I am playing as a republic (Florence) and have had the burgher estate seize control of my nation after gaining 80 influence. I have the following questions:
- Should I try to take the decision to remove them?
- What are the pros and cons of letting them take over vs. managing the estates?
I'm not looking to find out what are the effects of being above 80 influence as much as I want to know what are the effects of an estate taking over the state and whether I should avoid that or not. Should I pay 3 stability to get out of this situation?
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Of course you should prevent the disaster. It's called "disaster" for a reason. At first, you pay -4 stab - one when disaster starts, 3 when you end it. Additionally, you lose 1 base tax and 1 base production in your capital, and you receive penalties to your military.
Finally, ending the disaster is possible only when burgher influence is below 60. So you are forced to reduce their influence anyway. Why not to do it before the disaster fires?
Honestly, I'm surprised you're even asking this question. Disasters are bad, aren't they?
3If the Burghers estate gains high Estate influence influence levels (80-100), their estate disaster will begin ticking and - unless lowered - will eventually trigger the Plutocratic Coup disaster.
However, the Burghers provides some bonuses that you can see on the picture below. I suggest you to click on it to see in full size.
All informations is available here.
Some can say yes and explain the advantages, others will explain it will make a disaster that causes negative consequences. I think there is no real answer. This is a game's aspect where you must -choose- your good answer, depending of your gameplay style, your past decisions and other particular and specific in-game factors.
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