Better Perk Trees

Hey all. So often when working through lifestyles, there are quite a few perks that I personally find to be underwhelming. Either because they’re very niche in impact, or because what they do is underwhelming in general. So I decided I’d try to rework a few of the perks to make some of the lackluster ones feel more worth taking.

The primary feature of this mod is an overhaul of the Seducer tree as a whole, because that perk tree struggles with being both niche, and weak. Additionally, this mod features a rebalance of a few other miscellaneous perks in the Theologian, Administrator, and Patriarch perk trees.

The reworks are as follows:

— Seducer —

Like Weeds In A Garden: Added congenital trait inheritance chance buffs

Enticing Opportunity: added fabricate hook scheme power (curious to see how this works)

Unshackled Lust: -10% stress gain

Home Advantage: +25% Levy Reinforcement Rate

Subtle Desire: Added small buffs to Vassal tax and levy contributions

Graceful Recovery: +10 Attraction Opinion

Mortal Adoration: +2 intrigue per level of fame (I view this as being the "big prize" of the tree)

Smooth Operator: +5 General Opinion

In general, I hope for this to function as a more versatile tree now, adding intrigue, opinion gain, along with minor stress, military, and family building benefits. Has a lot of minor appeals, but appeals to many different areas of gameplay.

— Theologian —

Faithful: Added +10 Zealot Vassal Opinion

Church and State: Added same faith demense tax and reinforcement rate buffs

— Administrator —

Meritocracy: +10 Fellow Vassal Opinion, +10 Glory Hound Vassal Opinion, +5 Minority Vassal Opinion

It didn’t sit right with me that this perk is useless once you are an independent ruler, added some minor other reasons to want the perk.

— Patriarch —

Heart of the Family: 15 -> 20 Close Family Opinion (Now it completely offsets the title claimant opinion malus)

Flatterer: Added +5 General Opinion

Sound Foundations: Each Child now grants you +2 skill points instead of the previous +1. Now matches the scale of the Friendly Counsel perk, which is fair considering that having additional children/heirs carries more risk than having many friends.

Note: The tooltip for Sound Foundations still shows as 1 skill point per child, but does in fact grant 2. I just didn’t dig into fixing the tooltip yet.

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That covers everything. I’d like to tweak the Diplomat tree too, but presently have 0 concept on how I would want it to look like.

Hopefully this can make using some of the more disappointing perks feel more worthwhile to grab.