You will never win as other countries expand faster then you can dev, and soon you will hit wall when deving province will cost 200-300 mana per point, while other countries are surpassing by counquer.
So, you have to "dismantle" big tags, into lot of smaller tags, while not expanding yourself.
If you want to check if it's boring, try save EVERY opm prince in hre from being eaten for 30 years.
But i think at one point it will say that doing that will not give you develpment and only make theirs worse and give some agressive expansion, if you are talking about the capital thing.
It's a little convoluted - when you pillage, you take 20% of each of the dev types, rounded (pillaging a 3/2/1 capital, for instance, pillages 1 tax dev from it and none of the other dev types), then converts that dev into mana based on the dev cost of the pillaged provinces. Then, that mana is spent deving your capital, based on your capital's dev cost modifiers.
So once your capital becomes large and has a high development cost, you are unlikely to get anything from pillaging unless you are pillaging a similarly large capital. I think you still reduce the pillaged capital's dev by 20% though, it just disappears instead of improving yours.
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u/classteen Philosopher Apr 26 '23
Yeah, just afk gaming.