Holders of Special Titles Cannot Usurp or Create Equal or Higher Titles

[Cheesecakeczar]

How the heck is one supposed to start as a duke-level caliph and create a kingdom? Am I supposed to stay duke-level forever? I just got CK2+ and it seems I already have to disable it. Please remove this silly requirement.

 

[schwarherz]

You must be talking about the create new kingdom decision, which we locked special titles out of for the express purpose of not having religion heads or mercenaries create kingdoms with the same name as their duke level special title. They can still do it if they change their primary title to something other than the special title, however. I know usurpation and regular creation of kingdoms works fine for special titles because nearly every landed title's allow section looks like this (using k_england as an example)

	allow = {
		is_adult = yes
		has_regent = no
		war = no
		ruled_years = 5
		hidden_tooltip = {
			OR = {
				ai = no
				NOT = {
					has_landed_title = e_byzantium
					top_liege = { has_landed_title = e_byzantium }
				}
			}
		}
		OR = {
			AND = {
				OR = {
					culture = saxon
					culture = english
				}
				lower_tier_than = king
			}
			k_england = {
				OR = {
					is_titular = no
					has_holder = yes
				}
			}
		}
	}

Which says nothing about special titles, at all.

 

[Cheesecakeczar]

I started a game as the Fatimid and half of the caliphate split in half with my character's son holding a different title. This makes no sense.

 

[Rylock]

I started a game as the Fatimid and half of the caliphate split in half with my character's son holding a different title. This makes no sense.

You're going to need to explain that a bit better, if you expect us to address your issue -- if we can, and it's an issue related to the mod.

Is this a succession issue you're referring to? If so, what kind of succession laws did your titles have? What happened, exactly, and what did you expect to happen?