Ramdom event destorying my game

[Nikolai]

I am enjoying a wonderful game as Germany in the GC. With more than 4000 prestige, I had 3 DI per year untill recently. This was just what I needed to maintain my Grand Alliance with Austria and Great Britain. But some years into the new century, I got an event I guess is random, something about a guiding priciple of the state.

This lowered my diplomatic efficency with 20%, something that gave me 2.4 DI per year. Irritating, but such things happen. Then, some time after ,I got this once again. 1.8 DI per year.

Now things began to look grimmer. I knew that to maintain my relations AND renew the alliance, that I soon would have to do, would be difficult, especially if I should be able to USE the alliance too...

Then I got the event YET AGAIN! Now I had just 1.2 DI per year. My alliance went ot an end, and with so little DI, I had no chance to renew them, as I had got worse relations the last years, without being able to do much(because of unlucky results with improving them). Is this really how it should be?!

 

[SickMonkey]

it's a known bug.

 

[unmerged(15623)]

Serves you right for choosing meritocracy over aristocracy.

A quick and easy way to remedy this bug is to add the line "invention = yes" to the event (which can be found in db/events/political_events.txt file).

 

[dtroiani]

which event is it???

 

[Stingray]

check the bug forums FIY thread for more detailed information on how to fix the bug. Fixing the bug won't change the game though, so you might want to create an event that gives you better diplomacy effectiveness.

(EDIT) it's FIY not DIY silly me

 

[Nikolai]

Thank you for the help! What's the differencee between merocracy and aristocracy btw?

 

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Nikolai
Thank you for the help! What's the differencee between merocracy and aristocracy btw?

In-game, they enable different political inventions guiding your country.