Why Change from Republic to Monarchy?

**Smellycat** · 04-13-2009, 15:39

you can still shuffle ministers between posts in const. mon. I usually kick the worst one every turn untill i an happy with the traits

**Prussian to the Iron** · 04-13-2009, 19:03

Originally Posted by Smellycat

you can still shuffle ministers between posts in const. mon. I usually kick the worst one every turn untill i an happy with the traits

yeah, but it is only one a turn. and if you kick out a 4 star and get a 3 star its tough toenails. plus you might have a well-groomed cabinet of high star ministers, only to have them replaced every 8 turns. AM you can keep them til death.

**Smellycat** · 04-13-2009, 19:52

Ok but even AM gets just one new candidate a turn. If you check the penalties for the govt type you can see that AM has positive impact on nobility and negative on lower classes. Const mon. on other hand has positive impact on both nobility and middle classes. Lots of the traits that are bad in AM like harsh reputation or status quo are good in cons mon since the negatives apply to a class that does not count. Winning an election is essily achieved by giving everyone a tax break just before election hey you only need 51% approval

**andrewt** · 04-13-2009, 23:58

I decided to play my UP game to 200 turns even though I had 40 provinces already halfway through. In that time, I've never lost an election. How do you do that?

How big is the research bonus given by republics anyway?

**Smellycat** · 04-14-2009, 02:08

Originally Posted by andrewt

How big is the research bonus given by republics anyway?

I did a little test i started the game on VH as all starting factions in Europe and clicked on research button without putting any scholars in then noted the number of turns till Percusion Shells

all Absolute monarchies had 83 turns
the 2 const monarchies had 78 turns
and the one republic(nl) had 78 turns
so about 5% for both CM and rep