# Paid Features
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- Unique mechanic for Dutch Republics, balanding the Orangists vs the Statists.
- Merchant Republics can now place trading posts in each tradenode, to boost their tradepower.
- New Diplomatic Action against Elective Monarchies, to support Heirs of own dynasty in that realm, giving power, prestige & legitimacy bonus if they win.
- New action for Elective Monarchy to support their own noble for the throne.
- Lots of new events for Dutch Republics, Merchant Republic Factions, Elective Monarchies & Dictatorships.
- Dictatorships are now special cases in a Republic when tradition goes too low, and can then last the rest of that rulers life.
- National Focus: Change priotity on power from 3 in each category to +5 in one, and +2 in the others.

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# Gamebalance
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# Governments
- Elections now use scaled republican tradition.
- Added Oligarchic Republic as a new, basic republican government form.
- The new category of dictatorship added, that is treated as a republic if Res Publica is not enabled.
- Merchant Republics no longer get +10 tradepower.
- Constitutional Monarchy lost the prestige decay bonus and instead got -5 years on nationalism.
- Enlightened despotism no longer gets -5% core cost, but instead -10% accepted culture threshold.
- Administrative Republics lost their tolerance bonuses, and instead got -10% Culture Conversion Cost & -5 years on nationalism.
- Republics no longer become Monarchies at 0 Republican Tradition. Instead, they have a chance to become a Dictatorship if they fall below 40 RT, with the chance depending on how low it is.
- Merchant Republics now have 3 different factions. Aristocrats, Traders & Guilds,
- Countries that becomes dictatorships will return to previous government form when the dictator dies.
- Removed the legitimacy penalty for changing governments.


# Military
- Removed manpower impact from productionsize, to be tied to increased by 5% from each military tech.
- Ships trying to break a blockade to flee a port will now return back to that port if defeated.
- Fleets attempting to break blockades will if they retreat retreat back to port.
- Can no longer detach blockade fleet of 0 subunits.

# Diplomacy
- Annul treaty now lasts 10 years.
- Truce length now scales to the amount of warscore taken in the peace, from 5 years at white peace to 15 years at 100% warscore.
- Call for peace is now applied to all attackers.
- Winning an independence war no longer gives Imperial Authority.
- Merchant Republics now have a slightly harder time diplovassalizing.
- Merchant Republics are now very difficult to diplovassalize.
- Can now diplovassalize without having a royal marriage.
- Having a royal marriage now gives a bonus to acceptance when diplovassalizing.
- Can no longer use Claim Throne on countries with a different dynasty.
- Enforce Peace option will now properly account for Current Wars and will be disabled if they cannot join the war. It will also tell the reason why.
- Opinion malus for different religion is now reduced by positive tolerance.
- Native vassals migrating will make overlord discover province.
- Selling provinces now results in the seller getting inflation at the same rate as from gold taken in peace.
- WE loss calculation from peace deals is no longer 100x what it should be.
- Fixed issue when offering renouncing cores in peaceoffer would cost diplo points for the renouncer.
- Having a regency council will no longer prevent independence wars.
- Declaring independence war no longer gives massive AE.
- Minimum relations for Support Independence is now -25.



# HRE
- HRE electors vassals is now considered under control of the overlord is in alliance.
- IA no longer gained when princes convert to the Emperor's religion.
- IA is once again lost when princes convert away from the Emperor's religion.

# Buildings
- Marketplace and Canal are now +2 trade power instead of +1.
- Customs House is now +10 trade power instead of +5, and also adds +2 trade value.

# Rebels
- Culture Conversion is now twice as long as default, but culture conversion cost modifiers can reduce it.
- Overextension over 100% now increases revoltsize by multiplying with OE.
- Peasant rebels will no longer change a country's government when they win.


# Religion
- Capped tolerance towards heretics and heathens at +3.
- Conversion Zeal no longer disappears on conquest of province.
- Hindu republicans can now set new deity when a new ruler has been elected.
- Rebalanced and added decisions across religions to make sure they have similar chances to get high missionary strength.



# Rivals
- Countries that are 50% or more apart in tech speed can no longer set each other as rivals.
- Countries that have chosen you as a rival are now always available to be set as a rival.
- Can no longer buy provinces from or sell provinces to rivals.
- Powerprojection added when vassalising rivals, or fully annexing them.
- Fixed a bug where potential rivals being calculated wrongly when handling countries with overseas provinces
- Powerprojection will also be added when annexing rivals.

# Colonisation
- Being bankrupt now decreases settler growth by 200.
- Can no longer colonize provinces that are adjacent to non-core provinces if they are outside colonial range.
- Colonists will now be cancelled when country is annexed. The colony will belong to the annexer.


# Score
- Implemented impact of wars on the underlying monthly score, so lost wars against higher ranked countries with high peacescore are bad for you, while winning wars are good.
- Now get a 25% penalty to monthly score for each rival not set.

# Trade
- Centers of Trade now provide 100% more tradepower and naval forcelimit.

# Technology
- Countries now get +20% production efficiency for being ahead of time in Production technology.
- Countries now get +20% trade efficiency for being ahead of time in Diplomatic technology.
- Removed power point penalties from all tech groups.
- Neighbour bonus is now +5% per level, and can now reach up to 75% off, to let late westernisers have a chance to catch up.

# Ideas & Policies
- Added 3 new ideagroups. Humanism, Influence & Maritime
- Tweaked numerous policies that were too strong or too weak.
- Moved and removed policies to make sure the MP groups and idea groups have equal amounts.
- Colonial settlement act now gives +1 colonist instead of +10 settler growth.
- Colonial expansions now gives +10 settler growth instead of +1 colonist.
- Reduced legitimacy & republican tradition from policies.
- Added lots of new policies connected to the new Ideagroups.
- Reworked some national ideas to use the new modifiers.
- Moved some ideas around.
- Grand Army is now 20% land forcelimits (down from 25%)
- National Conscripts is now 10% faster regiment recruitment speed instead of +25% global manpower.
- Consolidated infantry, cavalry and artillery cost ideas in Quantity into a single regiment cost idea.
- Added ideas to Quantity: Forced Labor System (-20% building power cost) and Expanded Supply Trains (-10% land attrition).
- Swapped names on Maritime and Naval to be more appropriate to their ideas.


FOR AI, Interface, Usermodding, Script and Bugfixes changes, see the Official Announcment on our forums:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?789550-1.7-Update-amp-Res-Publica-Released