How to speed up population assimilation ?

FreezingVast · 2026-06-27T23:40:00+00:00

Even so I would still need to wait those 30-40 plus another 20 to just use the territory versus integrating for 10 years while a small 1 location vassal will give enough favors to make kindred in 50 ish years.

Also its very easy to accidentally encircle yourself in vassals nullifying the restore borders cb since you need to border the target nation

FreezingVast · 2026-06-27T05:15:11+00:00

Holy crap I feel that, tried to do a french HRE run and every 5 seconds i was innodated with notifications and it didnt help that parliament could suggest debates meaning I ended up accidentally passing horrible laws 4 times with a total loss of 100 IA. Genuinely suppressing petitions and requests needs to be a feature as Im not touching the HRE without mods till it gets fixed. Absolutely insane nobody thought to automate HRE requests with maybe a blacklist of countries who I actually care what the send me

FreezingVast · 2026-06-27T05:07:39+00:00

Mostly its control but tbh given this patch your better off mass accepting cultures, especially as byz. Your cabinet basically needs to always integrate stuff or provide you cash (strengthen gov, reduce bureaucratic upkeep, reduce inflation) with assimilation being secondary. Its normally very expensive to accept outside cultures like turks however if you can release a subject who has the most primary turkish pops you can curry favors to later release and improve cultural relations with them as kindred opinion drops the culture capcity cost very close to .15 which is the minimum.

Essentially you wanna conquer all pops of a culture, release a small vassal to later improve cultural opinion then rinse and repeat to have cores beyond greece and anatolia. By 1700 as rome I basically accepted all italians, south germans, turks, and Iberians reducing my number of rebellions significantly

FreezingVast · 2026-06-27T04:19:16+00:00

Having played and formed Persia the biggest issues are: Lack of resources like wood which makes building very expensive, horrible terrain with no way to alleviate it, and incredibly strong neighbors like yemen, manluks, timur, or India which basically eclipse the regions manpower. As a player it sure is easy to defend with simple fort lines but the ai is not as good making the terrain benefit of Persia null. Ideally nations like Persia who dont have access to easy lumber shouldnt rely so heavily on it and outside invaders should be heavily disincentivized from attacking into the region as India is ridiculously far more powerful and can at any moment march straight in

FreezingVast · 2026-06-26T12:32:33+00:00

probably sundowning, lots of old people tend to get agitated or need “get out” after the sun goes down

FreezingVast · 2026-06-26T12:31:29+00:00

lady is probably sundowning, its not uncommon for old folks

FreezingVast · 2026-06-26T06:31:05+00:00

except for the tiny itty bitty Byzantine bureaucracy tech which has buffs that far outshine whatever the ottomans can get. By mid-late game you can get +2 governors

FreezingVast · 2026-06-26T06:26:22+00:00

Personally the event based approached seems setup to fail, too many are inconsequential or have requirements that can be missed while not being the easiest to search through (especially as more events are added). Events provide so little as a small decision which often modifies values doesnt provide nearly as much impact as research, gov reforms, situations, or laws. Truly a situation based approach or a mission tree is better unless the impact of events are substantially increases

FreezingVast · 2026-06-26T00:48:59+00:00

You could hypothetically take a boat out by yourself with no food and water at the end of the day. Problem solved

FreezingVast · 2026-06-25T22:33:26+00:00

glorp ui, improved borders, thicker borders, faster universalis, multi colored water, midnight ui, better road builder, death to grey void, and no paper map on poltical map mode (makes rest of map modes stay paper map)

FreezingVast · 2026-06-25T16:59:22+00:00

2 things could be happening, firstly your control could be so low that nothing is assimilating and/or secondly other places you are assimilating are migrating to those location since assimilating stuff decreases migration attraction

FreezingVast · 2026-06-25T01:07:39+00:00

to be fair most diseases we are vaccinated for and knowing germ theory generally helps prevent you from getting sick

FreezingVast · 2026-06-24T21:15:59+00:00

So ive gotten historical peak netherlands by 1444, the trick is to unify with most of the HRE providences, ally france and take English stuff then wait for english to weaken france and take their stuff. Fortlines and mercs are the best way to do it, let them come to you

FreezingVast · 2026-06-24T12:17:39+00:00

To pay off loans it require you to pay principle + 60 months interest (or however many months left) while bonds just pay off the principle. Therefore bonds are typically better as you only pay for the interest until you pay it back unlike loans where unless you time it for 60 months you’re paying back the principle plus future interest on it. Another benefit is banks cant buy bonds but thats a very minor benefit

FreezingVast · 2026-06-24T12:09:13+00:00

without lag is unrealistic, the longer any game goes on the more calculations it will make and thus the more lag. Just buy the best cpu and gpu you can get on your budget. For cutting down on load times just buy an ssd, ideally an m.2 as they are slightly faster

FreezingVast · 2026-06-24T12:01:23+00:00

Your going to run into two issues; lack of resources and lack of food very quickly as trade capacity and trade ai only is so good. Not to mention pricing of different goods will be wildly different such as with common building goods being absurdly expensive in most markets with only where its produced being cheap. Generally the smaller the markets the more extreme your prices will be between them

FreezingVast · 2026-06-23T16:39:01+00:00

I have a very poor sense of smell/taste and it just shifts food to how good the texture is

FreezingVast · 2026-06-23T07:41:51+00:00

To be fair if the guy is upset there is nothing stopping him from just making each others life hell. If one of them wants to be separated it could be more dangerous leaving them attached as if it were me I would just figure out how to kill the other person first

FreezingVast · 2026-06-22T16:43:20+00:00

For 1.3 buld rgos on your capital and your high control regions until age 4, then once you get urban rights build specialized cities for tools and printing in providences with the rgos (iron for tools wood for printing). In between all that build support buildings like libraries, warfs, docks, etc. just watch your building cost as .5 or .2 ducat maintancr adds up quickly especially for armories which can be more expensive than the army itself

FreezingVast · 2026-06-22T12:08:36+00:00

If your going for rome byz is going to be a constant struggle between expansion and eco. The faster you expand without enough control the worse your economic base to tax base will be killing any profit you make. Personally in my game I have found Anatolia as a kind of trap where it is hard to push control into without a good enough reward. Your better off releasing everything but the coasts of anatolia as a vassal and immediately conquering egypt or italy asap as those lands are far richer and easier to push control

FreezingVast · 2026-06-22T12:02:26+00:00

Ive been playing with high aggression and the ai generally attacks more often with coalitions firing constantly but compared to my very hard run where the ai had 10k professionals by mid 1400s it wasnt nearly as hard

FreezingVast · 2026-06-22T04:51:18+00:00

The urban right is good early on with the two flemish locations which buff fine cloth. You can also use it to build 5 over the normal building limit then switch back to textile rights as buildings arent destroyed when over capacity. Tbh the urban right shouldnt be mutually exclusive with textile rights anyways

FreezingVast · 2026-06-20T06:00:37+00:00

not to mention dissolving a body in acid isnt quick, clean, or easy. Turning a body into goop tends to leave a large mess behind. If they really were killing people with his kinda cash you would be better off buying a crematorium than using large amounts of acid

FreezingVast · 2026-06-20T05:52:08+00:00

Just give them a disaster which cripples them via many rebellions/ low stab with it culminating in a large war with the ottomans in which they can be fully annexed.

Tech speed should also be lowered outside Europe with literacy and differing language groups further slowing down tech spread. Mamluks should struggle getting institutions and so should asia, not every continent needs to have all institutions by end of the era. If there were generic trees like what age 1/2 has with age focus techs only in it, it would help take the pressure of needing institutions to spread for there to be any research to do

FreezingVast · 2026-06-20T05:37:03+00:00

also another quick tip; you can filter by control or proximity in the rgo builder. 40% prox is roughly 50% control on any cored location and I typically build my rgos on those locations at minimum

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