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alcaras posted:Looking for recommendations for starting characters/locations: The Cholas are fun in India. If you want hardmode, play the Shahi (technically in Afghanistan).
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alcaras posted:I wonder if there's anyone working on a Middle Earth mod... Here you go.
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alcaras posted:Looking for recommendations for starting characters/locations: For India in 867, I've been having fun in a game I started as the duke of... whatever that Duchy in Gujarat is called.
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Jul 11, 2014 20:24
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Clanpot Shake posted:Is there a way to see the moral authority of other religions? I've been declaring holy war after holy war for centuries and Catholocism has been at 100% for a while. I'd like to see what the Islamic religions are at. What effects does moral authority have? Page 4 in the ledger (I believe) is the religions page, it will tell you what the MA of a religion is, and how many provinces are that religion. Lower MA tends to result in difficulty converting and an increase in heresy. In my current game, the Sunni MA dropped to 0% for some reason, and the Seljuks became Ibadi (for a brief shining moment, then the Fatimids stomped on their faces and Persia split from them and it's all a tragic mess with giant Fatimids ready to run roughshod all over everything).
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Jul 11, 2014 20:41
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Amergin posted:Still a bit of a newbie but I've played through the Ireland 1066 tutorial mode and currently on a Norse playthrough, but I'm curious about maybe a Buddhist playthrough as my third. Anyone have suggestions for starting times/characters with mediocre difficulty? There's an Indian Buddhist playthrough in the Lets Play Crusader Kings 2 thread, goes into some pretty good detail on things that are different/weird about Buddhists.
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Jul 11, 2014 21:38
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McGavin posted:If I could add characters I would add "The Gang" from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia to Philadelphia. Imagine a county controlled by a gluttonous, greedy, lustful, dwarf. Dennis: Twin, Lustful, Cruel, Ambitious Sweet Dee: Twin, Depressed, Greedy Mac: Gluttonous, Homosexual, Misguided Warrior, Zealous, Wroth Charlie: Bastard, Imbecile, Wroth, Falconer
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Jul 11, 2014 21:54
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ninjahedgehog posted:Dennis: Twin, Lustful, Cruel, Ambitious They also all have been given the drunk trait. They've been in the mod for a while now.
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Jul 11, 2014 22:08
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Ofaloaf posted:They also all have been given the drunk trait. They've been in the mod for a while now. You're doing God's work.
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Jul 11, 2014 22:11
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Ofaloaf posted:They also all have been given the drunk trait. They've been in the mod for a while now. You should add the guys from The League in Chicago. If you're not familiar, I'd be happy to help out with their traits/relations.
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Jul 11, 2014 22:16
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Ofaloaf posted:...making characters... Is there a specific tutorial that could be used to make them? I may have some time to throw around to make this greatness happen.
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Jul 11, 2014 22:17
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iLurk posted:Is there a specific tutorial that could be used to make them? I may have some time to throw around to make this greatness happen. This is pretty much all you need to know.
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Jul 11, 2014 22:22
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iLurk posted:Is there a specific tutorial that could be used to make them? I may have some time to throw around to make this greatness happen. I'm down with having more contributors to all this, but before this gets too deep in it I'm going to be pretty emphatic here that although the Always Sunny characters were put in for a laugh, a battle royale between favorite characters from modern media is not the point of this thing and I ain't going to let the whole thing be overrun with that sort of stuff. If you got a good idea for a character that seems like s/he fits the region and could provide some good, interesting moments, splendid, and if you really think a character from a show or actor from theater fits a place best of all, at least try to scramble things a little bit so instead of Robert Downey Junior it's Rupert Upney II or whatever.
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So what's the best way to really learn this game? I tried the tutorial, I tried watching some LPs, I tried watching some streams, and I tried just diving in, but after 2-3 extended play sessions I still feel like I'm flailing around and watching history pass me by. It probably doesn't help that I'm only interested in playing the Game of Thrones mod at this time, but it's the entire reason I bought the game. Are there any other suggestions I could follow or am I just too dumb to play this game?  (btw that America mod looks sick)
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Jul 11, 2014 22:52
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So I've finally created the Kingdom of Ireland for the first time and created all the Duchies. Any suggestions where to go from here? Things seem fairly stable in my neck of the woods. I have a few weak claims I can press for court members although none of them would result in my control of the location of the claim. 
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Jul 11, 2014 23:13
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Ofaloaf posted:I'm down with having more contributors to all this, but before this gets too deep in it I'm going to be pretty emphatic here that although the Always Sunny characters were put in for a laugh, a battle royale between favorite characters from modern media is not the point of this thing and I ain't going to let the whole thing be overrun with that sort of stuff. So no count of a forgotten tiny densely populated island in Lake Michigan then.
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Jul 11, 2014 23:17
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Rumda posted:So no count of a forgotten tiny densely populated island in Lake Michigan then. Woah now, that sort of thing is perfectly possible without mass media characters. (Submitting an idea, anyways).
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Jul 11, 2014 23:20
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timp posted:So what's the best way to really learn this game? I tried the tutorial, I tried watching some LPs, I tried watching some streams, and I tried just diving in, but after 2-3 extended play sessions I still feel like I'm flailing around and watching history pass me by. It probably doesn't help that I'm only interested in playing the Game of Thrones mod at this time, but it's the entire reason I bought the game. Reading through CapnAndys Ireland LP was what did it for me. He goes through everything newbies like me would otherwise never know and by the time your play through diverges from his you'll have a decent grasp. Also don't make the mistake I did and try start the GoT mod as Ned Stark after Roberts Rebellion. He's a king with like 25 vassals and it's super overwhelming.
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Sky Shadowing posted:Woah now, that sort of thing is perfectly possible without mass media characters.
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This is a map of all of the duchies, isnt it?
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Ofaloaf posted:Beaver Island is also loving tiny. If I thought both it and Mackinac Island were workable as independent counties they'd be made into such in a heartbeat, but they are tiiiiiny. Venice them, make them ahistorically huge, maybe a volcano did it, I dunno, I'm not an apocalypse expert.
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Ofaloaf posted:I'm down with having more contributors to all this, but before this gets too deep in it I'm going to be pretty emphatic here that although the Always Sunny characters were put in for a laugh, a battle royale between favorite characters from modern media is not the point of this thing and I ain't going to let the whole thing be overrun with that sort of stuff. If celebrities are not the Great Families of the West then you have no idea how the West Coast works. If anything, the Hiltons need to have a couple of counties here and there.
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Jul 12, 2014 00:50
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Bort Bortles posted:This is a map of all of the duchies, isnt it? It is.
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vulturesrow posted:It is. I was really confused at first because I thought it was a map of your game 
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:If celebrities are not the Great Families of the West then you have no idea how the West Coast works.
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Ofaloaf posted:I'd rather not use actual names, though. One of the patricians of Detroit has a name which is that of a modern prominent Detroiter, but spelled backwards. I'm okay with that level of obfuscation, but just using actual families as-is will just prompt all sorts of people to go "OH OH YOU NEED TO ADD JOAN SMITH AS COUNTESS OF BUMFUCKNOWHERE" and "WHY ISN'T BOBBY SOMEONE KING OF EVERYTHING" Meh, it's your mod. I'd offer to help, but seeing as my four-year old laptop just died, taking everything I had worked on for my Ancient Egypt mod I think I'm going to take a much needed break from modding.
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Meh, it's your mod. quote:I'd offer to help, but seeing as my four-year old laptop just died, taking everything I had worked on for my Ancient Egypt mod I think I'm going to take a much needed break from modding.
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My prepared invasion of Africa just ended inconclusively because the Sultan gave his brother the Sultanate (the capital moved from Tunis to Tripolitania; the sultan didnt die or anything) 
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Jul 12, 2014 02:42
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Bort Bortles posted:My prepared invasion of Africa just ended inconclusively because the Sultan gave his brother the Sultanate (the capital moved from Tunis to Tripolitania; the sultan didnt die or anything) Ah, the Roman strategy.
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Larry Parrish posted:Ah, the Roman strategy. Heh. Downside is I cannot do another prepared invasion, upside is I now have 4k event troops sitting around. I think I would rather have won the Prepared Invasion  Anyone know if there is a way via console or whatever to allow me to do another prepared invasion since the game cheesed me out of mine?
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Bort Bortles posted:I was really confused at first because I thought it was a map of your game Yeah sorry about being an idiot with that post. I messed up which pic I uploaded. That being said, what would be the most helpful view(s) to post shots of? I'll make a better post in a little bit.
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vulturesrow posted:Yeah sorry about being an idiot with that post. I messed up which pic I uploaded. That being said, what would be the most helpful view(s) to post shots of? I'll make a better post in a little bit. F10, I believe, will do a special map based on what map mode you're in.
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I just finished my Dyfed -> Deheubarth -> Wales -> Prydein game, and although the game itself was pretty epic and hugely fun (aside from the grinding slowness of the last 70 or so years), what I'd really like to draw your attention to is, well, take a look: See, I'm still Prydein. Aside from a couple of marriages here and there, none of particular consequence, I had nothing at all to do with the Byzantine Empire. That was all the AI, and except from an early short-lived Muslim grab of central Anatolia, they didn't get pushed back once. I saw at least fifteen Jihads launched at the Byzantines, including five for Jerusalem and seven for Persia, and they defeated each and every single one of them. Anyway, the story of how I ended up Emperor of France is as follows: I went Fraticceli and had taken a couple of French holdings through inheritances, but when the Aztecs showed up I got my poo poo pushed right in in over and over. So, the bedraggled remains of my army went over to start holy warring France and Aquitaine, and Emperor Merfyn 'The Bold', Second of his Name, took enough of France to secure us and give us a power base to plot our return to our beautiful Celtic homeland. It took 140 years since the first Aztec declaration on us, but we finally drove them out of Europe and reclaimed all our lands by the end of the 14th century. I just love imagining what the French must have been thinking though.  : The Welsh are invading! We cannot stop them! : Call every ally!   : WE'RE HERE TO HLEP: They're still winning! Why are they so intent on invading? Where are they getting all these soldiers? They've beaten the combined armies of France, Aquitaine, Aragon, Germany, and Italy!: My liege, this is only a quarter of their army. The rest lies dead at the feet of the Aztecs. They say they are fleeing those Aztecs.: You mean to tell me that this unstoppable conquering army is just the battered remnants of their forces, a quarter of their strength, and they are doing it because they are fleeing someone strong enough to annihilate them at full strength?: That appears to be the size of it, sire.: gently caress.But France's sacrifices did not go in vain, for as we converted the land to Welshness and Fraticceliism (?) we both civilized the frogs and returned to our homeland. Later, for shits, we invaded Rome and installed a Fraticelli Pope who called a Crusade for Italy. Given enough time to convert the Italian provinces we'd have finally usurped Catholicism and stopped being a heresy, but alas that time was not to be found.
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My god, they really are an infestation. They end up everywhere! I am a little sad he is not named Pope Charles or something.
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catlord posted:F10, I believe, will do a special map based on what map mode you're in. Thanks for that, wasn't aware of that. 
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Bort Bortles posted:Heh. Downside is I cannot do another prepared invasion, upside is I now have 4k event troops sitting around. I think I would rather have won the Prepared Invasion You lose the invasion troops once you win the invasion so this is better?
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vulturesrow posted:posts From the shots you posted it looks like you are the Duke of Munster and not actually the King of Ireland? So I'd work towards getting 4 more of those counties and get yourself a kingdom, probably by picking on the still divided Ulster.
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I loathe the Byzantines, they always seem to blob out of control.
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Fuligin posted:I loathe the Byzantines, they always seem to blob out of control. They're all that stand against you and the muslim hordes. Don't forget it.
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TheBlackRoija posted:From the shots you posted it looks like you are the Duke of Munster and not actually the King of Ireland? Nope, I am the King of Ireland. I managed to once again upload an incorrect map. This is definitely the correct one: 
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Fuligin posted:I loathe the Byzantines, they always seem to blob out of control. In my games they usually wind up getting their poo poo kicked in fast and hard. Like, I frequently see Constantinople fall before 1150.
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