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Active Courtiers

Do you find yourself spending a lot of time finding spouses for your courtiers, or deciding on characters to invite to your court, who could be better councillors, court position holders, knights, or commanders? While both Find Spouse and Invite to Court interactions enable the player to attract better talent and furthermore do it for free, they suffer from a few major drawbacks:

• Choosing among numerous options and for many courtiers requires a lot of effort.
  
• The AI never uses them, ending up with a worse talent pool, while the player can get the best courtiers, as they are usually not married and there is hardly any competition.

I personally find the above aspects to be tedious, unrealistic, and underwhelming. Why should it take so much effort to find good spouses for courtiers, or competent characters to invite? Why would courtiers depend so much on their liege for getting married? And why should players enjoy such overwhelming advantages over the AI to attract valuable courtiers?

This mod attempts to address these drawbacks by enabling courtiers to actively search for spouses by themselves and only ask their liege for approval, as well as recommend characters to be invited by their liege, thereby reducing the effort for the player, improving the quality of AI talent pools, and also contributing to better roleplaying and immersion.

The main feature of this mod are the 2 new events Courtier Requests to Marry and Courtier Recommends an Acquaintance. They are triggered for count or higher rulers, every year for players and every 1 to 5 years for the AI by default. These event frequencies can be changed via game rules.

When these event fire, two characters are selected using appropriate eligibility criteria that can be further configured via game rules:

• a courtier who will search for a spouse or recommend a character
  
• a candidate to be married or invited

The characters considered when searching for a candidate include all non-ruler characters in this and neighboring realms and located within a certain range of the ruler's capital that can also be configured via game rules.

The final candidate is always the highest quality candidate among all eligible candidates who (or whose matchmaker) would accept the marriage proposal or the invitation.

• For marriages, the quality is evaluated from the perspective of the courtier, based on opinion, lover relations, attraction, fertility, health, age and age difference, dynasty prestige difference, faith hostility, cultural acceptance, genetic traits, and skills.
  
• For invitations, the quality is evaluated from the perspective of the ruler, based on opinions, family and relations, genetic and other traits, skills, claims, and other factors, with competence playing a much stronger role than for marriages.

Finally, the courtier's liege must approve the request or accept the recommendation. While marriage candidates are not automatically a good choice for their liege, invitation candidates usually are. AI rulers consider their opinion of the courtier and the candidate, family and other relations, the candidate quality, and are they better than other options for any councillor or court positions, knight, or commander. Players can take these into account as well, since they are listed in the event description.

This mod introduces also a Courtier Suggests a Guardian event. It is triggered on every birthday for eligible courtier children that don't have a guardian. When it fires, a candidate to be assigned as a guardian and a courtier to suggest it are selected among all eligible courtiers. The quality of guardian candidates captures their effectiveness as guardians and is evaluated based on their skills, traits, perks, faith, and culture.

To make it more convenient for players to trigger the above events, this mod also adds the 2 new interactions Ask to Find Spouse, Find Someone to Invite to Court, and Find Guardian.

Even if AI rulers get better talent pools, they tend to stick to councillors or court position holders with worse skills or aptitude than available. For this reason, and also to remind players, this mod also adds the new Courtier Jostles for Position event. It is triggered after a candidate has joined a court if they are better than other options for a councillor or court position. In it, the candidate requests to be appointed to that position, and their liege can accept or decline. The AI decision is based on their opinion of both the candidate and the incumbent, family and other relations, how much better is the candidate, is the incumbent councillor a powerful vassal, and other factors.


The current version is compatible with CK3 1.16. If you are still on CK3 1.15.x, use version 0.8.0[github.com] instead.

This mod does not modify any vanilla files and should be compatible with most other mods. Note that some total conversion mods remove parts of vanilla that may be referred to by this mod, so compatibility with such mods is not guaranteed. Also, this mod cannot properly evaluate candidates for councillor or court positions introduced by conversion mods without a compatch.

This mod is now fully compatible with A Game of Thrones with a compatibility patch, see Links below.

The Love Marriage Family mod also adds marriage requests by courtiers, but only limited to the player's realm. The two mods are compatible with each other and the frequency of their events can be configured via game rules. If you use LMF or other mods that change the marriage acceptance by AI, set the game rule Interaction Acceptance by AI to Original.

This mod also supports changing its game rules mid-game with the Gamerule Gadget mod.


This mod is currently available in English and Russian. For other languages, it uses the original English text as a placeholder.


Since the events added by this mod fire regularly for many AI rulers, they may negatively affect the overall game performance. Therefore, this mod adds game rules to enable players to find the best balance. With the default settings, this mod is about 10% slower than vanilla on max speed in observer mode, a difference not noticeable during an actual gameplay.

As a recommendation, if you don't notice any performance issues, just leave the default settings. Otherwise, you may try increasing the event frequency or reducing the character search range for AI rulers.

• AGOT Compatibility
  
• Chinese Translation (by @無壹)
  
• Portuguese Translation (by @Alin)
  
• German Translation (by @finallyciv)
  
• GitHub Repository[github.com]

For more information, see the mod README[github.com].

If you like this mod, you may also consider my other mods:

• Search & Trade Artifacts
  
• Travelers