AI incorporation logic

[Toa Kraka]

In version 1.8, an AI country will incorporate a state only if the state is a homeland of a primary culture of the country.

In version 1.9, an AI country will incorporate a state only if the state can be incorporated in no more than 10 years--i. e., if a homeland culture of the state shares any trait with a primary culture of the country. (The threshold of 10 years can be changed with the defines value "INCORPORATE_STATE_MAX_YEARS".)

IMO, it would make more sense for an AI country to incorporate a state only if a homeland culture of the state has a base acceptance of at least 60. Under this framework: a country with Ethnostate would incorporate only primary-culture homelands (just as in vanilla 1.8); a country with National Supremacy would incorporate homelands of same-ethnicity, same-cultural-trait states; a country with Racial Segregation or Cultural Exclusion would incorporate only homelands of same-ethnicity states; and a country with Multiculturalism would incorporate all states.

An alternative threshold might be base acceptance of 40. Under this framework: a country with Ethnostate would incorporate homelands of same-ethnicity, same-cultural-trait states; a country with National Supremacy or Racial Segregation would incorporate only homelands of same-ethnicity states; a country with Cultural Exclusion would incorporate homelands of same-cultural-trait states (just as in vanilla 1.9); and a country with Multiculturalism would incorporate all states.

What opinions do you have on this topic?

(It would also be nice if the vanilla game allowed countries to disincorporate states to follow these frameworks.)

 

[typhus_of_barbarus]

I was wondering why Britain, France, and Spain were incorporating their American states but Denmark and the Netherlands weren't. I like the idea of incorporation having different requirements based on a countries laws based on homelands or even cultural communities. I'm not sure about disincorporating, I can't think of a country that has ever reduced what was considered a core state to less controlled territory without working towards independence for the region.

 

[skps2010]

I like the way it is now. Incorporating state based on culture acceptance doesn't make sense. Incorporating state give you money and institution, culture doesn't matter.

 

[Cold cook317]

The only problem I have with it right now is the EIC (and probably also the DEI but I didn‘t check). They made it so that colonial administrations gain a boost to incorporation speed to make it possible for them to incorporate african states. However, India does not enjoy this luxury. This means that large chunks of India will suffer from huge penalties like -33% construction efficieny, -10% mapi and no tax collection.
Therefore it would be great if the devs added a similar option to the EIC so that it can also incorporate stuff faster.