Firstly, I suggest you remove the "opinion of predecessor" modifier from vassals who are part of your dynasty.
To illustrate why this should be done, I will tell you a little story.
Once upon a time, Karl the Great decided to make his male heir ambitious, at the cost of rivalry with him. What's the worst that could happen?
It turns out, the worst thing that could happen is that, at the age of 16, after being made Marshal, Regent, Seneschal and Apprentice, gifted a Crown of Pearls and a very expensive engagement to an Arabian Princess, the heir, Konstantinos, decided that it would not be enough to wait for his 50-year-old father, who was diligently working in his latter years to make him an Opus Magnum on Universal Panacea and a Handgun, to die a natural death. No. He had to kill him.
As Karl faded into numbness in his bedroom after a failed romance with a venomous serpent, he was only modestly frustrated that his son had cut his work short. He was, however, absolutely livid - his son had been caught.
This was a problem, you see, because Karl had not decided to Found The Holy Roman Empire, just yet - he had, instead, decided to create every Kingdom title within the Empire of France, and legitimize precisely the number of bastard sons necessary to distribute one to each. His reasoning, naturally, was that once Konstantinos founded the Holy Roman Empire, this would make it very difficult to lose an election to a non-dynastic vassal - not to mention, consolidate the number of vassals, for easier administration of the Byzantine Empire, which he was doing his best to provoke a civil war within so that Konstantinos could claim it for himself.
The problem, then, was that the majority of the Empire was in the hands of Konstantinos' many brothers, who now hated his guts for murdering their father. When you open the "relations" tab, and you have so many rivals that their portraits overlap, and every powerful vassal in your realm is one of these rivals - this is a problem.
Distraught by this problem, Konstantinos decided to provoke a cruel, wroth pagan tribal chief with a personal combat skill of 107, and die, an uncrowned kinslayer, in honorable combat.
He died successfully, believing that his next brother, who also had a claim on Byzantium, could simply divorce or murder his own wife, "snatch up" the very expensive Arabian Princess from his dead brother's bed, and carry on his father's dreams of Imperal Conquest.
But, there was a new problem. His next brother, Anastasios, upon gaining the throne, discovered that all of his brothers still hated him. Why?
Because of this trollish, illogical, God-forsaken mechanical oversight. They would, specifically, have -50 "opinion of predecessor" with him for 15 years. Fifteen years of crippled tax revenues, decimated vassal levies, powerful factions, and additional assassination attempts.
Why? Because, according to game logic, they did not like him because he was the brother and successor of the man who murdered their father - even though they, themselves, were also the brothers and successors of the same patricidaire.
The quick solution to this problem, is to simply remove the "opinion of predecessor" modifier, both ways, from all members of the same dynasty. Dynastists should not care if your predecessor was Caligula, because this would mean that they, themselves, are also relatives of Caligula. Conversely, they should not be impressed if your predecessor was a beloved, long-ruling Saint, because they, themselves, would also be relatives of this Saint.
The laborious and complete solution to this problem, is to simply remove the "opinion of predecessor" modifier from the game entirely, and replace it with an "opinion of dynasty" modifier for non-dynastic vassals. After hundreds of years of being ruled by beloved, virtuous Emperors of the X dynasty, non-dynastic vassals should be affected not only by their fresh memory of their new Emperor's immediate predecessor, but, to an extent lesser for each individual but perhaps greater through generations of accumulation, their legend and culture of being ruled by that family for so-many-hundreds of years.
Conversely, if they have been tortured, tyrannically imprisoned, murdered and in every other way abused by that family for hundreds of years, this should incur a negative opinion of their continued rule which is very hard to get rid of. Generations of benevolence, or tyranny, should have long term consequences. Dynastists should be immune to these consequences, as they should consider themselves equal to you in familial reputation.
To illustrate why this should be done, I will tell you a little story.
Once upon a time, Karl the Great decided to make his male heir ambitious, at the cost of rivalry with him. What's the worst that could happen?
It turns out, the worst thing that could happen is that, at the age of 16, after being made Marshal, Regent, Seneschal and Apprentice, gifted a Crown of Pearls and a very expensive engagement to an Arabian Princess, the heir, Konstantinos, decided that it would not be enough to wait for his 50-year-old father, who was diligently working in his latter years to make him an Opus Magnum on Universal Panacea and a Handgun, to die a natural death. No. He had to kill him.
As Karl faded into numbness in his bedroom after a failed romance with a venomous serpent, he was only modestly frustrated that his son had cut his work short. He was, however, absolutely livid - his son had been caught.
This was a problem, you see, because Karl had not decided to Found The Holy Roman Empire, just yet - he had, instead, decided to create every Kingdom title within the Empire of France, and legitimize precisely the number of bastard sons necessary to distribute one to each. His reasoning, naturally, was that once Konstantinos founded the Holy Roman Empire, this would make it very difficult to lose an election to a non-dynastic vassal - not to mention, consolidate the number of vassals, for easier administration of the Byzantine Empire, which he was doing his best to provoke a civil war within so that Konstantinos could claim it for himself.
The problem, then, was that the majority of the Empire was in the hands of Konstantinos' many brothers, who now hated his guts for murdering their father. When you open the "relations" tab, and you have so many rivals that their portraits overlap, and every powerful vassal in your realm is one of these rivals - this is a problem.
Distraught by this problem, Konstantinos decided to provoke a cruel, wroth pagan tribal chief with a personal combat skill of 107, and die, an uncrowned kinslayer, in honorable combat.
He died successfully, believing that his next brother, who also had a claim on Byzantium, could simply divorce or murder his own wife, "snatch up" the very expensive Arabian Princess from his dead brother's bed, and carry on his father's dreams of Imperal Conquest.
But, there was a new problem. His next brother, Anastasios, upon gaining the throne, discovered that all of his brothers still hated him. Why?
Because of this trollish, illogical, God-forsaken mechanical oversight. They would, specifically, have -50 "opinion of predecessor" with him for 15 years. Fifteen years of crippled tax revenues, decimated vassal levies, powerful factions, and additional assassination attempts.
Why? Because, according to game logic, they did not like him because he was the brother and successor of the man who murdered their father - even though they, themselves, were also the brothers and successors of the same patricidaire.
The quick solution to this problem, is to simply remove the "opinion of predecessor" modifier, both ways, from all members of the same dynasty. Dynastists should not care if your predecessor was Caligula, because this would mean that they, themselves, are also relatives of Caligula. Conversely, they should not be impressed if your predecessor was a beloved, long-ruling Saint, because they, themselves, would also be relatives of this Saint.
The laborious and complete solution to this problem, is to simply remove the "opinion of predecessor" modifier from the game entirely, and replace it with an "opinion of dynasty" modifier for non-dynastic vassals. After hundreds of years of being ruled by beloved, virtuous Emperors of the X dynasty, non-dynastic vassals should be affected not only by their fresh memory of their new Emperor's immediate predecessor, but, to an extent lesser for each individual but perhaps greater through generations of accumulation, their legend and culture of being ruled by that family for so-many-hundreds of years.
Conversely, if they have been tortured, tyrannically imprisoned, murdered and in every other way abused by that family for hundreds of years, this should incur a negative opinion of their continued rule which is very hard to get rid of. Generations of benevolence, or tyranny, should have long term consequences. Dynastists should be immune to these consequences, as they should consider themselves equal to you in familial reputation.
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