big
Just fictional numbers of course that would need to be balanced and playtested. You could also make LA work more like Prestige or Army Tradition to have a natural "resting point", so Moscow could have a natural autonomy of 60% and North American colonies of 80% for instance. More efficient government types would, of course, be better at administrating far away realms, but a Tribal Despotism would not have much hope of truly controlling a colony on a distant shore.
I feel like this would be more realistic than the current distant overseas mechanic, give players a reason to put their capital in a logical location, and better reflect which nations were well-equipped for colonization and which were not.
Thank you for your consideration.
I would like to propose a more organic approach to "distant overseas" provinces. It is not news that the binary same-continent-or-not logic has been somewhat unpopular with players back to at least EU3. In the current iteration, "distant overseas" (where distant could mean right across the Strait of Gibraltar) provinces get a minimum local autonomy 75%.
I propose replacing this mechanic by making every province have a monthly local autonomy gain based on distance to the capital. So let's say you were playing France with your capital in Ile-de-France. You could have:
Provence +0.01 LA/Month
Tunis +0.03 LA/Month -- while on a different continent, still within easy sailing distance from motherland.
Moscow +0.07 LA/Month -- on the same continent but still very far away and hard to control directly from Paris!
Martinique +0.12 LA/Month -- the Atlantic is big
Just fictional numbers of course that would need to be balanced and playtested. You could also make LA work more like Prestige or Army Tradition to have a natural "resting point", so Moscow could have a natural autonomy of 60% and North American colonies of 80% for instance. More efficient government types would, of course, be better at administrating far away realms, but a Tribal Despotism would not have much hope of truly controlling a colony on a distant shore.
I feel like this would be more realistic than the current distant overseas mechanic, give players a reason to put their capital in a logical location, and better reflect which nations were well-equipped for colonization and which were not.
Thank you for your consideration.
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