Cultural traditions to expensive

[Endless]

How can one possible hope to ever pay 21.000 prestige for three traditions? any way how to make that much prestige? iam new to the game and would like to make my own culture but i think it would take forever to do so.

[Maka enthusiast]

https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Traditions
+2000 if the culture does not have one of the Tradition's preferred ethos.
+3000 if optional requirement is not fulfilled. This does not apply to AI Culture Heads.
In the Royal Court DLC replacing a tradition increases the final cost by +50% and the time it takes to establish it by +25%.

[Illusion17]

21k prestige really isn't that much lol. You should either wait until you're better at the game, search a guide on how to legit get a lot of prestige, or google cheese strategies for prestige.

[Endless]

Originally posted by Illusion17:

21k prestige really isn't that much lol. You should either wait until you're better at the game, search a guide on how to legit get a lot of prestige, or google cheese strategies for prestige.

damn really its not much? i started as a baltic tribe . made a kingdom and feudfal goverement and still just make 5 prestige a month . its hartd then you constantly lose some to wars or events.

[ChopSuey™]

Early on things are meant to take time and be expensive. As you progress and you get bigger you'll find that these things aren't as expensive as you first thought but its part of building up your kingdom/dynasty/empire.
Then... once you know how the mechanics work and what to do, you'll be able to find ways to get it done relatively quickly.

For prestige... atm engaging in battles, and winning (larger and by a greater margain is better) is probably the easiest way. So that is battles and not wars. When you see armies with a light red banner... they're hostile but not necessarily your enemy. Engaging those forces and winning can award you plenty of prestige.

[titanopteryx]

On the culture reform screen where it shows all the traditions and their prestige cost, hover the mouse over the prestige cost of the traditions and it'll show you what unmet conditions are increasing the price. The default value of the traditions is 2000. There's one condition that increases the cost which is the ethos t the top, and the second is a condition unique to that tradition. Like castle keepers increases its price if you don't have battlements researched, or warrior priests increases its price if you don't have enough clergy with at least 10 prowess that can't be knights. So just hover the mouse over the prestige cost to see what's increasing the price. By the way, you can avoid the 20000 cost of ethos changing by hybridizing with a culture with the ethos you want and selecting it on the screen where you pick which traditions you want from the 2 cultures.

[Kimlin]

20,000 prestige is still not nothing. I would say that in the later game you can expect to earn 20,000 to 40,000 in a life time. Before traditions there wasn’t much to spend it on so at least now there’s something.

[titanopteryx]

Originally posted by Kimlin:

20,000 prestige is still not nothing. I would say that in the later game you can expect to earn 20,000 to 40,000 in a life time. Before traditions there wasn’t much to spend it on so at least now there’s something.

Yeah but I'm a cheap prestige grubbing prestige pincher.

[Dumah]

20k is nothing for big empire. Also you can always choose to hybridise with culture that already has traditions/ethos that you want.

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by Golden Trail:

How can one possible hope to ever pay 21.000 prestige for three traditions? any way how to make that much prestige? iam new to the game and would like to make my own culture but i think it would take forever to do so.

You're not meant to make 3 tradition changes all at once unless you're much later in the game where you're more likely in a position to do so. Reform and add 1 as a ruler, then save back up and reform again as the next ruler. It's meant to be incremental changes, not a once and done thing where you have your perfect culture made after a single generation.

[Avataristche]

i dunno. If you own several empires worth of titles (and some decent artifacts) you can hit over 100k prestige per lifetime easily.

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by Avataristche:

i dunno. If you own several empires worth of titles (and some decent artifacts) you can hit over 100k prestige per lifetime easily.

That would be the definition of late game

[Avataristche]

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

Originally posted by Avataristche:

i dunno. If you own several empires worth of titles (and some decent artifacts) you can hit over 100k prestige per lifetime easily.

That would be the definition of late game

Its achievable in early medieval, so technically not yet, but i see your point

[garthurbrown]

It ain't like you can just change a real culture like that, so this is not a lot to ask. Gain one tradition at a time, over a course of centuries, like a real culture.

[shiggies713]

20k really isn't much by mid game. For example my current ruler was already "exalted upon men" at 13 years old with over 15k prestige stored up.

[jpinard]

Originally posted by titanopteryx:

On the culture reform screen where it shows all the traditions and their prestige cost, hover the mouse over the prestige cost of the traditions and it'll show you what unmet conditions are increasing the price. The default value of the traditions is 2000. There's one condition that increases the cost which is the ethos t the top, and the second is a condition unique to that tradition. Like castle keepers increases its price if you don't have battlements researched, or warrior priests increases its price if you don't have enough clergy with at least 10 prowess that can't be knights. So just hover the mouse over the prestige cost to see what's increasing the price. By the way, you can avoid the 20000 cost of ethos changing by hybridizing with a culture with the ethos you want and selecting it on the screen where you pick which traditions you want from the 2 cultures.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I had no idea! Thanks so much for posting this!!!