I play as the Byzantine Empire, my ruler was ousted from the throne and I eventually played as his son, who was degraded to a Duke. Then a couple years later, somebody started a war on our new liege for my claim on the throne, yet I was actually the enemy of the vassal who started the war for my claim and sided automatically with the current liege. How does such a scenario even make sense? And why can't I switch sides during the actual war?
Ridiculous war scenarios
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Why didn't you join your own "<yourname> for Byzantine Empire" faction? 0.0 That would've made you an ally in the fight.
That said, yes, it is a bit silly that you are automatically on your liege's side if you're not a part of the faction, even if your own claim is involved.
It's going to hurt even more when the faction loses the war and you end up with bits missing even though you weren't involved.
Yes, I just kind of forgot about the faction during that time, but I think automatically becoming involved on the side of my claim when the faction causes war would be bad too. I think you should just get a decision on which side to participate once it gets to the point of war. I hope there'd be a mod that fixes this.
CK2+ overhauled the faction system to a (IMO) much better form. You do get an event asking you to pick sides in a rebellion, so I say give that one a try.