Are you absolutely sure about that? One of the achievement guides on Steam (I know it's not the best source) says the opposite...
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Yes, I'm pretty sure someone confirmed that the code checks the exact character ID that you're playing.
just to add to the above:
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# Starting as Mu’nis al-Muzaffar of Galilee in 867, become an Emperor and have at least 100 realm size.
A_SERVANT_NO_MORE = {
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character = 163134
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happened = {
character = 163134
independent = yes
tier = EMPEROR
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}Well I certainly can't argue with that... Thank you for such a thorough response.
I'm still having a little trouble deciding how best to educate all the children in my dynasty (Mostly my own, but also any young brothers/sisters or grandchildren)
Should I educate them all myself? That's what I have been doing but now I'm wondering if it's the best. Should I assign them to differnt guardians depending on the traits I want for them?
Should I educate them all myself? That's what I have been doing but now I'm wondering if it's the best. Should I assign them to differnt guardians depending on the traits I want for them?
I just wanted to check I'm doing a couple of things right:
1) I'm a King with one Duchy and am trying to gain control over the Kingdom's other Duchy, which belongs to my vassal. I've sent my Chancellor to the capital of the Duchy I desire and set him to Fabricate Claims. I get a claim on the County, but even after many decades of continuing to keep the Chancellor there fabricating, I've not got a claim on the Duchy yet. When I've got bored and sent my Chancellor to fabricate claims on another couple of counties, I've got them pretty quickly. There are no Plot or Intrigue options available.
So, is it just a matter of time and luck, or are am I doing something wrong?
2) Also, a barony in my capital county has, through marriage, come to be owned by a foreign realm. To regain control, I'd need to send the Chancellor there to the county and fabricate a claim, right? There are no Plot or Intrigue options available.
1) I'm a King with one Duchy and am trying to gain control over the Kingdom's other Duchy, which belongs to my vassal. I've sent my Chancellor to the capital of the Duchy I desire and set him to Fabricate Claims. I get a claim on the County, but even after many decades of continuing to keep the Chancellor there fabricating, I've not got a claim on the Duchy yet. When I've got bored and sent my Chancellor to fabricate claims on another couple of counties, I've got them pretty quickly. There are no Plot or Intrigue options available.
So, is it just a matter of time and luck, or are am I doing something wrong?
2) Also, a barony in my capital county has, through marriage, come to be owned by a foreign realm. To regain control, I'd need to send the Chancellor there to the county and fabricate a claim, right? There are no Plot or Intrigue options available.
^^ in addition to above,
Does sending the Spymaster to 'Build a spy network' have any effect on the Chancellor's 'Fabricate a claim', if both council members are sent to the same location?
Does sending the Spymaster to 'Build a spy network' have any effect on the Chancellor's 'Fabricate a claim', if both council members are sent to the same location?
1. It's rare for a chancellor to actually fabricate upon a duchy. I do believe that they are capable of doing so, but it's rare and requires the chancellor to be above 15 diplomacy skill.
2. You shouldn't need to fabricate if the barony is within your land. You just need to declare on whoever the top liege is for de jure territory of the county. I think it's called "for x holdings", where x is the county name.
Not that I've seen.
Don't worry about fabricating claims on your vassals, just revoke their titles. It only costs 15 opinion with the others.
I had a Chancellor of level 18 fabricating for the Duchy for over forty years without success. I think I've had this similar issue before. I'm thinking that maybe one can fabricate for the duchy outside of one's vassals but not from one's own vassals?
The solution in the end for me, and I think also last time, was waiting for an opportunity to imprison the duke, and then have him resist arrest, take up arms against me and then, after he's captured, there's no penalty for revoking the title because he's a traitor. I think one can revoke one title from a traitor without penalty, so also having a fabricated claim on the county means one could revoke the traitor duke's duchy and county titles in one go without penalty.
Potentially, one might be able to try retracting vassals from the duke in such circumstances to provoke him - if he accepts, then you gain a vassal, but if he refuses then he becomes a traitor from whom one can revoke titles freely.
I'd sent my Spymaster there too to Build Spy Network - would this have increased the chances of imprisonment opportunities against the Duke?
The solution in the end for me, and I think also last time, was waiting for an opportunity to imprison the duke, and then have him resist arrest, take up arms against me and then, after he's captured, there's no penalty for revoking the title because he's a traitor. I think one can revoke one title from a traitor without penalty, so also having a fabricated claim on the county means one could revoke the traitor duke's duchy and county titles in one go without penalty.
Potentially, one might be able to try retracting vassals from the duke in such circumstances to provoke him - if he accepts, then you gain a vassal, but if he refuses then he becomes a traitor from whom one can revoke titles freely.
I'd sent my Spymaster there too to Build Spy Network - would this have increased the chances of imprisonment opportunities against the Duke?
I think one person can be a guardian for two wards. It may also add to workload meaning more chance of getting stressed. So I have my ruler only educate my heir, and sometimes the spare also (as well as my heir's heir, when applicable). If my ruler has poor stats and the ruler's spouse has better stats and traits, then I'll have the spouse be the Educator for early childhood, and then switch to make my ruler the Guardian at age 12, in order to control the child's education decisions that happen between the ages of 12 and 16.
For other close family members, I'll just make the Guardian of the child whichever of their parents has the best stats/traits.
Not saying this is best practice, just what I do.
Read the tooltips.
Leave the mouse over the icon for half a second.
Alternatively: https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Council#Abilities_4
In short: no . Generally there are no interactions between jobs.
also...
https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Council#Abilities_2
Randomly looking at my vassals and this guy is set to inherit Mercia. Will the merc company become my vassal?
Picture somewhat hard to see, leader of Gloucester Band is heir to Mercia.
Edit: I'm stupid, it's an assembled band.
Have they fixed AI viceroyalties? Last I played that late vassal AI kings did not grant viceroyalty duchies, leading them to accumulate duchies and have constant rebellions.
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The mouse tooltip for Build Spy Network says:Read the tooltips.
Leave the mouse over the icon for half a second.
Alternatively: https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Council#Abilities_4
In short: no . Generally there are no interactions between jobs.
also...
https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Council#Abilities_2
This suggests that using the Build Spy Network option on a noble might increase the chances of catching them doing something corrupt - something probably more likely if they have bad traits - and that ordering the Spymaster to perform this action would therefore increase the likelihood of getting "opportunity to imprison" events to fire.
So I think that if one wanted to take a noble's title by making them turn traitor, then having the Spymaster do a Build Spy Network assignment against them would be helpful in achieving this. But I'm not certain, which was why I asked.
"Intrigue events" means plots. All it does is increase your plot power for any plots targeting someone in that county.
What about events like this that one's Spymaster brings? This would seem to be the sort of event that the Build Spy Network assignment might increase the likelihood of. What other events does the "Corruption uncovered" possible outcome bring?
That event has nothing to do with your spymaster. What happened was that Prince Bores of Bohemia was spying on Mayor Viktorín with intrigue focus and discovered something about him that he thought you should know. I believe "corruption uncovered" is a particular event about some corruption being uncovered, but I don't know what it is or what the requirements for it firing are.
Well these sort of events seem like the sort of thing building a spy network in a county should increase the likelihood of, even if it's only the +15% or so (depending on intrigue skill).
Basically every vassal can charge another vassal with a crime if they spy on them long enough, and the target had a trait that would trigger the event.
The specific crime varies based on which character trait the event picks. Slander can trigger when a character is deceitful or ambitious for example. Suspected treason fires a lot when the target is ambitious. Preaching the wrong religion is obvious when they're a different religion, but can also happen if they were forced to convert, you can still try to implicate them based on the previous religion. I know there are a few others which are much more rare, like discovery of illegitimacy, which can actually be used to revoke titles.