because of diablerie, you naughty vampire
Nonsense! That's half the fun of this mod. ;P
If you have taken blood from a victim (but did not kill them) they get a blood loss negative health modifier. This will likely decrease the intensity of the resonance. Eventually that blood loss modifier will expire, and their resonance will be recalculated based on their improved health. There is still some randomness in that calculation. Maybe too much! Its a definitely an arguable design decision to have resonance be dynamic vs. static.
Could you make a rule about it or something?
Because I wouldn't go anywhere near to dynamic if I could.
Let's look at things pragmatically.
The only reason from Player's perspective to have a specified herd is to cherry-pick them and enjoy the results.
Otherwise we'd be better off having a non-personalised menu emulating the hunt for random people that basically gives you blood and XP per month. (same way as the game doesn't spawn a specific animal when you hunt for animals)
But with this random recalculation running rampant the cherry-picking just doesn't work.
I hunt a mortal, get "intense resonance". I herd that same mortal, and even though he's back at full health by the time I succeed, he's suddenly fleeting, and of the wrong type to boot.
It'd be ok if there was some specific rule that makes them ill suited for repeated "learning". But just having them loose all value at random? No way, that defeats the point of the whole system, imho.
Speaking off... could we get automation of animal hunting as well?
I'm not sure what your issue is here. We allow for some mentors to pick up a vampire discipline trait through the power of friendship. We also let vampires train their ghouls in disciplines they know. The vampire spends their own resonance XP to do so. If your issue with description of a concept that is in vanilla CK3, that is beyond the scope of the modders.
There is no issue with me and mentors. Just trying to clear my confusion. Well, more like trying to explain the source of the confusion. It's been cleared by now.
Also...
Can you spend whole perks that way as well? That Helena run of mine I kept getting tons of phlegmatic XP (3 whole perks in less time than it took me to get one sanguine perk) and she starts with that whole tree maxed. So I just get 3 perk points sitting there and annoying me.
Could it be that you just noticed Clan Tzimisce? Tzimisce (or potentially an vampire with Vicissitude) if they do not have the beauty trait may have some random monstrous facial feature they have added. This happens more with the randomly created Tzimisce than the canon characters.
But Helena is a torri! And so are her "children". Yet all of them (both starting ones and player-embraced) had a permanent "shrivelled grandma and starving vampire had a baby" look on their faces.
And no, I've seen Clam Tzimisce before, theirs is a different kind of ugly.
My current run (dropped Helena and went custom gen13 caitiff from Venice) seems free of this bug thus far.
The stats of great persons vary a lot. They are also not equally spread around the world. But they do offer a nice little bit of history and are often worth the gold and masquerade risk. Though "all great persons stats should be buffed" is maybe not the best approach. Maybe you can note which ones you find particularly underpowered. Finding good champions, councilors, heirs and herd is a pretty key part of PoD. So definitely there could be some tweaks made.
Anthony Padua - 16/4/10/0/21/3
Beatrix of Assisi - 9/7/10/5/17/5
Leonardo Fibonacci (the vanilla one, not your version) - 8/9/10/9/22/0
Court chaplan I picked at random and married into my court
for free at the start of the game - 2/2/3/6/21/6 (hmm... I should probably go nab vanilla Fibonacci while he's alive, I wonder why I forgot about him at the start of this run)
IIRC your version of Fibonacci had 29 learning. And that's probably something I WOULD pay 150p or 50g and some masquerade for. But that's only if I needed to.
Nothing stops me from pressing "ignore" and then hooking such a person into the court normally.
Kinda sucks, but you might have to resort to "take him now or he vanishes" method that the game normally uses for generated people if you want recruitment costs to actually be paid by players.
so it is a bit of a chore having to find the right guy among 5 named Alexandr.