I also got a PU with France due due to the royal consort mechanics. France revoked their guarantee of Scotland early on which let me expand into Britain early. Lithuania didn't get a PU with Poland and collapsed almost immediately to rebels and I felt compelled to expand over ther to prevent Muscovy from getting the land. I also want to mention I got very lucky in this campaign which I why I pivoted to doing a world conquest. Also, I only ever broke truce once at the very end of the campaign because I didn't want to sit around for 10 years waiting for my truce with the Ottomans to go away. Since it was originally supposed to be a tall campaign, I didn't really plan out like I should have and ended up letting some countries colonize too much and expand too much which is why I cut it so close to the deadline. Funny enough that playthrough was also supposed to be a nice casual tall England game. This wasn't actually my first world conquest, but the first time I tried to do it I didn't get the achievement because I didn't integrate my huge Spanish Personal Union and the achievement wouldn't fire since it considered my Personal Union's colonies to be independent nations.
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R5: So I finally finished up this Danish World Conquest and got the achievement for conquering the world. All it did was add another little pop up I had to click away everytime I started the game, and make me sit around for slightly longer waiting for Admin points. It didn't make my campaign any harder, and it didn't really slow down my conquest. That is the only time the money penalty corruption imposes is a problem. They spy maluses were irrelevant and the reduced unrest actually made my country more stable.īasically corruption doesn't do anything, and I don't really know what it is supposed to do as a mechanic except make it annoying to play nations that don't have immediate access to a strong trade node. The increased autonomy was pointless because I had so much money from trade. So corruption's only effect on this campaign is that is somewhat slowed me down in the last 20 years because my core costs increased to the point where I didn't make enough admin in 36 months to clear 100% Overextension. This results in them being stunted economically unless they switch their capital which just feels really gamey.īefore I get too off topic, let's return to corruption and talk about its effects. The modifier for too many territories also makes trade companies so OP that you must always prioritize them, and if you play in Asia you better move your capital to some island in the Pacific or get to Europe as quick as possible, because for some arbitrary reason Asian countries can't make trade companies in the region where most trade companies are located. If you want to make it much more expensive to go beyond the -1 corruption per year cap, then that is fine, since at the end of the game I was making thousands of ducats a month and the idea that a nation with all the resources in the world can't use them is just frustrating. The cap on the amount you can spend to pay down corruption doesn't really make sense. At the end of my campaign I had 20 corruption and more money than God. Combined with any other negative corruption modifier that means you have corruption that you can do nothing about. The main problem is of course the new too many territories modifier which scale up to +.
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The way it is represented tho as a pure money sink needs improvement and some of the modifiers like Unbalanced tech are completely arbitrary and force a rail roady type of gameplay. What I'm about to be say has been said by many other people, and I'm basically going to echo them, but I think the idea is bad enough that it requires reiteration.
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I wanted to make a separate comment about corruption as a mechanic and the modifier for too many territories.