Incredibly cheap missionaries

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Just something I noticed earlier today, playing OE in Nov 19 beta (1419 scenario, though I doubt that matters).

In roughly 1535-40, I took out the Mameluks (using the event once their capital fell to inherit.) Sometime previous to this, Cataract and Delta provinces had been converted to Shiite. When I went to dispatch missionaries to reconvert them to Sunni...

... the costs were only about 30-35 gold per missionary. While an Orthodox province in Nubia and my also-recently-conquered assortment of Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox provinces in the Balkans were all around 250-350. At the same time.

I suspect it might have been something odd caused by the fact that those provinces are in Africa, land connected to my capital *and* core provinces, but I thought it merited mention...

 

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Just something I noticed earlier today, playing OE in Nov 19 beta (1419 scenario, though I doubt that matters).

In roughly 1535-40, I took out the Mameluks (using the event once their capital fell to inherit.) Sometime previous to this, Cataract and Delta provinces had been converted to Shiite. When I went to dispatch missionaries to reconvert them to Sunni...

... the costs were only about 30-35 gold per missionary. While an Orthodox province in Nubia and my also-recently-conquered assortment of Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox provinces in the Balkans were all around 250-350. At the same time.

I suspect it might have been something odd caused by the fact that those provinces are in Africa, land connected to my capital *and* core provinces, but I thought it merited mention...

that is WAD for some lowly populated provinces, check the BETA changes thread.

 

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One of them, however, was Delta, which has a fairly high population...

Also, Nubia province, just two or three provinces over, was not affected; the only differences I could spot was that it was not a core and was Orthodox, rather than Shiite. (It may also have had nationalism, if that matters.) Missionaries to that province were still costing me something like 260.

 

[Cagliostro]

One of them, however, was Delta, which has a fairly high population...

Also, Nubia province, just two or three provinces over, was not affected; the only differences I could spot was that it was not a core and was Orthodox, rather than Shiite. (It may also have had nationalism, if that matters.) Missionaries to that province were still costing me something like 260.

Nubia province is Nubian culture, IIRC - Egypt is Arabic. The Turks have Arabic culture, so conversion is considerably easier.

 

[Norrefeldt]

Everything with population under 5000 is very cheap. I like it, Russia can actually attack the steppe dummies now and make decent orthodox provinces of them.

 

[Hive]

Well given how religion works in EU2, I think it's good. If certain nations can't convert certain areas, they simply won't be interesting enough to conquer.

I would personally rather see less RR for non-religion provinces and only 5-10% less income from them, instead of the current -30% - and then have conversions much more difficult to succeed with.

But since that probably won't be done, I think the current system works fine. Russia can use this in the Steppes, other nations can use it in colonies. And as it were before this change, Russia had little reason to take mongol provinces, a nation like Netherlands had little reason to attack Portugal's colonies due to the religious differences, etc...