after a fresh conquest I usually hand out the counties and the baronies below to landless characters. I have never seen this before where i hand them a county and they make a city there capital thus making them a republic or whatever rather then feudal vassal. It usually happens seemingly randomly even when the character has the "feudal" type before i land them.This particular duchy turns them all into republics unless i do counties only first then auto create the baronies. Thats a lot of work to hand them back though. Any idea why this is happening and how to stop it?
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Thanks!
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Thanks!