Preventing inheritance to foreign realms (is that high or absolute?) and primogeniture.
Solving the Crown Authority problem - an idea.
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Preventing inheritance to foreign realms (is that high or absolute?) and primogeniture.
As I said before, inheritance to foreign realms is moot considering the expansionist viewpoint, and primogeniture is worse than elective, which you can have for free.
So maybe you are cranking up CA for gameplay reasons, but not for strategic reasons. The better strategy for expansion is pacifying your vassals, not making them hate you.
That is probably not a good idea. I doubt it would deter the ai so you might just end up plunging the ai into an everlasting cycle of civil war.
I fail to see what's not completely awesome about this idea. DRAMA!
True, I stand corrected
True, I stand corrected
I've actually been trying to think of a way to tweak a few values in such a way that it becomes nearly impossible to maintain any significant empire, so the entire map disintegrates into a 400-year battle royale between warring petty duchies.
That if you are the liege... I like to start as a lowly one province count and become a big duke, but i rarely go for kingdoms or empires (in HRE or ERE).
yes yes. I agree. twitch CA and make it harder to raise the d*** thing! I tried to play many game remaining as dukes in HRE or Russia, or where-ever, and the d*** kings/emperors keep raising CA. One time CA got to absolute, so, as duke of tangier, I cant even attack Mauritania! The CA as it stands is absurd. Every time I try to play peacefully, the AI has to ruin it by raising CA to the point I almost always have to gain independence.
Anyhow.
Per the argument involving high vs. low CA. I would go for low CA and elective most of the time. The other times, I try to crank absolute and primo cuz' I like fighting revolts
Anyhow.
Per the argument involving high vs. low CA. I would go for low CA and elective most of the time. The other times, I try to crank absolute and primo cuz' I like fighting revolts
yes yes. I agree. twitch CA and make it harder to raise the d*** thing! I tried to play many game remaining as dukes in HRE or Russia, or where-ever, and the d*** kings/emperors keep raising CA. One time CA got to absolute, so, as duke of tangier, I cant even attack Mauritania! The CA as it stands is absurd. Every time I try to play peacefully, the AI has to ruin it by raising CA to the point I almost always have to gain independence.
Anyhow.
Per the argument involving high vs. low CA. I would go for low CA and elective most of the time. The other times, I try to crank absolute and primo cuz' I like fighting revolts
CK2+ goes the harsh way with the HRE; the HRE can't raise CA above Low.
Not having vassals fight each other, revoking infidel titles, not losing land to foreign inheritances. But anyway like you said your comment was based on an expansionist viewpoint, so I guess people are hot for high CA because some don't go completely expansionist in their games.
One problem I have with crown authority is that the explanation text in the game talks about "curtailing the power of the high nobility" (which is electors, right?) and giving it to the sovereign and the lower nobility.
In reality that's not quite how it works: higher crown authority only takes troops from the dukes, most of the other things are also beneficial for them. No inheritances to other realms is usually good, succession law changes always, and revocation of (infidel) titles is as long as they aren't themselves infidel. Only the prohibition of vassal fighting is negative and that only if you are military-expansionist - if you are peaceful it's actually good as well.
IMO, crown authority for dukes and counts shouldn't affect the possible succession laws of that title or revocations of titles (de-jure) under it. Or maybe the effect should even be opposite, or something.
In reality that's not quite how it works: higher crown authority only takes troops from the dukes, most of the other things are also beneficial for them. No inheritances to other realms is usually good, succession law changes always, and revocation of (infidel) titles is as long as they aren't themselves infidel. Only the prohibition of vassal fighting is negative and that only if you are military-expansionist - if you are peaceful it's actually good as well.
IMO, crown authority for dukes and counts shouldn't affect the possible succession laws of that title or revocations of titles (de-jure) under it. Or maybe the effect should even be opposite, or something.
