The AI makes me laugh and get annoyed

[Viperswhip]

It depends on whether I am the overlord or not.

Here's what minor AI countries do, you know with forcelimits of less than 20. They increase revolt risk to lower autonomy and then get 3 stacks of 15 rebels, two of them with randomly generated generals. Way to go...

Here's what most players do, lower revolt risk and raise autonomy. The place is crap anyways when you get it, might as well burn off the nationalism period so that at the end of that you can raise revolt risk and lower autonomy, ya okay, it's like 25 years to get down to 20ish or so Autonomy, but for those of us who played EU3 that's familiar territory anyway.

Brand spanking new colonial nation, I guess they get to make a new decision when they take a province, because those provinces I stole from the native folks went from 1% revolt risk to 12 the second they took over, and wouldn't you know it, my 6 force limit colonial nation gets 2 stacks of 10 rebels to deal with...good job.

Does the AI not know how to manage this new system? I am guessing not. I don't want skynet, but less stupidity would be kind of fun as well, and I play on Hard AI if that makes any difference.

 

[Xinkc]

I thought the AI wasn't properly coded to use the Autonomy features and much of the other AoW/1.8 stuff yet. I don't think I've ever seen the AI lower or raise their autonomy themselves though I mainly pay attention to my vassals.

Anyways, with how I've been playing, I almost always lower autonomy when I get a province. Unless it needs conversion, many provinces will have around -10% unrest in my nation when I receive them or will after OE and WE lower.

 

[slv]

It's so fun to reconquer Danzig from Pomerania/Poland and seeing 25% unrest on it because "Decreased Autonomy".

 

[Viperswhip]

I thought the AI wasn't properly coded to use the Autonomy features and much of the other AoW/1.8 stuff yet. I don't think I've ever seen the AI lower or raise their autonomy themselves though I mainly pay attention to my vassals.

Anyways, with how I've been playing, I almost always lower autonomy when I get a province. Unless it needs conversion, many provinces will have around -10% unrest in my nation when I receive them or will after OE and WE lower.

Oh, I am always around +10, wrong culture, OE, WE, you know, it all goes down eventually, but you must take humanism or something

 

[Xinkc]

Oh, I am always around +10, wrong culture, OE, WE, you know, it all goes down eventually, but you must take humanism or something

Oh yeah, Humanist helps. Best choice ever. As France I went through the Wars of Religion with just the starting and end event.

Oh and I always forget that I have the Stability Fervor on. Protestant has very little on Reformed.

 

[IIWW]

Humanism or Religious. Tolerance of true faith matters now.

 

[BarrosRodrigues]

Does the AI not know how to manage this new system? I am guessing not.

You guessed right.

I don't want skynet, but less stupidity would be kind of fun as well.

Me too but unfortunately the AI gross stupidity is WAD in this game.

and I play on Hard AI if that makes any difference.

No it will only make the AI gang up on you if you are not careful. You could try AI bonuses but that won´t make it smarter, it will only give it more raw power to brute force with in the stupidest ways possible.