Regarding development of small countries

[kontinos]

I have often read about lorraine or some other country with not many provinces developing to the sky. Maybe if development of a province should also have a ducatt or development cost or both proportionate to development/provinces modifier?
I havent thought of it much, i guess people who are into theorycrafting can see the cons and pros of this and put them into this discussion.

 

[Utretch]

Development was designed to help those small countries. The next patch will reduce the capital dev reduction for small nations which will help alleviate some of the problem, but really it's working for the most part as intended. I really don't like the idea of gold cost for development because it both defeats the whole point of development (growing tall rather than wide) and it infringes on buildings, which represent straight infrastructure development by the state in my interpretation.