Oversea Loans and Development

Now that there is going to be at least 2 lobbies per culture and faction, the game can assign a native, dominant lobby for each one of the cities and protectorates at random to influence their development and integrate them with the flow of events in the rest of the game.

I don't know how far I want to get with this in the current release, but for now those dominant lobbies are able to ask for loans to develop their lands in whichever manner they consider most important at the time. For now, this can be militarily, increasing their Strength, or economically increasing their Economy. A third option, especially favoured by incompetent lobbies, is to ask loans for running expenses and other unprofitable ventures.

These loans, usually much larger than those requested by lobbies and aristocrats, can be automatically completed or even fulfilled by the player like any other loan request. The risk will be directly related to the territory's Instability, and you'll get the option to give the money away to increase the effect of the loan in development and lower the Tension with that particular foreign territory. All of this can be used to further your trading ventures' profitability, since these same values already affect trading in the game.

It might also be noteworthy that, ever since the previous release, oversea entities did not have these values randomized after each age. The dominant lobbies of each city and protectorate however will change between one age and another, so it could be fun to see how much the lobbies can make a city or protectorate sink or prosper as they start to get more power over their foreign territories.