Qwo posted:

Is there something I can mod into the game to seriously prohibit AI blobbing? How does CK2+ do it?

Demiurge4 posted:

How much is Constantinople worth? Venice usually nets a nice 50 gold for the capitol.

Shadeoses posted:

Yes, and I would appreciate any help anyone offers for events and junk. _{Help me it's so lonely}

Thanqol posted:

CK2+ reduces levy sizes based on your realm's size, so the HRE gets say 15% of it's levies while a smaller realm gets 100%. This stops it from being a giant empire steamroll every time.

Ofaloaf posted:

What do you mean by "and junk"? Do you still need cultural namesets? Flags? Little icons for the religions? Words of encouragement?

Also you better keep the wargaming event in.

Shadeoses posted:

Yes, that stuff. I've filled in the map, given flags to about half the map, but events are still default, nearly everyone is still a family-less placeholder, so on.

Shadeoses posted:

Yes, that stuff. I've filled in the map, given flags to about half the map, but events are still default, nearly everyone is still a family-less placeholder, so on.

SynthOrange posted:

I've been having trouble trying to get invasions working and all my troops get pissed off and leave. I've been playing as Jyllihghghbhhbhad and am allied into the fight against Northumberland and its allies, one of whom I'm trying to invade. Does that prevent me from declaring an invasion somehow?

Hazmat Sam posted:

Speaking of retinues, I've been playing a Songhey -> Mali game, and Mali's unique retinue is light infantry. Should I even bother investing in the buildings, or just spam heavy infantry?

Shadeoses posted:

There's a thread for it

toasterwarrior posted:

00_religions.txt in the religions folder, then add "allow_looting = yes" to your desired religion. I agree with you on looting too: Wiz is right in that it's too powerful, but looting is what makes Norse Pagans worth playing. Otherwise, I'd rather play other characters.

It's a good thing Wiz is cool with people changing around his mods!

vvv:

Fintilgin posted:

I started a Mali game for a few decades, but then saw the Morrocco caliphate north of me was able to summon like 25,000 troops to my 2,500, and I just kinda said, 'welp', and threw in the towel. I guess the name of the game would just be investing and building up for a long, long, long time and hoping to jump on the north when they're weak, but getting across the desert one province/war at a time just seems really grueling.

Shadeoses posted:

There's a thread for it

Charlz Guybon posted:

Can't we just Warhammer Europe up a little bit instead?

For example, if a ruler gets the possessed trait he has the chance to sacrifice a virgin to open up the gates of hell. If he does so he gets the chance to commune with the Devil and he has chance of being devoured or gaining the ability to recruit a demonic retinue. He'll than have the option of declaring Satanic unholy wars on his neighbors. Of course this will give him a -50 relationship penalty with all other religions.

I'm pretty sure all this would be rather easy to code, the dificult part would be making sprites for the demonic retinue.

The virgin would in gameplay terms be a woman who's never married, nor has a lover.
The demonic retinue would fall under the heavy infantry category and cost the same, but it would have the stats of heavy cavlry.

Much better than ahistorical Aztecs, especially since such a thing could happen anywhere at anytime.

Of course, if one actually devled into Aztec mythology they have the potential to be pretty nightmarish themsleves.

Shadeoses posted:

Fintilgin posted:

I started a Mali game for a few decades, but then saw the Morrocco caliphate north of me was able to summon like 25,000 troops to my 2,500, and I just kinda said, 'welp', and threw in the towel. I guess the name of the game would just be investing and building up for a long, long, long time and hoping to jump on the north when they're weak, but getting across the desert one province/war at a time just seems really grueling.

Winter Stormer posted:

In my game as Abyssinia (1.09), there were a few decades where the king took the Duchy of Sana'a and tried to figure out how to get a decent troop count when the Miaphysites can't even be bothered to set up holy orders. Then the Fatimids ran out of Muslims to fight and decided to lurch on down and steal all his tasty Christian counties.

Then the former king turned into a duke inside the Fatimid blob, changed to Muslim religion, and had the 'Open' inheritance law imposed... which meant that his last son, the Ethiopian Miaphysite Duke of Porto (lucky marriage), got everything on ruler death.

And that's how I escaped Ethiopia and hosed off to Iberia, which is just a better deal all around~

Edit: Of course, for some reason, in my current game as the Republic of Scandinavia, the Kingdom of Abyssinia never fell and is actually in position to set themselves up as the Empire of Abyssinia. I don't think I'd ever seen them survive past a century.

Hazmat Sam posted:

Speaking of retinues, I've been playing a Songhey -> Mali game, and Mali's unique retinue is light infantry. Should I even bother investing in the buildings, or just spam heavy infantry?

Charlz Guybon posted:

Has someone already made a similar mod?

wolfman101 posted:

Lesson is it is worth it to fight the stupid interface to remove anyone of any importance from your army before you go into battle.

Grem posted:

Tried this, and now I can only loot when I take successfully siege something. Is it supposed to work like that, or is there a way to get it to working like in vanilla.

Here's what I got:

code:

norse_pagan_reformed = {
		graphical_culture = norsegfx

		icon = 20
		heresy_icon = 21
		
		color = { 0.75 0.75 0.75 }
		god_names = {
			GOD_THOR GOD_THE_THUNDERER GOD_THE_ALLFATHER GOD_THE_ODIN GOD_FREY GOD_TYR
		}
		
		unit_modifier = {
			levy_size = 0.3
			
			key = "OFF_RELIGION"
		}
		
		crusade_name = GREAT_HOLY_WAR
		scripture_name = THE_SAGAS
		priests_can_marry = yes
                allow_viking_invasion = yes # Allows the "Prepare Invasion" diplo action
		allow_looting = yes
		allow_rivermovement = yes
		can_call_crusade = yes
		female_temple_holders = yes
             		
		short_reign_opinion_year_mult = 3 # The default is 2
		
		aggression = 1.5 # AI aggression factor
		
		max_consorts = 3
		
		religious_clothing_head = 3
		religious_clothing_priest = 3
                
                
                
	}		

Shadeoses posted:

No, but it would have been easier to do that instead

Grem posted:

Anyone?

Strudel Man posted:

It looks like it should be working. Are you looting in a coastal province with an adjacent fleet, or alternately, in a province adjacent to your realm?

Grem posted:

Looting like normal, yea, raiders, coastal, fleet there. The little raiding bar doesn't show up on the province screen still

Shadeoses posted:

No, but it would have been easier to do that instead

DrSunshine posted:

There's no difference, none whatsoever. For the purposes of selecting your heir to be anyone you want, Ag-Cog more than suffices. I've found that giving your heir land helps them win, because they'll vote for themselves, giving another vote to the cause. So if you want to give females land, Cognatic is a good choice. But the point is that Ag-Cog will grant your successor, male or female, the title when you die, just as long as they have enough votes.

Grem posted:

Looting like normal, yea, raiders, coastal, fleet there. The little raiding bar doesn't show up on the province screen still

edit: played with it a bit, looks like I AM looting, but it won't tell me how much I can loot max on the province screen, guess I'll have to guess, or maybe it's unlimited, who knows.

toasterwarrior posted:

I'm thinking that you mean that you can't see the loot bar when you're sieging, which is WAD. There's supposed to be a button on the siege screen, two arrows I think, that'll switch the province view mode so that you can see the loot bar again.

Grem posted:

When I do that it gives me that solid yellow bar, with no indicator that I'm looting, in fact, my earlier edit was wrong, I'm still not looting, what.the.gently caress.

So it says Possible Loot: 0

Oh well, which lands are unreformed pagans?

Reveilled posted:

Are you able to toggle your units into raiders?

Knuc If U Buck posted:

Here's how to prevent your heir or other important people from being killed in battle: Choose other people to lead your armies.