I hate this Regent system

[mb3]

I don't freaking understand it! I hate it. It Sucks. I'm a 14 year old ruler and my sister regent apparently gets to swing the scales every 4 months, but I can't use the swing scales except every 2 years. This is GD ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. And even if I kill the ♥♥♥♥ she just gets replaced with someone that gets to keep all her power apparently??? WTF??? I go thru all that trouble to run a murder scheme and it does nothing. I started a murder scheme against her and instantly 66 people joined as agents for free. LOL. Am I or am I not supposed to be able to choose who my regent is? I don't see any way too. ♥♥♥♥ this regent system, all it does is make me want to punch my fist thru the screen.

[CaptainSpacetime]

just chill for what 2 years and the regency is over?

[ShepherdOfCats]

It isn't *always* terrible.

I actually let an entrenched regency continue about a decade into adulthood because my stewardship sucked and I needed (wanted, badly) the +2 domain from my current regent. I didn't mind so much that he tried (and often failed) to steal some gold now and again. I actually considered letting it go further but I got an event about a lowborn land owner and picked the option 'someone like this should be working for me' or whatever, and ended up marrying him matrilineally because he had something like 23 stewardship. I later found out that my previous regent did manage to steal 165 gold from me and by that point with the long-reign bonus he liked me enough that he paid it back when I demanded it.

You can somewhat influence who is next-in-line to become regent based on their opinion towards you. Much of how they'll behave as a regent is based on the 'compassion towards child' modifier. Someone who is sadistic is probably not going to be swayed to 'selfless' state, especially against a child ruler. But someone who is diligent can go from working against you because they have a negative opinion, to being selfless because they are diligent and 'like' you. You can start swaying people at age 12? (I believe). Take advantage of it.

Regent succession can sometimes be altered even though you cannot designate your regent if the regency is still entrenched, based on opinion. Try to do a 'meet peers' event often and pick options that will increase vassal opinion (like the 'shown bravery' event option).

Once you get them out of 'self-interested' to 'situational' it's not that bad, and if you get them to the 'selfless' stance you really don't have much to worry about unless they're just plain evil.

[MoistTurtleneck]

Plague came,
killed all relatives,
became a three year old with and immediate entrenched regent, spend a hundred gold each 2 years to slow his progress,
he swings it in his favor four to five times a year,
thousands of gold spent,
he dies, new regent comes in (selfless) as my character is still child,
after one single year regent becomes self interested and continues where the last regent left off,
dies,
new regent that's self interested comes along,
finally reach adulthood,
regents are level six,
regent sways in their favor for 150 prestige while having -500 and counting,
my character starts losing 100 prestige a year randomly.
This doo doo system is so broken an there is literally no way i could've prevented it. All it does is hamper my game and slow my progress to a crawl while maintaining immunity to all my murder and abduction schemes. Why would they add this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥???

[RollClassic]

I don't know, I played a game where I decided to not be the king and try to just be a duke and "serve" somebody and the regent thing was nice, I was constantly regent and would just steal gold every time I could until I was filthy rich.