Embracing Institutions

[Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV]

I’ve already gotten my land up to 100% Renaissance presence but it’s not changing to embraced. What am I missing? Thanks

[grotaclas]

You have to embrace an institution with a button in the institution screen which you can access with a button at the top of the technology screen. Normally you get a notification that you can embrace an institution. To embrace the institution you have to pay money for all provinces which don't have it yet. If it is 100% present in all provinces, you only pay 1 ducat

[Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV]

Thanks a lot, I see the button. Now know how to embrace renaissance, but all the stupid islands I control are making me pay 123 Duckets.

[Stephano]

that’s not very expensive. i usually embrace as soon as i can and sometimes take out loans too if i need to

[Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV]

You misunderstand my predicament, I was a massive colonial empire in the 1600's with ~tech 10, so it was about 500 coins to embrace

[Medicles]

Originally posted by Daniel56234:

You misunderstand my predicament, I was a massive colonial empire in the 1600's with ~tech 10, so it was about 500 coins to embrace

Thats still pretty mild tbh. At 1600 i would usually have to pay like 1500-2000 ducats to embrace immediately when i am able to.

[Malvastor]

Originally posted by Daniel56234:

You misunderstand my predicament, I was a massive colonial empire in the 1600's with ~tech 10, so it was about 500 coins to embrace

Barely more than one manufactory building, honestly. If you're big enough embracing an institution can cost several thousand ducats. I often wind up taking burger loans to embrace them, and then making the money back by sacking the biggest target available for all they're worth.

[bri]

1500-2k? Try harder, I've seen 7-8k for free trade and later ones. I've seen (not frequently cuz uggh) 1k+ for renaissance... It's all based on development with the cost per dev going up with each institute and any inflation you may have.

[Marquoz]

Note that the cost also depends on autonomy. As the wiki says:

At least 10.0% of the country's autonomy-modified development must have the institution present to be able to embrace it. Once this threshold is met, it requires 2.5 Gold ducats per remaining autonomy-modified development to embrace the institution

This means that provinces in TCs contribute only 10% of their development to embracement cost, yet another reason to go all-in on TCs.

[Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV]

stfu guys, go somewhere else to duel about who has spent more ducats on embracing an institution. I DON'T CARE WHO HAS SPENT MORE

Ps. Thanks Marquoz & grotaclas