better alliance

Better Alliances is a balance mod for CK3 version 1.19.* that changes the way alliance calls are scored. It edits the original call_ally_interaction, so it affects player-to-AI, AI-to-player, and AI-to-AI alliance calls, whether in offensive or defensive wars.

The goal is simple: allies should still help in a real war, but there should be far fewer distant, repeated, desperate, or inconvenient calls.

Core Call Rating:

Base: +25

Offensive War: -25

Defensive War: +50

Desperate War: -50

Liabilities: -50

At war: -25 Long range: -25

Long range: -50

Extreme distance: -75

Jihad support:

Holy war between same faith and enemy faith: +25 in holy war

Holy Warrior: +25

Being more cynical in this holy war: -25

Fanatic rulers are more likely to issue jihad calls as AI callers.

Desperate War means that the calling party's current war party, plus this particular summoned ally, is still less than 50% of the enemy's current strength. Other unsummoned allies are no longer considered guaranteed to join. This penalty is not blocked, but will result in a 50 point deduction.

Recent call penalties:

Each alliance call adds -50 points to the summoned character, even if they refuse. It will decay in 5 years:

-50, -40, -30, -20, -10,0. Multiple recent calls stack up, so it becomes harder to farm teammates.

Distance is now important for all alliance calls, including defense calls.

The mod still retains many of the original rules, such as opinions, honor, language, beliefs, friendship, lovers, soulmates, attacking allies, defending allies, and strong rejection.

Actual effect:

Defense and useful alliance calls are still possible. Offensive, distant, repetitive, debt-ridden, busy or desperate calls are even less likely. Allies of the same faith are more supportive in their innocence jihad against rival faiths, especially holy warriors, while cynical rulers are less enthusiastic. AI rulers also spend less time swiping the screen, as their call sending score starts at +25, whereas in vanilla it was higher.

compatibility:

This mod replaces call_ally_interaction, so may conflict with other mods that edit the same interaction.