Neighbors Morale

Neighbors are your own provs. The morale of your own provs affect provs they border; low is bad high is good. "Enemy Neighbors" are enemy.

Restrisiko wrote:

According my verification and experience . . . the following usual rules [apply]:

(a) distance morale penalty is capped at -39

(b) morale penalty for wars is capped at -25

(c) negative morale penalties for enemy provinces isn't capped (it's -5 for each enemy direct neighbour province)

--> and, also as usual, the morale influences of own provinces to each own direct neighbour are:

100% morale --> +2

90-99 morale --> +1

70-89 morale --> 0

60-69 morale --> -1

50-59 morale --> -2

40-49 morale --> -3

30-39 morale --> -4

20-29 morale --> -5

10-19 morale --> -6

0-9 morale -----> -7

If you want to read more about this and related province morale influences, the linked thread below is not a bad place to start:

> > > > Experienced players currently playing 50 and 100-player games?

Also, there is another current thread where this is exact topic is already under discussion:

> > > > Neighboring Province Morale

ok -- that helps a lot

but negative morale for friendly neighbors seems a bit much

i have been playing a world match that has ground to a stalemate due to morale issues

i did read a thread with some recommendations that certainly makes sense

thanks

MontanaBB wrote:

If you want to read more about this and related province morale influences, the linked thread below is not a bad place to start:

I think of it this way: Good morale flows out from your capital like a puddle of molasses. You need to keep the number of wars at once to a minimum in order to keep the morale up.

I tried a trick with morale issues in the 100 player that seemed to work well for me this time around.

I kept a close by AI and protected it, so around day 25 or so when I had nearly a whole continent and was drawing a war to a close I planned it so I sacked both an enemy capital and that AI capital on the same day, and finished those wars up. So I got 20 points of morale boost across all provinces and went to zero wars. I stayed out of wars for several days in order to build up my food economy before taking on any more land and my morale across all provinces rose quite nicely.

Brawntar wrote:

i have been playing a world match that has ground to a stalemate due to morale issues

FYI, higher level AA units (L3+) also make ideal occupation/garrison units (better than comparable level infantry or militia), when you're trying to prevent rebellions AA units are among the fastest cheapest to produce (so you can often produce them locally in captured industrial complexes), and they have low daily upkeep. Better yet, they actually come in handy later if you need more AA protection.