Adapt. It's a strategy game. That said, it does feel as if it is taking longer. Cannot confirm that yet but I'll take some notes later

I took someones capital while they had just taken over three cities and a good chunk of them were already in the mid 30s-40 morale, but many were 25-30 morale. After I took his capital, a dozen or more of them were 10-15%. He had troops stationed in the ones that still had risk, so he was fighting as they revolted. After 3 days, some of these cities are in the teens still and I feel bad because his losses to rouges are up over 30,000. For the cities that revolted on the first day, there are already 3-4 rouges in them and it is near certain that by the time I get to them, there will be 6-8 rougues in each. I will just leave them because they will be lev 1 cities by the time I take them out if I am careful about losses.

My point is, that after day change, the morale recharge is extremely low and you better have 5 infantry stationed in a city that has 10 morale and it will take 10 days to get it up to 34% at this rate. This leads to both of us abandoning the city. Can we somehow increase the morale recharge?

yeah i'm having the same issues i have taking america with another player 2-3 days ago and i still can't leave city's alone please change it devs.

Checked it - the way it works is the following:

if you capture a city and do not capture all surrounding areas the city may stay hostile longer

regular hostility phase is still 2 days as before - just make sure to capture all surrounding provinces

//G

Is more than 24 hours bogged down a real issue? Trying to be realistic but would insurgency groups just give up after one day? Would a city be happy at being occupied after one day? To be honest what this does is cause players to focus on taking over countries slowly, stop and pause, build more units rather than by day 5 have 3/4 major countries under there belt. All it has done is just made taking over countries a bit more harder and will mean games last longer rather than one player buying gold winning by VP points in less than 2 weeks.

Hi Antisocialnz,

it's a question of balance - there is a lot that can go wrong even after capturing a town. So yes, it will surely take longer than 24h - just a question of how the player approaches the issue.

//G

@GermanicoBut the parameters have been changed in the last two/three days?

I'm having to garrison cities in a country where we control everything and all the cities are annexed. Two days plus down the line for the first of those cities and they are hovering around the low to mid thirties.

I captured the city and all surrounding regions, but morale rose by 2 points over the day ..
And where it was already 28 rose to 31

It all depends on your population's morale. If they are pissed off due to war-crimes or overload on wars etc. this will lower the target morale of the freshly conquered/occupied/annexed cities as well, resulting in slower morale growth.