when you're close to the base limit, you need to be careful. If you're only a few over the limit, boosting diplomacy is a good option. i then created the duchy title, gave it to one of the counts, and transferred that new duke to the new king. the two counties part of the one de jour duchy this duke did not own in the kingdom stayed as my direct vassals. i granted the title to the 'duke' of kiva. for example, i recently created the kingdom of kiva. When you create and transfer the kingdom title, the vassals do not automatically go with it. 'desires.' means you own the title yourself. barony level vassals do not count towards the vassal limit.īest way to check if you need to transfer counties or duchies is to check all opinions in the vassals pane of your ruler's character screen.

Originally posted by Langkard:When you transferred the lands to a vassal did you make sure to select the option to include all sub-titles? If not, you might have a bunch of barons and mayors and priests still showing up as your direct vassals. I'd prefer to keep my actual empire (and continue conquering more territories) so I was wondering is there any way to go into the CK2 folder and modify the vassal limit? I already switched to an imperial administration which gave me a 25+ boost to the vassal limit but its not enough under my current ruler and so apart from dealing with the threat of factions (easy to sway through with land and gold) I do really need to keep my empire from falling apart, so do you have any sugestions for this problem with going over vassal limit? I tried creating as many vassal kings as I could (preferably members of family) and I did briefly go under vassal limit again but then some kind of glitch happened and unexpectedly I went over the limit again and whenever I tried to give someone a landed title to balance it out my only options were empire level lands. I've been gradually building up a global eurasion empire though upon death of my last ruler and under his sucessor my demense size was reduced and I was easily over vassal limit.

Crusader kings 2 over vassal limit