How do one avoid widespread uprisings?

[Major Dølje]

In my current game, I play as Russia in the GC and recently (about 1600) I got severe problems due to continious uprisings in all of my provinces. This mass-uprising started the moment I annexed sweden. I checked my BB-rating and found it to be 67. My stability-level was a nice +3 and marked as "very strong" on the nation-overview. What I then did was to adjust the tolerance-level for protestantism and catholisism as it initially seemed that it was the conquered provinces that started the rebellions. The tolerance-adjust didn't change anything, and absolutely all of my provinces rioted as #¤"&¤&/(&% for a good 10 years. Now, fortunately, it seems that most have calmed down, possibly as a consequence of me building troops in all of my provinces? Do troops have a "police"-function when stationed in a province? (Sort of like military-units in Civilization.)
What is the "correct" way to avoid these somewhat strange and widespread uprisings it such a stable country?
Why do they appear? Is it due to badboy?
What should be done?

 

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Troops in provinces do not decrease revolt risk, however they do kill the rebels when the revolt starts

Newly conquered pronvinces i.e. the swedish provinces you annexed, have an inherent 3% nationalism revolt risk declining 3-2-1-0% in the span of 30 years
Btw this nationalsm revolt risk is not changed by stability and improvements (place your cursor over the revolt-% in the province screen to get details for each province)

So you just have to wait it out and keep troops there to queel the rebellions.

 

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Did your Orthodox provinces rebel too?

If yes, I believe that while you set your tolerance levels for Catholics & Protestants, you decreased your tolerance for Orthodox as well.

My observation about the tolerance levels is that you have to be very cautious with them: it seems that when you just open the window, they might change a bit (to a certain resolution level?), increasing your revolt risk. It has happened to me and I'm pretty sure I didn't change anything, just opened it. It's nasty to find out later that you have +1% revolt risk in your core provinces due to that when one of them revolts

Anyway, you can see a nice break down what causes the revolt risk by howering your cursor above revolt risk in city status window.

Second possible cause for the increased revolt risk is war exhaustion: did you happened to have a long war going on for too long time?

Or alternatively, did you happened to receive that nasty random event (increased revolt risk for x months)?

 

[Endre Fodstad]

Major Dølje?

Majooooooor Dølje!

EF

 

[Major Dølje]

Ah, I think war exhaustion may have had something to do with it
Besides, during these times of uprisings, I got "Times of troubles" as "monarch". I doubt that did things better. Not sure about the random event though, I was too occupied with calming down the rioting provinces at that time.

I haven't really understood the badboy-thingie yet. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a high/low BB-rating?

AND: I rejoice everytime someone recognise my nick
Great seeing another norwegian using what I hoped was the norwegian avatar!

 

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Originally posted by Major Dølje
I haven't really understood the badboy-thingie yet. What are the advantages and disadvantages of having a high/low BB-rating?

Tried reading about it in my FAQ at my site ?