I need help understanding how to keep stable 
Background: Germany game, hardest difficulty (emperor??)
year: 1796.
I conquered the netherlands and france early. the turks out teched me, so I took out scandanavia while I built up a larger force (not hard to build all eco buildings then pump out units in all cities). Rather, I stacked a large army on the vikings border, then they revolted and went independent and I took the independent cities. Then my horde of cannons, macement, and knights took Rome, Athens, and Constantinople from the Turks much smaller army of cavalry and riflemen (hehe). I can get peace with Turks now if I - although I would prefer to push on and raise Sogut (first city on turkey peninsula) to push all turkish culture off greece (and hopefully either make them revolt or get them to agree to being my vassal).
Spain and portugal are my vassals.
I am running hereiditary rule, free speech, decentralization, free religion, and viceroyalty. im 4-6 turns from democracy - plan is to then research economics, and switch to free speech, universal suffrage, and emancipation.
stability:
cities: -14 civics: -20 economy: +66 expansion: -73 foreign: -5
toal: -45 (although I think it should be -38, when you factor in the +8 for two vassals - not sure about the difference of 7 there).
I played ahead a few turns after saving, Khmer wants me to vassal them, cities dropped to -8 and economy up to +70, but the expansion dropped to -77 as well so i didnt get that much more stable. (I also was awarded Inveirnes in the first congress - yay, but wtf?)
questions: how do I fix?
cities and foreign im not worried about
civics - tried switching to all level 2 civics (hereditary, vassalage, mercantilism, etc.) but that made it -22. Im assuming it will be better when I switch to all the democracy civics, but thats another 7 turns away (another 15 if you count free market). Not sure how low I have to get to revolt, but I'm getting scared. I really don't understand which civics I'm supposed to pick to have +stability here.
stability civic: I can only do viceroyalty or commonwealth, and commonwealth is pretty useless to me since my economy is very strong.
expansion: how the f do i fix this? I still have to conquer England and Russia at some point to win HV, and its already putting me so far in the whole as it is - I can't imagine what it will be once I've taken moscow. I don't understand this stat at all - it went up (positive) when I took Amsterdamn and France, and then dove when i took Scandanavia - and went way in the whole when I took Rome and Greece.
Background: Germany game, hardest difficulty (emperor??)
year: 1796.
I conquered the netherlands and france early. the turks out teched me, so I took out scandanavia while I built up a larger force (not hard to build all eco buildings then pump out units in all cities). Rather, I stacked a large army on the vikings border, then they revolted and went independent and I took the independent cities. Then my horde of cannons, macement, and knights took Rome, Athens, and Constantinople from the Turks much smaller army of cavalry and riflemen (hehe). I can get peace with Turks now if I - although I would prefer to push on and raise Sogut (first city on turkey peninsula) to push all turkish culture off greece (and hopefully either make them revolt or get them to agree to being my vassal).
Spain and portugal are my vassals.
I am running hereiditary rule, free speech, decentralization, free religion, and viceroyalty. im 4-6 turns from democracy - plan is to then research economics, and switch to free speech, universal suffrage, and emancipation.
stability:
cities: -14 civics: -20 economy: +66 expansion: -73 foreign: -5
toal: -45 (although I think it should be -38, when you factor in the +8 for two vassals - not sure about the difference of 7 there).
I played ahead a few turns after saving, Khmer wants me to vassal them, cities dropped to -8 and economy up to +70, but the expansion dropped to -77 as well so i didnt get that much more stable. (I also was awarded Inveirnes in the first congress - yay, but wtf?)
questions: how do I fix?
cities and foreign im not worried about
civics - tried switching to all level 2 civics (hereditary, vassalage, mercantilism, etc.) but that made it -22. Im assuming it will be better when I switch to all the democracy civics, but thats another 7 turns away (another 15 if you count free market). Not sure how low I have to get to revolt, but I'm getting scared. I really don't understand which civics I'm supposed to pick to have +stability here.
stability civic: I can only do viceroyalty or commonwealth, and commonwealth is pretty useless to me since my economy is very strong.
expansion: how the f do i fix this? I still have to conquer England and Russia at some point to win HV, and its already putting me so far in the whole as it is - I can't imagine what it will be once I've taken moscow. I don't understand this stat at all - it went up (positive) when I took Amsterdamn and France, and then dove when i took Scandanavia - and went way in the whole when I took Rome and Greece.
. The civilopedia basically just says "its all pretty much common sense." lol.
Occupation is awesome since you not only get stability for capturing more, you don't get any penalty for anger in recently captured cities either. Don't forget to build jails in your cities, all of them.
