Aragon and Castile

[Exarch_Alpha]

Anyone ever saw the royal marriage event now? I NEVER saw it before; Aragon remains as republic (it´s 1502) as France sure I think it´s funny the first time it happened but now I´m just angry.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

From what I understand, it can still fire even if Aragon becomes a Republic; however, they didn't think to update the Iberian Wedding to take into account the new stuff Aragon can do, so they become a Junior Partner while still being a Republic, and instantly break the union without their senior partner having any say in the matter the next time they have an election.

All I'll say is, there's something incredibly ironic about a development team headquartered in Barcelona, belonging to a publisher obsessed with the notion of Catalan Anarchist Spain, adding it to their game and thus ensuring that Iberia perpetually remains a weak, disunited mess of a region (or, well, even more so than normal).

[grotaclas]

The iberian wedding event was changed in 1.35.4. Now it can't happen if Aragon or Castile are republics. This makes sense since republics can't be junior partners in other circumstances. But the chance for Aragon to become a republic was lowered significantly to 10%.

[Marquoz]

A good change, yes. In the previous patches, I was seeing Aragon become a republic about 40% of the time. That percent was much too high and prevented Spain from forming too frequently.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Good to know, then. Serves me right for not tracking down patchnotes anymore.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

The iberian wedding event was changed in 1.35.4. Now it can't happen if Aragon or Castile are republics. This makes sense since republics can't be junior partners in other circumstances. But the chance for Aragon to become a republic was lowered significantly to 10%.

/well there is always the possibility of bad luck but in my FIRST game they went republic.

Wonder what other people eperiences were, as no wedding means using Aragon to tear apart Portugal and Castille. Colonial game will be so easy...

[red1]

I just finished playing as Castile. The event fired correctly for me and the PU survived. We were not rivaled so maybe that was the difference. I never rival Aragon when playing as Castile or vice versa playing as Aragon even if they rival me. I want the PU 100% of the time.

[Lasagna]

Originally posted by grotaclas:

The iberian wedding event was changed in 1.35.4. Now it can't happen if Aragon or Castile are republics. This makes sense since republics can't be junior partners in other circumstances. But the chance for Aragon to become a republic was lowered significantly to 10%.

can't Aragon still flip to a republic while in the PU though? or was that also fixed.

[Lasagna]

Originally posted by red1:

I just finished playing as Castile. The event fired correctly for me and the PU survived. We were not rivaled so maybe that was the difference. I never rival Aragon when playing as Castile or vice versa playing as Aragon even if they rival me. I want the PU 100% of the time.

rivalry shouldn't have anything to do with this.

[RCMidas]

And indeed, according to the code it doesn't.

[grotaclas]

Originally posted by βumble:

can't Aragon still flip to a republic while in the PU though? or was that also fixed.

Yes, they can. But the event has an MTTH of 5 years, so it is very unlikely that the iberian wedding happens before that, because the iberian wedding can't even happen in the first 5 years of the game and the iberian wedding needs a ruler change which also takes some time

[Exarch_Alpha]

Oh God...

But what are people´s experiences now? How often Aragon stays a monarchy??