Neutrals and Poltical Influence

Krazy and I have both agreed upon the idea of having neutral countries which major factions are able to exert poltical influence over for both economically and military benefits. We propose nations like Denmark, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Morocco to be neutral, but open to forign investment ect.. What we are puzzled on is what will happen as the game progresses. Will nations like Serbia emerge and if so what happens to the owner and their hard earned industry in that region? What we also need to know is if people want the map's timeline pushed back to 1850. This would create a giant mess of German city states which Prussia, France, and Belgium would have the option of making political alliances with. This of course would be a triggering cluster fuck for Krazy and would add massive amounts of time to the maps production... Input anyone?

i vote we keep it post unification until we at least get the map out. once the name gets out there and its kinda popular, THEN we can see about pushing back the timeline. influence sounds like a good idea. as far as emerging countries, what if you made it some kind of trigger like you get an option "Give Serbia independence? (Gain 2000g, 1000w) or continue to keep them under your rule? (High Medium or Low chance of armed rebellion)" where you can let them go peacefully and gain some resources (as if they BOUGHT their independence) or continue to try and keep them under your rule.

Im not for timed events tbh. I think a revolt should happen only if say you raise the taxes to high on your population if we implment a tax system. Another cause could be lack of food or something also..

yeah, i completely agree. but basically, the people should ave some kind of complaint and youll need to either fix it, give em independence or try to keep it under control... so to reduce the risk of rebellion youd lower taxes or something similar.

Also if you invested in say denmark you would recieve some sort of military or economic benefit. Mabye say Danish volunteers if you entered a war with france as germany or something like that...? Maybe an economic perk could be the ability to expand industry. Like one requirement for a factory upgrade could be, being forced to establish economic ties to at least one neutral nation.

make AI for neutrals so they can atleast have some chances

make AI'S build defences/industry/make units and move them to.

lets say prussia invades bunch if german states the german states will have chance at making prussia surrender.