Some thoughts on 1.9 the good the bad great and horrible

[Ame]

First the great

1. The great-thank you for letting us play as released nations and thank you for introducing internal crisis another challenge is always good.

2. Thank you for taking down at least a little Europe's trade advantage

3. Picking religion is now a very good idea

4. Saving money on coring makes ADM a good option now to.

5. Ideas giving more diplomatic relations/diplomats to are now very competitive for me.

Now the good

1. Thank you for making coalitions make more sense

2. Thank you for the peasant wars now making sense.

Now the bad

1.Why does it cost 3 stability to declare your war of independence now? Aren't we taxed enough for ADM points as is? Only in a Republic is there any control over ADM points and even then you have to get rid of your monarch/usually dare not re-elect multiple times. Taxing monarch points also isn't challenging it is time grinding, to keep WC a challenge it should be a challenge to conquer, not a challenge to wait/we need to figure out the perfect linear vassalize/annex strategy to expand. I understand there is a logic to wars of independence being radical (although if it is in the 15th century perhaps that logic doesn't apply yet) but it makes for some awful gameplay.

Now the horrible

1. Legitimacy/Tradition-We have no control over that besides the child in the reeds event, it really has to either go up faster or be effected by successful/failed wars, inflation, the economy etc.

2. Events-The internal coflicts over religion in a province seems broken to me; it says 75% chance the religion converts to your religion yet that just hasn't happened when I have been at war. Now that manpower causes civil wars very reliably shouldn't the 75% mean that the vast majority of the time that 4000 manpower you spend on converting actually convert?

Overall I am happy with the patch, I wonder if anyone else shares my feelings about the positives and negatives?

By the way is it just me or has religion really received a super improvement? Hard to argue that it is still easy to just leave your people unconverted in early game isn't it?

 

[Terry L Lyndon]

It always cost 3 stability.

 

[Ame]

Perhaps I should put that in it's own category then.

 

[uwor]

Why do you think religious ideas are more valid now? I guess I just missed something.

 

[ero_sk]

First the great
1. The great-thank you for letting us play as released nations and thank you for introducing internal crisis another challenge is always good.

Are you talking about disaster "system" or some additional feature? If second- can somebody describe what is it?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Loha4]

Struggle without struggle within does actually work (pretty sure you can only get it at war, not at peace) but its entirely possible to get very unlucky with it, I've had negatives 3 times in a row but every other time its worked, have to re-check the province though I think the symbol changes but not the religion name till you reopen it or something like that. It's always worth taking because 50 diplo points is a kick in the teeth vs 4000 manpower in nearly every situation, you can even race it back up against the peasants war timer in this patch.