Things are up in the air. Trade, even in this era, takes a lot of effort to manage properly, and it's not something every ruler will bother to put a hand in directly, so most of it ends up being private ventures that you happen to have import/export taxes on.
We are on the inland sea based on the map, right? Is that doing much for us right now?
No, there's nothing like that going on. Trade is trade, and necessities can't be taxed into oblivion. The League is strongly considering a 'punitive fee' for your heathen religious following, however.
The thing is that making standing future plans now is hard because things are so uncertain atm. It would be preferable to stay in Morian league, but if the other cities actually put up that "religion tax", it would pretty surely force us to jump ship. Unlike in FaSE or ABA, this is a lot more political husbando-war than trying to choose the one whose most capable and works best with our MC.
Hold on, since all the other cities in Morian league are Scions, then how come Pankratius is Progenitorist? Or is being a cousin far enough relation to a king that his religion doesn't matter?
That was an error. He should totally be Scion. >.>
What is the expected opinion of our people and courtiers if we choose a husbando who is not a Progenitorist?
About as bad as picking Sable as Gerhard, I.E. not that bad.
Okay, for the sake of discussion, why is it preferable?
So that we wouldn't have to deal with the problems that come with changing our allegiance, including dealing with new and completely unknown rulers
Please specify the problems. The current rulers mostly don't like us, so that's not really a positive.
Imagine you are an immigrant who just recently became a citizen. You need to find a job, but you don't have the network of contacts that a naturalized citizen has. Your mind turns back to the old country, where you had a job, a home, a life.
Except city states are all greatly self-contained, so this doesn't apply. We would be wealth creators leaving a country with unfavorable laws and going to one that has low corporate tax rates. We're not immigrants looking for a job.
Pretty much what Raiu said, but I'd include the reactions of our people wo might not be happy with the change and possibility of our previous league members resenting us even more, which might cause problems. At the moment most of them seem to be mostly neutral towards us.
Its more the spirit of the work, rather than the content. What I was saying is leaving the league would put us in a position where our current web of contacts no longer applies, meaning we would need to forge new ties, and such.
3 hate or strongly dislike us as-is and 4 are neutral-at-best. Wouldn't really characterize that as mostly neutral. Two of the ones who are negative to us aren't really going to get any worse for leaving.
Two don't like us, two are neutral and three are unknown, most likely ranging from -1 to 1, aka neutral.
Gandymus is technically unknown but we know enough actually about him just based on dynasty + another recent negative that we know he dislikes us. Saying that he most likely ranges from -1 to 1 is disingenuous at best.
Maybe, maybe not. We don't know yet for sure.
Optimism in strategic planning is the height of irresponsibility.
I am a realist.
It's called contingency planning. You plan for failure and hope for success. When things go right, that's great, it means you didn't need your hedge. Sometimes you can recover your insurance or still exists, sometimes you can't, but you still need to pay it if you are being vaguely responsible.
