- Removed vassal tax penalties for king/emperor titles for now*
- Reduced prestige gain per held hegemony title
- Added diff faith opinion penalty to piety levels above 5th
- Fixed some modifiers

* - no idea how that interacts with treasury and hegemons also throw a wrench at the whole idea

Updated to 1.18.0.1*
- Made getting Incapable trait invalidate held court positions
- Reverted cultural fascination changes to vanilla for now
- Reduced cost to change ethos to 10000 prestige
- Reduced base artifact repair cost a bit
- Reduced MAA maintaince and merc cost penalties of admin government
- Reduced levy size penalty of all administrative governments a bit
- Tweaked Armilary Sphere innovation bonus again (should be a bit stronger?)
- Nerfed court guru to be same as court tutor when teaching kids
- Nerfed Confucian Education trait
- Nerfed Holy Warrior trait
- Nerfed domicile build speed from Professional Workforce perk
- Revoved army toughness bonus from Never Back Down perk
- Made AI increase control while at war too (yes, they didnt most of the time)
- Increased share of AI budget for long term category
- Fixed conquerors surrendering wars while winning them

* - a good chunk of new things isnt rebalanced yet as i literally didnt even unpause the game yet.

- Updated localisation files

- Added monthly control bonus to Theodosian Walls
- Reverted restriction on siege MAAs for title armies
- Made AI counts a bit less likely to hire heavy cavalry MAAs
- Fixed AI not hiring title MAAs (potentially)
- Fixed nomads potentially getting huge levies off vassals
- Updated localisation files

- Reduced gold cost of swinging the scales BUT made it scale with liege's income
- Nerfed Shift Privileged gold payout and made it scale from recipient's income
- Nerfed Syphon Treasury gold payout
- Increased swing scale impact of long travel
- Increased gold cost cap of Adopt Centralized Administration decision
- Added realm size requirement for kingdoms in Adopt Centralized Administration
- Added AI only requirements for player too in Adopt Centralized Administration
- Restricted siege MAAs from being recruitable as title armies
- Made all pluralism doctrines less tolerant when revoking titles
- - For example: Righteous can now revoke off hostile faiths without tyranny
- Pay Homage changes:
- - Added legitimacy gain for the vasssal
- - Added legitimacy gain for the liege if vassal brings them a gift
- - Increased liege opinion gain
- - Reduced renown gain for both parties
- - Removed renown gain for both parties if vassal doesnt bring a gift
- Nerfed Familial Support modifier
- Made AI less likely to accept homage from vassals they dont like, especially rivals
- Made AI more likely to accept homage if the vassal brings it a gift
- Made AI more likely to leave confederation if they have 10k+ herd
- Made AI pick Industrious tradition less often
- Fixed Conquest CB not properly checking for neighbouring attackers realm
- - This means you can no longer conquest CB across half the map (except for vikings)
- Potentially fixed some powerful vassal count related issue
- Fixed House Seniority sometimes not being avaliable to west-slavic cultures
- Fixed Table of Princes not working for non-west-slavic cultures
- Fixed some AI logic around giving artifacts
- Fixed Ghana not starting with their duchies created
- Updated localisation files

- Removed seclusion causing entrenched regency
- Increased max countering penalty a bit
- Reduced base stress gain for "opting out" of stress events a bit
- Removed "not cynical" AI acceptance penalty for demand conversion vs young children
- Added a chance for sickly children to become weak on recovery

- Fixed a couple of errors

- Made friends decrease stress gain by a bit, best friends decrease stress gain by a bit more and increase stress loss
- Added "Accolades" game rule which controls who gets access to Accolades (all/AI/none)

- Added Claim Throne scheme phase length reduction modifier to Meritocracy perk
- Added minor levy toughness penalty for Tribals
- Added a cooldown to Invite Conspirators to Coup interation
- Restricted liege from modifying their entrenched regents contract
- Additional Difficulty changes:
- - Removed pursuit bonus for AI
- - Removed max accolades malus the Player
- - Reduced build time malus for the Player
- - Added Nomadic horde debuff for AI*
- Terrain specific cultural traditions changes:
- - Added fetility bonus to relevant terrain
- - Increased development bonus to relevant terrain
- - - Should now consistently negate terrain penalty and add 15% on top
- - Reduced build cost bonuses of non-unique ones (except for mountains and deserts)
- - Removed funky "X building gives access to Y building" bonuses
- Other cultural traditions changes:
- - Added some plains bonuses and removed prowess debuff from Agrarian
- - Added reduced opinion of different culture to Isolationist
- - Added county opinion bonus to Collective Lands
- - Added build cost reduction in mountains to Mountaineer Ruralism
- - Increased same culture opinion bonus of Isolationist
- - Relaxed conditions for Matriarchal a bit
- - Reduced cultural acceptance gain malus of Ruling Caste
- - Removed funky first 4 levels of farm estates unlock from Pastoralists
- - Removed hills-related bonuses from Mountaineer Ruralism
- - Removed build cost and development bonuses from Saharan Nomads
- - Restricted Culture Blending for showing if certain other traditions are present
- Buffed and added development decline bonus to Oath of Reconquest county modifier
- Removed passive development growth bonus from Oath of Reconquest county modifier
- Nerfed Sharing tips with Friend (30% lifestyle experience, from tour) modifier
- Nerfed Confidants perk modifier
- Reduced AI acceptance from house unity in Invite to Court interaction
- Tweaked AI acceptance in Invite Conspirators to Coup interation
- Tweaked AI will do of a bunch of realm traditions to increase their diversity
- Made AI a bit more considerate as of whom they're giving their artifacts for
- Removed AI favoring players when giving artifacts
- Fixed AI will do of Hidden Cities tradition

* - Nomadic horde are technically MAA and as such that game rule double-buffed nomadic AIs.

- Made temporary/entrenched regents loyalty score decay the longer they stay in power (especially for temporary ones)

- Decreased child health penalty of Measles slightly
- Decreased minimal age to swing the scales back to 8
- Decreased stress gain malus for being a diarch
- Removed region restriction from Warrior Lodges and Hillside Grazing buildings
- Removed prestige loss from firing councillers in the first year of the game
- Removed Tarkhan unlock from Devoted Horsemanship tradition
- Removed regular levies from holding/vassals for Nomadic government
- Added some swing loss when diarchs change
- Added minor popular opinion bonus to capital province modifier
- Reduced tax bonus of capital province modifier
- Reduced stationed MAA bonus of capital duchy modifier
- Reduced opinion impact on regents loyality
- Reduced dread impact on temporary regents loyality
- Reduced swing required for thresholds of temporary/entrenched regency
- - Notably: the last power threshold is now 89 swing for both regency types*
- Restricted artifact wars vs adventurers (unwinnable because reasons)
- Made AI a bit less wasteful with swinging scales and bolstering/damaging legitimacy
- Made AI lieges swing the scales earlier vs disloyal/player regents
- Fixed AI's in diarchies getting into negative piety
- Fixed AI doing coronations before their crown/regalia is finished
- Fixed swing the scales costing gold all the time

* - visuals are a bit confusing though

- Reduced piety loss for getting exposed over a shunned secret by almost 2 times
- Invite to court AI acceptance changes:
- - Doubled base reluctance AND bonus/penalty for opinion of actor
- - Halved court grandeur impact
- - Increased most penalties (relative of liege, serving at council/court
- - Increased bonus for being related but decreased one for being your child
- - Tweaked bonuses from being dynast head, house head, being related, being married
- - Mirrored said bonuses for relation to liege as well
- - Made bonuses from being dynast head, house head, being related, being married not stack
- - - Priority list: child(age<16)-spouse-close family-extended family-house head-dynast
- - Increased bonus vs wandering characters ("can be persaded to stay") overall
- - Increased bonusof cover travel expenses option and made it more granular
- - Added a "returning to spouse" bonus (self-explanatory)
- Made AI way less likely to try to imprison vassals while at war
- Removed MORE AI cheats on coronation costs
- Fixed AI giving their crowns and regalias away
- Fixed Propose Alliance AI acceptance still counting baron and mercenary allies as "real" allies
- Fixed Usurp the Title of Caliph decision not working
- Fixed currency costs tooltip in Swing the Scales