You know what would be nice and somewhat historical? After you beat a coalition or honestly any country in a war utterly and complete, you should be able to bankrupt them. I'm not talking about taking all their ducats, I'm talking about taking so many ducats it takes them 20 years to pay off the loans.
The Fundamental Problem with Coalitions (1.5)
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Usually not things that were paid up front though.
In any case, not really something that would make the game any more amusing to play. Crush a couple of smaller enemies and live a prosperous life off their money (building spree). No AE from reparations either. I wouldn't like it I'm afraid. Not even that I could just avoid doing it myself, as the AI most certainly would use it (it isn't the benefit that I don't like, it is the negative effect on the loser).
So Paradoxs' idea of "balancing" a game with patching is as follows:
Patch "A": lots of AE and lots of coalitions
Patch "A.a": royally #!=# things up
Patch "B": no AE and no coalitions and %"#¤ things up even more trying to fix patch "A.a" all the while releasing an expansion that's not even in beta.
Patch "C": lots of AE and lots of coalitions
Comparing Paradox with EA... and EA is actually starting to look like a decent company that actually knows what they are doing.
Patch "A": lots of AE and lots of coalitions
Patch "A.a": royally #!=# things up
Patch "B": no AE and no coalitions and %"#¤ things up even more trying to fix patch "A.a" all the while releasing an expansion that's not even in beta.
Patch "C": lots of AE and lots of coalitions
Comparing Paradox with EA... and EA is actually starting to look like a decent company that actually knows what they are doing.
Haha. EA is certainly well shooled in "hose you 100% of the time". It depends what you frame the goal as. EA is very good at extracting money without inputting much effort...true market leaders in that respect.
Yet another coalition highlight in my current Castile > Spain game. France was invading England, so I dowed France, took out their fleet and started carpet sieging, killing off the few remaining troops. I won the war without much problems and took 2 provinces from France.
That made France join a coalition against me. That's fine. What is somewhat stupid though is that England also joined the coalition (because I fought the guys that where just invading their homeland) and on top of that Austria joined the coalition as well - because they really care about how the spanisch-french border looks! But wait, there's more. Good old Mali who lost their coastline to me 2 years earlier also joined the coalition. So now I'm facing the wrath of England, France, Austria and...Mali.
Don't get me wrong, coalitions are fine as a concept, but the way they are done is just nonsense! England, France and Austria probably don't even know of Mali but still they'll all go to war against me if I chose to take some land from some barbaric heathens? Right...
That made France join a coalition against me. That's fine. What is somewhat stupid though is that England also joined the coalition (because I fought the guys that where just invading their homeland) and on top of that Austria joined the coalition as well - because they really care about how the spanisch-french border looks! But wait, there's more. Good old Mali who lost their coastline to me 2 years earlier also joined the coalition. So now I'm facing the wrath of England, France, Austria and...Mali.
Don't get me wrong, coalitions are fine as a concept, but the way they are done is just nonsense! England, France and Austria probably don't even know of Mali but still they'll all go to war against me if I chose to take some land from some barbaric heathens? Right...