This whole thing with "culling courtiers" gets really out of hand sometimes. I'm referring to the way the game gives a health penalty to courtiers that aren't related to anyone or have no immediate role to play, lowborns and bastards and the like. Lots of times I'll bring a lowborn person to my court for some purpose, and they'll die within days of "poor health" even if they were like 16 years old. Like if I bring a lowborn woman to my court to offer to a vassal as a concubine (as I do when I really want my vassals to have kids for some reason), and the woman will die of "poor health" so fast that the vassal doesn't even have time to respond to the request.
That's one thing, but I just had something even more annoying happen, and it isn't the first time. I used the "invite noble to court" decision to create a new character so I could give him a title, as I do when I don't want to use someone who already has relatives in other places that might inherit the title and take it out of my realm if the guy dies five minutes later. So I created this new character, then I set about finding him a wife (I didn't have enough money left for "present debutante", so I had to find a preexisting lowborn woman somewhere, someone without troublesome relatives). Within seconds he was dead of "poor health". I spent like 70 gold (most of my treasury) creating this guy, and inside of a minute he was dead, before I could even give him his title. This is extremely annoying when this happens, and it has happened before. This is not reasonable.
If nothing else, I would very much like for the "courtier culling" to be made so it doesn't apply to characters you deliberately create via "invite noble to court", "invite holy man", or "present debutante". If I specifically create a new character, that means I want them alive for some purpose, certainly for more than 12 seconds, especially if I spent a significant amount of gold on them.
That's one thing, but I just had something even more annoying happen, and it isn't the first time. I used the "invite noble to court" decision to create a new character so I could give him a title, as I do when I don't want to use someone who already has relatives in other places that might inherit the title and take it out of my realm if the guy dies five minutes later. So I created this new character, then I set about finding him a wife (I didn't have enough money left for "present debutante", so I had to find a preexisting lowborn woman somewhere, someone without troublesome relatives). Within seconds he was dead of "poor health". I spent like 70 gold (most of my treasury) creating this guy, and inside of a minute he was dead, before I could even give him his title. This is extremely annoying when this happens, and it has happened before. This is not reasonable.
If nothing else, I would very much like for the "courtier culling" to be made so it doesn't apply to characters you deliberately create via "invite noble to court", "invite holy man", or "present debutante". If I specifically create a new character, that means I want them alive for some purpose, certainly for more than 12 seconds, especially if I spent a significant amount of gold on them.
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Aaaaaaaand I didn't get to say hello.