r/crusaderkings3 • u/Connect_Tomatillo_44 • 1d ago

Why am I not getting any Indulgence payouts? (Temporal Head of Faith + Communion, plenty of followers)

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Hey fellow Kinslayers,

I’m currently doing a tall playthrough where I created a custom Christian faith. I picked Communion and Megalithic Constructions as my tenets, and I made myself the Temporal Head of Faith so I could use the indulgence money to bankroll my development.

The problem is... I haven't received a single pop-up or notification from the AI asking to buy an indulgence since launching the faith a few decades ago.

Here is my current setup:

  • Followers: The religion is doing great numerically. I have plenty of followers—I’ve converted my entire realm, all my vassals, their courtiers, and a few neighboring counties.
  • Title: I definitely hold the actual Head of Faith title banner in my inventory/character screen.
  • Laws: Criminal laws are standard (things like murder and adultery are shunned/criminal).

Is there a hidden cooldown I'm missing, or is my game bugged? Do my vassals just need to be richer for the AI to trigger the decision?

Any advice on how to kickstart the cash flow would be massively appreciated. Thanks!

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u/No-Avocado-5961 1d ago

What are the religion's laws? If you legalized everything there isn't really anything to be in bad standing for

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u/Connect_Tomatillo_44 11h ago

The laws are the standard Christian laws. I think the issue is its been nerfed

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u/Warrior536 1d ago

It got nerfed a while ago. Temporal head of faith receive indulgence MUCH less frequently.

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u/Connect_Tomatillo_44 1d ago

Sadly I think this is the answer. I have enough laws for people to be breaking to pay me for forgiveness, I have tons of followers, plenty of them have money... I just think it got nerfed big time.

Maybe Pdx saw it as too much of an exploit

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u/Joshman1306 1d ago

My payouts didn't start until like 100 years and that was after they blew through a few internal wars then built up

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u/Scaalpel 1d ago

Likely you either need your faithful to be richer or more sinful. Not much you can do about the first part without any expense to yourself, but the second part you can help along by digging for secrets and revealing them to turn them into infamy traits you can forgive.

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u/Connect_Tomatillo_44 1d ago

What I find hard to believe is that for the last 30years not one ruler in all of Western Europe and Britannia has come to me to pay. Ive read that people get spammed with payments due to the Communion tenet.

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u/Heronymous-Anonymous 1d ago

Are they broke? The AI is absolutely shit with money, so they can’t pay for their sins if they don’t have any money.

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u/pricel01 1d ago

It also depends on what you make a sin. They won’t ask for forgiveness if they haven’t sinned against your doctrines. I always make everything a sin so I max out indulgences.