Is the trust system with subjects broken, or am i just missing something?

[Classicgamer23]

The way trust used to work is that it would increase slowly over time with a subject, like a vassal, until it reached 100; even the tooltip for trust says this. However, I have noticed lately that trust doesn't seem to increase. I had a vassal increase trust to 50 after being force vassalized and then it didn't increase further.

 

[RMS Oceanic]

I think when they rejiggered how favours work it included resetting how trust works. In theory you can curry favours with them to raise it manually, but odds are your diplomat will be busy.

 

[Classicgamer23]

I think when they rejiggered how favours work it included resetting how trust works. In theory you can curry favours with them to raise it manually, but odds are your diplomat will be busy.

That makes sense, trust is supposed to gravitate towards 50 with the new favor system so you have to constantly use increase trust for favors. So maybe they forgot to have subjects always raise trust

 

[jonjowett]

FYI, you can also get favors with a subject by directly giving them provinces in a peace deal. Much faster than using a diplomat to curry favors ;-) And the trust gain is a permanent decrease in LD, which might be better in some circumstances than the temporary decrease if you take the province yourself then use the Grant Province interaction.