What is up with my wife? Unlucky?

[DuskNDawn]

So I am now getting for the THIRD TIME a event " Marital Recriminations " where something is going on with my wife and my Steward. She has already had problems with my last two and I'm getting worse and worse people to replace my Steward because of this.

Is this because a trait she has? Callous, Diligent and Shy. I'm new to this game so I'm not sure if I'm just getting super unlucky or something is up with my wife. Like I said I'm unsure on how to find better people to replace other than people already here so... if this keeps going I'm going to have a Steward with a score of 1.

[snuggleform]

It's just a personality thing, some wives are more disposed to that.

If my wife complains about that sort of thing, I think the best option is just to tell her that she's overreacting. She stops complaining if you do that. If you appease her whims she will just continually complain about the next steward over and over. You'll get an opinion hit with your wife but that doesn't affect much honestly.

[Razorblade]

The idea of the event is it keeps going until you call her out on her ♥♥♥♥ (or reconcile her with the people she is feuding with).

[Turbulence]

I usually just keep firing them to keep the wife happy and producing kids.

[Kvinden]

Even with a score of 1 a stewart is not more incompetent than one with a score of 32.
Councilors are almost useless. The Steward is only useful to convert a county to your culture
Otherwise you can even leave the seat vacant, it makes no difference. Same for master thief who never interrupts a scheme and for the diplomat who is just here to provide a job to one of your powerful vassals.
I hope the next Royal court DLC will fix it and make the councilors useful.

[meowbeast]

Originally posted by Kvinden:

Even with a score of 1 a stewart is not more incompetent than one with a score of 32.
Councilors are almost useless. The Steward is only useful to convert a county to your culture
Otherwise you can even leave the seat vacant, it makes no difference. Same for master thief who never interrupts a scheme and for the diplomat who is just here to provide a job to one of your powerful vassals.
I hope the next Royal court DLC will fix it and make the councilors useful.

Getting a random chance of 50 extra gold in taxes is pretty useful as a tribal count.

[snuggleform]

Originally posted by Kvinden:

Even with a score of 1 a stewart is not more incompetent than one with a score of 32.
Councilors are almost useless. The Steward is only useful to convert a county to your culture
Otherwise you can even leave the seat vacant, it makes no difference. Same for master thief who never interrupts a scheme and for the diplomat who is just here to provide a job to one of your powerful vassals.
I hope the next Royal court DLC will fix it and make the councilors useful.

What are you talking about. First off, there are breakpoints for random events. If you have below 8 skill, you cannot trigger positive events. If you're at 15 or more, you can not trigger negative events. Based on that alone, a score 1 steward is only going to trigger negative events and a score 32 steward is only going to trigger positive events, which makes a big difference. The free gold event a steward gets scales with his score. You can easily get 100+ gold in the early game with a 15+ steward for doing absolutely nothing, and it goes higher the more skill she has.

If you ever try using a skill like convert county/culture, you're going to see an absolutely ridiculous difference in the speed at which a score 1 steward vs score 32 is.

[dwarfpcfan]

I never allow any council member to have less then 15 at any of their posts because I hate losing money and prestige because who ever is handling it isn't competent enough to handle it.

And especially for the steward because he handles develloping counties and which is crucial to get techs and building which always takes forever.

If anything I consider any steward with less then 18 in the skills to be unnacceptably incompetent at the job and will replace him as soon as possible.