Regent mechanics are bad

[LegacyPrime]

The mechanic for regents when you are a child are really broken. The regent is able to spam, and I mean will spam revoking titles if they have the self interest trait. Each time you wish to veto you loose prestige, so in my current playthrough I have -900 because of this.

It is really bad that you have to wait for a long time to swing the scales and the cost. I would have liked to be able to do it more so its a back and forth.

Another issue is that you are not allowed to imprison, or change who is your regent as a child because...reasons?

[spasti696969]

I mean, if you're a child with a greedy regent, you're going to have a bad time.

People complained the game was too easy, they make the game harder and now people complain about the things that make the game harder. Circle of life.

[The Former]

You too can spam revoking titles, if you're king. Because he's NOT king and has no kingdom to lose, he's willing to go there. Self-interested regents were a problem historically as well, which is why queen mothers were often regents (and even then, sometimes, self-interested).

The reason you can't imprison them or change them, by the way, is because you're a child and your word carries no weight at court. The regent's word carries weight because either A, the last king named them by name, or B, no one was named and it defaulted to the person with the greatest influence at court.

[Kimlin]

That’s called fun.

[Dizzy Ladybug]

i haven't seen a regent do this yet but it sounds awesome haha.

[Harris]

The game forgot to do two critical things:

1) if your regent loses post due to death or hostile takeover, the new one should not inherit that level 5 scales of power the predecessor worked 15 years for and needs to start from scratch

2) if your ruler is no longer eligible for regent (i.e. no longer a kid) there should be no regent succession to begin with and the entrenched regency should just end

Without these it's pointless trying to murder your regent or waiting until he dies naturally - the only thing you can do is spend decades throwing resources at scales of power. Makes no sense.

[Emperor2000]

Originally posted by LegacyPrime:

The mechanic for regents when you are a child are really broken. The regent is able to spam, and I mean will spam revoking titles if they have the self interest trait. Each time you wish to veto you loose prestige, so in my current playthrough I have -900 because of this.

It is really bad that you have to wait for a long time to swing the scales and the cost. I would have liked to be able to do it more so its a back and forth.

Another issue is that you are not allowed to imprison, or change who is your regent as a child because...reasons?

How about appointing your Parent(Parents are always loyal in CK3), to Regent Position and to kill your Regent via Battles, send them alone and I mean alone into large Battles and as long his Prowess Skill is under 40, he should died soon and can now longer be Regent, because a Dead Character can not govern your Land.