Quote Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou
Actually, if you build a type4, you can keep it in place for a number of years, then destroy it and build a type3 or type2 or even type1 if possible. It's acceptable after a number of years to force an ally to undergo a more thorough change. Just destroy the govt building and build a new one of a different type. The only one that's not very logical would be installing a type1 or 2 and then much later destroying it for a type3 or 4. But there's nothing to stop that either really. Just not very productive.

We willhave something for future builds that makes the type4 much more like an ally and less like a part of your regular empire. But it's just not tested out and ready yet. It won't be in the patch, but I'm hoping we can get it in the next full build, which hopefully won't be too much longer after the patch comes out.
I realise that you can buid a type 4 government then destroy it and replace it with a type 1, 2 or 3, my point was that it makes no sense to have to destroy it first. In game terms it is highly annoying (especially when you can only recruit with a government in place) to have to have no government in place inbetween destroying a type 4 and building a type 1, 2 or 3. In real-life terms (if I can call it that) it makes no sense in my mind to have to take out a puppet ruler just so you can further integrate a province into your culture and government system.

What I was trying to explain was a kind of progressive building system (much in the same way to barracks etc) where having a level 4 goverment system would still allow you to have the option to build level 1, 2 or 3 governments in its place. In diagram form:-

CURRENT SYSTEM:
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Type 4

(building any government automatically excludes you from building any other type of government until you destroy previous government)

MIC SYSTEM:
Level 1 => Level 2 => Level 3 => Level 4

(building level 1 upgrades to build level 2, which upgrades to build level 3, which upgrades to build level 4)

PROPOSED GOVERNMENT SYSTEM
..........=> Type 1
Type 4 => Type 2
..........=> Type 3

(building type 4 upgrades to build type 1 xor type 2 xor type 3).

In actual reality terms this would represent placing an intermediate (or, if you do not replace, permanent) type 4 government in a province while you slowly convert the people to a type 1, 2 or 3 government (if that is what you want to do).

As it stands the current system seems to represent having only a military-based government (i.e. no actual government and just a general and his army in control) as the only intermediate government possible.

Now, whether the proposed system is possible (I have not seen a building that allows multiple upgrade options) is a different matter

I hope this has explained to clearer than last time.

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