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Spakstik posted:The Empire of Britain. Up until a few minutes ago I didn't have the Kingdom of England since I'm playing as a merchant republic and couldn't usurp it. As far as I remember they both have Middlesex as their capital anyway, so if WoL made that change it wouldn't matter which of those titles you had.
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Torrannor posted:I noticed this change in WoL, apparently you can't give away the de jure capital of your primary kindom, even if it isn't your actual capital. Is your primary title the Kingdom of England or Empire of Britain? It was definitely in CM. Maybe RoI too, I don't remember that far back.
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Jan 16, 2015 01:24
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Spakstik posted:I've hit a bit of a snag that I haven't had much luck finding a solution for. I currently own all of England, and personally hold the county of Middlesex. For some reason I can't grant anyone else the county of Middlesex; it doesn't even show up in the list of possible titles I could grant. England (the faction) doesn't exist anymore, so the county isn't the goal of any wars, and I'm not at war with anyone. Since I started out in Ireland, my capital is not and has never been London. Any ideas why I can't give it away?
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Jan 16, 2015 01:40
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God, I really wish you didn't have to tick so many boxes to duel a guy. Really, you should be able to challenge anyone who has dishonoured you in any way (and in viking land anyone at all)
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Jan 16, 2015 01:44
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Vengarr posted:I wish there was more feedback during/after battles. I like it when vassals die or do heroic poo poo, that makes you remember the battle as something other than two stacks bashing heads. I once had some random-rear end lowborn courtier kill Seljuk himself in personal combat, so I gave him a hot wife, a fat pile of gold, and the Kingdom of Aquitaine. Sure, his stats weren't particularly great, but in my empire people get rewarded for their good work, dammit.
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ninjahedgehog posted:I once had some random-rear end lowborn courtier kill Seljuk himself in personal combat, so I gave him a hot wife, a fat pile of gold, and the Kingdom of Aquitaine. Sure, his stats weren't particularly great, but in my empire people get rewarded for their good work, dammit.
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Jan 16, 2015 02:22
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Spakstik posted:I've hit a bit of a snag that I haven't had much luck finding a solution for. I currently own all of England, and personally hold the county of Middlesex. For some reason I can't grant anyone else the county of Middlesex; it doesn't even show up in the list of possible titles I could grant. England (the faction) doesn't exist anymore, so the county isn't the goal of any wars, and I'm not at war with anyone. Since I started out in Ireland, my capital is not and has never been London. Any ideas why I can't give it away? Why on earth would you want to give away the best county in Britannia?
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Jan 16, 2015 02:35
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Is there a way to get the Zealous trait? I want to duel people all day as a Muslim but the Theology focus hasn't given me zealous yet. 
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Jan 16, 2015 04:17
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So if you defeat the iklhanate/golden horde on their initial attack, they apparently stick around forever as landless titles. That's kind of dumb.Mahasamatman posted:Is there a way to get the Zealous trait? I want to duel people all day as a Muslim but the Theology focus hasn't given me zealous yet.
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Jan 16, 2015 04:24
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There's a decent chance to pick up Zealous on a pilgrimage/hajj.
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Jan 16, 2015 04:25
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Actually, looking at on_hajj.txt, it doesn't appear that it's possible to gain it there at all. About a 1 in 3 chance of getting it on pilgrimage, if you're aiming for it, but that doesn't help him.
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Jan 16, 2015 04:38
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Volkerball posted:Why on earth would you want to give away the best county in Britannia? Because I care more about pretty internal borders than levies or income at this point.
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Jan 16, 2015 05:20
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I have pretty borders minus the fact that I own all the good poo poo personally.
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Jan 16, 2015 05:26
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How do you decide how to arrange your holdings after you form a kingdom? In my Wales game, I've just formed the Kingdom of Brythoniaid. I currently hold two duchies (and have retained the Ducal title to both) and six counties. Three are part of my demense. The other three counties are held by various folks, none of them very high in the line of succession. I'm finding that I'm always poor even in times of peace, and I feel like if I rearranged things better I could probably be getting a lot more cash and larger personal levies.
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Jan 16, 2015 05:31
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WhiteHowler posted:How do you decide how to arrange your holdings after you form a kingdom? Plan ahead. Find badass duchies, and designate them as ones that you will personally hold. For instance, if there's a 4 county duchy with 2 counties that have 6 holdings, and 2 more counties with 4 holdings, take that duchy, and keep the two 6 holding counties for yourself personally. That will cover 2 counties in your demesne limit. Hold all the good stuff in your capital duchy as well, as they get a bonus. Also don't be afraid to move your capital later in the game to someplace better. For an example, if I was you, my goal would be to personally hold Middlesex and Essex in England (assuming I remember right and those two counties are in the same duchy), and make Middlesex my capital. Brugge in France is a good target for one of the random counties you own that isn't your capital. And use your money to build new holdings and upgrade holdings in counties you personally own as a priority.
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Jan 16, 2015 05:40
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Jan 16, 2015 07:02
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Are there any tricks as Zunists to get the extra 20% moral authority you need to reform, or is it just a matter of declaring endless county conquests and building as many temples as you can afford?
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BBJoey posted:Are there any tricks as Zunists to get the extra 20% moral authority you need to reform, or is it just a matter of declaring endless county conquests and building as many temples as you can afford? Of course, the Abbasids had to mostly collapse under three decadence revolts first. Strudel Man fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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comaerror posted:
Pretty sure there is no downside to this.
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Jan 16, 2015 07:14
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If I'm feudal, I want to fill my demesne holdings with castles, and maybe the odd city here and there, right?
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Doctor Schnabel posted:If I'm feudal, I want to fill my demesne holdings with castles, and maybe the odd city here and there, right?
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Can someone give me a quick overview on bastards? I'm given the option to legitimize them at birth, right? Can I do so afterwards? Also, do legitimized bastards come normally in the order of succession by birth order as usual, or are they bumped behind born-legitimate offspring?
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Jan 16, 2015 08:01
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Doctor Schnabel posted:If I'm feudal, I want to fill my demesne holdings with castles, and maybe the odd city here and there, right? I'd fill my capital county completely with castles, and then cities in any other holding. The 50% bonus to levies in your capital county is too much to pass up.
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Sucrose posted:Can someone give me a quick overview on bastards? I'm given the option to legitimize them at birth, right? Can I do so afterwards? Also, do legitimized bastards come normally in the order of succession by birth order as usual, or are they bumped behind born-legitimate offspring? At birth, if you're known to be a bastard's father, you get three options: Legitimize, Acknowledge, Denounce. Legitimize gives the child full inheritance rights, and will royally piss off your wife and your legitimate kids. A legitimized bastard slots in wherever a fully legitimate kid would in the inheritance pecking order, and will get appropriate claims on your poo poo upon your death like the rest of your kids. Acknowledge gives the child no inheritance rights, but you retain the ability to legitimize them later. This will piss off your wife, but your kids won't care. If the child remains unacknowledged when they marry or when you die, you lose the option to legitimize and when they have kids of their own, they will start their own new dynasty. Denounce removes you entirely as the child's parent, permanently (though the game still tracks it under the hood for inbreeding purposes). You cannot acknowledge or legitimize a bastard once denounced. The child's mother will hate your guts for this. There are two other possible scenarios: (1) if the mother is single the father might simply be unknown. In this case you will never be able to acknowledge or legitimize. (2) If the mother is married, her husband might believe the child is his, in which case the game also treats the child as his for inheritance/dynasty purposes (but once again keeps track of the biological father behind the scenes for inbreeding purposes.) Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 08:15 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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Jan 16, 2015 08:13
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Eric the Mauve posted:At birth, if you're known to be a bastard's father, you get three options: Legitimize, Acknowledge, Denounce. Cool thanks. If acknowledged and later legitimized, will they slot into the inheritence in order of their birth order, or from when they were legitimized?
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Your other kids don't care about legitimizing bastards for very long. It's -50, but it only lasts a year. Seems like other legitimized bastards shouldn't have quite the same reaction, but eh. Sucrose posted:If acknowledged and later legitimized, will they slot into the inheritence in order of their birth order, or from when they were legitimized?
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Note that with the Seduction focus, cranking out bastards (preferably by inviting women to your court who have Genius/Quick/Strong and then seducing them), waiting for them to get into their teens and then legitimizing whichever one you want to inherit and only that one so he gets everything is a viable strategy, even with Gavelkind. (Marry an old and/or celibate wife strictly for the stats, except Intrigue because she'll hate your guts. Generally high Diplomacy/low Intrigue or high Stewardship/low Intrigue is the way to go. Alternatively, go ahead and marry a high Intrigue woman if she's foreign and a different religion, no one in your court will like her enough to go along with her plot to kill you.) Just be careful not to Game Over yourself via biting the big one before legitimizing any of your sons.
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Eric the Mauve posted:Note that with the Seduction focus, cranking out bastards (preferably by inviting women to your court who have Genius/Quick/Strong and then seducing them), waiting for them to get into their teens and then legitimizing whichever one you want to inherit and only that one so he gets everything is a viable strategy, even with Gavelkind. (Marry an old and/or celibate wife strictly for the stats, except Intrigue because she'll hate your guts. Generally high Diplomacy/low Intrigue or high Stewardship/low Intrigue is the way to go. Alternatively, go ahead and marry a high Intrigue woman if she's foreign and a different religion, no one in your court will like her enough to go along with her plot to kill you.) Just be careful not to Game Over yourself via biting the big one before legitimizing any of your sons. Ok thanks. Hmm, maybe I'll just minimize risk instead and just see how many children I can get the old-fashioned way with a wife and three concubines. Although an all-bastard way of succession does sound intriguing.
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Volkerball posted:You don't think a lone count holding the capital should be allowed to have claims pressed against it by the person who holds the other two counties? To me that sounds like an illegitimate ruler who you should be allowed to overthrow. Interesting discussion to be had on this though. Oh no, not at all. They just shouldn't be able to do it right from the start. All land is not made equal. Captials are typically built on or close by to resources, and because of that, they are a centre of trade and economy. They are there because there is something good about that land that nowhere close by had in the same quality or quantity. People would flock to those locations because there was work to be found there and a better living. It makes sense that the actual capital should have a higher sway in a duchy than the scrublands which provide less men and less resources. For example, I happen to know due to living there that in Gwynedd, Perfeddewlad had a lot of waste land on it in the timeframe of the game, due to the fact that it is below sea level and marshlands. Why would or should that crap land have an equal claim to Gwynedd proper? However, if you spent a few years intentionally building on that rubbish land, fortifying and drawing men and women into the towns due to upgrades to trade and security, then perhaps then it can start to look significant, and gain power in claiming. One person may hold 2 pieces of land to the 1 of the actual ruler, however, if the landowner of the 2 pieces holds crap lands where people actually don't want to live, which draw low taxes and raise small levies (the game already models this), why would they appear as significant as the capital? Power was not, and still is not, distributed as equally across the land as it is currently in the game, and it goes part of the way there in the holdings being lesser, but it does not reflect that reality past that point. The reason I argue for this is because by making the lands even more unequal, it actually does make for interesting gameplay changes, such as the system of improving your holdings to try and equal or better the claim of the actual duke. Another Person fucked around with this message at 09:14 on Jan 16, 2015 |
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If the rest of the Duchy is that bad then the Duke should have no trouble De-Jure warring for one of the other counties or even claim waring the duchy back.
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Shadeoses posted:Pretty sure there is no downside to this. The one time I got that event it gave me a game over.
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So the pope's lounging around in some bishopric in the low countries after those nasty lombards took rome. Is there anything i can do as a fellow catholic to get him back where he belongs?
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Doctor Schnabel posted:So the pope's lounging around in some bishopric in the low countries after those nasty lombards took rome. Is there anything i can do as a fellow catholic to get him back where he belongs? Conquer Rome. I think you get a decision to restore the Papacy afterwards.
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Doctor Schnabel posted:So the pope's lounging around in some bishopric in the low countries after those nasty lombards took rome. Is there anything i can do as a fellow catholic to get him back where he belongs? If you take Rome yourself, you'll get a decision to restore the pope.
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Does that still cause the game to end because it turns you into a Theocracy?
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:Does that still cause the game to end because it turns you into a Theocracy? No you're thinking of the situation when the Papacy has been totally destroyed and you re-create it - this is a different decision where the Pope already exists but doesn't control Rome - all it does is gives Rome to him, it doesn't make you Pope.
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Ok, another question: after I converted to catholicism from norse, my custom coat of arms keeps changing to something random each time i reload. any way to fix that?
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Doctor Schnabel posted:Ok, another question: after I converted to catholicism from norse, my custom coat of arms keeps changing to something random each time i reload. any way to fix that?
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Speaking of long-running bugs, Grand Tournaments still never end and the 'prisoner asks for better accommodation' event still never fires.
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Jamsque posted:Speaking of long-running bugs, Grand Tournaments still never end and the 'prisoner asks for better accommodation' event still never fires. I believe those are similar bugs--when you go to war during a Tournament I think there's supposed to be an event that ends the tournament (similar to what happens with hunts or feasts) but it doesn't fire and the tournament never ends.
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