Fickle

[Social-Pariah]

Just to clarify, is it intended for lords to be switching sides so constantly...?

Just that it is tremendously annoying... when your chosen empire is expanding and doing well and all of a sudden a bunch of castles are lost because a few lords decided to piss off to another faction for seemingly no reason, especially since they held huge tracts of land within the kingdom. It's not even landless, pissed off lords. 

It seems every day lords switch sides, and it seems a bit excessive and rather irritating to have people switching sides every single day.

 

[Social-Pariah]

Might someone be so kind as to point me to what I could change myself to alter the desertion rate of lords?

 

[Mugatu]

Every day a nation is at war - the AI lords loose reputation with the King.

Giving feefs and castles looses reputation with the king. (To those who don't receive it)

So whomever this king is - isn't managing the reputation of his lords, and is constantly at war - thus it's inevitable.

In anycase you cant do anything - you might as well join the gang and declare independance.

 

[Social-Pariah]

... surely that rather sucks...?

Is there no way to delay a decrease in standings until a certain time in the war has passed?
What about wars that you're winning, surely they're good?

I mean... that reeeaaally sucks... with so many factions you're basically constantly at war, and I very much doubt that the AI kings have the slightest clue what is going on, especially when they constantly award feifs to themselves and themselves alone, so there is seemingly little point in there being factions at all if the factions lord relations are so direly doomed to crumbling to pieces when it's constantly just ticking away for little or no reason, a battle of attrition against the fickle nature of your lords.

Is there no simple way to modify quite how whiny and tantrumy the lords in the game are?
A file to edit or anything? Or is that all too deeply inset?

Is this utter doom for factions viewed as a problem or a feature?

 

[Mugatu]

They normally reward fiefs to themselves because of the infighting of the AI Lords. If he awards a fief to himself, they dont get a reputation hit from the lords that don't receive the land.

Normally the AI King should be throwing feasts left right and center to please his Lords, but when a Lord is already at a high negative they wont even come to the feast.

The only way to help alievate this is by giving gifts to the lord, which im not sure is scripted into the AI Kings list of priorities.

And yes, even if the war is doing amazing, they still loose reputation.