3k piety for a county claim

[User29]

I'm an insanely big empire so I understand running the realm shouldn't be too easy. but 3k piety for one county claim seems so crazy excessive. What is it even based on?

 

[Vempbody]

First of all, what year are you on, what timeline did you start and whats your religion?

It might also be because of your realm size, if you're as big as scandinavia (for example) then dont spend money on fabricating, its just not worth it..... Unless you have money ofc

 

[User29]

money is a non-issue, the whole game is a non-issue, I have essentially the entirety of continental europe and all but a tiny bit of north africa, and all of the near east and half of persia. the other half of Persia and half of Russia are owned by my half brother the Khagan of the Mongols.

It's been prohibitively expensive to request claims from the pope pretty much all game though. I just want to understand why it's scaled like this

 

[mrinku]

Many things in the game are scaled to your current rating. Money costs are often based on multiples of current income, for example.

This sounds similar. Possibly based on your Piety, or your Piety gain rate. As to why? Likely to prevent Catholic blobs from expanding too rapidly.

 

[User29]

it didn't slow me down at all, just makes reorganization within tedious.

I don't mind costs scaling, but most gains in piety are in lump sums, post crusade, handing out bishoprics, and donating. but because crusades got me holy relics, and therefore piety gain per month, everything is way more expensive? then counter-intuitively you should get rid of all piety gain per month items and traits and just holy war and donate to get papal points