Originally posted by Isaac Brock
Not an EEP issue. AI countries get sliders for ALL religions (e.g., bhuddist, confusionan etc.)
Isn't there anything that could be done? It is VERY unfair. I recently played a game with Scotland, and saw England with -4 religious tolerance for catholic, protestant and reformed provinces, while I was having a hard time dealing with my catholic Irish provinces and my reformed Scottish cores.
Another thing: in that same game, I went bankrupt TWICE because I was forced to keep a large Scottish army (England was ALWAYS attacking me). I ended up with an inflation of ~100%, until I started promoting governors.
I managed to conquer England and Wales, but sometime during the XVI century two English provinces rebelled and became independent (I conquered one and signed a peace treaty with England). That province was stuck in the middle of four or five "Scottish" (anglo) provinces, so England couldn't send those troops anywhere.
My problem was that after declaring independence and with peace signed, England, with only ONE province (with a province income of about 15$) built in 9 or 10 years an army of 47.000 CAVALRY. How in the hell could they support such a large army, when I - owning now almost all of Ireland (Castille had Ulster) and all of Britain (except for that one province), and owning most of the eastern coast of North America, could only afford ~30.000 (most of them infantry) ?!!!
To make things worst, England was investing into research: they had the most modern army in Europe!
After colonising most of North America with an inflation-ridden Scotland, I gave up. It would take me about 100 years to reduce the inflation to a tolerable level (when I gave up it was at 88%).
Incidentally, I only got 2 (!!!) "extraordinary year events" (-10 inflation) in 200 years! I started a new Portugal game, and I already had 2 of those events in much less than 100 years... Was I just unlucky with Scotland, or is there a way to make those events more frequent?
I found it VERY VERY hard to play with Scotland. Not because of the English threat (even though fighting England means keeping the sliders at 100% for several years and still losing -7 or -8 every month), but because I was constantly having stability hits one time after another. I probably went 150 years without reaching stab. 3 (!!). And the Scottish events suck big time. University of Glasgow gives 150$ to Infra? That is the same as nothing.
Anyway, my whole point is: how can AI nations with only one province maintain armies well over 20.000 soldiers, when I can't keep armies over 9.000 with Scotland's four provinces? And why can the AI playing with Scotland keep a Scottish army of 25.000 soldiers, when they don't even own Ireland?!
