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How close do I have to get to a country to get rid of the modifier "distance between borders" (or "too far away" or something) for the vassallage-offer ?

Next to them. Note that the diplomatic distances considers your vassals (even tributary vassals iirc) as part of your diplomatic body, so you can expand your reach in this fashion if need be.
 
Today I saw a video how someone got 100% warscore after full occupiing all of the war targets land and waiting 5 years (without occupiing other war participants). Is this always the case or is there more to it? Does he have to not own a army? What about subjects?
 
absolutely 100% certain? no trick around it?
If their cores still exist and will exist for some more time, you can annex the provinces and a prussian cultured province next to them. Then you can culture convert a province with a core of the Livonian Order to Prussian. But you need to wait till there is no more separatism. Afterwards you can release the Livonian Order as a vassal. Also you might be able to return a province that you annexed to the Livonian Order by using the button on the province interface. But that probably only works for provinces which don't have cores of a country which has that provinces culture as primary culture.
 
If their cores still exist and will exist for some more time, you can annex the provinces and a prussian cultured province next to them. Then you can culture convert a province with a core of the Livonian Order to Prussian. But you need to wait till there is no more separatism. Afterwards you can release the Livonian Order as a vassal.

I could take Riga.
that sounds like a little chance, but how long does separatism ticking off and culture conversion take?

I have 29 years till their cores tick off.
 
When you are playing as a vassal or PU subject, will your AI overlord ever give you land that you have a claim on? Does your level of loyalty matter for this?

With the rightful ownership event (it requires a core/claim on their land), sometimes. Afaik they don't use the subject interaction.
 
Today I saw a video how someone got 100% warscore after full occupiing all of the war targets land and waiting 5 years (without occupiing other war participants). Is this always the case or is there more to it? Does he have to not own a army? What about subjects?

You need to occupy the war leader's capital, and there to be no battles for 5 years, then you get 100% WS. No battles at all is somewhat equivalent to them not having an army, which is why it's usually pointless (but sometimes, it works!)
 
that sounds like a little chance, but how long does separatism ticking off and culture conversion take?

You can check the current separatism in the unrest tab. It ticks off by 0.5 each January, and you add something (depending on your government and ideas) on conquest. You can check on the wiki the time it takes to CC, it's rather long but scales off dev (don't forget to exploit dev).
You're probably not making it in time.
 
I could take Riga.
that sounds like a little chance, but how long does separatism ticking off and culture conversion take?

I have 29 years till their cores tick off.
Culture conversion takes 10month per dev (caped at 30dev).
It might be affected by absolutism if you have Any.
Also wiki says that separatism takes 30 years to disappear when a province is newly conquered :/
 
With the rightful ownership event (it requires a core/claim on their land), sometimes. Afaik they don't use the subject interaction.
What if I occupy the land during a war and have a claim? Say I am Sweden. Any chance Denmark would give me land from Novgorod that I occupy during the war? They usually take it for their selves, but I also generally am actively working to find allies to support my independence. If I acted more loyal and had claims, is there a scenario where they would they give the land to Sweden or would they always take it?
 
If you take all the occupations, Denmark can't take it for themselves in the peacedeal. So long as you don't transfer occupation, they either give it to you or don't take any land. They likely won't give you more than one province though.
 
Playing as Korea, I've enacted Parliamentarism to disable the Nobility estate and help me to end the internal strife events. Now I'm wondering if I should take the Mandate of Heaven from a crumbling Ming... can you be a Celestial Empire AND have Parliament? What happens if not?
 
You can, and you get the coolest name if you do it: Parliament of Heaven.