[HELP] Client State vs Vassalage

[Mooncabbage]

I am starting work on nerfing confederations and assigning Bretonnian minors as vassals of the main Brettonian state. Looking in cai_personality_diplomatic_treaty_types, I see two entries for Client State, and two for Vassalage. Not clear on what the difference is between the two (client state vs vassalage). Anyone able to enlighten me? Is Client State a leftover from an older game?

[Mooncabbage]

Replying to my own thread, but with new info. Seems that Client States are from RTW2, and are somewhat more lax than vassals. They don't give up their diplomatic powers, which could be pretty cool... Especially since in my testing, I enabled them for the Empire culture group, and they seem to work. They are called Tributaries, and have no icon, but beyond that they appear to function as a first class diplomatic option. Could be some serious fun.

[The Vicar]

That does sound like fun.

[Mooncabbage]

I have set them up in my own mod, such that Confederation is completely disabled for all culture groups (although it might be handy later as a scripted Annex thing or something), with Vassals as standard, and "Subject States" instead of Tributaries. I couldn't quite find the wording I wanted. I wish it wasn't so difficult and tedious to edit the various localisations and names for things.