I know this isn't the best time to be talking about bankruptcy, but when the current debt spiral issue is fixed, I would like a way to improve these two things.
Trade Wars.
This is the easier of the two to fix. This doesn't function as much like a "Trade War" as it does a "Use your bigger navy to extract the amount of cash you'd get in a conquest war, minus War Reps."
I like this part, but there's nothing else, and it caps out at the usual 25% + however much WS you can get from the blockade. There's not much of a threat during the war, and after about 5 years, the enemy just gives you the cash., but requires a land invasion for much of anything else. Even if you do get one of the trade-related concessions, it's something like a 10-15 year trade advantage. It's never as good as just taking one of their trade ports and fully-upgrading it.
Solution: Make it tick up faster, but also potentially tick up to 50 or 100, with 25-35 year trade concessions, and with the Blockade impact on trade power returning (for as long as you're specifically in a Trade War with that nation).
Devastation
Outside making Ming Dynasty China explode and screwing over prosperity spammers, this serves no purpose. It takes a long time to increase devastation to a reasonable degree, but this has no effect on the country.
Solution: Increase the "Occupied" portion of the "Monthly devastation" counter. Also, create more internal and external causes that can lead to rampant devastation
Trade Wars.
This is the easier of the two to fix. This doesn't function as much like a "Trade War" as it does a "Use your bigger navy to extract the amount of cash you'd get in a conquest war, minus War Reps."
I like this part, but there's nothing else, and it caps out at the usual 25% + however much WS you can get from the blockade. There's not much of a threat during the war, and after about 5 years, the enemy just gives you the cash., but requires a land invasion for much of anything else. Even if you do get one of the trade-related concessions, it's something like a 10-15 year trade advantage. It's never as good as just taking one of their trade ports and fully-upgrading it.
Solution: Make it tick up faster, but also potentially tick up to 50 or 100, with 25-35 year trade concessions, and with the Blockade impact on trade power returning (for as long as you're specifically in a Trade War with that nation).
Devastation
Outside making Ming Dynasty China explode and screwing over prosperity spammers, this serves no purpose. It takes a long time to increase devastation to a reasonable degree, but this has no effect on the country.
Solution: Increase the "Occupied" portion of the "Monthly devastation" counter. Also, create more internal and external causes that can lead to rampant devastation
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