Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers

[RamsayBoIton]

I started a new game as the Indian Rashtrakuta Empire ~780AD. I note two things which seem abnormal and would like to be clarified whether this is indeed abnormal,

1) all the epidemics that appear on the map, anywhere on the map, any land, always has 20% epidemic resistance, or sometimes 10%, and extremely rarely, I've seen 5% a couple times. Have not seen a single county with 0% anywhere on the map. This didn't happen in my last game. Even counties with no hospitals and barely any development show 20% resistance most of the time. What is this?

2) A part of my empire is being incorporated, de jure, into another neighboring empire. Why is this happening?

 

[Rydelfox]

1) IIRC, the tooltip that lists disease resistance also lists the source of the resistance. Most likely, it's because diseases cause depopulation, and depopulation increases disease resistance. So, the resistance would have come as a result of the disease.

2) Is the de jure drift ticking up or down? Most likely, your land was previously owned by that empire and was in the process of drifting into it. Taking the land doesn't wipe that progress immediately, but causes it to go down slowly over time.

 

[CoSMoS]

Does Frisian culture still turn to Dutch sooner or later, even when ruled by a Frisian ruler?

 

[Atalvyr]

Only for provinces in de jure Frisia. If you export the culture, it stays but you cannot reconvert Frisia.

 

[ius]

Patricians are not allowed to use the Make County Capital title action. Why is that??

 

[Nimmegil]

I am revolting against my liege, one of the non-revolting vassals of my liege can provide MANY MORE TROOPS THAN SHE OWNS, how is this possible?

 

[TheRealRemus]

I am revolting against my liege, one of the non-revolting vassals of my liege can provide MANY MORE TROOPS THAN SHE OWNS, how is this possible?

Maybe those are mercs?

 

[Nimmegil]

Maybe those are mercs?

I'm afraid not, she only has 1273 men additionally in retinue. This liege levy thing must be bugged. If you play the HRE, you will see something like this with many vassals, they can provide troops more than they own.

 

[QieRa]

does AI ever release a tributary? and as a tributary, can we call our suzerain if his vassal declare war to us?

i start as count of Aydam, convert to Shia by decision, and abuse the tributary system by calling the Fatimid caliph and his mamluk to every war
now i am King of Nubia, but then i realize i can't grow past Abbysinia, i don't mind being small, but i am not sure if i can fight them if they ever decided that tributary is not enough

my situation right now

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Patricians are not allowed to use the Make County Capital title action. Why is that??

Repuplics don't change their capital, historical, makes sense, period.

 

[RedBaronFlyer]

What determines when a religious head excommunicates people? I've seen characters with negative piety, nearly all seven sins, exposed demon worshiper, and terrible relations with the pope yet they're just fine, then there's 500+ pious multiple virtues and good relations with the pope that get excommunicated.

 

[Rockphed]

Currenly as a Merchant Republic I am at 14/11 desmense limit. What holdings do I keep and which do I give away and to whom? For what reasons and to what guidelines should I adhere to?

My general rule for holdings as a patrician:

Give away temples.
Keep coastal cities in counties you have trade posts.
Keep other holdings in your capital county.
Get rid of non-coastal holdings.
Keep a couple castles, but mostly have cities.

Now, for why: Trade posts increase the taxes from cities in their trade zone by (TV * 100) / (TV + 200)/2 where TV is the total base value of all cities and trade posts in the trade zone plus all the bonus value from the building that increases trade value. Your cities will, therefore, get quite the economic boost from being in a trade zone. If you control the trade zone, all the better. As a patrician, having lots of money is central to most of your gameplay.

I say to keep a couple castles because the extra troops from castles helps bolster your army. You can get lots of troops from cities however, just not quite as much. City troops have the benefit of only having 3 types of troops (Light Infantry, Archers, and Pikes), so they actually fire pretty good tactics regulary. Unfortunately, you cannot get castle building bonuses to your retinue.

Keeping extra holdings in your capital allows your Steward to collect taxes from more holdings at once and your Marshal to increase your levy size in more holdings at once. Both will make you significantly more powerful. Maybe I should say to keep extra holdings in the Republic capital so you have more power as Doge.

 

[Atalvyr]

Patricians are not allowed to use the Make County Capital title action. Why is that??

Most likely because the various patrician families have their Palace linked to the capitol of the republic for purposes of raising levies etc. My guess would be that re-locating these off-map holdings to a new province is troublesome to code.

 

[TheRealRemus]

What determines when a religious head excommunicates people? I've seen characters with negative piety, nearly all seven sins, exposed demon worshiper, and terrible relations with the pope yet they're just fine, then there's 500+ pious multiple virtues and good relations with the pope that get excommunicated.

This is something I would like to know my self. Ive got excommunicated twice by a Pope of my dynasty who had positiv opinion of me (eventhough the wiki sais that having a dynasty membe as pope makes him protect kinsmen).
This is so irritating.

 

[Naughtius Maximus]

It's probably that event where when you run out of cash you can grab some from the church....at a 25% chance of excommunication.

So basically whenever a war is lost (and AI needs to get out of debt from massive losing fees) this may fire.

 

[Naughtius Maximus]

does AI ever release a tributary? and as a tributary, can we call our suzerain if his vassal declare war to us?

i start as count of Aydam, convert to Shia by decision, and abuse the tributary system by calling the Fatimid caliph and his mamluk to every war
now i am King of Nubia, but then i realize i can't grow past Abbysinia, i don't mind being small, but i am not sure if i can fight them if they ever decided that tributary is not enough

my situation right now

You are very unlikely to ever escape that situation barring a direct confrontation with Egypt.

What I would do. Marry a Fatimid Princess and a Seljuk one. Get a claim on either through this marriage, and then press it with the help of a marriage alliance from the other. You need the firepower of one to topple the other.

There is not enough land in Abyssinia/Nubia for you to contest Egypt, Syria, and the Mamluks all by yourself.

 

[unmerged(11838)]

Hi!

I want to play CK2 on a steam-free-computer. So I copy-pasted it on a memory-stick. It works, but it doesn't find any of my DLCs. Any idea what I can do? Are they in a seperate folder?

Thanks for any help!

 

[Rockphed]

Hi!

I want to play CK2 on a steam-free-computer. So I copy-pasted it on a memory-stick. It works, but it doesn't find any of my DLCs. Any idea what I can do? Are they in a seperate folder?

Thanks for any help!

That sounds like a question for the tech support forum. Link your account with steam and you'll be able to see it.

 

[QieRa]

You are very unlikely to ever escape that situation barring a direct confrontation with Egypt.

What I would do. Marry a Fatimid Princess and a Seljuk one. Get a claim on either through this marriage, and then press it with the help of a marriage alliance from the other. You need the firepower of one to topple the other.

There is not enough land in Abyssinia/Nubia for you to contest Egypt, Syria, and the Mamluks all by yourself.

true, i guess i don't have other options if i want to grow, but i wonder if it is possible to just sit there until end game time? i don't mind bow to the caliph and pay tributes, my only worries are they break the tributary or his vassals getting conquest happy, so the main questions are "does AI ever release a tributary? and as a tributary, can we call our suzerain if his vassal declare war to us?"

 

[Naughtius Maximus]

His vassals are unlikely to be strong enough to take on a king. Just plant your councillors on the Fatimid himself if you leave tributary status and he should leave you alone.

Oh wait since you are same religion.....win Jihads. That's your best way to expand outside of confronting Fatimids. You are gonna need 3 or 4 kingdoms worth of successful Jihads to overcome Fatimid territory of Egypt, Syria, and the Mamluks.