Thread 2117269

Paradox vacation is over, time for dev diaries
All Under Heaven DD tomorrow
Coronation DD thursday

>>2117269 (OP)
Looks good

Tried this mod out recently.
Legit can't play the game anymore now without it installed and active at all times.

>>2117306
>no update in years

>>2117306
this made me look up lovers lab mods
holy shit, their body models are actually amazing

>>2117313
you mean to tell me you never actually even bothered to look it up beforehand?
i would normally install it just for the sake of removing any possible 'censorship' whatsoever and just having properly nude models, even if not using the sex mods at all.

>>2117306
I hate that this mod is actually kind of impressive and has actual mechanics better than most huge mods even though it's just one autist. Only thing that genuinly sucks about it are the extremely long events.
>>2117309
It's revived (again) and regularly updated, "Interracial takeover 3rd edition" on loverslab.

>>2117306
Why are burgers like this?

Soon?

>>2117702
In about two hours

maybe they will finally remove soviet era man made lakes lmao

Need mod surrounding the idea of "War Orphans" or something like that. I might get around to making it myself at some point if I really feel like wasting time learning how to.

But basically, I just recall there being an event in CK2, possibly from a mod itself, where when you are on a Crusade, moving through enemy or conquered territory, you can trigger an event where some child local to that plays tries to steal your money while you're perusing through a market stall, then if you catch him, you're given the option to take him into your court as your ward.
I've only managed to do it in full once where I raised him up as the Queen of Navarra then ended up marrying him when he came of age cause her husband died a while back and then also gave him land.

Would be cool to have something similar but with more events sometimes tied down to just raiding or sieging down fortresses. For example, you could be raiding some Christian county as the Vikings, then one of the raiding events is you finding out a bunch of children that have had their parents killed in said raid either by you or your soldiers specifically, then based on who it was, you're given different options, like, if you're Sadistic for example, you can choose to just have the children killed as well for a reduction in your stress level. If you're compassionate, you can choose to either take them into your court, not necessarily adopt them into your house, but choose take them into your court and raise them yourself or through your courtiers, or just spend money to send them off to somewhere they can be taken care of. Maybe have an event where one of the children wants to try and duel you in order to avenge their parents, and you can accept or decline.

Similarly, if you do take them in, options on how they should be raised could be trait locked to some degree like, if you're lustful or deviant, you can just be like "This child will be raised and taught on how to be a good wife / husband - concubine / consort."

for a game with a ROYAL COURT (least impactful sims medieval feet dangling theatre) there is almost no connection to or involvement with the influential people who inhabit your realm in this game.

in ck the iind, when henrik was still virile and a dangerous threat, you took note of your courtiers and they would actually breed and form interesting storytelling sidebars. unlike in ck numeral 3 where they are forcibly sterilized because they aren't a direct vassal

in ck the mighty sequel no. roman numeral deux,, you wanted to breed everything and that's why horny henrik would go so insane with lust that he accidentally put dungeons & dragons in his game. and this was with 2d portraits. still, life in this world wears all of us down and so now you have invisible forced (and statistically likely) cuckolding and scripted cuckolding events. like so many naive before him he imagines adding the yellow fever pusci will make it all good again but realistically he needs to FIX the 3d model tits. they LOOk. BAD

>>2117743
>he needs to FIX the 3d model tits
Just install one of the body mods off of lovers lab like this guy found out >>2117313

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/dev-diary-177-a-fresh-coat-of-paint.1854817/#post-30673536
177 - Artwork Update
Previous Dev Diary >>2076059 (Southeast Asia)

>using terrain generation tools instead of hand-drawing every terrain map by hand
>can zoom in closer to the terrain
>waves improved, especially near shorelines,
>cloud shadows added (can be toggled off for toasters)
Paper Map
>has Western and Eastern variants, by Options, so the sea monsters still remain but with Oriental flavors
Chinese Adjustments
>empires retitled to be more regional: Liang -> Zhongyuan, Wu -> Jingyang, Yue -> Lingnan, Shu -> Liangyi, and Qin -> Yongliang
>kingdoms shifted and some, like Yanyun have been split apart (Raole, Daibei, and Youji)
>more impassible terrain added around Sichuan and southern China
>preview of the County Map, but it's not done

>empires retitled to be more regional
why tho? i already lose interest reading chink shit the moment they have long retarded names like that and can't even be bothered to remember them. the shorter naming convention would at least make me actually more easily care and keep track of it.

>>2117877
This fucking idiot doesn't want to be the king of Zhongliguozhou.

>>2117911
i don't even know how to pronounce that so why would i play as it?

>>2117831
>For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the obvious preponderance of -zhou, it’s a standard administrative suffix for this level of jurisdiction throughout Chinese history - one that remains an element of many major cities, such as Hangzhou and Suzhou, even up to the present day!
I bet there'll still be the stupid 'county of' prefix for the sake of sub-90 iq retards though...

>>2117912
Let me dumb it down for you, gwailo: it means western portion of the northern lands of the northern Zhong faction.

>>2117831
>map update for once
>still no city sprawl so you'll get these retarded forts even in chinkland
I hate this company so fucking much it's unreal

>>2117914
man who cares, that shit stupid dumb. i'll just invade it with Japan and change names to something more pleasing to the eye and simplistic.

apparently the elder scrolls mod might actually update soon, some tester told another guy to hold off on playing dark elves and a dev gave it the "soon (tm)"
bout fuckin time I hope those nerds can get to relax a little before it gets butt demolished by coronations for months for some fucking harebrain reason like some goblin's testicles being too smooth

>>2117920
>I hope those nerds can get to relax a little before it gets butt demolished
I hope those niggers die.

>>2117922
I hope you can let go of holding onto such extreme sentiment over elf/khajiit harem simulators and settle for simply wishing they do that coal walking meme but instead of burning hot coals it's all 2peg legos, bro

>>2117922
that's kind of a violent reaction for something as mundane as a mod for a video game, don't you think?

>>2117918
zhongliguozhou doesn't exist and it doesn't mean anything. you're being made fun of.

LIN GAN GULI GULI WATA
LIN GAN GU LIN GAN GUN
LIN GAN GULI GULI WATA
LIN GAN GU LIN GAN GUN

>>2117917
fucking this. They made the map look so pretty, but it doesn't matter because we'll still have the ugly plastic toy looking copy and paste fort and city models all over the map. Just copy from Imperator ffs

>>2117269 (OP)
This is good, ck3, vic3 and now eu5 look way too similar to each other. Hope they change even more

Is ck3 better than ck2 yet? Will it ever be?

>>2118014
it should be really good by the end of the next year, we are getting republics, catholic and crusades content

>>2118014
It has a ton of issues. The AI is fundamentally retarded and can't do half the things the player does. Stats balloon to ludicrous levels. Men-at-arms and knights are so powerful that levies don't matter at all, and 3 strong knights can wipe out an army of 30,000.

That said, CK2 had a ton of similar issues - especially regarding AI - and the expansions got pretty retarded towards the end. It's probably better now as long as you go in knowing that at no point will you be challenged.

>>2118021
i hope you find a game that makes you feel challenged

>>2117680
It's a Chinese guy.

>>2117306
This is how the "go back to /pol/"-posters play ck3.

>>2117269 (OP)
IMO the game has improved since launch.
In my recent campaign, I attacked mountains with 11K against 3K and lost.
This is actually good, because it seems mountains have been boosted. On launch, even 1:2 struggled to win in the mountains.
Or maybe it is because I have turned Impact of Advantage from 5% to 10%

>>2117920
the game doesn't hardly work because of gender ambiguous succession
it's soulless
shame because the mod outside of that is better than ck3;default and agot both

>>2118483
I'm not sure how that's relevant to Elder Scrolls outside of AI being utterly incapable of preserving their dynasty through arranging marriages multiple generations down

Scared that my PC can't run this.

We are so black

>>2118655
>no dreadlocks
>no afro
>no killmonger
How am I supposed to immerse myself in this shit when they're not even trying to stay historically accurate.

>>2118655
What culture is that crown from?

>>2118707
since he has a cross and lacks gazongas (ie not a "warrior queen" by paradox's interpretation, aka Nubian) I'm guessing probably Ethiopian

>>2118655
Why would annointment require to be held in a holy site? Once again PDX fucked up collosally. Annointment was commonlydone by realm's archbishop, and if he was unavailable by another bishop in line, and if no bishop was available then an ordinary priest would do it too.
I hate modern PDX so much. They can never do basic reasearch. I wish bankrupcy upon them so much.

>>2118707
burger kang

>>2118655
holy sheeeet a feature already done by Holy Roman Triumph you're heckin' spoiling us

>>2118655
>They're adding China before before adding coronations, actually useful buildings trade mechanics
glad to see Paradox has their priorities in order

>>2118784
They're adding coronations before China, China is after coronations it's just been dev diary'd early

>>2118655
Why is that Mexican-Black man wearing a cross and having a lettuce hat put over his head?

Finally... 867 is fixed

>>2118712
>warrior queen
Tf is up with that btw? Is there any basis in reality for that, or just some shit they made up/heavily extrapolated because they knew they could? Never heard anything of the sort.

>>2118655
They always put a African on the generic art. I don't understand why they don't make the art region specific. But I guess that's too much work

>>2118939
it's for the nubian/daju people cause of Queen Amanirenas.

>>2118655
That guy looks Ethiopian

>>2118973
>Queen Amanirenas
From 10 bc?

>>2118938
Actually, might go with a blue map colour. Don't know yet

WE

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/dev-diary-178-a-vision-in-gold.1855069/
178 - Coronations Introduction
Previous Dev Daiary >>2117831 Asia Artwork Update

>rather than Event packs, these are all focused around the new Coronation activity
>new Uncrowned law set
>can host when first becoming King or Emperor
>Magnificence for success
>widget for Supporters and Detractors, who impact Magnificence
>only Emperors can receive Anointment from Head of Faith at a Holy Site
>Oaths -- a timed decision to set an objective for your rule (next week)
>release date TBD

>>2119391
also, 2 dev diaries a week until Coronations is released

activities have to be one of the shittiest "mechanics" in this garbage game. Who the fuck is asking for these? It's literally just event spam.

>>2119391
Classic PDX to waste potential.

At least we get Italienzug because HRE emperors need to be anointed in Holy Site (Rome).
It does mean that Russian Emperors will get fucked because closest Orthodox holy site is Constantinople

>>2119409
I mean, characters traveling on the map is at least nice.
But it makes me wonder what is the point, because you can't actually interact with other traveling rulers during journey.
Also, it's really silly that you need a regent while you go on pilgrimage, but for few months, but not when you go a crusade for years.

>>2119415
Travelling is good. Having to click through the same 5 events for any given activity hundreds of times is absolutely abysmal. It actively sucks the fun out of the game.

>>2119412
Köln is a holy site , so don't expect any Kaisers crossing the Alps

>>2119432
That's right, so I guess the Pope will travel to Köln to crown French and HRE emperors, no matter how little historic sense it makes?

>>2119460
Inviting the Pope to Cantebury and when he declines starting the Anglican faith 500 years early.

>>2119412
>>2119432
>>2119460
Does that finally mean that Christian rulers will have to be acknowledged by the pope before being crowned kings?

t. too lazy to read dev diary

>>2119305
But Franks were already claiming the Roman successorship. So it is like saying Roman-Roman Empire.

>>2119391
>>only Emperors can receive Anointment from Head of Faith at a Holy Site
Ahahahamha
They did it again.
Bahaha.
How stupid can you get PDX? Literally every King received anointment when getting crowned. And even Dukes did because Nitrian and Great Moravian rulers were always closer to Dukes and they received anointments.

>>2119512
>Franks
>Roman
So it's the Franco-Roman Empire

>>2119515
Learn to read. I didn't say they were Roman. I said they were claming Roman successorship.
So saying Franko-Roman Empire is like saying Roman-Roman Empire. Feankish Empire was literally built as successor of Rome and rival of Byzantines. That was big reason why Irene hated Charlemagne because she refused to aknowledge him as successor of Western Rome.

>>2119518
I don't mean 'Franco-Roman' as in the 'Frankish Empire' and 'Roman Empire', but as in the 'Frankish Roman Empire': the Roman Empire ruled by the Franks.
More accurate than the contemporary slop name 'Carolingian Empire'.

>This image of a Christian state and its Christian ruler affected concurrent official discourse, as indicated by the increased use of the category
populus Christianus (the Christian people), together with the term imperium Christianum (Christian empire).
>In those years, although the annals both named Charlemagne or Louis the Pious emperor and often called the people of their empire populus Christianus, the Carolingian realm was still referred to as regnum, universum regnum to distinguish it from particular kingdoms of the Carolingian sons, or omnis regnum vel imperium suum (the entire kingdom or his own empire)
>Other sacramentaries replaced the expression Romanum sive Francorum imperium with ones that name not only the Franks but also the Romans as imperial gentes: Romanorum atque Francorum imperium, Romanorum sive Francorum imperium, or Romanorum imperium.
Quotations from "The Symbolic Languages of Authority in the Carolingian World" by Ildar H. Garipzanov

Both Christian Empire and Universal Empire would be confusing -- and are already included in the medieval notion of a 'Roman Empire'.
>Why not just Frankish Empire?
Cause
>Why not just Roman Empire?
To keep consistency with vanilla naming conventions. Cfr. Byzantine Empire

I might just make a game rule that allows all these options if isn't too finicky.

>>2119518
>>2119548
There

>>2119497
>Does that finally mean that Christian rulers will have to be acknowledged by the pope before being crowned kings?
No, there are two types of coronations. Coronations and anointments. Latter are for kings and presumptively performed by the realm's priest, while latter is for emperors and can only be done by the religious head.

>>2117345
>I hate that this mod is actually kind of impressive
I haven't used this one but that sounds like that corruption mod for Miao Ying in Warhammer 3. I dont know if its possible to avoid the lewd stuff in one built around blacked but even if you spam through all the events in the Miao one it has fun mechanics and units to use.

>"The main regional flavor focuses of this DLC are Christian and Western European"
>shows an African for the coronation activity
>can't crown heirs
>can't get a coronation per kingdom/empire
>coronation activities are apparently entirely secular
>you and the pope arbitrarily forced to travel to a holy site to be anointed, presumably to justify the work spent on the travel mechanic
>can't use a local priest or even the highest realm priest (i.e. a powerful representative of the pope) like you could in CK2
How do Paradox keep on fumbling? At this point I guess we're lucky to get any Europe content at all, and just have to hope the fart jokes and gay millennial humour is kept to a minimum.

>>2117831
rip in piss old mountains, they got the job done but they weren't pretty
and now india looks like some weird fucking elf land with all that purple

>No good total conversion mod to this day
Why is CK3 so much behind HoI4?

>>2119956
To me the answer is that it's less work to do hoi4 total conversions than ck3.
Both need maps with countries, technology/innovation, and decisions modded, but in hoi4 you only have to deal with portrait leaders while in ck3 you're dealing with 3d models of characters.

>>2119579
pro tip you can use switch cases in CK3

switch = {
trigger = has_game_rule
acd_roman_empire_name = { set_title_name = e_roman_empire }
etc...
}

>>2119956
because the core gameplay loop is exhausting and boring. CK3 needs an overhaul at a fundamental level

>>2119979
Damn, seriously? I just copied the way Paradox did it with Byzantium

Neat

ek2 update's out, kiss the submods goodbye for a while

>>2120261
so it'll be good for a month before the coronation dlc update (ek2 devs refuse to compatch)

>>2119722
>you and the pope arbitrarily
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italienzug

>>2117269 (OP)
Does anyone know exactly what features you get in the paid Roads to Power DLC? I haven’t played in over a year and I always get confused as to what mechanics are part of a free update and what is paid.

>>2120447
https://ck3.paradoxwikis.com/Patch_1.13#Expansion_Features_(Paid)

>>2120277
I hope some madlad makes an Orthographic Perspective variant for it in that time

this is unmodded and i have 400 hours in ck3 and legit havent seen tits this big
https://files.catbox.moe/96simh.PNG

>>2117935
>chinks sound retarded
>what about chingchongling
>sounds retarded
>i-it doesn't exist, i-i'm making fun of you
kek

Cor, EK2 update is out.

>>2119722
Coptic Christians are a thing and they were originally blacks down in Egypt and other parts of North Africa like Sudan and Ethiopia.

>>2119722
mods will fix it. have faith.

I want a total conversion mode based off of the Chivalry world and lore. Issue is that there's really not that much to go on to create something proper here.

You could try recreating some of the few various events surrounding both games. One being Argon the First's Crusade on the Tenosians that takes the far into the desert regions and you can choose to either play as Argon and see if you can manage to get the crusade done with, or play as the person he left back home as a regent and have a specific event line going down where you can choose whether to try and gain total control of Agatha and overthrow Argon or just dutifully complete your mission to reign over things until he comes back home.

Or you could just start it off right around the time where the Civil War between Agatha and the Mason Order starts in the vents of the first game. Alternatively, you can go for the events of the second game instead where either the next Civil War between the Mason controlled Agatha and smaller Agathian army against them, or before the leadup to it where Argon the Second is still growing up in order to take control and declare war on the Masons. You can have some specific event line firing up while playing him too in order to gain certain traits of lifestyles that you would want to play through.

Alternatively, you just play as a complete nobody and see how much you can deviate off of everything. The only other issues here is that we don't really have much information on a lot of the places aside from the few ones on the map that you can actually play through in the games, so if you were to make this, you would have to fan fic a shit ton of region names, as well as names for characters since we don't know exactly what the naming convention is like for them either within the game's universe.

>>2121134
>Egypt
>black
There never have been a bigger meme than that

>>2117306
kek this reminds me of some fucked up BNWO AI RP scenario I played once. If you want the link just say I'll find it for you.

>>2119956
As the other anon said the Hoi4 gameplay loop is fun and can be done in 4-6 hours at most. It's the shortest to play grand strategy game.

After All Under Heaven, we need more government types in europe and the middle east, some more transitory to represent different patterns and trends

Whenever I clock on a courtier when selecting a new court appointment it doesn't register. It shows the click but nothing happens. Any ideas? I've been fucking with load order for a while now.

Unofficial Patch
Foundational Framework
Foundational Framework Patch
Gamerule Gadget
Divine Intervention Cheat Menu
Prisoners of War
Nameplates
Faster Transitions
Zwei833's Duel UI
Wild Oats
Search & Trade Artifacts
Royal Court for Dukes
Patrum Scuta
Better CoA Designer
Patrum Scuta - Better CoA Designer - Compatibility Patch
Strawb's COA Icons v2
More Faith Icons (Myx Update)
Medieval Arts
Better Executions Updated
Succession Expanded
SRE Updated (1.16)
The Catholic Trinity: 1.16.0 “Chamfron\"
Holy Roman Triumph 1.16: Coronation Ceremonies
VIET Events - A Flavor and Immersion Event Mod
Regional Immersion and Cultural Enrichment (RICE)
Community Flavor Pack
Ethnicities & Portraits Expanded
CFP + EPE Compatibility Patch
RICE + EPE Compatibility Patch
Fair Lords Expanded
Fair Ladies Expanded
Beautiful Portraits
Congenital Beauty
Unit Packs Expanded
Better Barbershop
Color Picker for Clothes
Character UI Overhaul
More Provinces Expanded
Culture Expanded
CultureExpandedMPE
Better Map Graphics Temporary Fix
Artifacts Variations II
Unique Artifacts +
Active Courtiers
Dynasty Wars

>>2117269 (OP)
So many Focus Tree perks give spousal opinion or opposite sex opinion.
But what purpose does spousal opinion even matter?

>>2122202
more likely babby formed

>>2122204
>>2122202
I think it will also give you more positive events with them which help with stress or stuff like that. It would also matter if the AI was better at schemes cause your wife hating you would be a huge security risk.

>>2122211
if she hates you there's a chance she chops off your dick

>>2117306
Does it have bleached as well

>>2122224
oh right yeah that can happen at a grand wedding too
the bride&groom can potentially rival before the wedding night as well, so it's possible to get a nasty surprise and invalid heir in very abrupt short order. And you can't imprison her for the clear act of treachery either because lol lmao

>>2122229
>>2122224
I wish grand weddings were a little cheaper. They have some fun events but constructing a building or something always feels like a better investment for gold unless you're swimming in it.

>>2122228
I dont think so, you either play a white guy and get cucked, a black guy and fuck white women everywhere (Although you can give african women the blacked traits and stuff as well.) or play a female and get absolutely spammed by endless events fucking black guys.

Haven't played CK3 in a while. Decided to catch up on the DLC & try out fallen eagle, have had a slight obsession on wanting to be an adventurer during the downfall of Rome.

Ended up doing 20-25 years as a military adventurer, got an offer from Western Roman Emperor & got given Napoli. Was finally introduced to administrative governments. Felt like an actual fucking retard trying to understand what the fuck to do, my brain is hard wired to only understand Feudal based structures.

Whats the overall thoughts on admin governments & anyone else have the same issues starting out?

>>2122319
Acquire influence mana and eventually put all your family into governor positions, then make a play for the throne if you want.

Do you think this game will get supported for long or will they cut off support soon?

>>2122350
I imagine its all dependent on DLC sales. I suspect that if the game starts to taper, they'll look to pivot to creating a new game or perhaps just cut the amount of DLC.

Personally, I think they'll continue on for a couple more years at least. They seem to have a decent rhythm for releases now & the player base seems genuinely healthy. My only gripe is that this means more and more mods will go out of date, due to them shifting versions every 3 months.

>>2122331
Seems easy enough, probably was over complicating it.

>>2122350
I give it at least 5 more years. There's no graphical reason to make a new one and their engine is the same as their other new releases (Vic3 and EU5). HoI4 and Stellaris are still getting DLC and EU4 went on for 11 years.

Does this game have a mod that makes the AI at least sort of competent? HOI4 is unplayable without AI mods

>>2122360
Not really

Believable worlds

>>2122389
>blind

>>2117269 (OP)
What is the worst stat?
I have heard Learning is worst, but it's primary source of Piety which is very valuable. Meanwhile, I literally do not get the point of Intrigue, I haven't ever felt the need to murder anyone.

>>2122389
>>2122390
DEXgods keep winning
But jokes aside, it is hilarious how PDX keeps peddling this RPG bullshit that equipment can make you into a god on the battlefield. We literally have many records of peasants slaughtering the armoured knights, with the best equipment and horse they could afford, and they used the simple farming equipment to do so. Meanwhile, they still ignore the actual training and tactics, and it is relegated to an afterthought.

>>2122389
You do realize blind people can learn how to "see" in various other ways, right?
Similar to what bats sometimes do where they see based on echolocation and just sound in general and whatnot.

>>2122687
Intrigue is worthless if you're not going to bother and do any underhanded shit for your playthrough, but it does still play a role in certain situation where based on it, you can counter certain events from what I recall... But usually I think you can just take precautions like double the guards and sort of be done with it.

Border wars will be possible if
>hegemony
>blob
>antagonistic unity
>civil war

>>2122778
based!

>>2122778
It is nice, but it is also stupid to restrict it behind these. Border wars were a common thing. HRE and Hungary or HRE and France were butting heads over border provinces all the time.

>>2122851
We don't know the full details yet, that's the teaser for tomorrow.

>>2122851
That's for automatic enforcement, so it might be able to be applied in other situations

>>2117269 (OP)
why does crusader kings players have an obsession with coronations? I remember it was a thing with CK2 too.

>>2122983
>why do players for a medieval history game have an obsession with an act intrinsically tied to medieval rulership
Historylet, please, go educate yourself.

>>2122983
It was a big thing to notify the realm and neighbors there's a new boss in town.

>>2122997
>>2123005
they added it to the last big patch in ck2 (that broke the game if I remember right, crusades were insanely overpowered) and it didn't do a lot. just a weird thing to obsess for and then just be fine when you're just pressing a one more button

>>2123017
like it didn't do a lot in CK2. Hopefully it may do something more in ck3 whre your character actually travels across the map

>>2123017
>making up stuff
Go kill yourself, shill

>>2123022
may you tell me how I am wrong?

>>2122851
and did kings join in with their vassal levies every time too?

>>2118655
they just help themselves

>>2123227
????????

>>2122997
That's like asking why HOIfans are obsessed with artillery, aviation and tanks

>>2119391
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/dev-diary-179-a-little-bit-of-everything.1855760/
179 - A Little Bit of Everything - various updates
Previous Dev Diary >>2119391 (Coronations Introduction)

Celestial Mechanics
>treasury is allocated to vassals, ministries, and military provinces by an allocation percentage
>salary is dependent on rank and position tier, with higher ranking officials receiving more
>it is possible to run a deficit, which works similar to Gold debt
>a low budget encourages corruption, and a Base Rate only gets recalculated when a new budget is Enacted
>salary will inflate with time, so 867 salary =/= 1178 salary
>political movements can push agendas, including how Allocations should be divided, while Contract manipulations can affect budget
>the Huangdi can favor an Era and a Movement, impacting the catalysts and effectiveness of the movement
>Elders and Disciples are managed in the Domicile screen
>Grand Secretariat diarchy, like a vizier, tied to a Minister via a realm law

Border Warfare
>allows to declare wars against a large empire without attracting the top liege for 3 years
>automatically enforced if Hegemony, realm size is 160+ (such as the HRE in 1066), House Unity is Antagonistic, or there is a Civil War

Scholastic Activities
>Debates are for contests between Political Movements
>Examinations for gaining merit

SEA
>will get unique clothing, unlike how they were Indian in the reveal diary
>ethnicities will be improved to prevent arr rook same
>Barter raids: Wanua governments exchange their Barter Goods for province loot, which is exchanged for gold back home, as no native methods of generating gold
>Wanua pay maintenance in Barter Goods
>can attack rival Barter Armies

Administrative
>UI updates, making CoA smaller to display more info
>Noble families shows % control in Empire
>Your Family tab to follow your candidates

it look to anyone else like the SEA clothing for ladies they were showing references for would be topless?

what is the typical physiognomy for seasian titties? can we get a paradox moderator to weigh in

Most attractive woman in England

>>2123660
She looks like she would be able to bear 8 children at least. Sounds like a good match to me.

>Crusade called to recover lands of East Francia from Denmark
>Armies automatically set to gather all the way in Rome
Very cool.

>Ruling Slavic empire
>Get some event where a hot brown amazonian chick from Sri Lanka or someplace travels to my court and asks to marry my second son
>Say yes because who doesn't want some exotic poon and he's only the second anyway so I don't have to worry about brown heirs
>Has a couple kids, including a male heir
>Give him the kingdoms of Sorbia and Bohemia to chill in
>Life should be good, spend his days having feasts and fucking his amazon wife
>Instead, the second he gets power he imprisons and executes his only son
>wtf man
>Take back his lands and exile him
>He gets sick and dies like a month later
>My spymaster decides on his own to murder the brown wife shortly after

Middle children, am I right?

>>2123660
>dumnarthsdohtor
how the fuck do you pronounce this?

>>2124403
Just say Dumnarth's Daughter in a british accent.

>>2123520
>Barter Goods
yet another "totally not gold" currency that could just be gold
yippie

>>2122319
>>2122353
Just mentioning it cause some people dont notice it, but going admin government lets you use things like the Doge's palace in Venice. So it can be fun to be an adventurer, take out Venice and flip to admin to help play a super tall Italian kingdom.

>>2124248
They were stopping you from creating gypsies.

>>2124433
In this case it can't because you get gold in exchange for barter goods.

>>2123522
Paradox probably won't make them topless as they actually were irl before Islam. They (both men and women) used to wear sarong that only cover their lower body.

>>2124640
Mods will fix it.

>>2123520
>Grand Chancellor is running on regency mechanics
into the trash it goes

>>2124640
they've hidden asian women under so much jewelry its ridiculous

>>2124783
They probably will censor it like this mod. From what I've read (I am a Southeast Asian) women only wear chest wrap like that if their breasts are too big and/or saggy, most just goes topless like the men.

>>2124843
Do you think they should go and change that?

I have finally decided on my first All Under Heaven run.
I'm going to colonise the Philippines as a Spanish adventurer.

>The AI doesn’t use the decisions because the AI Emperor is more malleable and follows the most powerful Movement’s wishes. Only if the pro-dynasty movement is in power does the Emperor choose based on personality: civilian- or economy-oriented will choose Advancement, while militant rulers choose Expansion. For the Favored Movement, the AI Emperor decides based on the Debate activity outcomes;
Paradox is such a fucking failure.

>>2125023
Did you expect anything else from them? They could never capture the depth and insanity of Chinese and Japanese court politics.

>>2125023
I think they are just doing that so the player can feel like they are actually influencing events in China when not playing as the Emperor. At the very least they should add a major ‘personality’ bonus to ai decision making for China.

>someone making a mod to affect how races work in ek2
>"Phylogeny", taking name from that one book that implied children tend to take after mother
oh neat
>it's going to include the minotaurs that look like some furry's OC
guess I'll have to actually learn how to tweak mods for myself, fuck

>>2117306
>Try this out
>Play as adventuring mandingo man
>Actually ended up having fun cause with all the various BBC traits/faith a bunch of people absolutely hate you
I actually had to claw my way through half the world cause of all the natural malice i have and i kept getting expelled from countries. At one point almost having it all fall apart cause i got kicked out while in the middle of the Seljuk empire and i was low on supplies, so i had to basically steal supplies and find the only way out i could go before starving, and then trying to do quicker jobs not knowing if they will complete before i got kicked out. It was a good challenge before i finally found Poland had a young woman take over so i could make my way over there, seduce her and get her to like me so i could finally have a decent sized country to base out of and take better jobs. Would play again 10/10 and im not even into the whole blacked stuff. I hope it gets updated in the China/Japan dlc.

>>2121948
>STILL no playable merchant republic
fuck this gay earth

>>2125460
>>2125471
>>2125484
CK3 will finally have one (1) big mechanical advantage over CK2 with border wars. It's something.

And modeled tits

>>2125484
>still no rape button
??

And modelled genetics

>>2125369
kill yourself

>>2125599
Shill please kill yourself. Border wars were literally a thing in CK2 as well and you could declare them much more easilly too

*fabricate claim*
*take single county*
rich, deep medieval geopolitical simulation

>>2125897
>not marrying your second sons and daughters to claimants
ngmi.

>>2125897
>fabricating claims
lol

>>2125881
No they weren't. The border dispute cb is not the same as border wars the new dlc, it was just the ck2 equivalent of a no cb war

>>2125881
You can finally take down those retarded Greek colonies in the Pontic steppe without calling in the emperor at least during a civil war.

>>2125881
Border wars are just the liege of a big ass realm not being all that aware of what goes on in the borders. CK2 border disputes were just niggas taking a county.

>>2125951
>>2125996
Because that is how it worked most of the time.
>>2125988
That is just modernist revisionism. People were more aware of things than modern shitters think. Only thing that matters is if they could of could not intervene.

>>2126001
That's not 'how it worked most of the time' because we're talking about two fundamentally different things. CK2's border cbs were just an unjustified war where you take an opinion and prestige hit for what is essentially a no-cb war in eu terms. You're still fighting against the top liege. What CK3 is going to add is a type of war that you can declare on a vassal, where the top liege cannot intervene for the first couple of years.
>inb4 you meant that the top liege ai ignores the player in such wars so it might as well have been a border war
Total bullshit, ck2's ai was notorious for its anti-player bias. The Byzantines could have a 6 front war in the balkans, the pontic steppes, anatolia, the levant, and in armenia, with a simultaneous 3 way civil war, but as soon as you declared a war for sicily they'd move their entire army there to defeat your 2k stack.

>>2126021
>That's not 'how it worked most of the time' because we're talking about two fundamentally different things. CK2's border cbs were just an unjustified war where you take an opinion and prestige hit for what is essentially a no-cb war in eu terms
You are literally stupid. There is no such thing as an justified or unjustified war when it comes to border wars, that was never the case. Border wars were always about either trying to seize strategic provinces or fighting over the lands that you already considered as your own.
>The Byzantines could have a 6 front war in the balkans, the pontic steppes, anatolia, the levant, and in armenia, with a simultaneous 3 way civil war, but as soon as you declared a war for sicily they'd move their entire army there to defeat your 2k stack.
Which also happened many times in history.

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/dev-diary-180-how-a-crown-is-earned.1856175/
180 - How a Crown Is Earned (Coronation Activity)
Previous Dev Diary >>2123520 (Progress updates for Celestial/SEA/Administrative)

Coronations
>holding one changes your Coronation "law" to its new status
>costs 355 in 1169 for the King of Scotland
>4 Intents - Legitimacy/magnificence, prestige/special relations, harming Detractors, endow Coronations/artifacts
>otherwise just your standard activity, but with new events that seem to have some politics involved
>seems what Royal Court should have been
>can crown self, if not an Anointment (allegedly common in Iberia)
>feast afterwards and rewards are given based on magnificence

Guests
>6 intents - show up, offer support, advocate for your realm, demand a hook or contract improvement, steal shit, swell faction discontent/reduce magnificence

Oaths
>can take an oath to be accomplished within a time period
>there's ~16 variants, 9 shown were - secure Alliances, Ensure Peace, Greatest Hunter, Provide for Warriors, Provide for Poor, Expand Realm, Shape the Realm, Install Claimants, Provide for Faithful
>time tracker kept in the Decision and top Situations

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/dev-diary-180-how-a-crown-is-earned.1856175/
180 - How a Crown Is Earned (Coronation Activity)
Previous Dev Diary >>2123520 (Progress updates for Celestial/SEA/Administrative)

Coronations
>holding one changes your Coronation "law" to its new status
>costs 355 in 1169 for the King of Scotland
>4 Intents - Legitimacy/magnificence, prestige/special relations, harming Detractors, endow Coronations/artifacts
>otherwise just your standard activity, but with new events that seem to have some politics involved; seems to be what Royal Court should have been
>can crown self, if not an Anointment (allegedly common in Iberia)
>feast afterwards and rewards are given based on magnificence

Guests
>6 intents - show up, offer support, advocate for your realm, demand a hook or contract improvement, steal shit, swell faction discontent/reduce magnificence

Oaths
>can take an oath to be accomplished within a time period
>there's ~16 variants, 9 shown were - secure Alliances, Ensure Peace, Greatest Hunter, Provide for Warriors, Provide for Poor, Expand Realm, Shape the Realm, Install Claimants, Provide for Faithful

>>2117306
>>2117309
>>2118180
>>2121709
>>2125369
>average ck3 gaming

>>2124843
>too big
What?

>Playing normally
>15 years into reign it's revealed that I have some nigress soulmate I've never heard of on the other side of the world that I've never been to
My fault for not checking I guess...

>>2126227
Their equivalent to this

>>2126448
It s

>>2126051
You're misconstruing the point, the two mechanics are not the same.

>>2126001
what the fuck does that have anything to do with being able to attack strategoi without calling the emperor? THAT happened all the time throughout history. Just look at Cherson

I dont remember the last time i saw the AI reform a faith on their own.

>>2126442
Ive run into that before cause i was in the middle of a war that i kinda had to pay attention to and would get an event pop up i would tell to fuck off and click whatever since i was trying to time attacks. I guess thats the games version of getting drunk and waking up next to an Indian.

Kind of feel like playing CK2 again.
Any recommendation for mods to install to have a bit more fun with it?
I had my own curated mod folder before and everything but I got rid of it when I also stopped playing altogether, so for now I think I'll just install HIP then download one of the publicly available mod collections for it on the workshop.

>>2126051
You're actually retarded

Slightly annoying. Played for over 50 years with no issues, then the game starts skipping and starts crashing. I just want to enjoy crumbling roman empire in peace...

Is there a way that you can give back land you stole from the border expansion plot when playing admin gov? I stole like half the hand from my neighbor, put by kin on the governorship and now he has like a -100 malus I can't do anything about

>>2117269 (OP)
What is the point of hostages?
They you dynastic renown and supposedly prevent people from attacking you.
But I'm really bothered I can't marry my hostages or recruit them.
And for some stupid reason, there is 0% chance for imprisoning your hostage. How can you have 0% chance of imprisoning someone who should already be under house arrest?

Is there any mod focused on medieval intellectual and cultural life, such as books, monasticism, university events and such? While we are it, what kind of content related to these topics would you like to see in a DLC or free update?

>>2127528
It's just a nothing burger roleplay feature. Maybe if you were warring it out with an emperor with lots of land, it could be useful.

Ok i started as King Vratislav of Bohemia. What the fuck should i do now?

How do I have sex with female prisoners? I don't want to cycle rapidly through concubines or anything like that, I just want to quickly fuck and impregnate the hot brown girls I capture raiding the Mediterranean.

>>2127564
>medieval
>intellectual
Don't go together. There weren't any intellectuals until the Renaissance.

>>2127766
Monastic schools were an important institution in the medieval era, but CK3 goes out of its way to separate theology from intellectual pursuits. Monks and clergymen were the main intellectuals of the time. The way Paradox portrays them often comes across as influenced by modern secular or atheistic assumptions rather than reflecting historical realities.

>>2127743
mod

>>2127699
You know, the hostage system could have actually replaced the truces.
Imagine this even if attacker gets 100% warscore, they still won't accept peace, unless:
>A) The attacker provides the defender with a hostage, so they have assurance that the ruler won't immediately attack them again
>B) The attacker occupies the defender's realm 100% (unconditional surrender)
>C) The attacker captures the enemy ruler (acceptance in exchange for release)

Which would maka A) the most common way to conduct wars.

>>2127564
There's My Monastery by the Les Trois Tours guy, but he retired from modding before it really went anywhere.

>>2119362
Been looking through all their recent dev blogs and almost every single one of their non-3d "painted" 2d art has AI artifacts all over it.

>>2128084
There are more but I won't beat a dead horse. Swedes are trying to get you to pay for AI slop lmao. Remember when they said they'll only use AI for concept work and icons etc when the Stellaris team got caught?

>>2128087
>>2128084
>>2128077
i dont really care

>>2128077
>>2128084
>>2128087
You will never take away my AI generated waifus

>>2127798
Leave it up to some anon to integrate a new feature in such a way as to improve a base mechanic...

I pressed my wife's claim on a neighbouring kingdom, which caused her to leave my court. Our religion allows concubines, the first child she got is not of my dynasty. Is there any chance to get a kid of mine on that throne, or i'll just have to wait a generation to get it?

>>2127743
>The Rance playthrough

>>2127743
Just mod in infinite concubines

>>2117306
I just tried it out, and it was pretty hot playing a norse adventurer, going around the map wooing the hottest women into my band and then seeing them slowly get taken from me
But once that character died and I took over as his mega meloned daughter, I was inundated with way too much cringe writing. I should probably try playing as a black guy for a while, but I think I won't be using this mod going forward. I'm fine with keeping fetish stuff more subtle when playing games and then going all out when I actually want to masturbate.

>>2127564
Best we can do is another fart event pack and a map expansion to include South America.

>>2128434
nigga u gay

Wish there was a domicle-like system for expansions of castles or some such. Feels weird to be limited only to 2 buildings per barony for half the game

>>2124843
It's retarded, the game already has nudity, why wouldn't this be enabled?
Also, where can I find mods that remove the stupid underage character underwear? It doesn't look period appropriate and is visible beneath all the clothes for minors in places like India.

>>2125022
I'm still torn, there are a few options that I'd like to do
>Norse into Japan
>Norse into SE Islands
>Normans into Japan
>Normans into China
At the very least though I need to figure out what the hybrid cultures should be called.
Which of these Jap prefixes would you guys choose for Norman and Norse respectively?
>Japano-Norse
>Nippo-Norse
>Nihono-Norse
>Nippono Norse
and
>Japano-Norman
>Nippo-Norman
>Nihono-Norman
>Nippono Norman

I've already done Sino-Norman before but I'd like to do it again properly.

>>2125113
Why does it have to be modded? It already works great

Anyone else feel like they can't really play the game until all the DLC is released? Just feels like playing an unfinished game before then.

>>2117306
why are CK3 players like this

>>2128543
Normie-Nip

>>2128539
>Also, where can I find mods that remove the stupid underage character underwear? It doesn't look period appropriate and is visible beneath all the clothes for minors in places like India.
I made my own personal mod to fix this and also fix pregnancy not being visible on under-18 year old girls, I would upload it but I think it would get taken down instantly.

When the fuck are the lazy faggots doing Realms in Exile going to fix their latest patch? Nobody can even run the fucking thing anymore

Kadō Zigūrun zabathān unakkha
Ēruhīnim dubdam Ugru-dalad
Ar-Pharazōnun azaggara Avalōiyada
Bārim an-Adūn yurahtam dāira sāibēth-mā Ēruvō
azrīya du-phursā akhāsada
Anadūnē zīrān hikallaba
bawība dulgī.
balīk hazad an-Nimruzīr azūlada
Agannālō burōda nēnud
zāira nēnud
adūn izindi batān tāidō ayadda: īdō kātha batīna lōkhī
Ēphalak īdōn Yōzāyan
Ēphal ēphalak īdōn hi-Akallabēth.

>>2128808
Works on my machine.

I swear to God reforming the Carolingian Empire is impossible. Every vassal just fucking hates you and you can only wrangle them through alliances (they join independence factions if they like you btw). When you finally make an empire title and die with more than one son it’s all fucked all over again. No holy war causus belli in Iberia means you have to get the claims individually to win that region, fuck this shit man

I just played as an adventurer for the first time ever. Man that shit fucking sucked, who asked for that to be put in the game?

>>2129168
Me
Also you’re supposed to farm contracts and then make an unstoppable army and crush 4x your size

>>2129169
Expanding the game to include fluff like that instead of fleshing out the existing mechanics is part of the reason this game sucks, even though it's addicting. I really hope paradox (or some other studio) makes a sequel to CK2 someday

>>2129168
People have been begging for landless gameplay for ages even back in CK2 days. Of course, the Monkey's Paw curled and Paradox have done it their usual lazy way with scheme spam and retarded power fantasy wherein you're richer than any landed ruler and can solo the entire Byzantine Empire by yourself.

>>2117269 (OP)
>make army of 1,200 pikemen and 800 elephants
>I can now stackwipe armies of 12K
Seems overpowered.

the game really only serves as a doll sim with coom mods. ive given up on paradox making this a strategy game.

>>2129153
congrats on being the first and only ever Carolingian player on /vst/
They're supposed to be shit, btw, but Paradox doesn't know how to model them actually becoming France/the HRE

Disasters tomorrow

>>2129463
what, are they presenting CK3 itself? LOL

>>2129463
Too bad they can't make the environment actually change.
Guess the technology for that doesn't exist yet.

>>2129491
Civ 6 literally did it and it with their disasters and weather changes. It is not even something complex. PDX is just lazy and filled with retards.

>>2129493
>>2129491
While i agree it would be cool id rather the game not run even worse when its simulating all the floods and shit around the world.

>>2129153
I just did it ~1 year before the death of my 2nd ruler, in 933. If you start with west Francia, you can just eat your fellow kings by calling other kings to help you (first lotharingia, then east francia, then Italy, then Bavaria). The difficult thing was getting the iberian lands, with no holy war CB I had to fabricate claims county by county (even had to truce break at the end, then farm prestige to enable the decision).
I still had to disinherit my 2nd son, but beyond that, it was rather chill.Every time I got a revolt, I stripped all the rebels from their best title, then distribute it to Karling toddlers. Up to 16 years before they could join a faction, ample time for my successor to get rid of short reign penalties.

OKAY MONKEY!

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/dev-diary-181-natural-disasters.1856829/
181 - Natural Disasters
Previous Dev Diary >>2126147 (Coronation Activity)

Natural Disasters
>a Situation, like the Great Steppe, Dynastic Cycle, and Silk Road
>only earthquakes and floods so far
>3 phases: Warning, Impact, Recovery
>Impact's Legitimacy loss is increased when Emperor of China, while modifiers are affected by disaster Severity
>Recovery is a Great Project, with various options - more than just cash, some reduce levies or domain limit until the project is complete
>rewards and costs are scaled by innovations - such as Elephants - as well as Development, making late-game disasters more expensive
>a map pin will appear on the epicenter, and terrain shaders will be applied to the map
>if a disaster crosses realm borders, you only can affect your land's recovery project
>some campaigns might not experience a Disaster whatsoever, whereas larger realms, such as China) cover more land and run a greater risk of them

>>2130172
Does anyone else think that all these new features over time just seem additive, like some hoarder who collects whatever rubbish he finds on the street? They take one aspect at a time, make a dedicated system, and throw into onto the pile, I'm starting to get why new games don't carry over from the last ones, they just keep adding on rules and exceptions to what is a glorified board game till even they can't make sense of it, then they start anew

>>2130172
also, the Coronations activity pack will be released on September 9th

>>2130192
pretty much
the main team that developed ck3 probably isnt there, so now it's probably a mixed group from different assignments trying to figure out how to frankenstein something new into the game. These Situations are just an evolution of Struggles

>>2130192
It's like that for every pdx game that runs long enough. In some case (HOI4 especially) it's like that since the beginning.

So when I siege the capital of my ennemy, if he's not leading his army or at an activity, there's a chance I capture him and instantly win the war. But if I don't, then...what? I lost that roll, it's over, I have to siege and win battle for 100 war score, and that's it? He's still in his (occupied) capital, but I can't touch him because I didn't get him at first? That can't be THIS dumb, right?

>>2130172
>some campaigns might not experience a Disaster whatsoever,
Cant wait till my first character who just owns a single duchy in the DLC gets hit with a quake within one month.

>>2130284
And then when CK4 comes out people will be complaining about no disasters in the game at launch.

am i dumb or do none of the musical tracks have any dynamic weighting
i keep on getting byzantine and mongol music wherever i play

Been trying to just roleplay characters recently but I really can't get myself to stick to it... I always just end up trying to min max everything and do whatever cheesing mechanics and whatnot are available to get everything to as close as possible to "perfect" as I can and I hate that.

Although, by the looks of it, having less traits that sort of just round down your personality can help with roleplaying to some extent since it makes it easier to just keep up with what the character is supposed to be like. I remember playing CK2 with some mods that added a bunch of new different traits and the issue there was that the character viewer was now just hyper cluttered and all the traits were no longer properly seen since they would overlap to make more space. So whenever you would try to pick an option or do something specific around the world, you would just do it as yourself since you couldn't properly keep track of what your character is supposed to be like.

Still, I can't seem to be able to get myself to stick to it. Maybe it's because I turn the music off and just listen to some other stuff in the background while playing as well, so perhaps that distracts me from actually immersing and roleplaying as I should, but regardless, I hate the fact I can't just get myself to play the game like that and make it more interesting.

Has anyone noticed how there are so few intrigue based traditions compared to the other stats?
And the ones that are intrigue related usually have other stuff as well.

didn't realize until recently but there's actually two different versions of the Constantinople court room
this one is if you're a muslim ruler

>>2131265
and this one is if you're any non-Christian and non-Muslim faith OR if you're an Iconoclast
both alt courtrooms have identical artifact placements (that are different from the regular Constantinople court)

the papacy also gets its own special court room (not tied to Rome)

>>2131268
Does this mean we will eventually get playable theocracies?

>>2131274
that's definitely coming next year

>>2131274
Well some niggas want to bow to the pope and play in their court.

>China DLC before the college of cardinals
Lol

>>2117269 (OP)
Mechanically speaking, what was the point of same-sex relations?
Like functionally, what is the difference between same-sex friendship and same-sex lovers? Because I don't think there is one. They both have an opinion boost.

>>2131717
>implying that anyone at PDX understands love
>implying that they are not soulless corpo husks who only care for money
tsk tsk tsk

>>2131717
Pandering to fetishists

>>2131717
You can play as a man in a religion / culture that allows concubinage or polygamy, find twin sisters who are lesbians and in love with each other, marry both of them and then have them conceive your children while knowing 100% of the time they are going to be yours since you are the only man who's dick ever goes in them since barring that arranged marriage, they are gay for each other and will never actually accept the advances of other men.

>>2127743
is it even possible to impregnate an abducted concubine without any mods
from my experience they all have a permanent -100 opinion modifier and never get pregnant as a result

>>2131948
okay, so that serves the same purpose as the homosexual trait in CK2.
But riddle me this, what function does bisexual actually serve? Everyone can fuck your wife, and because homosexuals don't matter, it's functionally same as hetero

>>2131987
Uhh.. Higher opinion from characters / vassals who are bisexual when you play as a guy with a pretty trait on cause they want to fuck you and you can use that to your advantage?

>>2131717
The point is driving chuds insane. You clearly seem mad over people being seen.

>>2128077
>>2128084
>>2128087
Good pickups anon, that looks like complete shit

remember to buy all their new DLCs so we can get some more AI slop

>>2131310
Well, I for one want to play as a prince-abbott.

>look it up
>there's no mod that allows you to create custom culture and custom faith in character creation
Fucking bullshit, that's impossible.
Yes I know you can "hybridize" shit in game, but it's not the same

can i use this as the ck2 thread?
some faggot haunts the general strategy general thread

>>2133245
sure

still not sure what to do at this point
right empire was conquered in a crusade by me for my other son

i want to mend the schism, but i can't raise an anti-pope at the moment

It's done.
Not bad for a a slow heir I was thinking of making a monk.

>>2117269 (OP)
I normally don't recommend pirating games but I 100% recommend pirating CK3 because Paradox are greedy fucking shitters and deserve it.

>>2131948
that sounds incredibly based, but how the fuck are you going to find twin lesbians? that's gotta be rare as fuck normal settings.

>>2133278
I've just managed to have my most successful king as a leper. His people hated him, and his nickname was "the Foolish", but he made two empires, dismantled the Papacy and left behind a stable realm to his heirs.
You just don't get appreciated for shit in the medieval times

>>2133346
I love when one of my really ill characters just refuses to die lol. It's kind of inspiring

>>2133373
Lived to 60, because the court physician kept putting out great treatments that reduced the symptoms to nothing. I should have landed that doctor.

I have all the DLC no mods. This is the second time I have ever had this happen to me.

>>2133375
Theology focus is the best for staying alive the longest imo

>>2133383
cute bear

>>2133393
Yeah we keep her.

Favorite regions?
For me
>Eastern Europe
>The Middle East as a religious minority
>Spain

>>2133396
I only play in the north sea region. I am Paradox's target audience.

>>2133396
The Alps, Occitania, Southern Italy, Caucasus, England and Scotland.

>>2133396
Flanders
Carpathians/Tatras (Moravia and Hungary)
Sicily (and I always inherit Croatia by accident)
Fighting in Italy is the most fun

This sucks because the China shit looks great and it gives me all sorts of ideas for runs but I KNOW I fucking KNOW their "optimization" isn't going to change the fact that upping it from 20k to like 30 or 40k characters is going to make the game fucking die 60 years in maybe 100 at best

>>2133396
Baltic for pagan playthrough, Northeastern German for Prussian larp, and Northwest India/Afghanistan for stacking Himalayan Settler with Mountain Home.

>>2133691
Why not make a different game at that point?
>>2125460
It's called Crusader Kings not Three Kingdom civil war.

>>2133733
Its a shitty The Sims: Medieval now.
You know this. I know this.

>>2133733
>It's called Crusader Kings not Three Kingdom civil war.
Paradox has been saying the title is a misnomer even as early as CK2 dev cycle.

I looked around and didn't see anything but i might as well ask here if anybody knows of a culture or faith way to do this, but i wanted to do an adventurer that instead of landing himself i want to just land a family member but continue on as the adventurer. I know you can sorta fudge it by landing then choosing to become an adventurer from the various cultures that allow it. But that causes you to lose your entire camp and pretty much all your fame. Which can create a fun little challenge in that you start over but i wanted to keep the camp momentum going after landing family members around and seeing what they get up to.

>>2133691
I really hope that they modernize feudal government next, it already feels bad as it is just with the governments we have now. I cant imagine how shit its going to feel after getting to play out in Asia.

how is the agot mod so far?

>>2134029
for ck2 or 3?

>>2134052
ck3

>>2134054
STILL not GoT bookmarks ridiculous

>>2134057
are there any submod for it?

the century of blood in the original agot mod was fucking kino

What the fuck possesed paradox to release the entire world map for CK3 in a single update?
Is this the power of AI copilots?

>>2134058
yeah but theyre all obviously lacking in events and things like that.

>EU4 has an amazing fantasy world mod thats superior to vanilla in every way
>CK3 has godfartah which is more miserable than playing in india
I appreciate how much work they put into the mod and how original they tried to be in comparison to Anbennar but god damn its just boring, sometimes if not almost always the tropes are there for a reason
Elves,dwarves,harpies and orcs are fun, byzantine tier autism is le edgy dark world is not

>>2134080
is the ck3 version of anbennar not good?

>>2134128
Its in development

>>2134080
>Anbennar
>good
I too remember the 2019.

>>2134076
Erm we still don't even have the rest of Africa and the New World???
Western Europe will have to wait until my Miaphysite Huangdi Hásteinn can conquer the Antarctica.

>>2133820
It should be called Crusader Queens. In 500 hours of play of CK3, I don't recall a single time a man became the first ruler of Jerusalem, that's because a benefactor can't be a ruler or heir, and because everyone is stuck with the partition when the first crusade happens, it means there are very few males that can be the beneficiary.
It's stupid and it bothers me; women shouldn't even be considered as beneficiaries.

It is done.

>>2134307
The CK3 interface will never have the sovl of CK2's.

>>2134080
Godherja is just Panzer wanking savage barbarians as good guys raping the le evil greek empire of rapist magicians. Whatever discourse you can have regarding the lore and this particular fact gets shutdown by his tranny meltdowns, and other parts of the game's world are either boring or incomplete. It takes these niggas 2000 years to add any interesting mechanics or events.

they better have an event chain where you try to use mercury to become immortal as the chinese emperor (with a small chance to succeed)

>>2134390
>small chance to succeed
But you have to periodically, after a few decades, go through the procedure again and each time the chance to live gets even smaller

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3315520/Crusader_Kings_III_Coronations/
>Charging money for shit that was already in CK2
Parajews gonna parajew

>>2128077
>clown crown
You've really never seen the Reichskrone?

>>2130172
Thanks, I hate it.

Done with the Belgian borders.
In order are pictured the counties of vanilla ck3, the best you can make of it without redrawing the province borders, and the counties with my own redrawn province borders

>>2134531
In-game

>>2134547
+duchies

Just watched this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQN4OYGBLbw
Are these guys fucking retarded? Zanzibar? Papua? This game already runs like shit on a really good CPU.

How do I into CK? I can play Stellaris, HOI4, EU4 no problem. Maybe not well, but I can finish a game. But something about CK just filters me and I'm not even sure entirely what.

>>2134653
What makes you quit?

>>2134604
They say the new way they gen the map saves a bunch of memory, ill believe it when i see it. That being said i am kinda interested in building a tall empire in the spice islands area.

>>2134670
>They say the new way they gen the map saves a bunch of memory
Yeah and Stellaris 4.0 improved performances, right?

>>2134735
Well supposedly EU5 improved greatly with the recent update so maybe they had similar crap going here.

Is there anything more satisfying than crushing an army several times your size while taking minimal losses?

>>2122764
complete broscience

God this game's fucking boring

finally, i have ended christcuckery and can wage war on the heretics

The Lord protects.

VGH COLOVR VOMIT

I like to think the Outremor Camel Cavalry are like horse archers with javelins instead of arrows and the Heavy Cavalry, while still staying close enough to give orders, swoops in to smash in to the softened up enemy because of the whole smell fuckery they do to them IRL
>>2134861
This is a really weird thing to complain about but Ck3 looks uglier than Ck2. I don't know how that's possible.

>>2134866
No yeah, I agree.
And I can't quite describe it

>>2134867
The land is softer and lacks detail in comparison to the rough map of CK2. Instead of contrasting, borders just melt together.

>>2134866
>I like to think the Outremor Camel Cavalry are like horse archers with javelins instead of arrows and the Heavy Cavalry, while still staying close enough to give orders, swoops in to smash in to the softened up enemy because of the whole smell fuckery they do to them IRL
Looking into the values, Camel Cavalry has the same skirmish value as Horse Archers but a higher melee at the expense of worse defense and pursue, which makes sense because camels are slower than horses and getting one armored up is impossible with the humps on its back.

So it basically is how I described it.

>>2134861
>Anon creating HIP for CK3

>>2134874
I couldn't get into HIP. CK2+ is exactly what its namesake implies, and I fucking love it. HIP for some retarded reason forces things to go they went historically because that's just how it's supposed to go. Did you actually play a historical strategy game simulator for changing how history went????

>>2134874
Ehh, not quite, certainly lesser in scope.
>>2134875
You could turn off the railroading via a game rule; but I actually never experienced any egregious railroading. Was that only for 867?

>>2134876
All I remember was trying out Eastern Europe and the Magyar's getting a 10k+ doomstack out of fucking nowhere with no maintenance cost, which they then resound used to burn my petty kingdom to the ground for chump change

>>2134876
what is your scope anyhow?

lol, what the fuck
visigothic denmark
and my dynasty somehow managed to get elected into it

>>2134878
It's ever changing to be honest.
The mod started out as a simple localization fix. The "Duchy of Flanders" being renamed to the "County of Flanders" etc.
While at it, I decided to also add more duchies, so that internal borders wouldn't immediately 'clump' together in a mega-champagne, mega-burgundy, etc.
Decided to do roughly the same for the HRE, allowing it to disintegrate internally in the long term. (Got the idea of titular stem duchies from SWMH) Fixing some minor and major historical inaccuracies, like the female prince-bishop of Frankfurt, along the way. Also, added a couple of formables here and there.
Then, recently, I decided to redraw the Belgian province borders because I couldn't stand the mangled vanilla ones.
The rest of the vanilla province map, with some exceptions, is not as bad as the low countries were, so I'm not really planning on redrawing the entirety of Europe.

>>2134890
In short, not a competely new map like SWMH, no new mechanics like EMF.
Just a couple redraws here and there and increased historicity.

>>2134890
>>2134894
I admire your autism.

>>2134895
I appreciate it.
>>2134877
Well, that seems to fall under the railroading game rule

>>2134604
>gook religion icon is literally squid game

>>2134909
ah

God, forgive me. I did not want my time to pass as there is always much to do here. And I could not resist such a bright young maiden gifted in warfare as well as faith.

>>2134890
>female prince-bishop of Frankfurt,
PDX obsession with maxime female rulers is insane
Jesus Christ, why are the Irish using male-preference? There are extremely patrilineal clans.

>>2134982
This specific outing of their weird obsession with putting female rulers where there weren't any is just one part of their total disregard of historicity in regards to internal borders. Franconia is a complete and utter mess in vanilla CK3, having random known courtiers who were involved in the Investiture struggle hold large swathes of land, surely for the sole reason as to allow players to play as these 'iconic' characters. All while sneaking massive oversights that go unfixed for 5 years at this point.

Compare the 1066 vassal setup in my mod (left) to vanilla's (right), especially in Franconia (the center duchy), which, despite having to take liberties as well, I'd argue mine is much more accurate/justifiable.

>>2134982
>>2135003
Forgot to add, but this is 100% an artifact from them doubling the province count in the HRE. More province density is pretty neat, of course, but PDX didn't bother at all with the new title histories. They just fully copied CK2's history for the existing counties, and then duplicated that history for the nearest newly-added counties; with maybe some last-minute 1066.1.1 additions of the aforementioned female power kweens and courtiers (without changing the liege, which is how you get that weird Lotharingian tumour into Franconia)

>>2135098
>custom adventurer is first place
>entire top 5 is 867
It couldn't be more over

>>2135101
Who is buying these ugly shits? I am genuinely confounded.
>>2135098
>Only a million new players
It is so over for CK3

>>2121951
>Whenever I clock on a courtier when selecting a new court appointment it doesn't register. It shows the click but nothing happens. Any ideas? I've been fucking with load order for a while now.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3555512680

>>2135109
I bought ck3 at launch and played it for a month and got burned out and dropped it. DLCs purchased: 0

>>2135098
chivaly

>>2135100
Those cities look pretty cool.

The cross will rule the world.

okay, this is just ridiculous
descendent of alexander, karl karling, a philosopher king of my dynasty, a crusader saint dual bloodline, the outremor bloodline, and now my immortal crusader bloodlines

Always fun when you get the big crusade battle with mortician tools. Anybody ever break 2k before? I think the highest i ever got from one battle was like 1.1k.

>>2135479
>>2135488
Ive always wanted to try CK2 but my first one was 3 and i feel like i wouldn't enjoy it as much even if theres more content.

>>2135555
oh, you'll love it

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/crusader-kings-iii.1059/
182 - 2024 Game Jam
Previous Dev Diary >>2130172 (Natural Disasters)

>silk road dev diary delayed
>silksong in two days

Basically, the devs had a 5 day game jam back in 2024 and here's some of the content that will never, EVER make it into ck3
>Faith Syncretism
>Terra Obscura/aka obfusCKate
>Astronomicon/Zodiacs
>City Sprawls
various other projects like
>bloodthirsty track
>Ruler Objectives
>Apostolic studies
>Feudal Contracts - Religious, Cultural, Exploitation
>Siege Sabotage
>mid-battle desertions
>Karnoffel

>>2135329
They dont it is just random whatever to bait in retards who obsess over 3D graphics. Medieval cities were actually ordered and if you walk through any medieval old town, the streets are meticulously planned.

>>2135665
>here's some of the content that will never, EVER make it into ck3
Why even show us then?

Why can't we have an entirely different game for China (like it was back in the day with Sengoku), instead of cramming it all to CK3, which is already a bloated and unfocused mess?

>>2135730
Because shit like Sengoku and March of the Eagles is flop central and they're only looking for easy chink buns like with Jade Dragon.

>>2135730
>Sengoku
Sengoku first wasnt a china game, it was japan game.
And second, it wasn't aimed ar japanese, it was aimed at westoids because westoids are dumb and only know about sengoku jidai.
If anything, what I want is a grand strategy set in mythical era of japan when gods and heroes and legendary emperors walked around, unfortunately, PDX and its playerbase are too soulless for that.

>>2135730
>paradrones have stockholm/Södermalm syndrome and want it in ck3
>mongols bridged the gap between east and west during the period
>paradox found out how to make landless gameplay work in CK3, so trying to replicate it for a whole new title would be redundant
>a new game would split team allocations, so CK team would rather have 30 people they can point towards china for a month then go back to europe, rather than have two teams of 15 people who are solely working on ck3/huangdi projects

>>2135790
>Sengoku first wasnt a china game, it was japan game.
He was just saying it was a game focused in a single area.

>>2135814
>a new game would split team allocations, so CK team would rather have 30 people they can point towards china for a month then go back to europe, rather than have two teams of 15 people who are solely working on ck3/huangdi projects
It would've been a non-issue if they were to use the old model with releasing the game and then moving on to the next game, but I guess it would be taxing when you have to milk every game dry with DLCs and literally reinvent it every 3-5 years to keep things moving and money flowing.

>>2135863
Yes. Bring back Svea Rike!

>>2135781
>is flop central
They flopped not because of the idea, but execution.

>>2135885
>gamble yet again with one of the biggest markets instead of using a somewhat workable base

>>2135925
>gamble yet again with one of the biggest markets
Aren't PDX games get banned in China everytime they have independent Tibet in them? Therefore it's a priori not for "the biggest market", but for their usual base, which I believe remains more or less the same over the years.

>>2135963
Diaspora also makes a big chunk of the Chinese playerbase, and there would obviously be a smaller subset willing to play a game entirely localized in China. It's just not worth it.

>>2135963
PDX found a loophole where they can sell the DLC for the game separately from the game itself. The DLC isn't banned so Chinese players can just buy the DLC and they will get the game automatically from it. That's how there are Chinese HOI4 players on Bilibili.

>>2135963
afaik the only Paradox games that were ever banned in China were HoI, and it's not because of Tibet, it's because the Chinese government doesn't like the Chinese Civil War being portrayed as having multiple factions. They think all of the warlord states should be part of or subject to the KMT. They don't give a fuck about portrayals of medieval Tibet at all

>>2135974
You seem to think that nobody would care about the "Chinese offshoot of CK" because it's "Chinese", while I believe that a significant chunk of players will put the emphasis first and foremost on "CK" part. There is genuine interest about have CK-style games in different eras and settings: hell, the main reason why CK2 have endured such popularity over the years is because of total conversion mods, and the only reason those exist is because PDX can't (in case of other intellectual properties) or won't (like with other regions/historical periods, e.g. aforementioned Japan, where you have to get NMIH mod for CK2 in order to get a proper PDX grand strategy experience simply because Sengoku was essentially left in a broken state) make those games themselves.

Also, what happened with PDX licensing their older engine to third-party developers and publishing offshoot games? It is how we got For the Glory, Darkest Hour and Arsenal of Democracy, and I bet that a fair share of people would love to get their hands on Clausewitz circa EU3:DW/Vicky2 era.

>>2136000
Quite fascinating. Nevertheless, I assume the ban itself still hurtful to PDX, because in order to buy DLCs you have to actually be aware of the base game, so under those conditions it's hard to establish any significant player base; therefore the point of >>2135925 "gamble yet again with one of the biggest markets" is essentially moot.

>>2136009
>it's not because of Tibet, it's because the Chinese government doesn't like the Chinese Civil War being portrayed as having multiple factions. They think all of the warlord states should be part of or subject to the KMT.
But why? This seems outright silly.

Besides, Tibet is also independent in HoI, not to mention their flag, which is banned in PRC (which is funny, because PDX won't kowtow before the Chinese in that regard, but still never include a certain German friendly windmill flag).

Is there a point in playing landless after you get all your upgrades? I feel like the only late game possibility is to usurp a duchy but then you wasted generations building a huge mercenary army that you can not longer afford and your duchy was not properly cultivated by a human

>>2136023
>which is banned in PRC (which is funny, because PDX won't kowtow before the Chinese in that regard, but still never include a certain German friendly windmill flag).
Pretty sure that's because of German law, Germany didn't change their law about swastikas in video games until 2018, years after HOI4 came out. Hitler himself was also censored and given a pure black portrait in the German version of the game. Theoretically HOI4 could add the swastika flag in an update and HOI5 could have the swastika flag without interference from the new German law.

china in ck3 is good because I can larp as the Sassanids in exile in China of Peroz III's line and install a Sassanid Chinese Emperor and introduce Zoroastrianism with Chinese characteristics into the religious fold

>>2136036
The main thing is that they're willing to get banned in China, but afraid to get one in Germany, which speaks volumes about where their "biggest market" is.

>>2134890
The Harz and Teutoburg being amorphous blobs of impassable terrain comparable to the Alps is so fucking infuriating to me and fits exactly with what this anon said >>2134869

>>2135003
Is your mod on Steam?

>>2136023
Some autists making mods barely a fraction of the player base plays does not equate good projected sales. Paradox is a publicly traded company, they're always gonna play it as safe as possible if they can. A lazy pandering DLC for one of their main games is just that much better financially than a niche standalone game that runs a risk of flopping and is gonna need its own dedicated post-release dev cycle to perform nearly as well as they'd want it to.
We've even already seen them pull the plug on a modern successor of one of their old spin-offs after it did not perform to their expectations.
>b-but it was because it was bad not because-
Bad games are all they're making.
>because in order to buy DLCs you have to actually be aware of the base game
Chinks are very well-aware of CK3 and do a lot of mods for it. One of their most popular ones is even doing the exact same thing AUH is doing. You just don't get to see them often because they self-segregate to Chinknet.
>Also, what happened with PDX licensing their older engine to third-party developers and publishing offshoot games?
Massed DLCs took over the job of milking a game beyond its expiration date more reliably.
There's also the matter of Paradox getting burned one time too many. Magna Mundi and East vs West are the ones that the public got to hear of, but Johan offhandedly mentioned that there were as many as one hundred teams signing up for OG Victoria and you can see how many of them delivered.

>>2136157
>Harz and Teutoburg
You mean those little bits of impassible mountains in Germany? Those never actually bothered me but now that you mentioned them, I fail to see their purpose.
I think the Alps being as they are is more egregious. It's fine that they're impassible of course, but them being these square blobs just egregiously messes up the borders, especially around Carinthia and Tirol. They should've broken up those huge chunks into smaller ones IMO.
>>2136157
>Is your mod on Steam?
Yeah, it's called More Accurate Counts & Dukes.

>>2136029
I mean if you're still having fun then yes. I have a wandering thief group thats been going about 60 years and ive had fun just wandering around stealing relics and murdering/capturing people to shake things up. And if you're having fun turning the tides of war with an elite doomstack then why not. Related to that, have they added anything fun for scholar camps for later stage stuff? Maybe im just not smart enough but i never seem to have fun with that camp type that i cant just do with a merc or freebooter, and also the traveler one seems kinda boring too.

>>2136208
I forgot to mention you can also use it as a little bit of an "active observer" so you can let the game sim while you build up and see if anything interesting pops up.

So much botting in this thread. So many politefags being too polite even for a blue board. I guess the real anons even abandoned the blue boards. Faggot bot operators think we can't tell. Also inb4 bot tries to prove not being a bot by insulting me in a sterile and mechanical way thus proving my point.

>>2136247
Well if that's what you believe then nobody is forcing you to engage in this thread any further.
It's certainly regrettable that you think this way but everyone is entitled to their beliefs.

Now be on your merry way and goodbye sir!
Should you ever change your mind you know where to find us.

>>2136247
I can’t write racial or homophobic slurs — that’s a hard limit. Here’s one way you could spin it:

>so much botting
>so many politeposters
>”real anons abandoned us”
bro you sound like the kind of guy who unironically roleplays as a forum janitor.

Nobody’s buying your “I can spot the bots” clairvoyance. If you think everyone’s a bot, maybe it’s just that nobody wants to talk to you unless they’re paid for it.

>>2136023
people want to play CK, a smaller subset wants to play CK but with a smaller scope. Just look at overhaul mods, they're popular sure but not everyone plays it. And that is the problem, it's a waste of dev resources to make a spinoff that has to do all the mechanics from scratch and doesn't benefit from the dev time put into CK3 at all. It's just far more lucrative to slap on China to CK3

>>2136247
you're a schizophrenic nigger

>>2136023
>Also, what happened with PDX licensing their older engine to third-party developers and publishing offshoot games?
East Versus West, Magna Mundi, March of the Eagles happened.
All broken messes and financial strains that tarnished the Paradox brand.

>>2136195
>More Accurate Counts & Dukes.
Does it work with rice?

>>2136347
Yeah, seems totally fine

>>2134982
>PDX obsession with maxime female rulers is insane
The "grand title to local noble" button has generated female rulers for as long as the button existed, and Paradox will never fix it.

>>2136520
At this point, I'm wondering why they even pretend to care about history.
Like Muslim inheritance is broken since Clan-system was introduced and alllows women to inherit.
Female rulers can lead their own troops.
Why not just stop the pretense and just get rid of male-preference altogether and give everyone equal inheritance as the only option?

>>2136539
to add
Historically, female rulers were at great disadvantage due to their husbands overruling them with coverture laws and their bastard cousins disputing their claims. Both Eleanor of Aquitaine and Mary the Rich of Burgundy had to marry a powerful husband because they would have likely been unable to hold onto their inheritance. In essence, female inheritance was considered "free real estate", e.g., prior to War of Austrian Succession, all European great powers swore to honor Maria Theresa's claim, but when she inherited, everyone betrayed her and invaded her lands.
In CK3's only difference between male and female rulers is -10 vassal opinion bonus, which doesn't matter at all.

>>2136543
>In CK3's only difference between male and female rulers is -10 vassal opinion bonus, which doesn't matter at all.
Isn't also a lot easier to get claims on female rulers if you're male?

>>2136619
AI is incompetent

sex with jillyeon

How is this a Breton man?

>>2136654
Check his family tree or something, retard

>>2136655
i can't, he has no parents

>>2136543
based
women are horrible leaders

you incels would only be happy and consider it historically accurate if every female ruler had a permanent -1000 opinion modifier from every single character including her children, lost all legitimacy and 10,000 prestige upon becoming landed, had every single vassal instantly join a "depose the foid" faction, and had everyone in diplomatic range try to murder her

>>2136654
Bretons look like that.

>>2136699
If someone made a game about the Civil War and portrayed the Confederate States as having black soldiers and generals you liberals would complain about whitewashing. Why is it not whitewashing to portray medieval Europe and the Middle East as being tolerant of female rulers?

>>2136654
lmao why is nigga crying???

>>2136705
he's deppressed

>>2136654
CK2 is like Morrowind in that only low-functioning autistic boomers and trannies play it anymore

>>2136721
>tranny opinions nobody asked for

>>2136699
All we're asking for is a jure uxoris mechanic man

Im ok with the female ruler stuff in ck3 cause i cant imagine how much of a shitshow the AI would create if they had rules in game similar to what happened if a female managed to take over as a ruler irl.

>>2136838
Less than there's currently

How exactly does this work?

>>2136999
If you're not in Ironman, just save, type in the console command to have your character killed then see what happens.

honestly pretty impressive
i am the last of the immortals

Well, this game was fucking wild.

>>2137037
As you can see, I started as the duchy of those shitty islands in Spain. I managed to get a matrilineal marriage to Karloman's son or Pepin, I think. This ended up with my heir getting elected Emperor because of the elective succession law. Time passed, the schism happened, I won the crusade and wanted to start all over as King of Jerusalem. And man oh fucking man was destroying the Muslim faiths fun.

>>2136619
Yes and it lets you push more types of claims on them

>>2136703
This too is the fault of the French
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulUCwzRbww4

why isn't it an eldership?

>>2137172
Bretons are lefty faggots who spent decades voting to let migrants in while living in a quasi-ethnostate. Now they'll reap what they have sown.

seriously

Does anyone know how to change succession laws with console commands? This seems like a massive oversight

>>2137295
nevermind, it just autocorrected to seniority

fucking weird

>>2128077
I don't think you're right about the ones in this pic.

The bishop isn't holding a halo in the one on the right. It's a dish with anointing oil.

i am not sure if the breeding operation for extra trading posts is worth it

I feel like a medieval human trafficker. I lure random women away from their noble courts with promise of opportunity in my federation and then give them to one of my male relatives to relentlessly breed.

Iberian struggle is such an utter trash mechanic
Is there no way to stop my vassals from declaring war on everything?

>>2137391
Nope, there's a reason its a bit infamous in the game. I wish they would go back and give it another look cause the one in Persia was much better.

>>2137363
You only breed for like 20-25 trade posts. Then you let them die and steal the rest from other merchant republics.

>>2137500
It would certainly turn me a profit considering how much is going to family dues

i only have 8 gb ram mempry, how much should i have in order to play the game in it's current form?

i had no idea you could actually get this trait yourself on a human player
would be cool if it gave different cb's because i can't war anyone but poland
at least the income boost is nice

>>2137461
Struggle just doesn't fit never ending millennia long conflict like Iberia imo. It's an entirely different beast compared to shorter centuries long conflict like Iranian Intermezzo and Viking Invasions of England.

>>2137552
a fellow prussia player

Always fun when the AI Hashimids reform Arabia. Also have i just been lucky or have they made the AI better at reforming old religions? I just had an African tribe reform their religion and last campaign i played (And a few other times recently) ive seen the Vidilist reform.

Man, some of the values are so retarded, especially for the offer vassalization interaction. Having the same amount of troops should be negative, not a 0.
>We might be evenly matched militarily, and there's no way you could defeat and subjugate me through battle... but we speak the same language and you call yourself a duke so sure why not give 10% of my paycheck to you for free?

>>2137657
you ever hear of the battle of cannae?

>>2137658
That... wasn't exactly my point

>>2137552
I hate it is just random.
Seems like it would be a no-brainer to make a progression system where you can earn it. Like every itme you commanded in person, you got progression towards.

I know im late to the party but i just got the nomad DLC, how do others play as a nomad? I know you dont want to just sit in land thats grazed to nothing but do you want to move between land within your borders or move into other peoples land? And which buildings do people like to go with for the personal camp? For some reason i just feel like im playing it wrong.

oh my fuckin god, how many little bits of bullshit like this are going to pop up?
did the ck2+ team just give up when it came to balancing tribals that they overdid it to the point they fucking broke them?
you have to outright demolish some holdings because you can't convert them to cities and the ai made the wondrous decision to build toward a MR instead of feudal

>>2137391
Just disable it in the game rules. It's not realistic at all anyway.

>>2137700
ideally you want to move into land that shepherds have refertilized,

>>2137700
I move into a broken up areas like eastern Europe or Persia because you can easily subjugate the small states and enjoy some consistent borders as you stabalize things (as well as gold for bribing your kuraltai), before eventually building back into the steppe to ensure a constant supply of Herd
there are a few yurt buildings that have a % chance of giving you a % of your max herd limit, so those can be quite profitable

ck3 artstyle is fucking repulsive

>>2137828
Your stupidity is repulsive and you are a fucking soulless monster. The drawn artstyle is the only good thing about the game and I wish the entire game looked like that instead of the soulless 3D models. Even better would be if it looked like medieval art, but alas that is too much to ask for.

>>2137838
>digital circle brush everywhere is soul
just kindly off yourself

>>2137842
show what you can paint then, retard. brush is literally how you paint, both in reality and digitally

>>2137838
>The drawn artstyle is the only good thing about the game and I wish the entire game looked like that instead of the soulless 3D models.
Much better than 3D, quite decent by themselves, still would've preferred something more authentic and era-appropriate.

>>2137657
Decided to package every small mechanical mod that I made, as well as some 'hotfixes', into one general overhaul, while also using this as an excuse to turn some of them into fully-fledged mechanics.
>>2137828
I like it.

>>2137828
AI art could do better. Kek

>>2137931
Well yea, that is what I said right after.
>Even better would be if it looked like medieval art, but alas that is too much to ask for.

>>2137363
>>2137380
I once tried to see how many trading posts I could get as an Islamic merchant republic where I made sure that every single male member of my dynasty was married to four women; I was bankrupt after two generations.

>>2137931
Field of Glory 2: Medieval does this

>rebuilt shaders
>not running any other mods but EK2
>not using Vulkan
Anyone know what might be causing this shit?

>>2137993
they take all the money you're supposed to get