So tl:dr How do I go about taking a castle for myself after I have 10+ clans in my kingdom following a successful siege? I haven't showed up on the ballot since I started my kingdom, giving me no way to acquire a new castle/town. Am I missing something? Or what's up with this?
As far as I know the voting includes the three options with the highest support within the kingdom.The support for the fief distribution context is at least in part based on a clan's amount of members and fiefs. Meaning that a clan with lots of members and few or no fiefs is generally more favored. Other factors such as who conquered it and relationships between clans also play into it. Expanding your family and improving relations with clan heads may thus be avenues to tip the scales a bit towards you. Once we have the king's vote working properly again, you should be able to exploit a simple spot on the list to take a castle for yourself even without majority support - though for an increased influence cost. Having said that, as you take more settlements for yourself, taking further ones will become more difficult.
Do take this with a grain of salt as it's not my area of expertise.
A bit of both I guess. There are already some experience related perks (iirc leadership, 1 handed) and more will be added going forward.is this you saying theres plans to add these perks or they are already there.