A big country with a big army is not an indicator of welfare and safety.
Prestige represents your reputation and respect in the country, and in the world.
It ranges between -100 and +100.
Still, prestige has immense bearing on your relationships with the other countries and their willingness to cooperate.
Also the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire wins prestige points.
Higher and higher with each emperor from the same country.
With zero, you receive nothing and with negative prestige, you receive negative counterparts of the above.
Maintaining prestige at the highest possible level is quite difficult.
You also lose 0.3 prestige a year, per each Core province within the boundaries of an enemy state.
Of course, also in the case of a lost battle, or war you also lose your prestige.
Stability has been improved considerably, in comparison with the thirdEuropa.
First of all, stabilitydoes notdepend on economy and finances anymore.
The slide for spending money, to keep it high, already disappeared from the budget window.
What you now spend on that, is the Monarch Power and, more precisely, the administration points.
With the deficiency of the Monarch Power, it is a good idea to consider improving it.
The base cost of the stability improvement is 100 administration points.
This price is influenced by the following factors:
Stability itself ranges -3 and +3.
Additional 30% to profits from taxes is a considerable cash injection for your economy.
Avoid the excess Overextension and lack of religious unity.
Never attack without any justification of your actions!
Play with slowly and reasonably.
Seize a province and turn it into a Core.
Then, convert the infidels.
Only after that, take to conquering further lands.
The stability is best if itdoes notexceed 2.
First of all, it is expensive.
If you receive an additional stability point when you already have +3, it will go down the gutter.
Finally, the game has the tendency for quick decreasing of maximum stability.
That is why, you should strive to keep stability at +2, and reach +3 by completing missions.
The so called Cores.
Provinces perceived as integral parts of the country that you have the indelible right for.
You receive an automaticcasus belliagainst each country, within whose boundaries, there are your core provinces.
In general terms, this is a curb that prevents the player from conquering the entire globe.
Still, each province can be cored but, the larger the country, the longer the process.
The base time for the establishment of a core province is 3 years.
The cost is additionally higher if you are exhausted from the war - war exhaustion X3 (e.g.
exhaustion = 5 = 15% to the price).
The base three years to core a province can be modified by two factors.
The situation is different in case of colonies.
Be fast about it to beat the others to it.
you’re free to always core all of the provinces that are subject to your rule.
In such a situation, you will be able to start only after you sign the peace treaty.
Just like it can be gained, core can also be lost in a given province.
It may be one of the conditions of peace.
In such a case, core never expires.
Overextension is a growth that is too extensive.
So, a province with the tax of 5 ducats gives 20%.
This will result in more frequent wars and, which is even worse, entering coalitions.
Overextension also hes negative bearing on the citizens of the country.
The maximum, acceptable OE is 100%.
It is easy to guess that excessive overextension is something that you want to avoid like fire.
If necessary, you should free vassals to decrease OE.
Depending on its geographic situation, each country belongs to a specific technological group.
This determines the cost of technologies, the increase in Monarch Power and the level of the starting technology.
Of course, the more advanced the technological group, the easier the game.
A beginner player should stay away from backwards countries.
Western - France, Spain, etc.
:
Technology cost - 145%
Indian - Nepal, Mysore etc.
:
Technology cost - 150%
Monarch Power - 2
Chinese - China, Japan etc.
:
Technology cost - 160%
Starting Technology Level- 2
Nomad - Mongolia, Golden Horde etc.
:
Technology cost - 175%
Sub-Saharan - Ethiopia, Congo etc.
With the passage of time, the technological collapse will increase on a regular basis.
That is why, there is a special option of westernization.
Westernization is a process of merging a worse technological group with the Latin world of the Western Europe.
This is the only reasonable way in which backwards countries can coexist with the European powers.
You initiate westernization by clicking the appropriate option but, there are two conditions that need to be met.
You should first wait for a ruler with high administration and high legitimacy.
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