I'm playing revolutions as Prussia. I followed the VickyWiki road to prepare Prussia for the coming war with Denmark and to become superpower numbero uno in the world. Build the factories, did the worldmarket thingy and converted nearly 15% of the population to capitalists. So everything should be fine, right? Well, wrong. My ungratefull subjects keep revolting, from the start, and I have to keep cutting them down. It's realy annoying. It's even starting to affect my population size. Aside from hundreds of ungratefull subjects migrating overseas, despite having plenty of work and relative low taxes at home, the loss of life everytime I need to send in troops means my population size is now dropping. It's 1850 now and my population only grows by conquering new territories. Reforms and switching parties didn't help much. How do I lower their militancy?
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Reducing militancy takes time and there is no quick fix. You can see why each POP is individually unhappy by hovering the mouse over a POP's militancy factor in the side bar or the ledger. Low taxes always helps to lower militancy as does having a government that a POP likes (but you can't please all of the people all of the time). Social and political reforms reduce militancy in the poor POPs but tend to increase it in the rich. POP's with low consciousness are generally more passive (even with a high militancy) and placing clergy in each province helps to reduce that.
Uumm...thanks. I was hoping for something more substantial then quoting the wikia part about militancy. Is it normal for Prussia to constantly revolt from the start?
It sounds like you are going through the Liberal Revolution phase of the game in which case it is perfectly normal for Prussia (and other non-liberal states) to have tons of rebels for a few years before it suddenly comes to an end.
No. It all started around 1838. 2 years after game start. Way before the Liberal Revolution.
Did you do some government switching? Otherwise I can't think of anything that would make people's militancy rise that fast.
I start out with the conservatives but switched a short while to the National party so I could build some factories and then switched back to the conservatives.
There's your problem then. Militancy gets a boost from changing the ruling party. Up until the Liberal Revolution one of your top priorities should be to lower militancy.
But would 2 switches be enough to make them revolt for over 10 years? I had the game on pause when I switched to build the factories.
Yes. They start out fairly high AFAIK, and militancy reduction is a slow process. Pausing doesn't matter.