Robbing prisoners

[incognitus]

So... I guess this has been patched to death as well? How can I take someone's gold? I used to be able to arrest and execute (feudal barons) or banish (everyone else) members of my court/realm when they committed crimes. But now, when I banish someone I have to eat tyranny, but don't get their money. And if I revoke their title first, I then can no longer banish them. What's up with that?

 

[Rags17]

The actual amount you get is defined in a file called defines.lua which is in the /common directory. This file can be edited with Excel, I usually change the banish amount for landed to 90% and landed 50% (the theory being that landed characters have more fixed wealth than bullion, while everyone should usually be able to hide SOMETHING).

The standard caveats apply - make a backup file of any changes, this would be better implemented as as micromod, this breaks Ironman etc.


EDIT - PS, you can change your defines.lua at any time, this will simply change the effect for your saved game from that point on so if you have a suitable save point then change that file and restart for all that sweet, sweet loot.

 

[_Perun_]

if I revoke their title first, I then can no longer banish them

If you revoke their lands they move to somebody else's court. And then, not being your vassals, nor courtiers you cannot banish them. Theoretically you can use the "recruit prisoner" diplomacy option but the penalty for revoking will be probably so high that good luck with that.

 

[incognitus]

I guess the best way is still to give them a barony and kill them before they have children... although after a long break from CK2 it seems to me that plots are now extremely unlikely to succeed.