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I had a spot where I wasn't sure what to do next, so I got my men together, hopped on a boat and went a-raidin'. I sacked Rome and then headed over to Venice. Once that place had been burned to the ground, Rome was ready for looting again, so I paid the Pope a visit on the way home. 1000 ducats? Don't mind if I do, thanks.
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This new casus belli that lets you invade other de jure territories is pretty overpowered. Almost makes it impossible to start as anything other than a petty king without save scumming or getting really lucky. Ostlandet pretty much stomps your face in if you start as any minor province in Norway. Playing as Mann looks pretty hard as you're surrounded by catholics. Burn it all down. 
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spacebard posted:This new casus belli that lets you invade other de jure territories is pretty overpowered. Almost makes it impossible to start as anything other than a petty king without save scumming or getting really lucky. Ostlandet pretty much stomps your face in if you start as any minor province in Norway. Is it just me or does Ostlandet pretty much jump on the player straight away if he's one of the Norwegian minors? The second run I played I beat him by raiding enough money for a mercenary company, and I'm not the ruler of most of western Norway which is fun. I think CK2+ has spoiled me with it's slower pacing, it feels like everything (as in, the game's events, not system performance) moves so quickly without it.
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Cirofren posted:
I put on my wizard robe and hat...
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So once Ivar the Boneless conquers Scotland and grabs a bunch of holy sites and reforms the Norse religion and becomes the Fylksomething, the tooltip tells me that the Fylksomething can call a Great Holy War. So how the gently caress do I do that? 'Cause I am all about crusading in the name of Odin, motherfuckers.
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May 29, 2013 13:33
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Starting in Ireland was not the best idea when it comes to reforming the faith, I realized. 
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Anyone else notice gavelkind being kind of broken now? Form Norway as the Jarl of Ostlandet and it keeps trying to give Akershus and Ostlandet to your second son, giving your primary heir only Norway and random_county_that_isn't_your_capital. Bit odd, that. Edit: primary heir also loses Jarldom of Ostlandet. Sheep fucked around with this message at 14:50 on May 29, 2013 |
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Wow, started off as the boneless dude and had no idea how to win 2 wars at the same time. Got overwhelmed, accidentally invaded Scotland, then quit. Started a new game in Iceland. Raiding is incredible and makes life so much easier compared to getting actual money. Used that money to hire a mercenary company, overwhelmed my (previously) equal strength neighbor, formed the Petty Kingdom of Iceland. I love this DLC. So much more fun (and faster!) than traditional methods.
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NihilVerumNisiMors posted:Starting in Ireland was not the best idea when it comes to reforming the faith, I realized. INor Russia.  I'll just have to be happy with my massive blob that expands like a cancer, feeds rebellious Slavic chiefs to Odin once the subjugation opinion modifier wears off, and implodes every generation because the heir NEVER inherits Rurik's Quick trait and always has at least one sibling, uncle, or niece who can run circles around him. I still hate Gavelkind but at least it gives away coherent duchies most of the time now. Except when it gave the capital duchy (Novgorod/Holmgardr) to Rurik's brilliant granddaughter (who WOULD have been queen if rebels hadn't killed her dad and hosed up my plan) without any actual counties in Novgorod (which all went to the primary heir, Rurik's second son.) Of course, since that plan means she now holds the two richest duchies in Rus worth of actual land, I think that's really just the game telling me to switch to her, overthrow her uncle, and play the murderous hybrid of Catherine the Great and Asha Greyjoy eight hundred years early. Best DLC.
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Regarding the mod section of OP: The LAA mod (for using 2GB+ of memory) is not needed anymore as CK2 has been LAA since 1.092. The Performance mod seems to just make the map flat, it's not really anything to do with us being lazy (we are, but it is unrelated :p), the mod just makes the mapfile smaller by erasing the heights. It probably does help if you don't mind, or prefer, a flat map though.
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Shadeoses posted:There's an event chain where you summon Ram Cthulhu in a longboat, all day every day. jgbeagle posted:And considering that he now works for PDX give it a week or two. Woah, Paradox actually hired Wiz? I took a break from the Paradox thread for a few months. Holy poo poo, our lobbying worked! Okay, we can't really take credit next to Wiz's own awesomeness, but still, that owns.
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I've enjoyed the game so far. Right now while the balance gets sorted it feels like a really frantic race, first against the other Petty Kings in your kingdom and then for the easy to grab small lands. I'm looking forward to CK2+ or ProjectBalance (and ultimately 1.10.1 hopefully) settling on a level of balance where it's not such a race.TOOT BOOT posted:Based on comments from Paradox devs I think we'll continue to get dlc for another year or two. Yeah, they just had a job opening hiring another guy specifically to work on event coding and scripting for future CK2 DLC.
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:So, how do you do that thing where adventurers and other armies will flock under your banner for free? Certain pagans start with a few free armies for raiding, but I don't know how to get those back after I lose them for whatever reason (whoops, turns out Tyrol is the only irish county that will actually fight back) "Prepared Invasion" via diplomacy with a non-pagan.
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NihilVerumNisiMors posted:
If you're lustful it actually increases your opinion of that dude.
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New tech tip: your bought upgrades are applied to your present capital, if you move it you lose bonuses. It's a bitch if you've concentrated on demesne bonuses.
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Sheep posted:Anyone else notice gavelkind being kind of broken now? Form Norway as the Jarl of Ostlandet and it keeps trying to give Akershus and Ostlandet to your second son, giving your primary heir only Norway and random_county_that_isn't_your_capital. Bit odd, that. Yeah, that seems to be the way gavelkind works now for some reason. The game kept trying to give away my capital to 2nd+ sons. I somehow managed to finagle my way around that until I reformed the Slavic faith and switched to elective succession, but if that had come to pass and I'd gotten stuck with one technologically backwater county and a couple of pretender super-dukes, things would have been really messy. Well, they are messy now anyway, because apparently East Francia, stretching all the way to Brittany, Bordeaux and the Balkans, has decided to stop sitting on its hands and to start loving with me. I don't think there's anything I can do to hold them off. Another possible bug I've found: when you reform the Slavic faith, it tells you that now your vassals will get upset if you keep their levies raised too long. I had gotten that penalty already while unreformed, however. I'm not sure if the tooltip is wrong or if the penalty shouldn't apply.
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Archaeology Hat posted:Is it just me or does Ostlandet pretty much jump on the player straight away if he's one of the Norwegian minors? The second run I played I beat him by raiding enough money for a mercenary company, and I'm not the ruler of most of western Norway which is fun. I let Ostlandet vassal me then subjugated a few counties he hadn't gotten around to, fabricated claims on another, raided up a few hundred gold for mercenaries and declared independence. No way he forms Norway before me. Edit: nope he beat me. Cirofren fucked around with this message at 15:03 on May 29, 2013 |
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Yeah, the more I'm playing this the more frustrated I'm getting with this gavelkind bullshit. Every time it's a race to see if I can reform the faith before whoever's doing well ends (hint: I can't), and if I can't, well, that's it, time for everything to go to poo poo!
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On the topic of music that you should hear while raiding your way across Europe, have some Rebellion
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Kainser posted:
 How does this happen? Possessed trait?
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Yes.The Mattybee posted:Yeah, the more I'm playing this the more frustrated I'm getting with this gavelkind bullshit. Every time it's a race to see if I can reform the faith before whoever's doing well ends (hint: I can't), and if I can't, well, that's it, time for everything to go to poo poo! Gavelkind isn't exactly gameover, but you can mitigate it further by either handing out less important titles to your sons before you die, or just killing off excess sons or otherwise removing from from succession. Does making them majors/bishops still work? Not sure if that was made hard to do or not. Darkrenown fucked around with this message at 14:41 on May 29, 2013 |
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Kainser posted:
Goddrat. I thought those popups couldn't get more after  but, yeah, I think scholars will have their hands full with this one.^^^  Mystery solved, Shaggy.
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Charlz Guybon posted:What's this disrespect dynasty modifier about? You didn't have a picture/chronicle of your family made when the option was available. Shame on you.
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Is there some trick to successions that I just don't know about? I always quit playing this game because there's always a huge succession crisis immediately after my ruler dies. I even reformed the faith and switched to elective this time. Why would my vassals uniamously elect my son to be the king and then almost uniamously rebel against him within a month of taking the throne? It looked like the main problem was the short reign modifier, but he was a count for about ten years before taking over.
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My character must have done that while he was a Duke and before his Mom the Queen died. How long does that last?
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TOOT BOOT posted:I think this is what he's talking about, not as exciting as it sounds: Well, we can be sure someone will take the plunge and make this into something more...significant. Like a real religion shift.
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I've been trying to get a full conversion mod working with the new patch, and I've isolated the issue. 'adjacencies.csv' can't be changed at all. The only way for the game to load without crashing is to copy the vanilla file over, and have portages and straits randomly crisscrossing the Empire. It's pretty weird.
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Bloodly posted:Well, we can be sure someone will take the plunge and make this into something more...significant. Like a real religion shift. Octopus Overlords with Water Spells gogogo
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Smirr posted:Another possible bug I've found: when you reform the Slavic faith, it tells you that now your vassals will get upset if you keep their levies raised too long. I had gotten that penalty already while unreformed, however. I'm not sure if the tooltip is wrong or if the penalty shouldn't apply. Non-your_religion dudes will get the raised levies penalty. I'm getting it from Catholic vassals as an unreformed Norse ruler. Darkrenown posted:Gavelkind isn't exactly gameover, but you can mitigate it further by either handing out less important titles to your sons before you die, or just killing off excess sons or otherwise removing from from succession. Does making them majors/bishops still work? Not sure if that was made hard to do or not. Yes, that's what I've been doing.
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I'm still a bit confused about de jure drifting. Let's say I form the kingdom of Sweden and then I grab duchies in Denmark. If I don't create/grab the king title of Denmark, those duchies will start drifting into Sweden, is that correct? Once all duchies have been absorbed into the kingdom of Sweden, king of Denmark becomes a titular title? Are there any advantages to being an Emperor with a single massive kingdom instead of having some vassal kings? Can I get a kingdom to drift into my empire? I can't seem to get it to work as Scandinavia.
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Sheep posted:Non-your_religion dudes will get the raised levies penalty. I'm getting it from Catholic vassals as an unreformed Norse ruler. I was getting it from everyone, including Slavic vassals. Just double-checked, and it definitely got applied, too, so it's not just a display bug in case it's not supposed to be there.
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That's correct, just keep in mind that you have to own ALL the duchies and counties within the kingdom. If even a single barony is held by someone else, de jure drift will stop. Having vassal kings can potentially be dangerous, because it means all the dukes and counts within their kingdom follow their banner, and they can amass much more individual power. If you want to a stable realm, it's much better for your vassals to be as granular and disunited as possible.
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Myoclonic Jerk posted:This DLC owns so hard. Can anybody recommend a Viking-appropriate Pandora station, maybe some metal? Nthing the Tyr/Amon Amarth suggestions. Basically mix those with Windir, Heidevolk, and Falkenbach and rock the gently caress out. (or set up a Kiuas/Metsatöll/Korpiklaani/ spotify playlist and play as a Suomennusko like a real man   )
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The Mattybee posted:Yeah, the more I'm playing this the more frustrated I'm getting with this gavelkind bullshit. Every time it's a race to see if I can reform the faith before whoever's doing well ends (hint: I can't), and if I can't, well, that's it, time for everything to go to poo poo! On that note, how far out has anyone played? Obviously the vikings are going to over everyone at the beginning, but if you don't reform or convert fast you'll die out. I'm wondering how far out you can feasibly go.
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Balts are just as bad about nationalism/racism as eastern Europeans, who woulda thought.  http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?690565-Baltic-Face-DLC
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 My Ivar the Boneless is TOO TO DIE.87 years old. Still leads from the front. Conquers Scotland and 3/4ths of England and 4/5ths of Ireland and reforms the Norse Faith and moves his capital to London and keeps havin' kids.
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