Risorgimento totally broken

[Lunacharsky]

Sadly enough, the Risorgimento dynamic in the game is totally broken. I started with Piedmont-Sardinia. I developed the country's economy to bypass Sicily in a few decades. I annexed several of the smaller Italian states, finally becoming by far the biggest, strongest, richtest and most prestigious Italian state. I pushed the bourgeoisie and the intellectuals, and made it a progressive, liberal state and a parliamentary republic.

Later in the game, I got involved in a war with Sicily, and defeated them completely. They gave up three of their states to me.

On that moment, the "Risorgimento" happened, meaning in this case that my country was replaced by Sicily, no option to change that. Gone was the power of the bourgeoisie and the intellectuals, to be replaced by a retarded absolute monarchy with the landlords as the only big political force. My economy crashed completely, going from the +20K I had to -45K, something I could only escape by massively cutting back on construction sites.

This is completely ridiculous: how can the Risorgimento translate into a big fall back? I even lost my 65-unit army and 25-unit navy: it was replaced by the 20-unit army and 5-unit navy the Sicilians had.

This kind of illogical ♥♥♥♥ takes all the fun out of the game!

[Lunacharsky]

Also something else: I was very much advanced in the Tech tree. All that: gone... This is just stupid...

[Razorblade]

Methinks you were not paying attention to the Journal.

Once you research Nationalism, you have to keep your Radicals under 25% of your population, or you'll trigger a coup, either replacing your government with a republic, or with annexation into the next most powerful Italian state.

The latter is what happened to you, and is why you lost all of your progress. You lost the game; you were annexed. The game was simply kind enough to let you keep playing despite your mistakes.

Liberalizing pisses people off, and conquering pisses people off, so you probably had Radicals in droves. Italy requires a lot more balancing of your interest groups and Radicals than other areas; you can't just put taxes on very high, burn the world, and push through reforms with no popular support like you can in other areas.

[Checco]

I got exactly the same issue today, after spending 2 decades to make Piedmont a Great Power, with Austria humiliated and weak, solid alliances, and on top of all most progressive laws enacted.

Papal state annexed, owning all core italian provinces but Two Sicilies.

Then for some reasons Two Sicilies annexes me (despite them being a backyard country lacking in all departments), and I basically get back in time.

On top of that, after owning ALL Italy, it does not form and I do not have the options to do it.

Basically a Game Over scenario.

I wonder if Paradox hired some ppl to test whether their **** is working or not.