Suggestion - Get these kids outta here!

[Tarroque]

In the course of getting hyped for CK3 I actually got back into CK2 - Good job Paradox!

In the course of playing CK2 I am frequently confronted with trying to tidy up my court and I end up finding out that an annoying proportion of it is made up of children whom I have no interest in keeping around and often can't eject.

Is there any hope of segregating these rascals into a kindergarden/children's court/boarding school/50,000 leagues under the sea?

I would occasionally invite children into my grownup court from such a purgatory if I wanted to interact with them - But most of the time they tend to be irrelevant, not to mention parenting in aristocratic families was handed off to subordinates as far as I'm aware.

 

[Rubidium]

In the course of getting hyped for CK3 I actually got back into CK2 - Good job Paradox!

In the course of playing CK2 I am frequently confronted with trying to tidy up my court and I end up finding out that an annoying proportion of it is made up of children whom I have no interest in keeping around and often can't eject.

Is there any hope of segregating these rascals into a kindergarden/children's court/boarding school/50,000 leagues under the sea?

I would occasionally invite children into my grownup court from such a purgatory if I wanted to interact with them - But most of the time they tend to be irrelevant, not to mention parenting in aristocratic families was handed off to subordinates as far as I'm aware.

Offer them as wards for a character in a different court to educate.

 

[Varus90]

Offer them as wards for a character in a different court to educate.

Almost as if that were an actual, fairly important part of medieval diplomacy!

 

[Tarroque]

Offer them as wards for a character in a different court to educate.

Almost as if that were an actual, fairly important part of medieval diplomacy!

Thank you for trying to help me out like this, I am aware of this feature but I still feel like 90% of the time I spend doing this is spent on homeless lowborn.

Anyway, this is a suggestion about CK3 rather than CK2. Do you have any feedback on my idea of making the court an invitation-only affair when it comes to children?

 

[Will Steel]

CK1 actually had that feature. Back in 2012 I always wondered why didn't they make it available in CK2.

You could send out kids in your court as wards to "foster" with friendly lords in their courts, and friendly AI lords could do the same to you. The kids would live and grow up in their households, make friends and rivals there, gain traits and education and so on before they return when they come of age. They would also act as hostages and "non-aggression pacts" as a bargain against any hostile action.

That wasn't a perfect system but it was actually better than nothing. I hope CK3 returns with it.

 

[Limbojack]

I'd love to see parents actually pick a guardian for their children, even if it's one of the parents or a close relative. I'm so tired of having to tailor the education of my third cousin twice removed on my bastards uncle side, especially once I've reached mid-game and my family is too big to micro-manage.

So, force unlanded parents to educate their own children as wards. Landed characters, on the other hand, would educate their own heir personally and try to send their other children off to the courts of their allies where the court tutor will become their ward.

 

[gtigers55]

I'd love to see parents actually pick a guardian for their children, even if it's one of the parents or a close relative. I'm so tired of having to tailor the education of my third cousin twice removed on my bastards uncle side, especially once I've reached mid-game and my family is too big to micro-manage.

So, force unlanded parents to educate their own children as wards. Landed characters, on the other hand, would educate their own heir personally and try to send their other children off to the courts of their allies where the court tutor will become their ward.

that’s what the court tutor was for (can’t recall which dlc/patch that was in).

 

[Limbojack]

that’s what the court tutor was for (can’t recall which dlc/patch that was in).

That might have been the idea behind it, but the implementation was rather bad. The court tutor doesn't become the ward, so the game still spams you whenever a childs ward dies, or turn twelve so their focus need to be changes etc.

 

[Ezumiyr]

That wasn't a perfect system but it was actually better than nothing. I hope CK3 returns with it.

It is actually a feature in CK2.

 

[Will Steel]

It is actually a feature in CK2.

Wards in CK2 do work as hostages but they mostly exist for education. And you cannot send anything other than your own kids (often just heir and eldest brothers) to anyone because AI will usually refuse it.

Not the same thing as CK1.