Best patch for HRE reforms

[savage_dog]

What's the best patch for HRE reforms? Because it's almost impossible to pass reforms as austria,I could only pass 3-4 reforms as France when I just added more and more land, and that's the only way I found, but when I saw some posts on reddit and on steam community (here) it semt so easy or atleast easier, I thought about 1.12 or 1.14.

[tinisiyo]

At previous patches you get imperial authority just for releasing HRE princes, converting heretics and defending HRE. Golden age of Austrian vassals swarm =(

[chefcook90]

http://www.cheatengine.org/
BAM!

EDIT: If memory serves, EU4 stores all of it's data in basic 4 byte values, and tacks on an extra 3 zeros past the decimal point insdead of using doubles or floats - so if you want to give yourself 50 HRE points you'll need to find the address (if it's currently at, say, 12.17 points, search for a value between 12170 and 12180) and set it to 50000.

[savage_dog]

So, what's like the best patch for Austria?

[tinisiyo]

Patch 1.12
Releasing HRE member states, HRE members converting, winning defensive wars and HRE members being annexed no longer affects Imperial Authority directly. Instead Imperial Authority is mostly a ticking value that grows when the Empire is peaceful and there are numerous member states, and shrinks when the Empire is religiously divided and under the control of non-HRE nations.
So every previous patch is much easier for passing reforms.

[Miles]

I did it in 15.whatever and it wasn't especially difficult. That being said I remember that a center of reformation kept popping up in an adajecent free city so I was able to quell a third of the reformation, and got the rest done through easyish wars with minors. I have a screen shot on my profile to say the date I got it done.

My one regret was that I tried to convert it to the patch were estates where introduced and it broke my game so I had mountains of rebels popping up. It was hysterical.