Any way to see unlanded heir's lifestyle?

[Dumbledood]

All I found online was some guy saying that only landed characters gain lifestyle experience, with the exception of courtiers and heirs. And apparently in the case of heirs, they're not really gaining experience, but once they level up, the game automatically calculates how much experience they should have and selects perks.

I'm guessing that their lifestyle just defaults to whatever their focus was as a child?

I was wondering because I wanted to try to boost his lifestyle experience while my character is still alive by giving him a job. His marshal is pretty good, but the stewardship sucks. I gave him one anyway to help him gain prestige, and because any gold he earns will just go back to me when I start to play as him. But it seems like the bonus martial lifestyle experience from his job won't actually apply to his lifestyle progress once he becomes king based on the way the Paradox calculation works. Wish I could order him to go to school or something for stewardship. "Look here, Aien, studying is important! Dad only gets to hold 9 counties because he's smart and studied economics!"

[CrUsHeR]

Lifestyle is exclusive to landed characters of Count+ rank.
You can also see by yourself that only landed characters do have the icon indicating the active lifestyle on the left of their portrait.


If an unlanded character receives a title, he automatically selects a lifestyle according to his education trait, and gets a certain number of traits based on his age. This also goes for your unlanded heir on succession.

Probably the same amount like Ruler Designer characters, who get approximately 1 perk per 3 years over the age of 16.

The main difference is that your Ruler Designer character has the points free to spend, while the NPCs (and your heir after succession) always get a random tree filled out. So if you wanted him to have a certain lifestyle, the chance is 1:2 (33%) to have the correct one. Means most of the time you have to start over anyways.

[Dumbledood]

Alright, thanks for all of the clarification.

[Emperor2000]

Originally posted by CrUsHeR:

Lifestyle is exclusive to landed characters of Count+ rank.
You can also see by yourself that only landed characters do have the icon indicating the active lifestyle on the left of their portrait.


If an unlanded character receives a title, he automatically selects a lifestyle according to his education trait, and gets a certain number of traits based on his age. This also goes for your unlanded heir on succession.

Probably the same amount like Ruler Designer characters, who get approximately 1 perk per 3 years over the age of 16.

The main difference is that your Ruler Designer character has the points free to spend, while the NPCs (and your heir after succession) always get a random tree filled out. So if you wanted him to have a certain lifestyle, the chance is 1:2 (33%) to have the correct one. Means most of the time you have to start over anyways.

Lifestyle is no longer exclusive for landed Character, landless Adventurers and landless Family Heads in an Admin Realm, have a Lifestyle too.

The amount of Perk Points, an unlanded Character gets, when becoming an Ruler above Baron Tier, also depends on his Traits, if they would normally get more Lifestyle Experience, they will get more Perks, when they become an Ruler above Baron Tier.
Artifacts on the other hand have no impact at all.