OldGreyBeard said:
tyrannicide said:
One thing I tweak, and have no qualms whatsoever with tweaking, is the relation hit one gets when distributing fiefs to vassals. I halved through the board, setting it to naught for kingdoms over 32 fiefs in size.
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I find the concept around this utterly ridiculous, to wit, that the relation hit is merely determined by the size of your kingdom.
I was sorely tempted to do the same, but the hits are trying to reflect what would happen with a bunch of unruly warlords. Taken as such, I don't find the situation so "buggy". Medieval history is rife with vassals rebelling because of some fief they didn't get, or over some slight, imagined half the time.
I have no problem with the concept of the relation hits
per se -- quite the contrary, I welcome it. I'm merely dissatisfied with how it is implemented, viz. that
the size of the kingdom is the only thing that factors into the result. This I find absurd.
As I started my first kingdom, I used to give out a town, its two surrounding castles as well as the associated villages to one lord. Doing so, I'm giving more than he can survey (in the game, leaving the real world aside).
Yet that lord and another one who'd own nothing should react the same if I hand out a fief to a third one? I cannot help but find that patently absurd.
Make them an uruly, wily bunch -- please. But make it sensible.