Various questions

From Crusaderkings

This is a collection of various questions posted all around the net, that pertaint to game features or gameplay. Everything is sorted by broad (and finer) topics. Feel free to contribute!

Church and religion

1. How do bishops/archbishops give you more piety? (I don't see a modifier with the piety, while I can see modifiers from church donations and traits...)

A: Creating a bishop gives you a 1-time piety bonus (can range from 150 to 300 piety); giving more provinces or a duke-title to a bishop doesn't give extra piety but instead improves your reputation.

2. What does a diocese bishop do? And what is his most important stat? A: A diocese bishop is there as a trigger or modifier for a lot of events, and there are to much of them to name them all here. His education level is the most important, the higher the better.


Character interactions

1. Does the 'opinion' modifier from the interaction between two persons' traits (in traits.txt) have an effect? A: Yes, it has. When you hover your mouse over the loyalty rating of a vassal, you will see a modifier called 'because of traits'. This is the opinion-modifier, it is capped at + or - 5.0 a month.

2. When does the 'pay homage' event trigger? A: The pay homage event fires whenever your liege dies. If you click "yes" you are acknowledging that your liege's heir is the rightful ruler and if you click "no" you are declaring independence.


Titles and claims

1. Grab Title / Ursurp Title, what is the difference? A: All you need to do to grab a title is Prestige. One example of how this would work is in a tourney event: "Oh - this guy has insulted me - he now owes me the County of Meissen". This adds to your Badboy score (or reputation), which is bad! However, if you already control a substantial portion of an already claimed title, you can usurp it from them, which I believe does not affect badboy. This is like saying "I own 2/3 of France, I am therefore true King of France by right." Another difference is, is that though usurping titles costs prestige you don't need the amount of prestige. With usurping you can go into negative prestige. An example: A ruler has 200 prestige, claiming a title would cost him 300 prestige. He doesn't have 300 prestige so he can't claim it. But the same ruler also controls 2/3 of the provinces that make up another title, usurping it costs 300 prestige. If he then usurps it he will end up with -100 prestige. He will win back this prestige once he has actually taken possession of this title.

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