Make vassals more useful

[Erling01]

I find vassals more annoying than useful. Irl, people made vassals for reasons like giving gifts to (moslty) nobles or that the area was hard to rule, not because of some demense limit shit. The demense limit makes such a minor penalty compared to how annoying vassals are. They are also a pain in the ass to remove.

I've made a similiar thread before and the most popular answer was 'Roleplay'. I refuse to destroy my own realm because of roleplay.

My idea to fix this problem is:

• To increase the penalty for having provinces over the demense limit.
• Permanent opinion modifier of atleast 20 with vassals.
• Make them slightly less encouraged to rebel.

It would still make them a bit useless, but it will atleast make things better.

For the people disagreeing: Tell me why they are useful, because I seriously wanna know.

 

[sigeena]

Vassals annoying? Have less of them then.

My current game is in Kingdom of Jerusalem. I only maintain 5 dukes, and grant new titles to the same 5 or so dukes. All 5 are in my council, regardless of their capabilities. Result, stable realm for the past 100 years.