Artificially intelligent council
Have you ever played a vassal and felt sorry for the inability of your liege to appoint councillors at jobs they are remotely competent? Have you ever experienced the joy of being an intrigue 3 spymaster that triggers assassination events to keep your mouth shut every few years? Tired of whipping entire dynasties because the ruler didn’t consider that a spymaster that hates him is fine?
This mod aims at improving this behaviour. It does not change who’s on the council, it simply tries to get the best out of people in AI councils. It also appoints a designated regent, which is useful to keep toddlers healthy and reduce the likelihood that the AI is paralysed during regencies. This is because if no designated regent is appointed, a councillor becomes the regent. He does not get 2 votes in that case and the regent vote always defaults to no.
Tribals and nomad use a slightly different script.
If you wish to check how this works, within the main mod folder, you will find test_decisions.txt. If you move it to the empty decisions folder of the mod, 3 decisions will appear, one to run the script on you, one on your liege and one for the designated regent script. It was meant for testing purposes and thus does not have localisation but I figured curious players might want to see for themselves.
Performance:
This has been tested to keep performance impact low, out of 4 tests of 3 years each, the vanilla average length was of 121 seconds versus 126 seconds with this mod. To achieve this, counts are excluded and keep the vanilla council behaviour, dukes get a lesser version checked every decade, kings and emperors get the full script checked every 5 years and only them have the regent script.
Compatibility:
This will only conflict with mods that modify minor titles.
This will work best combined with Artificially intelligent guardianship as it will improve the overall quality of AI rulers, thus the quality of an optimised council:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3529521300
