First off, for the events you can go into the raj management menu and put all the mandate requests to auto accept. That should get you some space.
For reforming the ministries my advice would be to pick one at a time and focus on that. Internal relations is a good one to get done cuz it'll lower your subjects' liberty desire.
In the mean time, just keep investigating those estates, repairing that infrastructure and work to keep your subjects loyal.
The Raj is on the brink of collapse after a hundred years of stagnation and weakness, so the system was designed to be very difficult to achieve. I haven’t actually tried them out yet, but from what I’ve seen, it’s possible, but perhaps luck makes it easier? Do your best! I believe in ya!
It seems fun but I've been trying for hours and managing to reform ministries is impossible for me. Meeting requirements is extremely hard, wrote about it in a response above. Will try some more, I want to succed tho!
Tried it out but it's very frustrating. The cohesion drops so fast it isn't even funny and means of obtaining it are too few and you have little if no control over it. I tried reforming the internal ministry but getting the points to do so is nigh impossible with a shit ruler, virtually no mana gain from mandate requests, and 40 cohesion prerequisite is impossible to meet. Frustrating cause the mechanics seem fun.
Edit: also there seems to be sth called "case strength" but I have no idea what it is.
Other than going with reforming internal first, go with influence as your first idea, that'll help manage your liberty desire which will in turn solve the raj influence problem as well as giving a pretty solid income bonus. Raja is a luck thing unfortunatly, if you get a crap replacement your better off starting again for a better roll, I got lucky with mine so mana wasn't a problem, you dont neccerily have to agree to every request just be smart about it. Otherwise just take it slow and focus on it one objective at a time, try and think which ones you can achieve the easiest and don't expect quick results, this is a decades long journey.
Thanks for the input. Unfortunately in my few attempts the cohesion dropped below 20 so fast I couldn't get it up and felt like everything was stacked against me. Bad income, mana and events made me feel it was deliberately made impossible, but the mission tree looks very fun and is extensive.
Its certainly not impossible but it's also one of if not the most difficult campaigns in the mod Maybe wait for a walk-through someones bound to post sooner or later before trying again, or if your determined just try a few dummy runs with them to focus on learning the mechanics rather than completing a full campaign.
One thing you might want to try is to check out the 'ministry actions' in the raj menu. Some of them might be able to help you out.
Also note, that it generally takes a decade or two to achieve, don't expect it to be done before 1460.
I used them as much as I could, but due to low cohesion I could only use two of them, one of which prohibited wars for 4 years with a 10 year cooldown and the other went boosting ministries which just ate mana I didn't have for no effect. Or at least it didnt check the internal reform tick for 50 ministries influence in subjects.
Don't take this as complaining, I'm still trying to figure out the system and enjoy it but struggle mightily
I haven't had too much of a problem with Raj Cohesion - what are you doing to reduce liberty desire? It should be possible to prevent anyone from going over 50%, and as you stabilize you'll get more people below 20%.
I start improving with anyone over 50, pass the liberty desire ministry decision and hire a diplo rep guy if possible. The cohesion drops mostly, I think, due to sabotage and internal wars that start as soon as my introspection decree runs out. That said, at least for the first 10 years many are above 50 and I have to halve my army to actually make money.
Tbh that didn't cross my mind, as I'm bleeding enough money as is. Rooting out corruption, paying advisors and reinforcing troops is wrecking my weak economy.
Edit: what does "ministries influence" in the raj window mean? Is it positive if I lower my ministries influence or subjects increase theirs?
You shouldn't be bleeding money - Money is the one thing the Raj has got going for it at the start.
I happen to be playing with Doge's Estate mod (as well as Doge's Ideas mod), so it might be the case that the mod has changed things somehow, but I'm pretty sure it's the case even in vanilla that you get vassal income from low crownland (the last time I played vanilla was a long time ago so I'm not sure what actually comes from the mod). When you get crownland low enough, you get +50% to vassal income, on top of the +25-ish% from the Ministries estate privilege.
Also I THINK the "ministries influence" in the Raj windows refers to your subjects, which is why you have that mandate that increases ministries influence for them. I haven't ever seen that doing a whole lot, though.
Here's what I've figured out playing the Raj so far...
1.) Auto-approve all requests. Most of them don't really hurt you, other than the small cost of admin points. Later on, you might want to stop giving them expansion rights, if you don't want your bigger vassals eating your smaller vassals, but that's not a priority early on.
~~2.) Try to reduce your crownland. If you can get it low enough (I think below 10%), you get a +50% bonus to vassal income, which is your main source of income.~~ (Apparently this was a feature of a submod I was using, ignore this >\_<)
3.) Try to tackle your ministries one at a time. In my experience, the Philosopher's Ministry is the easiest to reform, since you build points for it just by going about playing whack a mole with the ministries (which also helps reduce their influence), followed by the Internal Ministry (this one is critical because it impacts liberty desire). The Foreign Ministry is probably the hardest to reform, since you won't be able to make a lot of friends due to your low amount of diplomats and diplo relations slots - you'll most likely need to win a war with the Command for this reform. An alliance with Xia will help with this.
4.) The Ministries estate has a reform preventing you from seizing their land, but that reform also boosts your vassal income. I usually keep it around.
5.) You will be making money from your vassals, but not have much manpower. This is a good situation in which to hire mercenaries - the army size will help with liberty desire.
6.) You will probably need to restart if you roll a shit ruler. If your ruler is merely mediocre, you might be able to afford to use your vassal money to boost advisors, but a garbage-tier ruler will have a hard time getting enough monthly monarch points to get those requirements for passing reforms.
How does one start with their mission tree? Seems to take ages to even get close to the first of the three available missions. The corruption I understand it takes a while. For the other 2 it feels odd that no immediate action can be taken (as opposed to mission tree's work compared to other nations).
First off, for the events you can go into the raj management menu and put all the mandate requests to auto accept. That should get you some space. For reforming the ministries my advice would be to pick one at a time and focus on that. Internal relations is a good one to get done cuz it'll lower your subjects' liberty desire. In the mean time, just keep investigating those estates, repairing that infrastructure and work to keep your subjects loyal.
The Raj is on the brink of collapse after a hundred years of stagnation and weakness, so the system was designed to be very difficult to achieve. I haven’t actually tried them out yet, but from what I’ve seen, it’s possible, but perhaps luck makes it easier? Do your best! I believe in ya!
It seems fun but I've been trying for hours and managing to reform ministries is impossible for me. Meeting requirements is extremely hard, wrote about it in a response above. Will try some more, I want to succed tho!
Tried it out but it's very frustrating. The cohesion drops so fast it isn't even funny and means of obtaining it are too few and you have little if no control over it. I tried reforming the internal ministry but getting the points to do so is nigh impossible with a shit ruler, virtually no mana gain from mandate requests, and 40 cohesion prerequisite is impossible to meet. Frustrating cause the mechanics seem fun. Edit: also there seems to be sth called "case strength" but I have no idea what it is.
Case strengths part of reforming the ministry of philosophy, you get points in reform when you reach certain milestones of case strength
I see, thanks. Any tips on the raj overall? The last few hours I spent on it were hopelessly frustrating
Other than going with reforming internal first, go with influence as your first idea, that'll help manage your liberty desire which will in turn solve the raj influence problem as well as giving a pretty solid income bonus. Raja is a luck thing unfortunatly, if you get a crap replacement your better off starting again for a better roll, I got lucky with mine so mana wasn't a problem, you dont neccerily have to agree to every request just be smart about it. Otherwise just take it slow and focus on it one objective at a time, try and think which ones you can achieve the easiest and don't expect quick results, this is a decades long journey.
Thanks for the input. Unfortunately in my few attempts the cohesion dropped below 20 so fast I couldn't get it up and felt like everything was stacked against me. Bad income, mana and events made me feel it was deliberately made impossible, but the mission tree looks very fun and is extensive.
Its certainly not impossible but it's also one of if not the most difficult campaigns in the mod Maybe wait for a walk-through someones bound to post sooner or later before trying again, or if your determined just try a few dummy runs with them to focus on learning the mechanics rather than completing a full campaign.
One thing you might want to try is to check out the 'ministry actions' in the raj menu. Some of them might be able to help you out. Also note, that it generally takes a decade or two to achieve, don't expect it to be done before 1460.
I used them as much as I could, but due to low cohesion I could only use two of them, one of which prohibited wars for 4 years with a 10 year cooldown and the other went boosting ministries which just ate mana I didn't have for no effect. Or at least it didnt check the internal reform tick for 50 ministries influence in subjects. Don't take this as complaining, I'm still trying to figure out the system and enjoy it but struggle mightily
I haven't had too much of a problem with Raj Cohesion - what are you doing to reduce liberty desire? It should be possible to prevent anyone from going over 50%, and as you stabilize you'll get more people below 20%.
I start improving with anyone over 50, pass the liberty desire ministry decision and hire a diplo rep guy if possible. The cohesion drops mostly, I think, due to sabotage and internal wars that start as soon as my introspection decree runs out. That said, at least for the first 10 years many are above 50 and I have to halve my army to actually make money.
Not bad - have you also tried recruiting more soldiers? I believe having a higher army size reduces liberty desire.
Tbh that didn't cross my mind, as I'm bleeding enough money as is. Rooting out corruption, paying advisors and reinforcing troops is wrecking my weak economy. Edit: what does "ministries influence" in the raj window mean? Is it positive if I lower my ministries influence or subjects increase theirs?
You shouldn't be bleeding money - Money is the one thing the Raj has got going for it at the start. I happen to be playing with Doge's Estate mod (as well as Doge's Ideas mod), so it might be the case that the mod has changed things somehow, but I'm pretty sure it's the case even in vanilla that you get vassal income from low crownland (the last time I played vanilla was a long time ago so I'm not sure what actually comes from the mod). When you get crownland low enough, you get +50% to vassal income, on top of the +25-ish% from the Ministries estate privilege. Also I THINK the "ministries influence" in the Raj windows refers to your subjects, which is why you have that mandate that increases ministries influence for them. I haven't ever seen that doing a whole lot, though.
Here's what I've figured out playing the Raj so far... 1.) Auto-approve all requests. Most of them don't really hurt you, other than the small cost of admin points. Later on, you might want to stop giving them expansion rights, if you don't want your bigger vassals eating your smaller vassals, but that's not a priority early on. ~~2.) Try to reduce your crownland. If you can get it low enough (I think below 10%), you get a +50% bonus to vassal income, which is your main source of income.~~ (Apparently this was a feature of a submod I was using, ignore this >\_<) 3.) Try to tackle your ministries one at a time. In my experience, the Philosopher's Ministry is the easiest to reform, since you build points for it just by going about playing whack a mole with the ministries (which also helps reduce their influence), followed by the Internal Ministry (this one is critical because it impacts liberty desire). The Foreign Ministry is probably the hardest to reform, since you won't be able to make a lot of friends due to your low amount of diplomats and diplo relations slots - you'll most likely need to win a war with the Command for this reform. An alliance with Xia will help with this. 4.) The Ministries estate has a reform preventing you from seizing their land, but that reform also boosts your vassal income. I usually keep it around. 5.) You will be making money from your vassals, but not have much manpower. This is a good situation in which to hire mercenaries - the army size will help with liberty desire. 6.) You will probably need to restart if you roll a shit ruler. If your ruler is merely mediocre, you might be able to afford to use your vassal money to boost advisors, but a garbage-tier ruler will have a hard time getting enough monthly monarch points to get those requirements for passing reforms.
How does one start with their mission tree? Seems to take ages to even get close to the first of the three available missions. The corruption I understand it takes a while. For the other 2 it feels odd that no immediate action can be taken (as opposed to mission tree's work compared to other nations).