Rulership focus now 100% useless

[SKull]

I stupidly keep trying it because it used to be a good focus. But the only "random" event I get from it now is the inevitable "you got stressed" popup. No trials or other events that can give you better traits or buff your stewardship stat like before. Just stress and lots of wasted time. I have tried it three times so far since HF launched, each during peacetime and each for a full five years. And nothing at all, except for the stress.

Is it bugged or is it intentional that it is now completely useless? It's starting to bug me at least.

[Psychotic Fury]

I get alot of them. Starts out not getting any, but after awhile i get alot. Mainly choose the steward or diplo +3 though. Theyre the ones i noticed have alot of events. Aswell as the +3 scholar one. Lots of tech events from that one.

[eastcoastceo]

I had the same experience in a new Ironman game today, had the rulership focus for 8 years, all I got was depressed.

[SKull]

15 years solid and 3x depression and nothing else. It didn't even have the courtesy to give me the one with the pigs, but just the 'You got stressed" thing with no text. That used to be a penalty for choosing maybe the best focus for fixing up your ruler. Now it's the only thing it contains. The first time I tried it I even managed to get stressed after three days of having the rulership focus, and then had to wait five years to be allowed to switch top hunting and get rid of the stress again before it killed me.
Which is another thing: stress is not fatal. No one has ever died of stress in all of human history. It is not possible. And I highly doubt that Psychotic Fury has even tried rulership focus since HF was launched. How can you have "a lot of them" when I have zero in 15 years? I smell a big, fat steam forums fib.

[The Cure]

Rulership has always led to to a lot of stressed and depressed events. This is why hunting dogs and Hermetics was added. Hermetics can't help you if you're an unreformed pagan or certain culture types, but the hunting dog can.

[galadon3]

Rulership is useless, especially in direct comparison to Buisness

1 point of skill less in exchange for a bonus to burgher-opinion as well as two events that give a ton of money (especially earlygame if you are small) and one that is a 50:50 for 50G loss and 50G profit+some years county-bonus.
And taking Buisness you also potentially get a lot of event-lines that give you traits for more stewardship.

Would be nice if Rulership had some boni for ruling your realm, like opening an intrigue-decision to reduce unrest in a province for a while, additional events for cultural conversion and the like.

[The Cure]

Originally posted by galadon3:

Rulership is useless, especially in direct comparison to Buisness

1 point of skill less in exchange for a bonus to burgher-opinion as well as two events that give a ton of money (especially earlygame if you are small) and one that is a 50:50 for 50G loss and 50G profit+some years county-bonus.
And taking Buisness you also potentially get a lot of event-lines that give you traits for more stewardship.

Would be nice if Rulership had some boni for ruling your realm, like opening an intrigue-decision to reduce unrest in a province for a while, additional events for cultural conversion and the like.

Actually Rulership does get you tons of modifiers.

Here are some:
Amateur Steward (+1 stewardship)
Steward (+2 stewardship)
Administrator (+3 stewardship)
By becoming Administrator , can also get:
Respected Ruler (+10 vassal opinion), with 8 stewardship
Legendary Wisdom (+1 monthly prestige), with 12 stewardship
Great Raja Dharma (+2 stewardship), if Jain
Province modifier Quarry decreases construction cost for 80 years

[【Ｎｉｃｅ Ｈｉｓｓ】]

Works fine for me. RNG is RNG.

[galadon3]

Where do you get the quarry in rulership events? Always only had that when constructing a great tower and thats buisness