Rebuilding ruins and Harrenhal

[Dragatus]

I'm new to the mod and I have a question regarding the rebuilding of old ruins. Specifically I became Lord Paramount of the Riverlands and got an options to colonize Oldstones and rebuild Harrenhal. I took them both, but now I'm not sure if I need to do anything else or do I just have to wait.

 

[SBerger]

Rebuilding Harrenhal will take a long, long time. Most people say 100 years or more with a lot of money to use. As for Oldstones, in my Tully save right now, I'm been colonizing Oldstones for nearly 20 years and I haven't gotten a single event regarding the crown of the Mudds or it's upgrading to advances ruins.

 

[Kokomorari]

Harrenhall took me 300 years. Oldstones seems to be a normal ruin which can take half a year or up to 30.

 

[queermobile]

You can put your Master of Coin on the province with the oversee construction time option and it'll cut down on the time. I've had Oldstones be finished as quickly as a decade and as long as 30 or so years. Harrenhal I've never bothered with since you have to maintain such an enormous amount of money that I usually just cheat and give it away....:s but I'm pretty sure everyone elses estimate of 1-300 years is pretty much the expected.

 

[Dragatus]

So just waiting is enough, but having someone oversee construction speeds things up. Does that apply to ruins too or only to Harrenhal?

 

[queermobile]

Any ruins that are being colonized

 

[Wandering Sentinel]

It's important to note that in a single player game rebuilding Harrenhal can be a good idea since it seems the AI never uses dragons in battle/sieges (either it's unable to or it just chooses not to), but any large dragon deployed in a siege against a rebuilt Harrenhal (or at least one that wasn't burned in the first place) can result in the entire county being reduced to rubble again. So if you rebuild Harrenhal in single player, hatch a dragon, and have someone successfully siege the castle, don't use your dragons in the siege. If you're playing multiplayer and another human player has a dragon, rebuilding Harrenhal is more risky unless you know they aren't going to attack you and know not to deploy the dragon to retake a captured Harrenhal.

 

[Dragatus]

Good to know, though I don't expect to ever play it in multiplayer. I tried that with a friend, but we got out of sync as soon as we unpaused the game every single time we attempted a game.