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look please at the screenshot, why i don't get any piety and why the crusade doesn't end?
i hold alexandria atleast 20 years even the culture changed to italian
whats wrong?
Crusades are ended by events, sooner or later it will end (though it should not take so long the MTTH is only 48 months), it is more likely to happen if all the counties near the target (for Alexandria it is Cairo, Buhairya, Gizeh, Gabiyaha, Delta, Manupura, Sarqihya, Quena, Asyut, Pelusia, Aswan, Nubia and Sudan) are owned by christians. Also if the target is converted it will end much quicker.
I think you gain piety when you end the siege of a province owned by a religious enemy. So maybe you should fight small sheikdoms.
Just a very wild theoretical guess... Maybe there isn't a Papal Controller at a moment who could have this Crusade ending event, because the Papal State was swept away during current Crusade? If that's the case, then it may take (especially if the Rome stays in muslims' hands) several years before the "Papacy move to [somewhere]" event happens, which recreates the Papal States. And if neither of the 7 possible provinces where the Papal State can be theoretically restored doesn't meet the requirements necessary for the moving-event to trigger (provinces' faith and/or their rulers' faith isn't Christian, they are looted or revolting or infected by some disease), it may take even longer (if it's beginning of 1100s, then it's not so improbable that most of the provinces are simultaneously plague infested, for example).
But probably you have just bad luck. As said before, take some more land surrounding Alexandria (if you can afford this) - each conquered/owned province will bring the expected crusade ending approximately 20% closer in time (as usual, this effect is multiplicative, not additive).
