Why Change Can Be Bad-Common Sense

[neondt]

In my experience so far, not being able to develop provinces would be far less of a handicap than not being able to set a national focus (also a DLC feature). Developing provinces is something you want to do only when you have plenty of monarch points to spare. If you never get near your MP cap, you're not missing out on much.

 

[neondt]

Conquest is cheaper than internal development. You have to stack every available bonus and focus almost entirely on grassland / farmland provinces for any serious focus on development to be worthwhile -- and doing that is likely to weaken your conquest game (since you don't have the MPs available for coring / diplo-annexing).

CS permits internal development for making tall nations, but they're basically suboptimal as of this patch. It's a novelty feature, and I'm excited to have it, but it doesn't change the game in a notable manner.

This. Though it's a really nice option to have if 1) you happen to have plenty of a certain type of monarch point or 2) you just really, really want to make Ultra-Cornwall.

 

[neondt]

Remember pre-Common Sense I had unlimited buildings at 10 MP a building. Now I can only have up to 1-5 per province(depends on province) and I can never unlock more. WHY? Why can't I unlock more slots? I had unlimited, now its been put under a development barrier(MP cost really) which is fine.

What is not fine is the paywall of said development specifically when relating to buildings. I am perfectly fine having development as a paid feature, yes it is new. Buildings are not new and have been a feature since day 1. DAY 1. Now I have an arbitrary wall I can only tear down if I have the DLC. That is by definition a paywall.

You generally need to add so much development to a province to get a new building slot (each slot unlocks at 10 development levels after the first. Each point of development costs somewhere in the range of 50-100mp initially, and it only gets higher.) that it's not even remotely worth it to do that. The cases where you do want to add development for the sake of buildings are in provinces like Firenze which are 1-2 development away from having a new slot. I can understand why this might be irritating if you don't have the dlc, but understand that is is a minority of circumstances, and 1 building is not likely to be game-changing.

People are vastly overstating the difference that increasing development makes.