What logic picks the options to support for a fief?

[Tryvenyal]

Your faction conqours a fief. As a ruler or vassal, you can vote between 3 clans to give the fief too.

What decides what 3 clans to put on this list?

 

[Ananda_The_Destroyer]

Others can give more detailed, code based answers, but I will say the proximity to their other fiefs seems to count for a lot, being the closest seems to always put you on the list, assuming no fief less clans.

 

[Gandamula]

I think it chose high prestige clans and clans with no fiefs.

 

[Apocal]

It still works like this:

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/issues-being-granted-a-town.427276/post-9503857

With the new patch the fief election formula has changed a bit, so I figured I would update everyone on what has changed. A couple new variables were added, and some of the old ones were tweaked. Here's the new Merit Score equation:

• The Clan Tier Bonus has not changed.
• The Total Clan Strength now properly subtracts out the garrison strength of the captured fief from the faction ruler's total strength, which will lower the faction ruler's bonus by a small amount.
• The No Fief Bonus has not changed and is still 30.
• The Capturer Bonus has been reduced to 30 (from 50).
• The Ruler Bonus has been reduced to 60 (from 100).
• The Poverty Bonus is now added when clans have < 30k gold. The less they have the bigger the bonus up to a maximum of 30. The exact formula to determine the bonus is [30 - (Clan Gold / 1000)], so if a clan has 20k gold they get 10 points, if a clan has 10k gold they get 20 points, etc.
• The Player Bonus is a flat 30 point bonus that only applies to the player clan.

The Player Bonus + Capturer Bonus now equals the bonus that the faction ruler gets from the Ruler Bonus, so those will cancel each other out if the player captured the fief.

Unfortunately, the issues with the newly captured fief being included in the Distance Factor calculations, and the value of the captured fief being included in the total value of all the clan's fiefs (meaning it gets counted twice for rulers), are both still present.

I don't know what the status of that issue is, whether it's intentionally being kept that way, or if it was just forgotten about. Keep in mind that these two factors somewhat balance each other out, since the value of the captured fief will reduce the faction ruler's Merit Score, while the distance factor will increase the Merit Score. [Fixed with a recent hotfix]

Here is a link to the equation as it was in 1.4.2 as a comparison.

 

[Ananda_The_Destroyer]

It still works like this:

https://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?threads/issues-being-granted-a-town.427276/post-9503857

This explains why the Khuziats just pile fiefs on me, nobody has a poverty bonus, I always have proximity, I always have massive power. It's not enough though, and once I have 150 leadership they're gonna be sorry....