Well originally I want to create a massive and detailed post on why PI should drop the entire lucky nations thing and let its darlings just ruin themselves with imbecile rulers like they did in real life, but I assumed that that will just fall on deaf ears (again). So, Revolutions topic it is.
(sigh) Where to begin? A EU4 quote I suppose. Don't get me wrong the revolution thingy is a brilliant concept, but its like a string of pearls, its nice, but it doesn't do all that much. I don't know if its because they often don't happen or because (if they do happen) do so in insignificant countries or is it because everybody ignores them and they ignore everybody else (unlike the crush or spread the revolution mindset of the French Revolution), don't know.
So what I propose is dividing EU4 into Eras - two for example, maybe three. There is the Renaissance/Reformation and the Absolutist/Enlightenment/Revolution Era (or Revolution could be an era of itself). The Renaissance/Reformation: European powers get slight tech boosts (especially if Constantinople fall to infidels) plus a prestige if they embrace the Renaissance, a ticker ticks away to the Reformation like before. It would be nice if Catholics and Protestants get better perks from choosing to stick to or ditch their religion and if traditional Protestant nations, e.g. England especially, get special conditions to convert (no heir, female heir) - England could also get a special Reformation center that targets only their culture. The Counter-Reformation only begins if X number of provinces turn protestant (don't know if this currently happens in the game or not), ability to have centres of Counter-Reformation perhaps?. Religion plays a key role here.
Enter the Era of Absolutist/Enlightenment. Religion declines, we're more concerned with nations here. Just like the Reformation ticker, there is a ticker for Revolution. Western nations get to chose whether to Embrace the Enlightenment, this gives tech and prestige boosts, they stoke more Enlightenment, more perks.... and the Revolution ticker rises higher, they buy palaces and live in splendor and support more music, literature, and science - more rising ticker. Sometimes a Constitutional Monarchy emerges, the ticker is slowed, sometimes a King overthrows and re-establishes Absolutism (as in Sweden!), the ticker pipes up. By and large the Revolution hits around 100. Now, can only happen to Great Powers (this should be a must), if the great power has low stability or high debt and such or if isn't a Constitutional Monarchy. If none of these conditions are met, plop it down where it originally hails from - France.
After this could begin the Revolution Era, as a non-Revolution nation, you chose whether to join the reactionary or no or whether to wait it out (as in England), or perhaps even support the Revolution (!) and a government change is in order. The center of Revolution could also get a special CB to enforce the Revolution to a nation (vassalizing them plus changing the government) - don't know if EU4 currently has this option as never played as a Revolutionary country. And so forth.
Oh and what's with the Center of the Revolution getting the French tri-color? Really? Its a French flag. I know a lot of people believe that it represented Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, but that is simply inaccurate. Originally it represented the white of the Bourbons (worn by members who didn't support the revolution) combined with Blue and Red (the color worn by members who supported the revolution, which were the original colors of Paris, the center of the Revolution). Perhaps the liberalised Vicky II flags would be better for a Revolutionary country.
(sigh) Where to begin? A EU4 quote I suppose. Don't get me wrong the revolution thingy is a brilliant concept, but its like a string of pearls, its nice, but it doesn't do all that much. I don't know if its because they often don't happen or because (if they do happen) do so in insignificant countries or is it because everybody ignores them and they ignore everybody else (unlike the crush or spread the revolution mindset of the French Revolution), don't know.
So what I propose is dividing EU4 into Eras - two for example, maybe three. There is the Renaissance/Reformation and the Absolutist/Enlightenment/Revolution Era (or Revolution could be an era of itself). The Renaissance/Reformation: European powers get slight tech boosts (especially if Constantinople fall to infidels) plus a prestige if they embrace the Renaissance, a ticker ticks away to the Reformation like before. It would be nice if Catholics and Protestants get better perks from choosing to stick to or ditch their religion and if traditional Protestant nations, e.g. England especially, get special conditions to convert (no heir, female heir) - England could also get a special Reformation center that targets only their culture. The Counter-Reformation only begins if X number of provinces turn protestant (don't know if this currently happens in the game or not), ability to have centres of Counter-Reformation perhaps?. Religion plays a key role here.
Enter the Era of Absolutist/Enlightenment. Religion declines, we're more concerned with nations here. Just like the Reformation ticker, there is a ticker for Revolution. Western nations get to chose whether to Embrace the Enlightenment, this gives tech and prestige boosts, they stoke more Enlightenment, more perks.... and the Revolution ticker rises higher, they buy palaces and live in splendor and support more music, literature, and science - more rising ticker. Sometimes a Constitutional Monarchy emerges, the ticker is slowed, sometimes a King overthrows and re-establishes Absolutism (as in Sweden!), the ticker pipes up. By and large the Revolution hits around 100. Now, can only happen to Great Powers (this should be a must), if the great power has low stability or high debt and such or if isn't a Constitutional Monarchy. If none of these conditions are met, plop it down where it originally hails from - France.
After this could begin the Revolution Era, as a non-Revolution nation, you chose whether to join the reactionary or no or whether to wait it out (as in England), or perhaps even support the Revolution (!) and a government change is in order. The center of Revolution could also get a special CB to enforce the Revolution to a nation (vassalizing them plus changing the government) - don't know if EU4 currently has this option as never played as a Revolutionary country. And so forth.
Oh and what's with the Center of the Revolution getting the French tri-color? Really? Its a French flag. I know a lot of people believe that it represented Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, but that is simply inaccurate. Originally it represented the white of the Bourbons (worn by members who didn't support the revolution) combined with Blue and Red (the color worn by members who supported the revolution, which were the original colors of Paris, the center of the Revolution). Perhaps the liberalised Vicky II flags would be better for a Revolutionary country.
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