House Unity

[ƬᗩԲԲվ]

How much does it actually influence the AI behavior? My dynasty is 800+ members so it's hard for me to tell if the AI is getting along more.

Edit: Yes I'm at max.

[brownacs]

I could be completely wrong but I don't think it does affect the AI's behaviour barring the special house head options (say encourage your house members to build more which I think's the main one at max unity if memory serves). The number's a reflection of how your house has been behaving instead of a predictor of how your house will behave going forward.

I've found that eventually with a large enough house full of rulers, you'll end up with 0 or thereabouts from constant artefact demands, challenges for house leadership, imprisonments, assassinations, hostage exchanges, etc. and it just seems kinda inevitable.

[ƬᗩԲԲվ]

Originally posted by brownacs:

I could be completely wrong but I don't think it does affect the AI's behaviour barring the special house head options (say encourage your house members to build more which I think's the main one at max unity if memory serves). The number's a reflection of how your house has been behaving instead of a predictor of how your house will behave going forward.

I've found that eventually with a large enough house full of rulers, you'll end up with 0 or thereabouts from constant artefact demands, challenges for house leadership, imprisonments, assassinations, hostage exchanges, etc. and it just seems kinda inevitable.

Thanks for the answer.

The longer I played the more I thought this might be the case. But they make it sound like it might influence AI so I wasn't sure.

Harmonious says "members of this house do what they can to stand united" yet I'm always ending dynasty wars trying to keep peace in an empire.

[Blue]

cadet branch has his own unity, of course they some cadet house has low unity and not getting along.

[ShepherdOfCats]

I think it depends on their personalities. If you have a bunch of sadistic house members (which there's no way to keep up with that effectively once your house gets to such a size that you're just like "whatever.")

One issue I'm having is the sheer number of divorces happening (i'm thinking about switching religions). I've actually started granting titles to non-house members and revoking titles (which also reduces unity but maybe it'll pay off in the long run) to try to reduce the number of opportunities to divorce. Although I think it would be kind of stale if the AI was not allowed to influence things at all. Like if it got to fully harmonious and just stayed there, so I think it's meant to fluctuate.

There are some benefits to having low unity as well so I tend to roll with the punches (and the kicks, and the body-slams).

[ƬᗩԲԲվ]

Originally posted by Blue:

cadet branch has his own unity, of course they some cadet house has low unity and not getting along.

This is good to know. I don't think there's any cadet branch so it's not a problem yet.

Originally posted by ShepherdOfCats:

I think it depends on their personalities. If you have a bunch of sadistic house members (which there's no way to keep up with that effectively once your house gets to such a size that you're just like "whatever.")

One issue I'm having is the sheer number of divorces happening (i'm thinking about switching religions). I've actually started granting titles to non-house members and revoking titles (which also reduces unity but maybe it'll pay off in the long run) to try to reduce the number of opportunities to divorce. Although I think it would be kind of stale if the AI was not allowed to influence things at all. Like if it got to fully harmonious and just stayed there, so I think it's meant to fluctuate.

There are some benefits to having low unity as well so I tend to roll with the punches (and the kicks, and the body-slams).

If divorces are that much of an issue a different religion is probably the right answer. I agree that if the house got along perfectly it'd be stale. But I've usually got 2-3 wars between my house almost at all times. The only way to keep unity up was to declare unify the house wars and end dynasty wars. But I think I've decided unity isn't worth messing with.