Something I've been thinking lately is that the entire map needs a check for government expenses, and in particular small countries. There are so many small countries that bankruptcy spiral because they just start the game spending too much money and both don't edit their taxation/expenses, nor deconstruct government buildings, this mainly affects smaller nations, and I've got some examples of how you can make some small edits to a starting countries' buildings to fix their budget:
I deleted 2 ports, 1 government administration, and 2 ships from Portugal, fixing their deficit. I did not isolate any market areas, nor enter a bureaucracy or convoy shortage. Portugal also starts with a Construction Sector which as a country with 3m GDP they can not afford, which should also be deleted as well and would free up an extra ~£500 before making any changes to their taxation or expenditure.
Have you noticed that the Baltic Governorates revolts every game? That's because between their 4 states and 400k GDP they have 7 ports. I shouldn't have to tell you this is ridiculous. I deleted 6 ports, keeping the port in the capital. They also start with 2 institutions they need to pay for but these wouldn't really affect much since deleting 1 government admin would but them into a deficit regardless. This is likely a holdover from when the states were a part of Russia proper who can use the convoys.
Hanover is one of the classic German constant revolt states. They begin with land-based taxation and 18 units for some reason, note this is their budget after having released from the UK and so they're running shortages but not having to pay their diplo pacts anymore so YMMV. I deleted all of their special units and left them with 8 Line Infantry, but you could edit this a bit, they could even start with less institutions or another government administration since they're running a deficit which you can see is deleting £700 as well.
The Central American minors are also a slightly huge offender for having constant revolts, but since they don't spawn until shortly after game start I didn't have anything to show for them.
If more tags get added, allowances need to be made for what their expenditure is, otherwise there's just another tag I want to conquer just to stop there being a constant diplo play of their eternal revolt.
I deleted 2 ports, 1 government administration, and 2 ships from Portugal, fixing their deficit. I did not isolate any market areas, nor enter a bureaucracy or convoy shortage. Portugal also starts with a Construction Sector which as a country with 3m GDP they can not afford, which should also be deleted as well and would free up an extra ~£500 before making any changes to their taxation or expenditure.
Have you noticed that the Baltic Governorates revolts every game? That's because between their 4 states and 400k GDP they have 7 ports. I shouldn't have to tell you this is ridiculous. I deleted 6 ports, keeping the port in the capital. They also start with 2 institutions they need to pay for but these wouldn't really affect much since deleting 1 government admin would but them into a deficit regardless. This is likely a holdover from when the states were a part of Russia proper who can use the convoys.
Hanover is one of the classic German constant revolt states. They begin with land-based taxation and 18 units for some reason, note this is their budget after having released from the UK and so they're running shortages but not having to pay their diplo pacts anymore so YMMV. I deleted all of their special units and left them with 8 Line Infantry, but you could edit this a bit, they could even start with less institutions or another government administration since they're running a deficit which you can see is deleting £700 as well.
The Central American minors are also a slightly huge offender for having constant revolts, but since they don't spawn until shortly after game start I didn't have anything to show for them.
If more tags get added, allowances need to be made for what their expenditure is, otherwise there's just another tag I want to conquer just to stop there being a constant diplo play of their eternal revolt.
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