Fulfilling wish of someone else's courtier = ???

[rustic]

I'm playing as a duke in western Poland and my favourite pastime (while looking on while the Polish king undermines his own reign) is to relentlessly murder the HRE border counts that manage to forge claims on my lands. While looking for partners in crime, I found a dude in the court of the plot target with high plot power who (after a small gift) was just on the tipping point of joining the plot. As he was already bribed, I pondered how to make him like me even more. Then I saw that he had the "become married" ambition, so I thought that if I marry him to one of my good-for-nothing courtiers, he'll get the "fulfilled ambition" towards me. So, within the week I'm off to church with the happy couple and eager to continue plotting, only to realise that the courtier now likes his liege a bit more because *I* fulfilled his ambition.

Is this intended? Honestly it feels like a bit of a glitch, and I would rather see that the courtier wouldn't get the "fulfilled ambition" opinion bonus towards anyone in cases like this (if one thinks that what I tried to do is gamey/an exploit). Your thoughts?

 

[Vovolov]

It is as intended, as far as I'm aware. *His* liege has to accept and support the marriage you're suggesting, and is thus fulfilling his ambition.

 

[Bluebags]

This is WAD, yes. If you read the ambition outcomes you will see that the relationship modifier is only with the liege. Perhaps it should work differently, such as if someone else proposes the marriage then that person should also get an improvement to the relationship with the person with the "get married" ambition? But as the poster above me said, the liege has still accepted the offer, meaning that the person you are trying to get into the good books with should thank his liege as much as you.

If you're really struggling to get your plot power up in a particular court, then you can always look for people (usually women) who have lots of positive relationship modifiers with you (due to trait compatibility, not just because they are in your court and they get all the "Liege is xyz" stuff) and get them married into the court of your target. If you are lucky they will still like you enough to join the plot once they have left your court for that of your target.