2: I followed an old bug report and edited the reform the senate decision as it was refusing to show up, all I did was remove the requirement that the title be inactive (it was mid game so the senate was long gone) the decision worked except now it keeps flipping to subroman gov, making me the heir! I tried again and this time switched during the creation of the houses and built a tradepost that way as I had thought that MR’s need to have an initial tradepost to remain as one.
I flipped back to the emperor and they almost instantly reverted to sub roman, okay I thought wait till the trade post is finished building and try again. I repeated the steps and flipped back to my emperor and they stayed a little longer as a republic but soon returned to being Sub roman, except this time when they flipped back it destroyed the trade post leaving me back a square one!!