Crusader Kings 2 Redux

[Viking]

Gotcha, thanks.

I started a game as Scotland in 1187, which which has low crown authority and a king with only 2 demesne provinces. Does it make more sense to start revoking titles or building up crown authority?

revoking titles only gives you bad relations with your vassals. Revoking title actions which result in revolts gives you bad relations with nobody. What you should be doing is identifying the vassals which are going to be problems early one and provoking them into refusing to allow you to revoke their titles so they revolt when you are ready for a revolt rather than when their plot includes all your dukes and a neighboring king or two.

[Solmyr]

Hey sbr, how did you manage to get banned at Paradox?

[Josquius]

If you have this law where there oldest of  the dynasty inherits all- when you die do you then become this oldest guy of the dynasty or your son?

[Solmyr]

If you mean the seniorate succession, you become the old guy who inherits.

[ulmont]

Senior succession sounds like it would be a bad idea as you're turning titles over constantly and don't get to manage your ruler's traits much?

[Razgovory]

I really appreciate you guys beta testing this for me.  Sounds like a lot of fun.

[Ideologue]

I really appreciate you guys beta testing this for me.  Sounds like a lot of fun.

[sbr]

Hey sbr, how did you manage to get banned at Paradox?

I'm not exactly sure but I think the techincal reason is accumulation of infractions, I have been on the edge of being banned since I told Castellon about how stupid and hypocritical some of their newer forum rules were.  He was not amused.

I was drinking and playing CK2 until about 4 in the morning, then went over to the Paradox forums before bed.  I vaguely remember reading the 'I'd pay $10 for this DLC' thread and someone posted a random "fags" after one of the dev's posts.  I think I replied with:   

If that did happen both posts were deleted and there is no public record.  If that didn't happen I have no idea what did happen.

[Tamas]

lol I didn't know that catching smallpox changes the character portrait. My poor sister

[ulmont]

So, is there any decision or event to change a ruler's culture and/or religion to match all his vassals?

My current heir in my Sicily game is a duke in the Byzantine Empire.  Either I change the laws to seniority (which I doubt I can pull off; I'm sure at least one vassal hates me), or I assassinate something like 6 heirs in a row (son, grandson, great-grandson, his brother), or I'm going to end up with a Greek Orthodox ruler of Norman Catholic vassals.

This seems....suboptimal.

[garbon]

I think you generally have to do said shaping when they are a child.

[Maximus]

Giving them the correct-cultured tutor is important.

Also known as "how Toulouse became Lithuanian"

[Seen]

Few questions:

- How can you easily see what duchies/counties someone controls on the map? None of the modifiers seems to do it for me.
- Can one lower crown authority if one doesn't have the plot option?
- Can one change succession laws in counties not directly under his/her control?

Thanks!

[ulmont]

Giving them the correct-cultured tutor is important.

Also known as "how Toulouse became Lithuanian"

Yeah.  This kind of sucks; I had thought inheriting counties and duchies in Byzantium was a good thing, but apparently not.

[ulmont]

How can you easily see what duchies/counties someone controls on the map? None of the modifiers seems to do it for me.

I've only been able to see this through the diplomatic mode and clicking on a county I know is controlled by that person; their remaining counties will show up in a lighter green than the rest of their realm.  I find it's often easier to click on the person to open their character window and just look at their titles there.