Dumb Question: can Courtiers attend a Tournament without their Liege's permission?

[PDXOxycoon]

I cannot remember if your courtiers will independently decide if they want to go even if you don't. They probably do not due to performance impact of potential checking all unlanded characters.

To clarify why it is intensive on performance: they need to evaluate whether they can get there in time, meaning they all need to do a pathfinding from their current location to the location of the activity. I don't know quite how the entourages are constructed, but I hazard that an unlanded character would not bring an entourage to alleviate the pathfinding, so all of them would need to pathfind independently.

I'm a bit too busy to dive into it specifically, but due to this I am leaning on no.

EDIT: Tournaments do grab characters from the character pools though, if I recall.

 

[PDXOxycoon]

Hopefully it will be toggleable in script so those of us who don't mind the performance hit can have it. Seems like it would bring nice variety and surprises to the game.

This part of the AI processing is done purely through code and is as such inaccessible to the scripting system. The only thing the script does at the end is calculating the "will accept", once all the other calculations are done.