Getting rid of courtiers

Bertouch

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According to an earlier post--which seemed to find general agreement--having more than 30 courtiers meant your ruler had fewer kids. That's not necessarily bad, but if you want to get rid of male courtiers for whatever reason, what recourse do you have? You can try lowering their opinions of you, but that's tough to do to a courtier. And matrilieneal marriage won't work. Any ideas?

 

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Throw them into the jail and off with their heads!

 

Bertouch

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Maukka said:

Throw them into the jail and off with their heads!

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Sorry! I should have added I was looking for useful opinions. -40 to everybody for each courtier thrown in jail adds up pretty quickly.

 

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M8 u need only courtier with skill, assignment, kids or royal in ur court. All others are unnecessary and useless.
All other is best to kill. Cost 50gold. IF u throw in dungeon, u will get bad points.

 

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Bertouch said:

According to an earlier post--which seemed to find general agreement--having more than 30 courtiers meant your ruler had fewer kids. That's not necessarily bad, but if you want to get rid of male courtiers for whatever reason, what recourse do you have? You can try lowering their opinions of you, but that's tough to do to a courtier. And matrilieneal marriage won't work. Any ideas?

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Kill them, kill them allllllll. Don't worry about bad points, do what you like. It's about role playing. Be a tyrant, be mean, be cruel, see how long you last.

 

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FreeMayk99 said:

M8 u need only courtier with skill, assignment, kids or royal in ur court. All others are unnecessary and useless.
All other is best to kill. Cost 50gold. IF u throw in dungeon, u will get bad points.

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You'll also get bad points if you're discovered using assassination, and that happens rather frequently. Or are you referring to another option? I don't see any.

 

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Lol one of my favorite things in CK1 that I had read about and tried was having my wife as the spymaster and once she reached oh 25 or 26 asking her to commit suicide so I could remarry and have more kids. It was hilariously funny and I think only 1 time out of many did it fail. Can you do that in this one?

 

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Bertouch said:

You'll also get bad points if you're discovered using assassination, and that happens rather frequently. Or are you referring to another option? I don't see any.

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Well you could invite a guy with 22+ intrigue to be your spy master and do some cloak and daggering, against courtiers you'd likely have close to 0% odds of being discovered and over 50% chance of success.

 

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Maukka said:

Well you could invite a guy with 22+ intrigue to be your spy master and do some cloak and daggering, against courtiers you'd likely have close to 0% odds of being discovered and over 50% chance of success.

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There's no ability to target a courtier in this way.

 

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Bertouch said:

There's no ability to target a courtier in this way.

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You set your spymaster to build a spynetwork to your capital where your courtiers are, then you open list of courtiers, click diplomacy and start assasinating.

 

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After research, the earlier post was only half-correct. Many courtiers do reduce children but only in AI-controlled lands, in order to reduce CPU strain on having tons and tons of characters running around. Hopefully this is true, but it could be wrong. Can anyone confirm?

 

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The soft way is to use normal wedding for women you want to get rid of. And matrilinear wedding for men. In that last case the man is going away to his wife/wife's liege court.

 

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Is the less children with more courtiers thing a bug ?

 

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What about arranging matrilineal marriages?

 

Arizael

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Well just ignore them. I don't think that the 30 limit affects player and managing couriers is micromanagement hell. I mean they can't even marry on the own, you have to do it maunaly or you will end with unmarried court :blink: