User Guide

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extent that the gift will improve your relation-
ship will depend on your monarch’s diplomatic
skill, your prestige, your existing relationship,
and your reputation.
Sell Province
You may offer to sell one of your provinces to
another realm. This can only be done when
both you and the prospective buyer are at
peace, and you may only offer a province that
is not one of your core provinces. Click the “sell
province” button to display a list of the prov-
inces that you are allowed to sell, then click on
a province’s name and set your asking price.
After sending your offer, the other country
will consider whether the purchase is worth-
while. If the arrangement is acceptable, the
money will be deposited to your treasury and
the province’s ownership will be transferred to
the buyer. There is no effect on the prestige or
reputation of either country, nor will this alter
the relationship between your realms.
Send War Subsidies/Revoke
Subsidies
This is a very interesting diplomatic option that
allows you to offer financial support to another
country that is at war. Clicking the button will
display a secondary interface that allows you to
specify an amount to transfer from your treas-
ury to the other country. This subsidy will con-
tinue until the other country is at peace with
all of its enemies or until you cancel the subsidy
via the “revoke subsidy” diplomatic action.
Every month that you subsidise a country,
your relationship will improve with that coun-
try, but it will also harm your relationship with
any country with which it is at war. There is no
other effect of offering a subsidy, and there are
no penalties for cancelling it.
Offer Loan
In addition to the loans that a country may re-
ceive using the Domestic Economy interface
(or be forced to take if its treasury is exhausted),
a country may also be offered a loan from a
more wealthy country. If you have an excess of
gold in your treasury and wish to make such an
offer, select the “offer loan” diplomatic action
from the list. You will then see a secondary in-
terface that allows you to specify the amount of
the loan, the interest rate you will charge, and
the loan’s duration.
When a country receives a loan offer, it will
decide whether the offer is worth accepting
based on its current financial needs, the inter-
est rate it would receive by taking a loan from
the “bank” instead, and the total cost it will
pay during the course of the loan period. If the
offer is reasonable and it is in need of the cash,
it may agree to your terms.
Each month thereafter, the interest pay-
ment will be deducted from the income of the
country and deposited in the treasury of the
country that offered the loan. At the end of the
term, the country must decide whether to re-
pay the principal amount. It will default on the
loan if it lacks the funds in its treasury, or if its
relationship with the lender is very poor. There
is no way to request repayment of a loan prior
to the expiry of its term, and only the bank-
ruptcy of the borrower will cancel the loan and
monthly payments while they are in effect. The
borrower does not have the ability to voluntar-
ily default on a monthly interest payment, even
if it must take out a bank loan to make a pay-
ment.
Offering or accepting a loan has no ef-
fect on the relationship or prestige of a coun-
try; however, defaulting on a loan will result
in a drastic drop in the relationship between
the two realms, the borrower’s prestige will be
damaged, and the lender will be given a one
year casus belli against the country that de-
faulted.
Request Military Access/
Give Military Access/Revoke
Military Access
Normally, unless you are at war, you are not
allowed to move your armies through another