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I found where I can change the "absolute cognatic" to allow everyone (I guess just removing the culture=basque will be enough), but I cant find where to chance councilor rules. Can someone point me to the right file?
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Apr 17, 2014 00:39
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Elias_Maluco posted:I found where I can change the "absolute cognatic" to allow everyone (I guess just removing the culture=basque will be enough), but I cant find where to chance councilor rules. common/job_titles.txt Edit: note that lady marshals will get you lady generals too.
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Apr 17, 2014 00:48
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:
Watch them all turn out to be terminators and promptly steam roll your millions. On another note I'm glad the muslim dynasties in my game have started to grow massive because now I don't have to hit them with twice as many men to overcome the 50% moral bonus from low decadence.
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Apr 17, 2014 00:51
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Autonomous Monster posted:common/job_titles.txt Thank you. Im not sure I get the sintax, though. Under job_spymaster there´s this: quote:is_female = no It is enough if i add: quote:AND = { bellow? EDIT: it is. Thanks Elias_Maluco fucked around with this message at 01:13 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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Apr 17, 2014 00:56
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If it's in the same OR = { } clause as the is_female = no then that'll allow orthodox realms to have female spymasters, yes.
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Apr 17, 2014 01:04
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Techno Remix posted:I guarantee that it speaks way more to my lack of skill, I probably had bad commanders assigned or wasn't paying too close attention to any reinforcements. Gotta keep learning the system I suppose. CKII's battle system is pretty transparent by Paradox standards; if you click on an ongoing battle and mouse over the right spots, it'll show pretty much every factor affecting the battle, from terrain effects to tactic selection to flank phases and losses by day. I usually take the time to watch close battles carefully, since the casualty numbers usually give a good early indication of how the battle's going. It also reveals the identities of the enemy's flank leaders, which allows one fun tactic for changing the course of battles. Did you know that assassination works on enemy generals currently fighting battles, that their flanks will be leaderless until the AI appoints a new leader, and that new generals can't be appointed while the army is in battle? And that the AI often uses low-ranking vassals or even courtiers, who are much cheaper to stab than kings and dukes, as generals? And that leaderless flanks are much weaker than flanks with generals? One stab at the start of a batlle can completely change the outcome. Just make sure to do it early; by the time you start really obviously losing it's probably already too late.
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Apr 17, 2014 01:34
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DrPop posted:Ahhhhhh god when are they going to allow ironman to save at a longer interval than every month This really, I spend about 8 seconds saving for every 12 seconds playing on speed 3, and this is only like 40 years into the Old Gods Start. I really want to play Ironman because otherwise I have terrible self control and reload whenever poo poo goes wrong, but this is barely playable.
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Apr 17, 2014 01:59
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Main Paineframe posted:CKII's battle system is pretty transparent by Paradox standards; if you click on an ongoing battle and mouse over the right spots, it'll show pretty much every factor affecting the battle, from terrain effects to tactic selection to flank phases and losses by day. I usually take the time to watch close battles carefully, since the casualty numbers usually give a good early indication of how the battle's going. It also reveals the identities of the enemy's flank leaders, which allows one fun tactic for changing the course of battles. Goddamn, is there anything that a stab to the back can't cure? I do like that there are tooltips for pretty much everything in this game. Maybe I need to slow down a bit and look at things just a little closer.
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Apr 17, 2014 02:03
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Does anyone have any recommendations for starting as the Bolghars in 1066? I really want to build Glorious Sunni Rus, but I'm having trouble expanding westward due to the pagan homeland attrition nastiness.
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Apr 17, 2014 02:25
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Don't declare holy wars, declare conquests
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Apr 17, 2014 02:48
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Techno Remix posted:Goddamn, is there anything that a stab to the back can't cure? I'm phoneposting, or I'd link it, but have you considered joining the Patricians and Paupers LP? We could use more people with this viewpoint. 
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Apr 17, 2014 03:09
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DrPop posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for starting as the Bolghars in 1066? I really want to build Glorious Sunni Rus, but I'm having trouble expanding westward due to the pagan homeland attrition nastiness. You're honestly much better off mugging Tengri realms for their lands, they don't get the pagan homeland bonus. That eventually gives you Sunni Tartaria instead of Rus, of course. You do want to bring a massive army against the Mordvins so you can form Volga Bulgaria first. Oh, and keep a huge warchest for mercs. Won't help you against Suomenuski because their lands just eat soldiers and spit out bones, but you're a bit weaker than everyone else until you have Volga Bulgaria.
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Apr 17, 2014 07:02
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What mod would you guys recommend for someone who wants more random events? I was playing the Elder Kings mod and it threw random events at me constantly, which was really fun and helped build a narrative around my custom king. But I didn't particularly like the rest of the Elder Kings mod for various reasons, so I'd like to have the same event-fest but with a closer-to-vanilla game.
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Apr 17, 2014 07:34
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So I'm currently King of Castille after finagling my way onto the throne from way up in far flung Leon, Brittany. When I picked it up, it was probably the most powerful Kingdom in Spain, aside from Portugal, which has since broken up. I've decided that I'm going to build myself a nice little kingdom going up the West coast of France to Brittany, eventually uniting my original territories. There's a problem, though. The Duchy of Aquitaine is ruled by the HRE, and is also a Theocracy. HRE has been extremely stable all playthrough, owns all of Germany and most of Italy, as well as the Kingdom of England, which is ALSO a Theocracy. The Pope is their vassal. They can muster about 6 times the troops I can, and they are allied with the Byzantines just to make matters worse. They are Agnatic Seniority. How the hell would I go about destabilizing such a beast? I just want one little duchy. They can totally keep England and their pet Pope. I just want to connect my kingdom to my overseas holdings.
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Apr 17, 2014 10:24
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Veryslightlymad posted:So I'm currently King of Castille after finagling my way onto the throne from way up in far flung Leon, Brittany. When I picked it up, it was probably the most powerful Kingdom in Spain, aside from Portugal, which has since broken up. I've decided that I'm going to build myself a nice little kingdom going up the West coast of France to Brittany, eventually uniting my original territories. There's a problem, though. The Duchy of Aquitaine is ruled by the HRE, and is also a Theocracy. HRE has been extremely stable all playthrough, owns all of Germany and most of Italy, as well as the Kingdom of England, which is ALSO a Theocracy. The Pope is their vassal. They can muster about 6 times the troops I can, and they are allied with the Byzantines just to make matters worse. They are Agnatic Seniority. Your best bet is swearing fealty and destabilizing them from the inside, depending on what their crown laws are.
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Apr 17, 2014 12:56
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Darth Various posted:You're honestly much better off mugging Tengri realms for their lands, they don't get the pagan homeland bonus. That eventually gives you Sunni Tartaria instead of Rus, of course. You do want to bring a massive army against the Mordvins so you can form Volga Bulgaria first. Right after I posted that I got lucky in a holy war for the Mordvin duchy to my west--captured their ruler and got an instant 100%, then formed Volga Bulgaria. Then I made the mistake of stirring the Rurikid hornet's nest with another holy war. I think that after that putters out I will aim south. Gonna need money for a whole lotta mercs to fight the Cumans.
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Apr 17, 2014 13:55
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I'm still not sure whether you get the catholic holy orders when you mend the schism, but I've just seen the orthodox order go to Catholicism after I converted most orthodox provinces to Zoroastrianism. The catholic orders also spawned now that they came out heresy status. Gonna see if I can make Catholicism a heresy yet again. I'm also not sure how they ended up with with 2 castles and 8 vassal castles, possibly because their "home" provinces kept getting converted?
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Apr 17, 2014 13:56
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The whole event-combat thing in the Game of Thrones mod is utter horseshit. I haven't won a single combat event out of over a dozen, often with my +25 Martial or higher characters losing to characters with less than 10. It's loving pissing me off and I've lost several really really good characters because of it. My King who united the entire realm Beyond the Wall who had a goddamn +46 Martial stat was cut down by a peasant with a +6 who was butthurt about being thrown in prison for trying to assassinate anyone and everyone who looked at him funny. Tell me that's not all kinds of hosed up.
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Apr 17, 2014 14:20
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Esroc posted:The whole event-combat thing in the Game of Thrones mod is utter horseshit. I haven't won a single combat event out of over a dozen, often with my +25 Martial or higher characters losing to characters with less than 10. It's loving pissing me off and I've lost several really really good characters because of it. My King who united the entire realm Beyond the Wall who had a goddamn +46 Martial stat was cut down by a peasant with a +6 who was butthurt about being thrown in prison for trying to assassinate anyone and everyone who looked at him funny. quote:Q: My character has like 25 martial, why is he losing to guys with really low martial in duels?
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Apr 17, 2014 14:39
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Vodos posted:I'm still not sure whether you get the catholic holy orders when you mend the schism, but I've just seen the orthodox order go to Catholicism after I converted most orthodox provinces to Zoroastrianism. The catholic orders also spawned now that they came out heresy status. Gonna see if I can make Catholicism a heresy yet again. Is there still that bug where a player/NPC mends the schism as an Orthodox char and it immediately becomes a heresy because there's more Catholic provinces than Orthodox?
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Apr 17, 2014 14:59
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DrPop posted:Is there still that bug where a player/NPC mends the schism as an Orthodox char and it immediately becomes a heresy because there's more Catholic provinces than Orthodox? It can still happen if you're unlucky or a majority of Catholic lords are Zealous, but it's not hugely common as long as Byzantium is still mostly Orthodox.
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Apr 17, 2014 15:08
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Techno Remix posted:Goddamn, is there anything that a stab to the back can't cure? Lack of an heir. You need to stab in the front for that.  I'm sick of being attacked by the Byzantine Empire as the Khazarian Jews. What's the best way to avoid this? Is it even possible to swear fealty to the Basileus as a Jew?
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Apr 17, 2014 15:12
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Catholicism is a heresy again and their holy orders are now orthodox.
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Apr 17, 2014 15:19
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Is there a calendar mod or option? I would really like the game to pause on specific dates on certain yearly intervals because of intrigue options, I would really like to not miss the feasts and hunts every other year because it is the most effective opinion stimulus in the game.
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Apr 17, 2014 15:23
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I think the AI is learning. I started a game as count of Nürnberg and went about my way to get the duchy of Bavaria. I eventually ended up with 3/5 of it, only for the king of Bavaria/East Francia to create it and give it to the bishop of Salzburg. Undeterred I forged a claim on Salzburg and took it, meaning the bishop became a regular feudal lord in Oberbayern. Since he was a bishop he never married and on his death the duchy went back to the king. The king as this point held Oberbayern and Niederbayern. He refused my petition for the title. He died (with a little help from a snake) and his son decided to move away from Bavaria so the two counties ended up run by some children. I eventually got a claim on Niederbayern to put me at 4/5 of the duchy and still the new king refused to give me the duchy. He also found a snake in his bed. The new king gave me the duchy without me even having to ask him. In the middle of all that I also managed to force the kingdom of Bavaria to elective monarchy to try and get it away from the Karlings. Italy has gone elective on their own and ousted the Karlings. Lotharingia is also run by non-Karlings as is Frisia. It is pretty drat hard to break up the Karling blob though.
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Apr 17, 2014 15:37
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MrBling posted:It is pretty drat hard to break up the Karling blob though.   Plot/stab early and often!
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Having to play vanilla again after always playing CK2+ is making me miss the CK2+ changes to traits and attributes and such. I really, really like how there are good and bad aspects to pretty much every attribute in CK2+ (for example "Charitable" actually makes you a lovely steward but buffs diplo), whereas with vanilla I feel like I should always try to acquire the positive/green traits no matter what.
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Vodos posted:I'm still not sure whether you get the catholic holy orders when you mend the schism, but I've just seen the orthodox order go to Catholicism after I converted most orthodox provinces to Zoroastrianism. The catholic orders also spawned now that they came out heresy status. Gonna see if I can make Catholicism a heresy yet again. Holy orders fire events where they can ask for the right to build a castle in your land to strengthen them so they've probably been asking the npc's and they have been granting titles and once the grandmasters demense filled he started handing them out to vassals.
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Veryslightlymad posted:So I'm currently King of Castille after finagling my way onto the throne from way up in far flung Leon, Brittany. When I picked it up, it was probably the most powerful Kingdom in Spain, aside from Portugal, which has since broken up. I've decided that I'm going to build myself a nice little kingdom going up the West coast of France to Brittany, eventually uniting my original territories. There's a problem, though. The Duchy of Aquitaine is ruled by the HRE, and is also a Theocracy. HRE has been extremely stable all playthrough, owns all of Germany and most of Italy, as well as the Kingdom of England, which is ALSO a Theocracy. The Pope is their vassal. They can muster about 6 times the troops I can, and they are allied with the Byzantines just to make matters worse. They are Agnatic Seniority. It should destabilize on its own, given time. Seniority tends to create blobs since one person is heir for the entire dynasty, but since those heirs are old, they die or become incapable quickly so the realm ends up having successions (and succession-related problems) a lot more often than other realms.
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Pakled posted:
This seems kind of dumb, unless the mod includes rewrites for literally every vanilla event that conflates high Martial and being good at personally killing things.
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Apr 17, 2014 17:52
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Ever so slowly breaking up those Karlings through the power of elective monarchy and stabbings. I noticed that Aquitaine had gone elective and the remaining Karling heir was a young kid so two quick stabbings and boom, new dynasty. Also, going from 1 county Count to 5 county King is pretty satisfying. Sort of related, can you actually do anything when you're the regent for a king? Because earlier on I became regent for the boy-king of East Francia/Bavaria but it didn't really seem like I could anything other than change who educated him.
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Apr 17, 2014 18:11
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Anybody know how to open save game files with a mac? I've tried textedit, bbedit & wordpad - none work. I'm not playing on ironman 
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Apr 17, 2014 18:11
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With Elective (and 2.0.4, maybe it's changed with the latest patch), I've had problems nominating grandchildren to be my successor. My ruler will be ~70, and I'd much prefer that my 20 year old genius grandkid take over (to maximize long reign), but they don't show up in the list of nominees, even if they have been landed. Is this a known issue/by design? MrBling posted:Sort of related, can you actually do anything when you're the regent for a king? Because earlier on I became regent for the boy-king of East Francia/Bavaria but it didn't really seem like I could anything other than change who educated him. I think you get events. I once lowered CA to Autonomous Vassals  Also, why not have the boy-king educated by the nice zealous Jewish man in your court?
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Apr 17, 2014 18:17
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Anybody know how to open save game files with a mac? I've tried textedit, bbedit & wordpad - none work. I'm not playing on ironman They open fine in textedit for me. Though I play in windows with bootcamp, my latest saves open in textedit in Mac OS. What do you mean it doesn't work? Does it give you an error or something?
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Iseeyouseemeseeyou posted:Anybody know how to open save game files with a mac? I've tried textedit, bbedit & wordpad - none work. I'm not playing on ironman Are your saves compressed? You have to un-check an unmarked box when you're saving to make sure they're not.
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Apr 17, 2014 18:24
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marktheando posted:They open fine in textedit for me. Though I play in windows with bootcamp, my latest saves open in textedit in Mac OS. What do you mean it doesn't work? Does it give you an error or something? Nevermind, it appears my game file was somehow corrupt and I assumed the corruption was across all my saves. Resaved and it works fine.
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Apr 17, 2014 18:27
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I think it's time for a new thread title. This one is 2 expansions old. Need something to celebrate RoI. Crusader Kings II: A river full of bloated corpses Crusader Kings II: ♪making GBS threads in the street♪ Crusader Kings II: ♪Walkin on, walkin on, bovine shiii-iit♪
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Apr 17, 2014 18:34
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The tweaked decadence invasions work nicely. The Arabian empire shattered after the Abbasids went down. The new guys still control huge manpower but it's scattered across two continents now.
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DrPop posted:Having to play vanilla again after always playing CK2+ is making me miss the CK2+ changes to traits and attributes and such. I really, really like how there are good and bad aspects to pretty much every attribute in CK2+ (for example "Charitable" actually makes you a lovely steward but buffs diplo), whereas with vanilla I feel like I should always try to acquire the positive/green traits no matter what. I can understand the desire to have the traits be more balanced, from a gameplay perspective, but are you really surprised that you are supposed to pick up the seven virtues and should avoid the seven deadly sins? And even though some of the sins are not bad traits, I find it quite logical that diligent is superior to slothful.
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