Plus, at the end of the day, the easiest way to deter AI raids without conquest, is just send a few ships to protect against pirates in the zone. It's not certain, for example, if Morroco will be able to raid your southern coastline before Algiers or Tunisia does, and it would certainly be strange to pay all three North African nations the same amount of tribute, and getting the AI to determine that value will be a pain. However, it's hard to determine this, since raiding zones can overlap, especially among the Barbary raiders. A tribute would have to be worth it for the raiders and thus, should be based on the total amount of money they could had gotten from you via raiding otherwise. It can be a little redundant and hard to implement, since the main raiders are the North Africans, and their raiding zones tend to overlap which would require you to make multiple deals. Of course if you pay tribute to such country you should have some kind of lowered prestige debuff (-1 yearly for example). Tribute should be calculated on values of provinces that can be raided by country which has raid coast ability. By paying annual tribute to country which can raid your coasts your coasts and trade nodes should safe from raiders of country you pay tribute to. Would it not be more logical for your to gain some kind of 'stopping raid' CB against that country which would allow you toģ.force them to stop raiding your coastlines as well as coastlines of your vassals for 20-30 yearsĪnother thing is that if you can not fight against raiders on your coasts (because country of origin is too strong or well protected by network of alliances) and trade nodes you should be able to simply pay them, as it happened in real life.

On the other hand, when somebody is raiding your coasts (plundering your coastal settlements, taking your citizens/peasants/subject into slavery), which is probable much worse than simply privateering you get nothing with exception of lowering your opinion with country, in which raiders are based.

This is set of couple of prequels to set the stage for my mamluk game.As I have already created one thread in suggestions part of forum yeasterday and this topic might be more controversial than simply changing names of few provinces I want to know what other people think about this before writing anything in suggestions part of forum.Ĭurrently when somebody is privateering (destroying/capturing your ships carrying various goods from other parts of world + selling crews of your captured ships to slavery) your trade node in which you have at least 10 trade power you can get trade protection CB against them. He could not bring himself to see his life as the sultan anymore.Īll he could picture was the rising sun on the Ottoman sultanate.Īnd the shadows of the old order on his once magnificent empire. King Władysław III of Poland and Hungary had died in the battle of Varna , Since yesterday,when his spies had reported him that the Crusade of Varna was lost, and that Sayf ad-Din Jaqmaq woke up drenched in sweat. “When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”Īs dawn arrived in the Mamluks sultanate,

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