Technology or Peace

[pdoyle007]

Do advancements through stealing count against you?

Tech up the military then as you invade provinces with new farming methods etc implement them back home? Can you reverse engineer social avances as well as ships?

Will you be able to tech up merchant vessels to carry more, or different, trade resources, as these could then fall prey to my 104 gun first rate flagship 'The Death Star'

[Fisherking]

I want to see how all this works together. Government type effects alliances and relations. It is going to be a delicate balancing act.

Sheogorath you tech up as much as you want but remember it is your Sacred and Most Important Duty to keep your Tsar in Power no matter what the peasants say!

Russia‘s only classes were Nobles and Slaves anyway. It is your moral duty to keep those peasants down!

[Sir Beane]

Since I'll be playing as the British first I'm going to make an attempt to keep us as a Constitutional Monarchy. I guess that might mean less schools and less education.

Which is odd when you consider that Britain was at the forefront of the industrial revolution and wasn't a Republic.

[ArtillerySmoke]

As much as I'd like to stick around as a Monarchy for the whole game, it's a disadvantage in my eyes right now. (With as much as I know about the game).

I'll play as France first - and get a liberal democracy with the best technology I can afford working in my favor.

So, lots of schools for me it seems.

[Beskar]

I think early game, Monarchy is the way to go, but as the game progresses, it will slowly all turn into Constitutional Monarchies and Republics.

Out of the starting nations, I believe they are the following:
France - Monarchy
Sweden - Monarchy
Ottoman Empire - Monarchy
Great Britain - Constitutional Monarchy
United Provinces - Republic
Russia - Monarchy
Spain - Monarchy
Prussia - Monarchy
Poland-Lithuania - Republic
Austria - Monarchy
Marathas - Monarchy

I am not entirely sure if some of those monarchies are constitutional, I am just working from my base knowledge.

[Monk]

I am gonna go the route of the benevolent monarchy, until someone gets out of line. Then, off with their heads! I will brutally surpress any republics that pop up as well! God save the King!

I'll try to advance my tech in a way that doesn't create a clamor for reforms, more focused on military tech and the like but after a while it may be inevitable that I have to brutally put down some rebels.

[Beskar]

I believe the problem was, with the Sweden player, is because they focused all the research on the Military, is why people got upset, instead of them researching on how to feed people better, comfortable beds, etc. So I believe advances in social areas will keep a monarchy in power, not advances in them will bring about the opposite, as after all, the population would be happy.

[Sir Beane]

I think early game, Monarchy is the way to go, but as the game progresses, it will slowly all turn into Constitutional Monarchies and Republics.

Out of the starting nations, I believe they are the following:
France - Monarchy
Sweden - Monarchy
Ottoman Empire - Monarchy
Great Britain - Constitutional Monarchy
United Provinces - Republic
Russia - Monarchy
Spain - Monarchy
Prussia - Monarchy
Poland-Lithuania - Republic
Austria - Monarchy
Marathas - Monarchy

I am not entirely sure if some of those monarchies are constitutional, I am just working from my base knowledge.

Poland-Lithuania is actually a Constitutional Monarchy at the time the game starts, all the otehrs are correct .

You can check on a recent IGN screenshot which shows the diplomacy screen for the playable factions.

[Beskar]

Poland-Lithuania is actually a Constitutional Monarchy at the time the game starts, all the otehrs are correct .

You can check on a recent IGN screenshot which shows the diplomacy screen for the playable factions.

I have to admit, Poland-Lithuania was sort both. It had an elected monarchy, akin to a President but from a Royal Group.

However, in 1791 they reformed politics to have a hereditary monarchy with a constitution. (So a Constitutional Monarchy)/

[Liberator]

I think early game, Monarchy is the way to go, but as the game progresses, it will slowly all turn into Constitutional Monarchies and Republics.

Out of the starting nations, I believe they are the following:
France - Monarchy
Sweden - Monarchy
Ottoman Empire - Monarchy
Great Britain - Constitutional Monarchy
United Provinces - Republic
Russia - Monarchy
Spain - Monarchy
Prussia - Monarchy
Poland-Lithuania - Republic
Austria - Monarchy
Marathas - Monarchy

I am not entirely sure if some of those monarchies are constitutional, I am just working from my base knowledge.

Can the Ottoman Empire turn to a republic?! Would be rather surprising

*edit* of course, others nations like prussia and austria didn't turn to a republic too, but at least it could have happened, look at Germany in 1848/49

[Sir Beane]

Can the Ottoman Empire turn to a republic?! Would be rather surprising

*edit* of course, others nations like prussia and austria didn't turn to a republic too, but at least it could have happened, look at Germany in 1848/49

Apparently every nation can change government type, both ways. So the Ottoman Empire can become a Republic (and they sorta did when they became Turkey). Or the USA can become a Monarchy.