madnessario
Knight at Arms
Just an observation regarding culture. It's very powerful at the moment and also not sure how to offset it.
So I pretty much always play with Aseri or Vlandian culture as the bonuses for the others are pretty bad in comparison so in my current game I am a Northern imperial vassal and I have Vlandian culture. I noticed that my castle (imperial culture) is going to take 512 days (6+ ingame years) to build Lvl 2 walls. I traced this back to low loyalty which is due to my culture being different (-3) and my also Vlandian brother being governor (-1). So I switch him out for my Imperal wife and now the walls will take only 156 days and everyone is supper happy.
I accept that culture should be important but should it really be this important?
Chances are if you are a vassal of a non imperial faction then you will be awarded fiefs not of your culture as apart from the ones your fellow vassals already have, every single fief on the map is not your culture.
Given that there are no high steward companions, this limits your choice for governors to your wife/husband and only if you married one that is not of your culture.
In the above example I also have level 3 fairgrounds which is not good enough to help. at all really (+1.5)
I am fond of how this works. The empire culture bonus is not that important, so not having a penalty for a large part of the map offsets that. You can always marry your male family (not you necessarily) to empire nobles to get female governors. In my opinion, the more choices we have to make (starting culture vs marrying into one etc.) the better.