2 quick questions:
1: Where can I find this new fangled 'next music track' feature?
2: I can only afford to buy one of the following: WoL, HL, or Conclave - which would you suggest?
1. Lower right corner of the minimap. There's a button with two arrows on it.
2. If you only play ERE you'd miss out on the majority of HL content, so you wouldn't be getting your money's worth. WoL and Conclave though are a matter of personal taste.
I will say however that from what I've gathered Conclave is most fun if you're a vassal sitting on your liege's council because you now have some tools to influence the realm. But If you are the top liege of the realm the council is basically making you jump through extra hoops to get the same results as before.
And about WoL, people say it's for good for roleplaying, but I find that's only half the truth. WoL enhances roleplaying for people who care more about roleplaying than about gameplay and will pick their focus based on their characters traits. But most people tend to find one or two focuses that give the best benefits for their particular style of gameplay and stick with them for all their characters. And the really gamey people cycle through focuses to squeeze out maximum benefits (start with Scholarship and build observatory for tech, switch to Hunting to get dog, then switch to Rulership to get Just and Diligent traits, finally settle for Family focus to live longer and make a couple extra kids).
1- Should I bother with centralization higher than medium? I'm not quite sure how high my number of direct vassals may rise and that makes the vassal limit penalties sound quite scary.
2- How bad is it to be over demesne limit? I'm currently sitting on 12/6 titles and I'd really want to keep them until there are enough men of my dynasty to receive them.
3- Does opinion have any bearing on pregnancy chance? My new character is a damn cheater and his genius wife is not happy about it.
4- Regardless of the above, is there any way to get rid of the malus from adulterer/suspected adulterer or are they forever?
1. Yes, feel free to increase centralization as much as possible in the beginning. It's a normal law so you can change it several steps within a single ruler's lifetime. If you later find yourself going over your vassal limit, you can always drop it again.
2. Really bad. You get a 20% penalty for each holding above your limit, up to a maximum of -90% income and levies at 5 holdings over your limit. You can generally afford to hold on to 1 or maybe 2 extra titles, but 3 are already prohibitive. You're better of handing out the excess titles and revoking them later.
There is a workaround though if you have a either a lowborn eunuch or a noble eunuch with no living relatives in your court. You can grant him the excess titles and since he has no relatives and can't produce any children, you'll be his heir and will get the titles back when he dies.
3. Hate sex will produce babies just as well as making sweet love would. With other words, opinion does not have any direct effect on pregnancy chance. However, the Lover modifier makes babies more likely and if your spouse hates you they might be more willing to get a lover.
4. The modifiers lasts for 10 years for the public version and 5 years for the suspected version. If a wife cheats on her husband and it becomes public knowledge it's also a valid reason for imprisonment, title revocation, execution and divorce.
Playing with Conclave for the first time - trying to institute Primo succession law. Tooltip says I need to have at least Medium Crown Authority. The Crown Authority laws seem to be gone (?) and replaced by Administration laws which I have set to Late. Tooltip on Primo still says I need Medium Crown Authority. Where has Crown Authority disappeared to and how do I change it under the Conclave DLC?
The tooltip is for people without conclave. You only need late fuedal,10 years and no vassals with a negative opinion.
The tooltip has been screwed up since Conclave dropped: folks with Conclave get the non-Conclave tooltip and vice versa.
Actually the tooltip is automatically generated from the law conditions in the game files and applies to both people who do and people who don't have Conclave.
It says you need either Medium/High Crown Authority (only possible if you don't have Conlcave) or Late/Imperial Administration (only possible if you do have Conclave). You don't need to fulfill both conditions, only one.
