Issue: Your primary heir does not receive your actual capital in Gavelkind, they receive the default capital of the Primary title. Then, since they receive only one county and the rest go to your other heirs, those heirs get the actual capital.
Problem: This nullifies the ability to move your capital to a better location, or keep your capital at the original location if you get a better title. It also gives your rival all the technology points you have built up, as those are province-based in CK2.
Examples:
1) As a Duke of Spoleto, I owned most of southern Italy but avoided creating additional duchy titles so they would not be split up on succession. I had moved my capital province from Spoleto to a larger, more profitable coastal province. On my death, my heir and the Duchy's capital were reset to Spoleto, with my second heir receiving the new capital along with almost all the remaining counties.
2) As Norse Jorvik, I conquered and became King of England. London (Middlesex) was a barren looted province, but on succession my primary heir switched capital to that province while my second heir received my original wealthy and advanced capital.
Workarounds:
1) You can change the default capital of a title in the txt file. I don't like to mess around with those myself so haven't tested it, but others have confirmed this fixes it.
2) I haven't had time to try this yet, but I'm assuming that if I gave the default capital province to either some other Count or a second/third heir, then my primary heir would get the actual capital. With that said, I usually don't like giving away the default capital province to another Count, and the value in Gavelkind is that you don't need to land your other sons before you die and have them do crazy things like break your awesome betrothal and instead marry lowborn.
Solution: Primary heir inherits actual capital, not default capital of primary title.
This has been reported in other threads going back a year or more, but usually buried in with a whole bunch of Gavelkind change requests or people who aren't sure the exact cause outlined in this thread, hence why I am simplifying the request here. I understand Gavelkind is difficult to create an algorithm for, but I'd at least like to see your primary heir getting your actual capital, not some pre-defined province which later in game may not even be useful anymore.
Problem: This nullifies the ability to move your capital to a better location, or keep your capital at the original location if you get a better title. It also gives your rival all the technology points you have built up, as those are province-based in CK2.
Examples:
1) As a Duke of Spoleto, I owned most of southern Italy but avoided creating additional duchy titles so they would not be split up on succession. I had moved my capital province from Spoleto to a larger, more profitable coastal province. On my death, my heir and the Duchy's capital were reset to Spoleto, with my second heir receiving the new capital along with almost all the remaining counties.
2) As Norse Jorvik, I conquered and became King of England. London (Middlesex) was a barren looted province, but on succession my primary heir switched capital to that province while my second heir received my original wealthy and advanced capital.
Workarounds:
1) You can change the default capital of a title in the txt file. I don't like to mess around with those myself so haven't tested it, but others have confirmed this fixes it.
2) I haven't had time to try this yet, but I'm assuming that if I gave the default capital province to either some other Count or a second/third heir, then my primary heir would get the actual capital. With that said, I usually don't like giving away the default capital province to another Count, and the value in Gavelkind is that you don't need to land your other sons before you die and have them do crazy things like break your awesome betrothal and instead marry lowborn.
Solution: Primary heir inherits actual capital, not default capital of primary title.
This has been reported in other threads going back a year or more, but usually buried in with a whole bunch of Gavelkind change requests or people who aren't sure the exact cause outlined in this thread, hence why I am simplifying the request here. I understand Gavelkind is difficult to create an algorithm for, but I'd at least like to see your primary heir getting your actual capital, not some pre-defined province which later in game may not even be useful anymore.
Upvote
0
