Some qestions

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A)Realm duress:
One count revolts in a realm of 100+ provinces and i get realm duress? Why exactly again? I have positive stability no one seems be wanting to defect in decades and yet i get it for apparently no reason. And there is no way to end it directly (Like slaughtering everyone).

B)Taking heretic/heathen land:
Why do i take BB if i take their land? They are heathens! At that times i should even lose reputation for doing that and be glorified as a champion of Christianity. While people hate me for doing it. That makes no sense what so ever.

C)Pope:
The Pope seems to be randomly chosen every time i reload the game. How is the pope chosen anyway and does it give you any benefits if he comes from my realm?

D)Crusade objective:
I fulfilled gods will (AKA conqered the province which counts as a crusade objective), yet i still lose piety? Shouldn't like the crusades be over the same second i do that or at least i shouldn't suffer a piety decrease?

E)Female counts/dukes:
Why wont they accept my marriage proposals?

F)Exception errors:
Was that ever fixed or did paradox simply abandon the game?

 

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A)Realm duress:
One count revolts in a realm of 100+ provinces and i get realm duress? Why exactly again? I have positive stability no one seems be wanting to defect in decades and yet i get it for apparently no reason. And there is no way to end it directly (Like slaughtering everyone).

Well, your realm is in 'duress' if one count revolts, is it not? I'm not entirely sure what makes the realm duress trait fire, but I'm sure others here know.

B)Taking heretic/heathen land:
Why do i take BB if i take their land? They are heathens! At that times i should even lose reputation for doing that and be glorified as a champion of Christianity. While people hate me for doing it. That makes no sense what so ever.

You would be glorified as a champion of Christianity in public, but behind your backs your peers would whisper and scheme. What if you used your new strength against them? Or, at least, that's how I would rationalize it. The BB is a small price to pay considering you don't have to grab a title, in my eyes.

C)Pope:
The Pope seems to be randomly chosen every time i reload the game. How is the pope chosen anyway and does it give you any benefits if he comes from my realm?

If you are the papal controller, you can use the pope to excommunicate other rulers, which will send their realm spiralling into chaos as their titles become dirt cheap to claim. A great way to destroy rival kingdoms. As for a pope who comes from your realm, but is not controlled by you... I think you might get a piety bonus? Not entirely sure.

D)Crusade objective:
I fulfilled gods will (AKA conqered the province which counts as a crusade objective), yet i still lose piety? Shouldn't like the crusades be over the same second i do that or at least i shouldn't suffer a piety decrease?

It might take a while before the crudes end, but if a christian ruler owns the objective, the crusade will end eventually. If you own the place, you'll get a big piety boost to make up for lost piety. Consider it like this: in a world without internet, it would take a while for everyone to know that Antioch had fallen into Christian hands. Rumors might spread, yes, but actual confirmation would take time to spread over Europe.

E)Female counts/dukes:
Why wont they accept my marriage proposals?

Your ruler can't marry them, that's hard coded. It should be possible, but very unlikely in my experience, to hook them up with a family member. Of course, there's always 'byzantine'.

 

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A) Any rebellious vassal can fire the event that causes civil war and gives you the Realm Duress trait. I am not sure, but I think, the more that are rebellious the less the MTTH of the event is. Or at least it will be more likely to fire as more characters can trigger it.

B) You are still a powermonger by expanding rapidly. That is the "logical" explanation. Really though, I think it is a gameplay decision, to keep the player from taking all of the Middle East within 30 years of game start, without as much as a single BB point. You can still expand rapidly without too much BB. You just need to force-vassalize a few of your conquered territories, instead of grabbing them for yourself.

C) I think you mean the Papal Controller. That position is chosen based on piety, I believe, and is recalculated every time you reload. So if someone has more Piety than the current PC, it changes at reload. Not entirely sure it is only Piety that determines the PC though.

D) Crusades end by event. The more of the neighbouring provinces of the crusade target, that are in christian hands (doesn't have to be yours), the sooner the event will fire. But it could be anything from a week after the target is taken to a decade. As long as the crused is going, you will lose piety. Once the crusade ends successfully, you should get a very nice piety boost for holding the target.

E) You are not prestigious enough ... it is generally almost impossible to get female rulers to marry. But it has been proven to be possible without cheating. You just need bucket-loads of prestige to have a chance of them accepting. This is only in regards to non-rulers proposed to them. Female AI rulers will NEVER accept a marriage, from another landed noble, as the game can't handle that.

F) For some it was, for others it wasn't. Problem was that Johan did not have enough data to work with, to figure out exactly what the problem was for some people. After the latest beta-patch in 2008, I don't think i have had more than 2 exceptions while playing this game.