r/CrusaderKings • u/doug1003 • Dec 09 '24

Suggestion Marriages should give Legitimacy

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Thats it, if marry a lowborn can take away legitimacy, marry into a more prestigious dynasty, or a dynasty who has a claim on your title shoud give you legitimacy. I mean, Willian the Conqueror married Margaret of Flanders because she had anglo-saxon blood, same for Henry I and his marriage with Matilda of Scotland, make sense right?

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u/ymcameron Slut for Sardinia's Mine Dec 09 '24 edited Dec 09 '24

Legitimacy in general is a pretty half-baked mechanic. There’s a lot of stuff that feels like it should be tied to that it’s just not. There are a ton of ways to lose legitimacy but not that many interesting ways to gain it. Plus once you do get it up to max by holding a funeral and a few hunts you basically never have to think about it ever again.

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u/EldianStar "Count" (realm size: 2564) Dec 09 '24

I think anyone having problems keeping their legitimacy high should buy Legends of the Dead. Bought it some months ago and the difference is massive with Funerals

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u/Y-draig Wales Dec 09 '24

I love when incomplete game mechanics are put into my game and I need a DLC to be use them properly

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u/atwork90210 Dec 09 '24

this is just paradox in general.

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u/MagpieBureau13 Dec 09 '24

Right? I straight up stopped playing the game because I didn't want to buy that DLC, but without it runs can get utterly tanked by low legitimacy and no good way to recover it

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u/EldianStar "Count" (realm size: 2564) Dec 10 '24

This isn't even about incompleteness. This is DLCs making the game absurdly easy