Western Isles and Autonomy

[spinoza013]

When EUIV came out I argued that perhaps as the Western Isles was considered, at the time, under control of the Lords of the Isles and because of this should in fact be a Vassal to Scotland. (potentially also the Highland province as in real life it was split between Rosshire, Caithness, Badenoch etc and so wasn't entirely under the Lordship of the isles) I conceded that this would probably affect game balance etc. and so accepted the current set up.

But now with Local Autonomy values in the game there is a strong argument that these and perhaps other provinces in the game should not start with 0% autonomy. I'd go as far as giving the Western Isles as much as 90% Autonomy and the Highland region 50% autonomy.

Of course this is where real life history and gameplay balance clash.

What are peoples thoughts on this and suggestions for other areas where autonomy should be looked at.?

Also Highlands should be mountain terrain to reflect historic difficulty of military campaigns there

 

[Seelmeister]

Sounds sensible to me. Really, it was only following the Battle of Culloden in 1746, when a vast road and fortress network was built throughout the highlands, that any real authority was exerted over the region from outside. Local autonomy seems the ideal mechanism to simulate this. Perhaps in mountainous/ densely forested provinces there should be a higher floor until a road network is constructed?

 

[spinoza013]

I definitely think autonomy should be closely tied to culture groups and building infrastructure.

If you want to colonise or integrate a province to 0% Autonomy from another culture and with no similar tech group infrastructure you need to culture convert and set up basic infrastructure, forts, roads, courthouses etc.

Until culture conversion, building infrastructure, religious conversion and other measures are taken local autonomy should be hard capped.

So say for example you land in North America, local autonomy should be capped at 100% and this cap can be lowered by Coring, building infrastructure, culture conversion, religious conversion etc. Once the cap is lowered you can then reduce local autonomy. Coring reduces Local Autonomy to 75% but a 75% cap remains. Cap can be reduced further [but not reduce LA] by Culture conversion 25%, Religious conversion 25% and the other 25 % by building various structures.

This means that a country with similar culture group , religion, infrastructure etc. that colonises will automatically have a lower cap to reduce and will therefore integrate provinces much faster.

 

[Gustav91]

My dear EUIV friends you are on something here! Tie cap with buildings and don't allow culture conversion and religous conversion if LA is to high.

 

[Mr. Habba]

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And instead of this very good suggestion, we have ridicilous LA floors on colonies...