revolts

[unmerged(3522)]

As Spain, I have acquired several Catholic provinces from Portugal and France. My stability is maximized, and we share the same religion, but these provinces keep on revolting. I checked the chances of revolt and saw that all those provinces have 3% chance due to nationalism. So I was wondering if nationalism will decrease over time or if there is anything else I can do to decrease the percentage, since its pretty annoying to constantly put down the revolts.

 

[BiB]

It will decrease with 1% every 10 years. That's all there's to it.

 

[unmerged(3627)]

All you can do at this point is stay stable, don't build tax collectors in those provinces (which would make things worse,) and try to keep a hefty standing infantry in at least some of them, so that the rebels get cut down as soon as they appear.


Oh ... and don't be occupying the Netherlands around 1650

 

[BiB]

U mean 1560

Tax collectors wouldn't do much really generally.

 

[unmerged(3388)]

Tax inspectors will not affect much in this case, except give you more money, as long as you have good stability and religious tolorrance.

The 3% is a tempory minimum and if you check by moving your mouse over the revolt risk you should see what I mean....

-3 Stability
-6 religion
+3 Tax inspector
+3 nationalism (set as min)
(all approx typical values)

So you can see under normal circumstances you would have a revolt risk of -6, it's just the nationalism screwing you not the tax inspector.

Cheers, Ice

 

[unmerged(3522)]

I am happy that 3% revolt risk is a temporary munimum. It seems that currently these provinces are revolting a lot more often than 3% of the time... something more like every year or so. I wonder why. So I should not occupy Netherlands around 1560? Thats exactly where I am right now. Its pretty difficuly not to occupy them, since they keep declaring war on me for no reason, and its very easy to defeat them. Aware of history, I let the country proclaim independece around 1540, (except Flanders) hoping that they would leave me alone and let me concentrate on France and colonization. Instead they just keep attacking me every 5 years.

 

[unmerged(3388)]

The 3% is per month not year. I'm not going into the maths it's been done to death on this site, but that works out to arroung 35% a year (very ish).

Do a search on Nationalism for the various threads

Cheers, Ice

 

[unmerged(3388)]

Well if you're very sad and really want to read the maths here is a link....

http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=8212

Cheers, Ice

 

[unmerged(3522)]

Nope, I am not that sad. What you told me is quite enough, I don't have the patience to do any further calculations.

Thanks

 

[unmerged(3388)]

Yep!, me too I got a life to lead. Althought......don't I just play EU IGC................Hmmmm

Cheers, Ice

 

[unmerged(3627)]

Originally posted by Bourbon
So I should not occupy Netherlands around 1560? Thats exactly where I am right now. Its pretty difficuly not to occupy them, since they keep declaring war on me for no reason, and its very easy to defeat them. Aware of history, I let the country proclaim independece around 1540, (except Flanders) hoping that they would leave me alone and let me concentrate on France and colonization. Instead they just keep attacking me every 5 years.

Taking odd provinces off them isn't a problem, but if you annex the country, the Dutch Nationalism event will cause a revolt risk of over 40% per month, per province. Within a couple of years they'll be proclaiming independence again...

 

[unmerged(931)]

So I should leave their capital alone, except for cash bonuses? Seems like after 30 years of occupation, the other provinces should be pacified. Then could I take the capital, without all of them revolting?