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StashAugustine posted:You know what must be done I didn't even need to, he took himself out of the succession with that. I found out, when I stabbed the Grandmaster of the Knights Templar who was being a bad vassal, that my son was next in line.
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If I'm running Ag-Cog Primo and I set up my heir with a Merchant Republic, will that take him out of the line of succession? I ask because both of my good sons from my first marriage died, my eldest surviving child is a daughter I married off for alliances and who now has several non-dynasty children, and the son currently set to inherit the throne is an Imbecile. Like, literally 5 diplomacy and that's all he's got. I remarried and have two more good sons in line after him, the oldest of which is quick. I know the optimal solution is  , but I'm trying to play by my character's traits. My current king is a just, honest, kind, charitable dude so I want to avoid murdering the kid of possible.
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Feb 28, 2014 16:52
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Have they revamped combat recently? It's been about a month since I last played and I played as Rurik the loving beast with 26 martial and I attacked some Slavic sucker who had 6 martial with 4000 troops while he had 2000 and he absolutely crushed me.
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Feb 28, 2014 17:49
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They upped defensive advantages in terrain under some conditions and made flanking more powerful in the 2.0 patch.
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Feb 28, 2014 18:14
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I hadn't played for a while, so I thought I'd have some fun and do a run as a Count of Lyon-Forez. Things were going swimmingly till my dynasty had fallen to a line of gay- dwarves (Henri Lautrec, from touluse -- meta as gently caress) and after three straight dwarves I FINALLY, FINALLY managed to get a non-dwarf, non-gay son to live long enough to produce a non-dwarf heir, thus ending the dwarven legacy -- but wait for it... my son is loving his sister and has two children by her. Oh. And she's a NUN. 
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Feb 28, 2014 18:14
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Talky posted:If I'm running Ag-Cog Primo and I set up my heir with a Merchant Republic, will that take him out of the line of succession? Yes, you can set up the imbecile as the Lord Mayor of your vassal republic and he'll be knocked out of the inheritance, plus it'll give you dynasty bonus with your future Lord Mayors.
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Feb 28, 2014 19:11
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Node posted:There is some bug where if you get an Empire you can only hold one blot per lifetime. Can you post more details on this bug? I haven't seen it yet, but admittedly past a certain point I never seem to be at peace anyway.
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Feb 28, 2014 19:31
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ulmont posted:Can you post more details on this bug? I haven't seen it yet, but admittedly past a certain point I never seem to be at peace anyway. I wish I could. It never happened when I was a King or below, I could always hold blots, or see the intrigue option at least. Then when I formed the Empire, I could only hold one. It would always disappear along with the Great Hunt intrigue option as well. And the options would never come back until I died and my heir took over. The war thing is just a guess, but for some reason I think they're related. If you want to sacrifice a religious head without being cheesy like having your Byzantine heir being raised by the Varangian Guard and imprisoning and sacrificing the ecu patriarch, just hope you're nearing the end of your life or have an easy way to kill yourself.
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Feb 28, 2014 19:38
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So does the bonus cardinals get for being Italian during the Papal election change depending on where the partial states are located (for instance, if the Pope was in Normandy do Franks get the cultural bonus?)? I have seen the Pope hang his tiara outside of Italy in previous games, but that was before the College of Cardinals was introduced.
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Feb 28, 2014 19:47
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Hot Dog Day #82 posted:So does the bonus cardinals get for being Italian during the Papal election change depending on where the partial states are located (for instance, if the Pope was in Normandy do Franks get the cultural bonus?)? I have seen the Pope hang his tiara outside of Italy in previous games, but that was before the College of Cardinals was introduced. Yes, it's based on the current culture at the Papal State's capital.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:08
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Talky posted:If I'm running Ag-Cog Primo and I set up my heir with a Merchant Republic, will that take him out of the line of succession? Make him head of a small army (like, 100 troops recruited from a city vassal) and send him off on a Crusade against the Abbasids?
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Feb 28, 2014 20:42
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monster on a stick posted:Make him head of a small army (like, 100 troops recruited from a city vassal) and send him off on a Crusade against the Abbasids? It need up not mattering because my daughter took it upon herself to assassinate him before I could manage to conquer him a duchy. Shorty after that the Archpriest declared the first Romuva Great Holy War for Catholic Denmark. Which I won! I was sorting out my new territory when my character caught a cold and dropped dead less then a year after the war. I hadn't had the title long enough to change the succession law off Gavelkind. So now I'm the six year old king of Lithuania-Pomerania and my only major ally is my brother, the 4 year old king of Denmark. If I can get to adulthood this quick kid is gonna be a rad king, but I'm only three months in and I've already fought one claimant rebellion to a standstill. My brother can't help me because his vassals all hate him and also have the newly conquered territory penalties.
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Feb 28, 2014 20:58
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I may have slightly broken the Byzantine Empire in my Kingdom of Serbia (and soon Croatia) by forcing it to elective monarchy through some faction work. The emperor just lost 75% of Anatolia to a massive jihad. Maybe I should try and go independent once I've gobbled up dalmatia.
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Feb 28, 2014 21:01
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hellsjudge posted:Long reign plus bribes. They'll naturally like you if you have good diplo and a couple of virtuous traits, so the wrong government and harsh city taxes (yes I am a socialist dictator!) will hardly make a dent on my opinion.
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Feb 28, 2014 21:08
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For some help with modding, does anybody know how to copy over crown laws from a dynamically specified title? My problem is that the only time the copy_crown_laws command is used in Paradox code, it's for a hard-coded title (specifically, the Byzantine empire). What I want to do is be able to copy_crown_laws from whatever happens to be the character's primary title, but the Validator is telling me that primary_title and ROOT are not valid AnyTitles.
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Feb 28, 2014 21:39
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Arbitrary Coin posted:How are you avoiding the "too many titles held" penalty with all of those duchies here? I only hold the Jormsvikings and the Fylkirate titles, I ended up destroying Essex (my home duchy) so I wouldn't be penalized.
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Feb 28, 2014 21:59
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fool_of_sound posted:Yes, it's based on the current culture at the Papal State's capital. I tested it a while ago, it's based on the current culture of Rome, not wherever the Papacy is currently based. Even if you move the Papacy out it still only takes the culture of Rome.
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Mar 1, 2014 02:33
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Allyn posted:I tested it a while ago, it's based on the current culture of Rome, not wherever the Papacy is currently based. Even if you move the Papacy out it still only takes the culture of Rome. That's bizarre, cause I used the console to move the Pope to Koln (taking Rome from him, then giving him Koln) before and he immediately switched to German preference.
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Mar 1, 2014 02:40
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 Vassal Popes are so utterly gross.
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Mar 1, 2014 02:51
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You know I thought I had it good when I vassalized all the patriarchs, but the income was never that much. 
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Mar 1, 2014 02:56
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fool_of_sound posted:That's bizarre, cause I used the console to move the Pope to Koln (taking Rome from him, then giving him Koln) before and he immediately switched to German preference. That's exactly what I did too, huh. I'll go run it again tomorrow, maybe it got changed in a patch at some point 
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nutranurse posted:You know I thought I had it good when I vassalized all the patriarchs, but the income was never that much. To be fair, that was almost immediately after the Papal election, before any bishops had a chance to realize "wait I hate that guy lemme pay my liege instead." ...now I'm only getting half that number. Which is still a shitload.
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Mar 1, 2014 03:46
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:
 You're adorable. \/\/\/\/\/\/ I have more crowns 
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:
You think that's a lot, try turning on feudal taxes to get some real cashflow in your empire (but don't look at the cost of the retinues needed to keep them in line!) 
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Mar 1, 2014 03:53
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Can you still do the trick where you swap yourself and all of your vassals into various crusade battles so you're all crusaders (and therefore they all love you)?
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fool_of_sound posted:That's bizarre, cause I used the console to move the Pope to Koln (taking Rome from him, then giving him Koln) before and he immediately switched to German preference. Okay, just went and tested it again and it worked exactly like I thought: Pope's culture does not matter, Pope's home province culture does not matter. Only thing that matters is the culture of Rome. Took all the titles in Latium for myself, gave the Pope Koln, and it was still Italian-preference. Consoled Rome to German (event 55000 333) and that changed it. Then changed Rome back to Italian, and made the Pope be a German in Koln, and it was still Italian-preference.
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I did that two days ago, and it worked. I also rediscovered this guy, who I'd passed over for giving land three rulers ago and fired from being my martial thirty years ago when he got infirm-  If he dies in this crusade, it'll be what Jesus would've wanted.  Edit: Cropped image. Pester fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Mar 1, 2014 |
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Wezlar posted:Can you still do the trick where you swap yourself and all of your vassals into various crusade battles so you're all crusaders (and therefore they all love you)? Yeah, that's totally still a thing. It's not even a trick, really, just a bit of care with assigning troop leaders. The whole point of Crusades, I think, is to give everyone the Crusader trait and have them all come back as Crusade-buddies.
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Mar 1, 2014 04:17
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CapnAndy posted:
It's only 1197, I have more time to get the numbers bigger! 
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Mar 1, 2014 04:21
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Node posted:I wish I could. It never happened when I was a King or below, I could always hold blots, or see the intrigue option at least. Then when I formed the Empire, I could only hold one. It would always disappear along with the Great Hunt intrigue option as well. And the options would never come back until I died and my heir took over. I just got this as Dyre after forming Ruthenia.
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DrSunshine posted:Yeah, that's totally still a thing. It's not even a trick, really, just a bit of care with assigning troop leaders. The whole point of Crusades, I think, is to give everyone the Crusader trait and have them all come back as Crusade-buddies. It's sort of a double-sided sword though. If you die unexpectedly shortly after all your vassholes like each other waaaaay more than your heir and they're all looking him like 'you weren't there man, you weren't in the poo poo' as they begin sprouting factions until critical mass.
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Allyn posted:Okay, just went and tested it again and it worked exactly like I thought: Pope's culture does not matter, Pope's home province culture does not matter. Only thing that matters is the culture of Rome. Took all the titles in Latium for myself, gave the Pope Koln, and it was still Italian-preference. Consoled Rome to German (event 55000 333) and that changed it. Then changed Rome back to Italian, and made the Pope be a German in Koln, and it was still Italian-preference. Huh, guess I was mistaken. Thanks for testing it!
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HenessyHero posted:It's sort of a double-sided sword though. If you die unexpectedly shortly after all your vassholes like each other waaaaay more than your heir and they're all looking him like 'you weren't there man, you weren't in the poo poo' as they begin sprouting factions until critical mass. This is why I rarely crusade unless I can bring my heir.
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Mar 1, 2014 07:12
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Someone help me cause I haven't played in forever: what determines whether an ally is available to be called to war? I'm picking out a potential victim who has some powerful allies, but I notice he can't call most of them, despite both being independent. Is it definitely the case that he must have called them in the last 5 years that they're redded out, or is there some other rule here?
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Mar 1, 2014 07:20
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Arglebargle III posted:This is why I rarely crusade unless I can bring my heir. Terribly mitigated by the fact that the game does not allow young boys and girls to lead armies! Otherwise, I would have put my 12 year old daughter at the command of my 65,000-strong retinue of knights on their siege of Gallilee!
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Mar 1, 2014 07:27
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DrSunshine posted:Terribly mitigated by the fact that the game does not allow young boys and girls to lead armies! Otherwise, I would have put my 12 year old daughter at the command of my 65,000-strong retinue of knights on their siege of Gallilee! What I Conquered on My Summer Vacation, by Crown Princess Beatrice (age 12)
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What's the reason for full-strength retinues not costing upkeep? I basically had to disband mine in disgust once I realized no AI was using them and they weren't costing me any money.
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Mar 1, 2014 15:16
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:What I Conquered on My Summer Vacation, by Crown Princess Beatrice (age 12) Oh now you just know that's an "A" summer break report right there.
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Sulla posted:What's the reason for full-strength retinues not costing upkeep? I basically had to disband mine in disgust once I realized no AI was using them and they weren't costing me any money. I don't know the reason for them not costing upkeep, but the AI will use retinues. It's just they won't prioritise Military Organisation when choosing tech like a human will, so in your game they probably just don't have the tech to create retinues. Reinforcing a retinue does cost quite a lot though, getting them wiped out when you are broke can be devastating.
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marktheando posted:I don't know the reason for them not costing upkeep, but the AI will use retinues. It's just they won't prioritise Military Organisation when choosing tech like a human will, so in your game they probably just don't have the tech to create retinues. Reinforcing a retinue does cost quite a lot though, getting them wiped out when you are broke can be devastating. That is indeed how it is supposed to balance it out. Reinforcing a retinue costs far more than raising and maintaining comparable levies (which reinforce for free!) However it utterly fails to account for retinues having full Morale and being able to Blitzkrieg far larger stacks of recently raised levies, making levies more or less worthless for kingdom warfare when you also factor their role in keeping Factions in check.
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