A opm is still a nation it makes no difference, It's 9 provinces at the cost of 1400 diplo points in 1470.
I fail to see how bringing in real life incidents is going to impact at all on a game in which monarch points are a thing. Do you have any historical situations where countries use magical points to annex land, do you have any evidence that the ottomans didn't go 100 percent overextension when annexing Mamluks in 15 years? That's why you shouldn't bring in real life situations into a simulator game, its not historical simulator. At the end of the day the main point of the game is fun. Having 1 diplomat for 23 years is not my idea of fun.
I agree. People might find the number reasonable since you're integrating a lot of land. That's a solid way of thinking but gaming wise it's the comparison to what we had before that matters: annexing costs almost doubled - and there is no way to offset that (other than influence ideas which help a bit). Ok the diplo for taking provinces has been slightly reduced, but that still doesn't add up.
The main gripe is yes the time to annex, The secondary complaint is the utter increase in cost which has about Tripled from previous cost's. I also fail how you expect me to have ideas as England considering the starting king is a 0,0,0 and once you get an heir the war of roses event stops. so a good few years of 0,0,0
Monarch points are an abstraction. It seems quite reasonable to use history as a reference for what they represent, namely a country's ability to devote administrative and human ressources and attention.
