Distance from capital

**YourKaiser** · January 23, 2010, 10:36 AM

Is there a way to do something about this? Many of my cities/castles have "a lot of" 'unrest' due to the long distance from my capital... Can i perhaps reduce it or something by editing a file or would that require that i had to start a new game?

thanks

**Soul Firez** · January 23, 2010, 10:46 AM

Well first let me say thats part of the difficulty of having a huge empire that spands long ranges it has been the death of many a empire eg the roman one

There are ways to fix the game without modding it to make it easier, try putting men in these settlements try putting generals with good govenor style traits in there try lowering taxes building things like town hall etc

There are mnay ways to deal with this unrest that has been caused by your own hand really try expanding to quick kill your global standing stretch to fast without building in these new territories and like in real life these people will hang you from the nearest tree the first chance they get

Actually expand with some pre thought and planning and you can mass a huge emopire indeed with happy people ya need to build churchs hire priests the game is more than oh lets march men this way and crush everything

That being said yes there is a file you can adjust to greatly lower the effect of distance to capital but it is not save game compatable you would need to restart your camapign i might suggest trying to play on a lower difficulty where the effects of unrest are less , not everyone is cut out for VH/VH

If you must mod the game to make it easier for yourself open the file descr_settlement _mechanics and in this you will see a section on distance to capital

**YourKaiser** · January 23, 2010, 10:52 AM

Hm, alright, i guess im just gonna go the hard way and make those stupid russians like me

..

BTW, its another subject but i was wondering...I just lost control of one of my cities because of civil disorder.. Now that im going to get it back with force, is it a good idea to select "exterminate" rather than "sack" when i take control again? To like get rid of the old angry varmint population and get some new happy folks in =D ?

**Soul Firez** · January 23, 2010, 10:57 AM

Thats a trade off kinda thing really yes the settlement will be happier (scarred you will kill everything you see) but the settlement will be alot smaller for tax and for recruiting men and your global standing will drop big time if your catholic doing it to catholic but even doing it to another religion is still a bit of a global standing drop.

What happens when your global standing drops to much and your rating is dispicable well other factions will start ganging up on you and life can get tough unless your a true military power . thats the thing with this game there are so many tactics so many ways to get something done

(usually sacking a city for the second time will kill enough off o make them happy oh and seeing it is a different religion place get priests there asap to turn them catholic so they like you , priests aint useless they have many great uses .

**YourKaiser** · January 23, 2010, 11:00 AM

Oh yes, ofcourse, i have priests and churches in every region where it is possible.. Means a lot.

I guess im just gonna sack the idiots...

Oh and yeah, can you give some tips to become friends with more factions? I mean, no body likes me, except France, and everybody hates them too (and i do mean everybody, im their only friend). I think it started out because i destroyed the Teutonic Order, because they betrayed me, and im almost done with Poland because they did the same. But apparently these obvious actions ( Betrayers dont desrve to live >=| ) pissed off everyone else and now i just cant get any friends and i feel like they are teaming up on me.

What to dooooo?

**Soul Firez** · January 23, 2010, 11:50 AM

Its hard when you have already gone down that path but some points when attacking another faction (specially another catholic one) always warn them of an attack by way of diplomat eg give me money or ill attack , this lessens the drop greatly when you do attack . If you can dont attack them till they get excomed just weather there attacks on you releasing there captives without ransom (tough i know but your global standing will go up big time playing good ).

Bribe the pope send diplomats over to rome and offer him map gold etc and keep doing such as much as you can afford to quickly gaining his love will gain you much respect from others

Go ona crusade and succed kill as many non catholics as possible but again do it noble with releasing prisioners. You have a rebelous city that you think you will lose due to civil unrest well offer it to a faction who doesnt like you to gain there love (make it one further from the settlement than you ) they will end up losing it in revolt then you can just take it back and the second capture the people are always more inline due to you keep kicking there butt.