Getting rid of excommunication

[henrikhka]

Hey, I've recently started playing DV again, and fired up a game as Denmark. I'm currently King of Denmark and Germany, plus sitting on lots of Poland, but sadly not king there yet.

At some point my old king got realm duress, and when he died too leaving only a young (but extremely badass) heir, who got realm duress after a few weeks too, thus my realm started falling apart. Papal States decided to join in on the fun, and excommunicated me in the process (Actually I think it was an event, and not directly the papacy). I've collected most of my empire again, and try to keep peace, in order to make the realm duress go away (are there any other things I can do?), but the real problem is the excommunication. Is there any way to stop being excommunicated? (Would that then be to get "incommunicated" btw?)

Ok that got a bit messy, to sum up.
1. How do I stop being excommunicated?
2. Besides getting your king killed, and hoping for the standard "duress-ender-event" to pop up, is there anything I can do to make realm duress stop?

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

1. There are events that can remove the 'excommunication'. Things that make this event likelier to fire are

• Going on a Crusade (if one is called of course)
• Have the zealous trait
• Have high piety (at least +100, but the higher the better)
• Have an ecclesiastical_education
• Have a zealous diocese bishop
• Have a scholarly theologian as diocese bishop
• Or have a mastermind theologian as diocese bishop

2. The greatest effects on getting rid of realm duress are being at peace and have all your vassals at, at least 60% loyalty. Whenever your ruler dies, pause the game and check your vassals-loyalty, sent gifts to the ones who are most disloyal and then unpause the game again.

 

[philios82]

Try this thread:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=399557

There is an event in there that will fire if you're excommunicated and get rid of it, if you don't want it to be too gamey then don't use the console to fire the event. It'll fire on its own within about five years. I set the MTTH to 12 months because I'm impatient. Oh and the poster in that thread says to remove the event after you've used it, no need to do that if you don't fire it through the console, instead you can keep it in there and whenever you (or anyone else) gets excommunicated it'll fire again.

I know this is kind of cheating but I don't like the random excommunications you get in this game anyway. Hope that helped.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

Try this thread:

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=399557

There is an event in there that will fire if you're excommunicated and get rid of it, if you don't want it to be too gamey then don't use the console to fire the event. It'll fire on its own within about five years. I set the MTTH to 12 months because I'm impatient. Oh and the poster in that thread says to remove the event after you've used it, no need to do that if you don't fire it through the console, instead you can keep it in there and whenever you (or anyone else) gets excommunicated it'll fire again.

I know this is kind of cheating but I don't like the random excommunications you get in this game anyway. Hope that helped.

But in this case the OP wasn't excommunicated randomly, he became excommunicated by an event, so it was his own choice.

 

[henrikhka]

I'm pretty sure the event I got only had 1 option, so not sure I would call it my own choice

Thanks a lot for the quick answers guys, much appreciated.

*edit* My king is Zealous, my bishop is too (and he's a master theologican), and my piety will be above 100 soon enough, so guess the event will fire within a reasonable timeframe.

 

[henrikhka]

Checked the event files quickly, and noticed that being on a crusade gave a 0.02 modifier to the mtth, declared war on Jerusalem, and wupti 2 months later I get to pay 10k, and no longer be excommunicated. Now I just have to stop the bloody realmduress.

 

[philios82]

But in this case the OP wasn't excommunicated randomly, he became excommunicated by an event, so it was his own choice.

Ah, well there you go then, I've never conciously picked excommunication so thats never been an issue for me. I only seem to get excommed when one of the rulers in my vicinity becomes papal controller, like one of my vassals in my latest game.

 

[henrikhka]

I have now managed to both get rid of the excommunication and come through the civil war somewhat unharmed. I checked a bit through the event files, and found an interesing event, the one giving you the emperor trait. It took me just about 0.2 seconds to figure out that I definately want to be emperor, and since I'm already king of Germany, and only need a few provinces to be king of Italy+Burgundy, I don't think it'll be a big problem, especially since my king is still young. Only thing though, I didn't find any events that actually showed any benefit from being emperor, is the trait mainly there for showoff?

 

[enf91]

More prestige.