Absolute monarchy: how to not have a revolution every 10 years?

**Fiddling_nero** · 03-16-2009, 20:46

The cabinet control is the same between a Republic and a Constitutional Monarchy ie. You can only fire one per turn and having no idea what you are going to get in replacement. The only difference is that you get to keep the Executive around longer as a Monarchy instead of changing them like socks.

**Quillan** · 03-16-2009, 21:20

I would definitely recommending siting your schools only in provinces with larger base capital cities, that way you can build an opera house plus use the improved fortifications in addition to a pleasure palace in one of the towns for happiness. That'll help counteract the "clamor for reform" that comes with the universities. It's a base -7 with a Modern University, plus whatever comes from the Enlightenment techs you research.

**andrewt** · 03-16-2009, 22:26

I have 8 schools right now in my UP game, having captured a few later on in the game. I'm up to 22 provinces now out of 40 needed. All of my colleges are in different provinces. Some of them I built in small provinces with not much else. Mines and towns increase unhappiness so if you build a college in a province with almost nothing else, you won't have a huge amount of unhappiness in that town. Also, you can exempt it from taxes since it generates barely anything anyway.

Keep an eye on your ministers as well. They get negative traits to happiness from time to time. Just kick those ministers out. Chances are, the ones replacing them will have no traits.

**Callahan9119** · 03-16-2009, 23:58

What the hell was the warning for?

**A Very Super Market** · 03-17-2009, 02:23

PMs to appeal to moderators. Or attempts at appeals....

Oh, and does anybody else find that the AI has an unusual ability to keep public order up? I gave Georgia some province (After razing everything), filled with universities, yet they hold on with barely 4 units garrisoned.

**Noncommunist** · 03-17-2009, 02:37

Do the other factions ever have revolutions?

**Ishmael** · 03-17-2009, 12:10

actually, thats a good point. Do countries like France (for examples sake) tend to have revolutions at all? I haven't finished my game yet so I dont know if the French Revolution is a regular thing.