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How does one form a Protectorate?

I have had minor countrys favor my country 100%, the pie chart is 100% my color. Another major country somehow forms a Protectorate with the minor country, with 100% favoring my country. How???

(Moving thread from original COG forum to COG:EE forum.)

Even if you're at 100% attitude with a minor power, there are criteria that can prevent minor powers from requesting you as their protector.  For instance, say Prussia and France are allied and Saxony has 100% attitude toward France.  If Prussia attacks Saxony, Saxony will not request France as a protector because France is allied to Prussia and therefore cannot go to war with Prussia.  Later in the game, in particular, minor powers will become even less likely to offer themselves spontaneously to nations that are gobbling up the map.  In short, attitude is just a guideline for which way a minor power will go diplomatically.  It is only one criteria among many.

Right; Attitude is a kind of ceteris paribus rule--so long as there are no obstacles, Attitude indicates the way the country will tend to be swayed. But of course there are all kinds of potential obstacles.

I do like the fact that this is not predictable. It would be dreadful if we could predict the effects of all of our moves and calculate every reaction like it was some kind of chess game.

ORIGINAL: barbarossa2

I do like the fact that this is not predictable. It would be dreadful if we could predict the effects of all of our moves and calculate every reaction like it was some kind of chess game.

They are fairly predictable though. If you know what conditions need to be met and avoided to get a protectorate request you can work to make things click fairly well.

Sometimes you can have things all set up on your end and just hope another player unknowingly pushes them the rest of the way.

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ORIGINAL: barbarossa2

I do like the fact that this is not predictable. It would be dreadful if we could predict the effects of all of our moves and calculate every reaction like it was some kind of chess game.

Agree 100%. This is exactly what makes this a truly awesome game. It is fairly easy to get the mechanics, but mastering the ecology is not only difficult, but indeed, never a complete possibility to do with total gaurantee.