How do you keep your vassals happy

[Retired]

They hating on me right now. How can I make everyone happy?

[shiggies713]

Be or integrate with a culture for reduced short reign or increased long reign. There are perks iirc in the stewardship and diplomacy focus both that will make your vassals like you more. Have high prestige, give your heir(s) land so they can develop their skills too so you’re not suddenly some 45 yr old with 0 prestige, 0 skills, max short reign with all your vassals hating you.

Or alternatively just invite rebellions, revoke all their titles and execute them all. If you can survive the first rebellion all the ones after are likely to be less dangerous if you’ve installed friends/allies/kids I’m the revoked provinces.

[VipreRX]

Originally posted by JC:

I give them cake. :wftogrin:

But then you don't let them eat it.

[D34DLY]

send gift.

[titanopteryx]

Host lots of feasts. Feasts give a temporary opinion boost to the opinion of all vassals that attend. Additionally both you and the vassals that attend have a chance to get the Reveler trait which increases the opinion of other characters with the Reveler trait. So if you and your vassal both have Reveler, he gets a 10 point opinion boost of you. Otherwise when setting someone up as a vassal you want to look for traits like content or trusting that give opinion boosts of their liege. Avoid traits that reduce opinion, like ambitious I think lowers opinion. Don't pick as vassals characters with the Brave trait, since that makes your Dread not affect them. In fact the knights that appear from the Find Knights decision tend to make terrible vassals. However your vassals will die and their kids might take over. You have as an option either educating their heirs yourself, or it might work to assign them as wards of other characters with traits like content. I might be wrong but I believe wards have a higher chance of getting traits their guardians have.

[Lord Codswallop]

With Vaseline 8^)

[VoiD]

My trick works since CK2, make them hate each other more, so they won't join hands in factions.

Get their duchies and mess them up, give a 3 counties to 3 different vassals in that area and a duchy title to a 4th vassal, do it with all of your vassals, they will be too busy fighting each other to care about you, even if one of them wins now the rest have claims and they want their land back.

Sure in Ck3 you get less out of the land if you mess it up but then again, if you're playing feudal you get so little out of vassals anyway that it doesn't even matter.

Other than that you can make bigger, stronger vassals (preferably of your own family and blood) and keep a handful of strong vassals happy, instead of hundreds of weaker ones.

[whit]

sex, drugs, and 'Rock n' Roll.

[Retired]

My vassals are still unhappy guys