How do you stop endless revolts, this game make no sense

[Rzepol]

I'm playing Poland in 1381 and I've already crushed the same Orthodox Fanatic rebellion four times.

Before I can even recover, the next rebellion is already at 30% progress, increasing by 1.7% per month.

Province integration takes over 50 years, religious conversion barely works, and most of my eastern territories have 0% control.

How are you supposed to stabilize conquered territories? Am I missing something, or am I expected to fight the same rebellion every few years?

Is there even a chance for a casual or inexperienced player like me to enjoy this game, or should I just give up?

I thought this was a grand strategy game about expanding your empire, but every time I conquer territory, I get stuck in an endless cycle of revolts.

It feels like expansion simply doesn't work. What am I missing?

Any advice would be appreciated.

[tonypa]

Release them as subject.

[Krossof]

rebels raise because they are unhappy not but because they are fanatics.

go to the rebels window and look at their satisfaction.

based on your countries situation the rebels should stop the revolt at 30% satisfaction, if you beat them up, they are "all dead" and there are non. POPS "join" the rebels below 16% satisfaction.

(all that info is literally in the game you just didnt read it until now)

(Now i give you solutions, you should have come up with yourself, after reading what is given you ingame)

so you have 2 choices:
1. You make them happy until 30%+ satisfaction - no revolts anymore and the building revolt decreases

or

2. You beat them up and keep their satisfaction above 16% satisfaction, so they do not join the rebels but also do not leave the rebel movements once joined.

3. release them as subject
4. wait until 1437? or 1537 there you can choose an advancement for +10 base amount of religion swap per month instead of 1 !!

[Krossof]

Can you explain to me at what point the game stops making sense?

The people you have to manage are unhappy with your style of leadership.

Perhaps you should change your tyrannical playstyle.

[mikemonger]

Originally posted by tonypa:

Release them as subject.

This. Release the rebelling area as a fiefdom, let it do all the work of integrating and converting for you, and then annex the fiefdom later on.

The only time you want to directly annex conquered land is when it's occupied by people with a compatible culture and the same religion. Otherwise, you run into exactly what you're running into right now.

[Krossof]

Originally posted by mikemonger:

Originally posted by tonypa:

Release them as subject.

This. Release the rebelling area as a fiefdom, let it do all the work of integrating and converting for you, and then annex the fiefdom later on.

The only time you want to directly annex conquered land is when it's occupied by people with a compatible culture and the same religion. Otherwise, you run into exactly what you're running into right now.

i dont feel that way.

the only time a subject is realy usefull, is when it has the same primary culture as i do and dislike the other cultures as much as i do.

if i release a fiefdom from poland, he has poland cultures as accepted and do not swap cultures because after integration it is a core.

if i use my 10 year cooldown "change Culture", it does not create a situation where their cabinet members swap the culture of accpected cultures but i get 0% loyality. so useless


sometimes i create a fieddom in my core provinces and give them like 20 places just to get my fiefdom to the new places and swap the capital.

it is so stupid

[tonypa]

Every time you split revolting province with your subject, the revolters lose strength. Plus your subject will help you fight them too.

Once you have researched advances later, managing same provinces will be much easier. You can convert them faster and your culture will spread easier.

[Krozan]

The others have given you the solutions, I'm just going to go back over one thing.

Originally posted by Rzepol:

Province integration takes over 50 years, religious conversion barely works, and most of my eastern territories have 0% control.

If your territories have 0 control, you won't be able to assimilate or convert them.

It seems you’ve likely expanded too far, too quickly.

[Azunai]

Provinces with low control are less then useless - they increase your costs but earn you nothing.

If you have lands you can't control effectively, split them off as a subject.