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Land your heir early on, and make him your spymaster. The reason for doing this is that spymasters get a bonus to passive dread. Dread, however, does not accumulate unless you have land, so that is why I said to land him.
You can get something like 40 passive dread for your heir if you are an emperor and he is your spymaster. When he succeeds the throne that dread will go a long way in blocking factions from forming. You can also pick that one dynasty perk that gives everyone in your dynasty +15 passive dread to make this method even more effective.
If its enough to boost their opinion to 80 or more, the money is a safe option. At that point, they will leave the faction. But something that boosts multiple peoples opinions is a better option, yeah.
These things are affected by their traits as well. Brave don't care about dread and I assume ambitious and maybe some other traits make them ignore relations when joining certain factions.
Cash gifts also work, but until you have 'diplomacy/diplomat/thoughtful' (which doubles effect of gift), it is slightly limited.
Dread is a great also - it scares the bejesus out of vassals and keeps them in order.
Also i like to keep some un-created duchy/kingdom titles in hand for the new heir...he can then spend some gold, create, and gift those to vassals (receiving prestige too) to make vassals happier.
Council positions for important vassals helps too...if only to stabilise the ship early in the reign.
Snuggleform's suggestion(#2) is one i hadn't heard of, and he's a fountain of knowledge, having helped me out on more than a few occasions.
'Martial/overseer/serve the crown' is the useful perk that Snuggleform is talking about to give +15 dread, i believe.
What definitely does not help is being under 16...i had that recently in my Africa playthrough...the old King lived so long, both his sons died, and i was left with an 8yo emporer...which was an agonising 8 years (no wife bonuses, no lifestyle bonuses)...but thankfully i survived using the above actions.
He's referring to the 1st Dynasty Legacy in the Guile path, which gives +15 natural dread and +20% dread gain, but that martial perk is also a great option for at the very least martial heirs.
I'm going to try this, I definitely need something that works early considering the rebellions start within a year of my death. I think this combined with the trait looks promising.
Same problem here, as soon as I die I instantly have factions forming and within the year they are sending demands. I dont have time to bribe/kill 3 different factions.
-indeed I am talking about the guile path's first dynasty passive, not a particular lifestyle. There are some lifestyle perks/passives that give passive dread but the problem is you cannot force your heir to learn any of them. He may learn them by chance since you can give him the overall tree that you want to educate him in, but you cannot count on a particular perk within that tree happening. If you want the chance of him picking up more dread, you would train him ideally in intrigue, as there is a focus there that gives +30 dread which he may use, as well as perks which you can use to capitalize and maintain dread. You could train him in martial and pray that he picks up Serve the Crown, I guess that prayer is better than nothing but you might as well just train him in intrigue and pray he picks the dread focus in intrigue IMHO.
-the reason why you want your heir to have dread before he ascends and not for example wait until he ascends then execute a bunch of prisoners is that factions are coded to form immediately when your heir ascends; i.e. the game checks his dread meter (and other relevant factors) as soon as he takes the throne, you cannot retroactively execute prisoners to stop factions from forming to begin with. This is why my method has a chance of working, because he has potentially over 50 dread when he ascends this will go a long way in blocking factions from forming.
Again make sure you land your heir early so his passive dread has time to build up, it goes slow like +0.5 baseline per month (affected by traits and other perks) until his natural dread has been reached. If he has a natural dread of 50, then it would take over 8 years to fill the bar so don't do this at the last second if you want the best effect.
And the reason why I said there is risk involved is because landing your heir itself is risky business. I do not normally like to do it, because once they have land they sometimes make stupid actions that either get themselves killed or hated by other vassals. There is no completely free lunch you have to weigh the risks and benefits.
This method works as I have used it before, but if you want to know what I do nowadays to address the rebellion problem it's simply that I use succession techniques to ensure my heir gets full domain on ascension and I have an extreme focus on making a lot of gold which my heir inherits so I let the rebellion happen and crush them with mercs and MAA. This gives me freedom to train in a lifestyle I want (rather than picking one based on dread) as well as not having to land my heir.