Protestant vs catholic. Unbalanced?

[Culham]

Hi, am I the only one who thinks that it is far more difficult to stay catholic that to become Protestant or reformed?
As catholic you stare helplessly at your Protestant regions for decades while its easy to get 100% religious unity as a Protestant with your 10% Bonus for missionaries. As Protestant or reformed you usually have no Trouble while you face serious religious turmoil as catholic. At least this is my Observation.
Counter Revolution doesnt help much because its irrelevant if One or three missionaries cannot convert your regions.

 

[User29]

If you have a lot of Cardinals or a huge empire it definitely dissuades you.

 

[slv]

If you have a lot of Cardinals or a huge empire it definitely dissuades you.

In 1.7 yes. In 1.8 there is no purpose of having cardinals since your chance of becoming the curia controler are low.

Reformation is smoother now with centers btw.

 

[pgroves]

On the upside, if you colonize early as a Catholic, you don't have to wait to turn protestant before creating CNs, if you want them to be the same religion as you (which is probably a god idea). This can be a pain for England/Norway etc. but I still always go Protestant with these two

 

[Santoes]

In 1.7 yes. In 1.8 there is no purpose of having cardinals since your chance of becoming the curia controler are low.

Reformation is smoother now with centers btw.

In 1.8 cardinals give influence. That gives you the chance, so I think what he said is relevant.

Basically if you are going to focus on tax, and a huge empire in Europe you are likely to benefit more from Catholic.

 

[IIWW]

To stay catholic You need either religious, or humanist. With the new authonomy mechanism religious are better imo. and then it's possible, still not too easy.

 

[marat271]

With the fervor system Reformed is arguably the best religion ther eis now. Heck, muslim and orthodox are great too now. Protestantism got the short of the stick with this expansion!.

 

[Autoclave]

Protestantism is for those that cannot beat austria diplomatically at becoming an Emperor.
I treat Catholic religion like a flat 50 diplomacy net bonus: wrong religion gives -40 for neighboring heretic religion penalty vs +10 same religion

 

[petertel123]

With the fervor system Reformed is arguably the best religion ther eis now. Heck, muslim and orthodox are great too now. Protestantism got the short of the stick with this expansion!.

you can almost garantue becoming emperor if you're a large protestant nation in the HRE who wins the 30 years war

 

[slv]

With the fervor system Reformed is arguably the best religion ther eis now. Heck, muslim and orthodox are great too now. Protestantism got the short of the stick with this expansion!.

Prefer being Protestant if I decide to be a republic. Since I usually keep my stability near -2 with low R.T. to get better rulers. In that case it would be hard to farm fervor (no bonus from positive stability) so Reformed isn't worth it. In the late game (and in 1.8 1515 is late enough) morale (war fervor) seems to matter way less than discipline, money (trade fervor) means less than points (protestant idea discount).