Why Change from Republic to Monarchy?

[Mr Frost]

Why do you want to shift from a republic to a constitutional monarchy?? A republic has the clamour for reform and a research bonus. Const Monarchy has no penalties or bonuses -but longer lived ministers.

Starting as a republic is a definite advantage IMO, despite the bad-will (-15) it generates due to everyone else being an absolute monarchy.

Absolute monarchies have a big advantage when it comes to ministers . Not only are there no elections as you correctly noticed , but you can freely swap around ministers and choose which "opposition" member you wish to place in your ministry of choice {simply click and drag} .

Have a lackluster treasurer whom would however make a cracking good naval minister then swap them .
The ex-naval minister {now treasury minister} isn't really good for anything but one specific minister has cornered the market of treasury qualifications , swap him up .

You can only boot one minister per turn , but you can swap as many ministers as you want and swapping for an opposition member has the same effect as booting {bad minister gone , new one next turn or so} so in effect you can boot as many as you want each turn .

You can get quite exceptional ministers by careful selection as Absolute Monarch and keep them far longer {especially if you pick them young} thus your empire can actually be more prosperous and stable with some sensible management .

[al Roumi]

Absolute monarchies have a big advantage when it comes to ministers . Not only are there no elections as you correctly noticed , but you can freely swap around ministers and choose which "opposition" member you wish to place in your ministry of choice {simply click and drag} .

Have a lackluster treasurer whom would however make a cracking good naval minister then swap them .
The ex-naval minister {now treasury minister} isn't really good for anything but one specific minister has cornered the market of treasury qualifications , swap him up .

ahem, sorry to contradict you old bean but all government types give you the right to shuffle the ministers in office as you like, for the best or worst effect (i.e. put a crap minister in charge of justice to prompt a revolution).

You can only boot one minister per turn , but you can swap as many ministers as you want and swapping for an opposition member has the same effect as booting {bad minister gone , new one next turn or so} so in effect you can boot as many as you want each turn.

Absolute monarchies can fire all ministers in a single turn, but are limited to a finite "stock" of replacements (visible below the list of ministers in office, where the opposition would be in a republic) that refills itself over time.

A republic can "boot" one minister per turn, but as i mentioned above, you can give those ministers already in government, with a job, a different one as many times as you like in a turn.

You can get quite exceptional ministers by careful selection as Absolute Monarch and keep them far longer {especially if you pick them young} thus your empire can actually be more prosperous and stable with some sensible management .

That certainly is true and is the primary advantage (IMO) of an Abs. Monarchy. Republics can also keep their minsters, as long as they are re-elected every 8 years.

[Mr Frost]

all government types give you the right to shuffle the ministers in office as you like, for the best or worst effect (i.e. put a crap minister in charge of justice to prompt a revolution).
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Not from the opposition they don't .

Fire up a U.P. game and try to "promote" an opposition member to office without an election .
I'm pretty sure Constitutional Monarchies cannot either .

The advantage is you aren't taking pot luck like you do when you merely boot a bad minister {you still get rid of the bad minister permenantly when swapping for an opposition member} so you get effectivly twice the ministers to chose from and can have the exact opposition minister you want whenever you wish .













As for the booting/turn thing , I didn't realise that because lag in the game after booting means it was several seconds before I could boot annother {just tested it} so when I tried it in play previously , it looked like I could only do one per turn {the button isn't really much brighter when "good to go" than when greyed out} .

[Relic]

I wish it were possible... :(