Hi,
Sadly there is no way of making EB load faster. You can clear up some system processes but otherwise nothing. In the future as more complex things are added I am sorry to say that they will probably get longer.
The cities and towns probably are not revolting as there are no troops available for recruitment in that province. Nasty bug, but, luckily, That can be fixed by a modification for EB in the Unofficial Mods Forum.
Counter offer not working during bribing is hardcoded and is from vanilla. However, when bribing, there is nothing to counter offer. Bribes are a private affair that the bribed faction does not know about. Henceforth there is nothing to counteroffer with.
In EB 0.8 it appears that the advisor was murdered by a band of assassins lead by Kull. Nah, the truth is that most advise that the advisor would give in vanilla is irrelevant to EB. For example Victoria, the annoying advisor, would advise that you build gladiators in a province - in EB there are no gladiators henceforth the advise is a pointless annoyance.
I hope this answers your questions, cheers!
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