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I committed a bunch of culture technology points to Tolerance VI and spent twenty minutes balancing my budget with the objective of law reform without giving up too many liability or confederate favors. The goal was to hold a large duchy and its county titles for less than a year after a vassal's accidental death. I wanted to give these titles to my ruler's aunt, who has truly stacked diplomacy, bringing her to direct subject and powerful vassal status at a juncture when a master chancellor is sorely wanted.

It turns out this is just another hard-learned Conclave feature, and I can't grant her the title. Anyways, the productive element of this post is suggesting changing the tooltip for Civic and Religious Law § Status of Women. It signs:

"Full Status of Women: Powerful legislation removing old restrictions has finally had the effect of affecting the general opinion on women in positions of power across society."​

Aside from clunky phraseology evidently written by someone eager to explore the affect-effect distinction the tip is misleading. It's a law that changes opinion without changing institutions? Surely that's a bogus notion. Sounds like some Trujillato, Kim-dynasty regime shit. Let's get our act together Paradox, it makes no sense.
 
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Also I am a big fan of developing characters with sex appeal, more heterogeneous (invluding homosexual) rulers make this vastly more profitable.
 

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I think what happens is that you need the absolute cognatic inheritance law active.

I agree the tooltip could be clearer, but status of women only really refers to council positions.

Edit: fixen it grammer :/
 
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I think what happens is that you need the absolute cognatic inheritance law active.

I agree the tooltip could be clearer, but status of women only really refers to council positions.

Edit: fixen it grammer :/
Can't do it, buddy. MR - Merchant Republic. The change between Notable and Full legal status doesn't effect the cabinet. It actually does make some sense to me that title grants would follow the suit of succession laws. The inelegance of this principle is in the diversity of laws within a large realm. For instance MRs very commonly maintain feudal vassals, and shouldn't feudal laws regulate feudal vassals?
 
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Welp, it is a shame that republics fall short there, surely it is tied up to their seniority inheritance, but unless they add a cognatic seniority or something like that (unlikely :/ ), you're out of luck.
 

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Welp, it is a shame that republics fall short there, surely it is tied up to their seniority inheritance, but unless they add a cognatic seniority or something like that (unlikely :/ ), you're out of luck.
Agnatic Patrician Elective, actually. One of the redeeming qualities of the rigid MR rules is the perpetual power to inherit your genius third cousin twice removed rather than the imbecile you fathered out of that inbred queen of the neighboring kingdom.
 
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