It seems to me that one of the most intriguing features of EU is the fact that conquered provinces don’t automatically yield dividends. This provides a type of check and balance system that most other strategy games overlook; just look at CIV and how a captured city immediately starts producing new troops & equipment for its former tormentors.
So I’d like to get a detailed understanding of how EU manifests this “take-over penalty” from some of the forum veterans & beta testers (which are probably one in the same anyway).
It seems to work like this:
1) The province is formally ceded to you in peace negotiations
2) There is some additional stability penalty to this province that lasts for some time
3) This penalty may be compounded by religious differences
So my questions are:
1) How long does the new province hate its captors?
-I notice that in the most recent AAR (Poland Civil War by Sapura) that stability drops and then two recently captured regions revolt and declare independence right away. Then later on, a part of the Ukraine (apparently controlled by Poland since the beginning of the scenario) revolts and also declares independence.
2) How exactly does religious conversion work and does it reduce the “take-over penalty?”
- In the AAR when the Papal States converted a chunk of Muslim Northern Africa - it seemed that this province was subsequently very stable. Therefore I assume that when a province is converted by these extraordinary measures it yields favorable returns
3) Does building up destroyed infrastructure enhance the relationship between a captured province and its benefactor/captor?
- This would be something like the US Marshall Plan in post WWII Europe/Japan which were driven probably more out of a fear of creeping communist influence rather pure benevolence. This plan sent a lot of US aid into rebuilding the infrastructure of these defeated enemies and helped turn them into staunch allies within a decade. I think I saw something like this in the Venice AAR when the Poland (controlled by AI) rebuilt Damascus which had been nearly destroyed in three previous sieges. I believe the comment was that the city rebounded quickly after this action.
So I’d like to get a detailed understanding of how EU manifests this “take-over penalty” from some of the forum veterans & beta testers (which are probably one in the same anyway).
It seems to work like this:
1) The province is formally ceded to you in peace negotiations
2) There is some additional stability penalty to this province that lasts for some time
3) This penalty may be compounded by religious differences
So my questions are:
1) How long does the new province hate its captors?
-I notice that in the most recent AAR (Poland Civil War by Sapura) that stability drops and then two recently captured regions revolt and declare independence right away. Then later on, a part of the Ukraine (apparently controlled by Poland since the beginning of the scenario) revolts and also declares independence.
2) How exactly does religious conversion work and does it reduce the “take-over penalty?”
- In the AAR when the Papal States converted a chunk of Muslim Northern Africa - it seemed that this province was subsequently very stable. Therefore I assume that when a province is converted by these extraordinary measures it yields favorable returns
3) Does building up destroyed infrastructure enhance the relationship between a captured province and its benefactor/captor?
- This would be something like the US Marshall Plan in post WWII Europe/Japan which were driven probably more out of a fear of creeping communist influence rather pure benevolence. This plan sent a lot of US aid into rebuilding the infrastructure of these defeated enemies and helped turn them into staunch allies within a decade. I think I saw something like this in the Venice AAR when the Poland (controlled by AI) rebuilt Damascus which had been nearly destroyed in three previous sieges. I believe the comment was that the city rebounded quickly after this action.
