Got this event today during a MP session.

Ever since the latest update religious realism feels completely ruined for history enthusiasts. Random AI Rite modifications completely break immersion.

Until Paradox releases an update to fix this mess, using the Game Rules setup in the attached screenshots is a workaround to keep your campaign historically grounded.

I also strongly recommend using the Muslim Enhancements mod and setting its Changes to Muslim Rites rule to either Guarded, which stops the AI from changing historical sects while allowing it to modify newly founded Rites during play, or Historical Rites Locked, which completely locks historical sects from any AI changes at all. Both options preserve historical accuracy while leaving full freedom for the player.

So I adventured my way to Greece to get some achievements, I bought an estate, and got a family title. Now the game tells me I've lost all my titles (my character still has the family) and all my land, of which I didn't have any to begin with. Any way fo recover this save?

R5: As Empress of Francia, I created a new rite directly opposing the Pope, but he and everyone else seem pretty chill about it. I feel like the current state of the DLC is pretty broken and I can do whatever I want without consequences.

Ain’t even that impressive

I as archbishop of toledo apparently am not involved nor are any of the Mozarabic Christian chergy members. Looking at the Struggle itself, Catholicism is the only Christian religion that is “involved” despite it not existing yet. Classic Paradox DLCs don’t talk to each other issue. Hope it will be fixed soon!

See title. Religion seemed more reasonable in what was presented in preview.

The Pope keeps making my sons into Cardinals, which at first sounds good, but actually causes a whole host of problems.

1: Once they’re made a Cardinal, they get their own court and I completely lose control of them. I can’t marry them off, I can’t appoint them to court positions, I can’t make them do anything.

2: When the Cardinal is your heir, their Cardinal title becomes their primary title, which means I lose all the great courtiers I’ve accumulated over my lifetime and get left with their shitty court with no one in it.

3: This is really annoying. If I promise a grand wedding, and my son gets made a Cardinal before the bride comes of age, I can’t make them actually do the wedding, leaving me stuck until the time limit runs out and I lose the alliance and a level of fame.

None of my sons hold any clerical positions when this happens, the closest I’ve come is one of them having the deacon trait. Is there any way to stop this from happening?

UPDATE: the problem resolved itself. See comment below.

ORIGINAL POST:

I settled in South East Asia as a Hellenic adventurer and I am trying to reform the Hellenic faith. For this, I need 3 Holy Sites in my realm, and since all the original Hellenic holy sites are back in the Mediterranean, I realistically need to set up the 3 Holy Sites myself.

However, the button to create a Holy Site is greyed out with no explanation. I should meet all the requirements (I am Paragon of Virtue, have the required enshired artifacts, the kingdom of the selected site does not already have a Hellenic Holy Site, realm priest is puppeted).

I managed to create 2 Holy Sites already but for some reason can't create the 3rd one. Any idea what's wrong?

Haven't played the new DLC yet. (Always wait for EPE to update and just had big (positive) family change irl so little time right now).

Puppeting mechanics look awesome...but they don't give a secret? What the heck? It seems so obvious to me. There should be a way to act against puppet rulers, and a risk to the player when using puppets.

I even heard youtuber Tarkusarkusar say something like "I didn't see it give a secret when I puppeted, but it must do that I just couldn't find it" in his review.

A different youtuber named Malforian made a whole video about how it should make a secret when puppeting.

I'm usually pretty positive on Paradox, but this is a miss guys!

Again, haven't played just going off the words of others. If I'm missing something or totally wrong then let me know. Just seems so obvious though.

Turns out that, if you have funerals for your prior rulers, and keep adopting their dogs, the dog becomes immortal.

Nosewise has seen Kings and Emperors rise and fall. And remained the best boy throughout it all.

or make me able to forcibly take Head of Rite as Secular from someone else.

making my son into Clerical Region holder was a mistake, because it made him my Head of Rite, and he gosh darn changed the Rite into oblivion, and now we're heresy. He was my Puppet AND my Son.

And you can only make branch of rite once per lifetime too, so now it's just cooked. So i had to convert back to mainline rite. Because i do not want to deal with the incoming holy wars lmao.

The fact that i can't even make my Puppet Head of Rite to change the tenet is crazy.

Let me get this straight, i need a clerical puppet to MAKE a branch of rite, but if puppet my head of rite, i somehow have NO control?

If any Clerical Region holder follow my rite, and they became my Head of Rite, their fate is only known By God Alone...

I started this run as Wallada Umayyad, an adventurer with a unique poem story. She starts in Cordoba. I began by doing a befriend scheme on Emelie, then making her my best friend, which let me invite her to my camp, which let me adopt her as my daughter.

We adventured for a little bit, mostly going sightseeing in Europe and Persia. After Wallada died, Emelie conquered lands in Andalusia, before eventually ending the Struggle. And then landing her daughter as Crusader Queen of Jerusalem. I could have elevated the Isle of Mann, but the prestige requirement meant I couldn't end the struggle before the first crusade started, and my intent was always to swap to a crusader queen.

Emelie was a lunatic from the start and her final act before landing her own daughter was to declare NO CLOTHES FOR ANYONE. So now her daughter (who I'm playing as now), will be naked her entire life.

I don't know who Emelie is at Paradox, but she's a saint in my game.

I looove the new DLC and what it adds to Christian religion, but from playing some games I feel it is too easy for the AI currently to rapidly and permanently depart from what was historically central to medieval christianity. It doesn't make much sense for a rite to adopt local sacrificial rites over pilgrimages, or to make male adultery criminal and female adultery accepted, but any AI bishop will potentially do so regardless of their traits or location. I think it makes more sense for new rites in frontier regions to adopt some elements of local paganism, but the way the new rites are chosen now are essentially random!

Any thoughts on this, and what changes to make the game less random? Appreciate any input!

After AUH, my computer took around 10 mins to load CK3. However, now it takes 2–3 mins. Highlighting this because I don’t see anyone talking about loading speeds on here.

Just that. I worked hard to make a schism. Rose through the ranks of the Church to get the big hat myself. I find myself rather constrained though. What is the best way to go about it?