Or we can just switch to slavery (without CR) on T233 to whip, Is losing the CS bonus on T234 too big?
Not only would we lose the ability to run as many scientists and merchants as we'd like, we'd lose 1H on every singly Workshop.
Nationalism, while losing the 100% culture bonus (only a few hundreds in Paris and Orleans, I'm really not worried about this) and maybe ~200 research through towns has 0 upkeep, multiplied by inflation (about 50% atm) it's actually not too far in terms of final beaker output. Plus, barracks give 2 and almost all of our unhappy towns happen to have barracks... draft Infantry is 2 pop per city so we can shed probably around 60 population if need be.
It's also used in HoF games towards the end, so there's also that. Extra EPP should add ~10% to our current rate.
Could you upload the T233 save before hitting enter and T235 final result to this thread for others to double check?
I can't upload to thread per SGOTM rules. Either to the server or I provide screenshots. I'll upload every single turn after submitting the final save if you guys want them.
Will creating vassals change the domination and UN cap?
UN cap is always 62% (from the code).
Domination land I don't recall, I remember OSS explored it in a thread (possibly SGOTM13, 14 or 15) where they went Domination.