Quick Question: Escalating cost of creating claims

[OldRanger]

As I am playing through my first game that I have really made progress in (about 100 years in), it is clear that the cost of fabricating claims is escalating dramatically (when I finally get a hit). I was wondering is this driven by the date, the number of titles I hold, the number of vassals I have, vassal + demese counties, number of claims previously fabricated, etc. Also does this escalation ever cap out. The last one was about 1500 gold for one province, at these prices my expansion is going to slow to a crawl. Thanks.

 

[Sweynforkbeard]

As I am playing through my first game that I have really made progress in (about 100 years in), it is clear that the cost of fabricating claims is escalating dramatically (when I finally get a hit). I was wondering is this driven by the date, the number of titles I hold, the number of vassals I have, vassal + demese counties, number of claims previously fabricated, etc. Also does this escalation ever cap out. The last one was about 1500 gold for one province, at these prices my expansion is going to slow to a crawl. Thanks.

The cost scales with your income.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

The cost scales with your income.

As do almost all other costs ingame (feasts, letters of repentance, costs for bribing vassals who want lower taxtes, ...).

 

[OldRanger]

Thanks. That is a bit disccouraging. It decreases (not eliminates) the value of the work I have done to increase income.

Does it have a cap or just keep escalating?

 

[FietsPomp]

I havnt reached the cap yet. Im at 350g now.
It also seems to increase the more you do it. (though im not sure on this one)

Other stuff like buildings and holdings do stay the same. so extra income is very useful.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

I havnt reached the cap yet. Im at 350g now.

Fabricating a claim on some county in middle Italy cost me about 2k gold these days as BYZ (~85 ducats monthly income)... although I didn't pay attention too closely (was fighting off the mongol deathstacks), so it might have been a ducal claim (which I guess is more expensive)

 

[dorukdorucu]

It seems to increase the longer your chancellor stays on the province. Not sure about this though, as my vassals opinon of me kept increasing and so did my income. Could be because of the change.
EDIT: Also, ducal claims cost more then county claims. Not sure about how much exactly but should be somewhere in the 1.3-1.7 area.