"4 tips" more like 50, really!
Let me know what other topics you'd like to see covered, and don't forget to check the rest of the series out here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbGDKTBQrHI&list=PLwVftHdWAdHNVf2RuGGVA3AQnD5EJ5aqj

Idk what happened but I went on a single pilgrimage and all of a sudden every like three months or so I can ask for 300ish gold from the pope and he likes me so much for some reason he always says yes, I’ve got a crap ton of gold rn and I literally did nothing.

Amazing guide to the econimic maze of CK3! Thank you!

Great videos, thank you lots

I tried the banishment method to one of my vassals who had no heirs and I didn't get any money. Does it only work on priests or something?

PSA: The 'Extort Subjects' decision is not pursuing, it's a trap. This is the one you get from the stewardship skill tree. It's going to select one of your direct vassals at random to extort, feudal or republican. Even if you have a large empire/kingdom, it's always going to be a direct vassal, so if you're an empire, assuming you have at least a few, if not many, it's going to be targeting kings who are very powerful vassals and people that are going to be very annoying when they are mad at you. Otherwise, they're going to be people directly under your domain like your republican vassals, or maybe a duke/duchess. If you have a fairly decent size domain 10+, there's pretty much a 50/50 shot that the target will be one of your republican vassals. If you choose to extort them, you will get a massive penalty/de-buff to that county with taxes/levy/control/development. If you choose not to go through with it, it still sets off the cooldown. This action usually nets you around 300 gold, and you still take a massive relationship hit, possible tyranny, possible rivalry, and if a republican vassal–a county penalty, and you'll usually end up seeing a faction form as a result. The 500 gold one comes with tyranny and even more massive de-buffs, high chance of a rivalry, and will almost certainly create a faction. 300-500 gold is simply not worth it. If you're realm is smaller and/or you're under a liege, then these negative affects are going to be very harmful to you and cause way more stress than its worth. If you're a large empire, then the amount of gold you gain is trivial and not worth the potential hit to your county which may end up losing you more gold than you earn in the end and not worth the drama it creates with that vassal.

This helped me loads, never really looked into holdings and churches for large profits, brilliant tips.

Ps5 player here. Quick question what if your in Sub Saharan Africa as a tribal but no one around you has money I'm playing as Kong and everyone around me is dirt poor

I also use my gold so people can sleep with me

All of these vids are quite helpful I just started playing so I really have no idea what I'm doing but I've played some eu4

Thanks so much! It's really complicated, which drew me to the game, but most of these details simply don't come up in the tutorial so I couldn't figure out how to make money and have been perpetually broke.

Watched this video while I smoked a cigarette. Went back inside and excommed my learning 3 shitbag Bishop and then stole 32k off him

Money allows you to convince people to sleep with you. And its also useful in the game

My strat involves asking the pope for money by having high piety(ie its very powerful to have high piety as you get a ton of church levies and taxes while the pope will pay for your building projects and you can spend that time having sex for more babies(i e i use fecund because of the insane 50 percent fertility bonus btw i prefer female rulers because males seem to have higher stewardship for some reason)of course the main problem is the second generation which will have to be made less focused on the pope

I prefer arranging matrilineal marriages with strong hooks.

love ur videos