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Ofaloaf posted:I was always against adding Islam and Judaism in because I wanted everything to be derived from a major thing in the area and I didn't want to go all Lux Invicta with the religious map. The way the Fan Fork's added Judaism is all right enough, but it also highlights how tricky it is to balance having a small and scattered group that isn't either immediately overwhelmed or excessively overbuffed to compensate for all that. I wanted to add Moroccans and Nigerians as off-map sources of Islamic enlightenment
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Ofaloaf posted:I was always against adding Islam and Judaism in because I wanted everything to be derived from a major thing in the area and I didn't want to go all Lux Invicta with the religious map. The way the Fan Fork's added Judaism is all right enough, but it also highlights how tricky it is to balance having a small and scattered group that isn't either immediately overwhelmed or excessively overbuffed to compensate for all that. I am getting worried that the fan fork mod developers are going down the wrong path with their latest "Dev diary", talking about putting in ancient religions now into the mod. I hope Ofaloaf and the original team will just eventually update the original mod if the fan fork gets too stupid and keeps adding features like they said they wouldn't.
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# ? May 15, 2018 11:06 |
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A crusade overhaul is long overdue. That it's a part of the free features is pretty cool. Hints of piety becoming much more important are encouraging. Perhaps they will tinker with excommunication? That's another core feature that needs an update. All of this makes me really curious about the paid content.
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# ? May 15, 2018 13:25 |
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The expansion named not-Deus-Vult can't not be the final one. They're gonna be so embarrassed if they sell enough that the bosses ask for more.
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# ? May 15, 2018 13:27 |
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My problem with this game is that I only get through like one or two generations of ruler before burning out. I kinda want to play without any DLC so I don't get distracted by secret societies and illnesses etc. and can play faster. Is the base game without any DLC gonna feel unplayable? Or is there a good combination of DLC which improves the game without adding too much extra distracting stuff?
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# ? May 17, 2018 13:53 |
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I really wish my first game hadn't been as a viking. Everything else feels glacially slow compared to raiding and barbarian conquest. I've built the Empire of Scandinavia into a powerhouse like five times, but every time I try something else it's just boring.
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# ? May 17, 2018 14:36 |
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physeter posted:I really wish my first game hadn't been as a viking. Everything else feels glacially slow compared to raiding and barbarian conquest. I've built the Empire of Scandinavia into a powerhouse like five times, but every time I try something else it's just boring. Try being an Iberian Muslim!
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# ? May 17, 2018 16:00 |
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physeter posted:I really wish my first game hadn't been as a viking. Everything else feels glacially slow compared to raiding and barbarian conquest. I've built the Empire of Scandinavia into a powerhouse like five times, but every time I try something else it's just boring. Play a horse nomad. Ride the sea of grass, thunder and plunder your way through civilization. It's just as action-packed as going a-viking, if not more so. The only downside is that if you get serious about the "burning down civilization" thing, eventually the micro of revoking titles will drive you to suicide, but until then you can have a grand old time.
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# ? May 17, 2018 16:37 |
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So the people who bought the most expensive paradoxcon package get a chance today in a workshop to make a character for ck2 that will be put in the game in a future patch. Theres even baby clothes with 'designated heir' written on it.
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# ? May 18, 2018 01:11 |
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Pharohman777 posted:So the people who bought the most expensive paradoxcon package get a chance today in a workshop to make a character for ck2 that will be put in the game in a future patch. Why can't you make me brave, strong, genius, attractive! That's obviously what I am!
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# ? May 18, 2018 02:18 |
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Tomn posted:Play a horse nomad. Ride the sea of grass, thunder and plunder your way through civilization. It's just as action-packed as going a-viking, if not more so. The only downside is that if you get serious about the "burning down civilization" thing, eventually the micro of revoking titles will drive you to suicide, but until then you can have a grand old time. Horse Nomads are great and probably the most fun characters to play in this game for me. Going full Khan and trying to come out on top of the Central Asian Thunderdome is really fun, and once micromanaging revocations gets boring you can just point yourself at a random title in Western or Eastern Europe you want, do a Nomad Invasion for a Kingdom, and settle there as a feudal to basically play as as a dynasty of Conan the Barbarian conquerers who are kings by their own hand. It's really fun to campaign around the Steppes and take Tibetan and Central Asian feudal titles to burn down until you've got a big enough Horde to conquer Greece from the Byzantines to settle in.
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MinistryofLard posted:Horse Nomads are great and probably the most fun characters to play in this game for me. Going full Khan and trying to come out on top of the Central Asian Thunderdome is really fun, and once micromanaging revocations gets boring you can just point yourself at a random title in Western or Eastern Europe you want, do a Nomad Invasion for a Kingdom, and settle there as a feudal to basically play as as a dynasty of Conan the Barbarian conquerers who are kings by their own hand. Realheads use the subjugation CB on the Byzantines
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# ? May 18, 2018 02:53 |
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60% off the complete collection (now $29.68) for the weekend: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/3096/Crusader_Kings_II_Collection/
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# ? May 18, 2018 09:32 |
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Pharohman777 posted:Theres even baby clothes with 'designated heir' written on it. Do they have a bullseye on the back?
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# ? May 18, 2018 17:56 |
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just started a new AtE FF run of mahonic of boston and i... can't declare subjugation wars? is this part of the base game? can vassals not subjugate their neighbors now or something? fwiw this character uses pagan mechanics
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# ? May 18, 2018 19:29 |
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Which is the best dlc to get along with the base game? I can only really afford one or two. It might of course be better to not get any dlc at all and wait until a few dozen hours of playing.
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# ? May 18, 2018 20:04 |
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Poil posted:Which is the best dlc to get along with the base game? I can only really afford one or two. It might of course be better to not get any dlc at all and wait until a few dozen hours of playing. If you view my posts in this thread, I posted the list of DLC. I can't pull it up since I'm on mobile. The short answer is Conclave & Way of Life adds stuff for everyone and expands the game for every leader. Reapers Due is great for the expanded disease system, and Old Gods gives you a good start date and the ability to play as Vikings or other Pagans. Edit: the game goes on sale all the time, so you don't need to get everything now. I am hella PEEVED fucked around with this message at 20:29 on May 18, 2018 |
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Speaking of other pagans, is it possible to make Slavic rulers fun? I've tried a few times, but with the lovely location, low tech/troops and angry neighbors I either get stomped or give up out of boredom after a generation or two. I've seen them take over large chunks of the map when controlled by the ai, so I'm thinking it's technically possible to make them interesting, but I haven't found it yet.
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I am hella PEEVED posted:If you view my posts in this thread, I posted the list of DLC. I can't pull it up since I'm on mobile. I think I'll settle for Way of Life. It seems to add stuff for everyone without getting things too complicated in the beginning. edit Er... it appears that I already bought it at some point. I just forgot about it and never played or even started it up. "Game purchased 2017-06-25". This is pretty embarrassing.
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# ? May 18, 2018 20:41 |
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Poil posted:I think I'll settle for Way of Life. It seems to add stuff for everyone without getting things too complicated in the beginning. conclave is also essential and it's not that complicated. it's better to get used to the new, good council mechanics rather than the old, boring ones basically conclave just makes it so that instead of picking the guy with the best stats, you have multiple reasons to pick someone for your council -are they a major vassal who would be pissed if they weren't on the council -will this person vote for whatever i want which is good because i want to change the laws a lot -does this person have great stats that i would like to have in my government -do i want to murder this person slowly by having them imprisoned by a foreign ruler or beaten to death by a mob of peasants it also overhauls education of children and adds some smaller stuff like the favor system and forming your own mercenary band
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Oh, I didn't know it improved existing stuff instead of adding more.boner confessor posted:-do i want to murder this person slowly by having them imprisoned by a foreign ruler or beaten to death by a mob of peasants Poil fucked around with this message at 21:20 on May 18, 2018 |
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Poil posted:Sold! the trick here is if you have some guy who is hard to murder via other means but he has a crap stat like a 1 in stewardship or intrigue, make him your councilor and assign him to collect taxes or spy in foreign lands. there's a decent chance every year he'll get got. i think it can get as high as like 20% chance every year your lovely tax collector will be set upon by angry peasants. assign horrible diplomats to sow dissent in neighboring lands so they gently caress up immediately and get imprisoned, etc.
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# ? May 18, 2018 21:22 |
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Since it comes up a lot when people are talking about what DLCs to get, you may notice Conclave has a low rating on Steam. This isn't because Conclave is bad, it's actually really good, it's just that the free patch that came out alongside it featured some changes that were initially very unpopular, and the fans took it out on Conclave's Steam rating, despite the fact that the changes were part of the base game. It's been years since then though and the biggest complaints have been addressed in subsequent patches.
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Yeah I've played enough Paradox games to ignore the reviews. They're just full of whining manchildren.boner confessor posted:the trick here is if you have some guy who is hard to murder via other means but he has a crap stat like a 1 in stewardship or intrigue, make him your councilor and assign him to collect taxes or spy in foreign lands. there's a decent chance every year he'll get got. i think it can get as high as like 20% chance every year your lovely tax collector will be set upon by angry peasants. assign horrible diplomats to sow dissent in neighboring lands so they gently caress up immediately and get imprisoned, etc. Kinda like making your terrible EU4 ruler into a general and sending him off to lead a siege somewhere unimportant?
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Poil posted:
Exactly. You can also make them your chaplain and send them to pagans, but the restrictions on being a chaplain are higher. Also sending them to the Byzantine Empire is usually a good choice, since there is a very good chance they'll come back with no balls.
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Pakled posted:Since it comes up a lot when people are talking about what DLCs to get, you may notice Conclave has a low rating on Steam. This isn't because Conclave is bad, it's actually really good, it's just that the free patch that came out alongside it featured some changes that were initially very unpopular, and the fans took it out on Conclave's Steam rating, despite the fact that the changes were part of the base game. It's been years since then though and the biggest complaints have been addressed in subsequent patches. The other side of that is some people got very unhappy that the council now has actual teeth and powerful vassals not on it can get extra unruly. It's actually harder in some ways to deal with your council now and you have to consider more than who has the biggest appropriate number. It's a drat fine DLC though. Your realm really should get harder to keep together the bigger it gets.
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# ? May 18, 2018 22:43 |
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This is on sale on steam again so if you're one of the few people who haven't bought it yet just get it. It's probably the most enjoyable slow paced game ever. I was gonna say strategy game but I don't even know if i'd call it that. Insane historical simulator is more like it.
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# ? May 19, 2018 08:31 |
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GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:This is on sale on steam again so if you're one of the few people who haven't bought it yet just get it. It's probably the most enjoyable slow paced game ever. I was gonna say strategy game but I don't even know if i'd call it that. Insane historical simulator is more like it. "Feudalism simulator" is probably the best description of it. It isn't a game you play to conquer everything or "win." It's a game you play to participate in crazy Medieval antics like kidnapping your 3 year old brother and sacrificing him to Satan so you can inherit his kingdom. If you ever wondered if you had the potential to be a hideous monster the answer is "yes" and this game will prove that.
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# ? May 19, 2018 08:37 |
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New expansion announcment. Guess its time to stop playing Vikings till it drops, so I can then play only the Vikings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEFoubsSzG8 Blurb from the paradox page that I dont see on the steam page https://www.paradoxplaza.com/crusad...0180517_pla_ann quote:Baptism or War! https://store.steampowered.com/app/756660/Expansion__Crusader_Kings_II_Holy_Fury/ quote:ABOUT THIS CONTENT I am hella PEEVED fucked around with this message at 12:44 on May 19, 2018 |
# ? May 19, 2018 12:42 |
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This expansion seems quite interesting.quote:lists of people you’ve killed
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# ? May 19, 2018 12:58 |
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So if I was playing as a recently converted Norwegian king and died at Stiklestad and eventually canonized, would that become the spot of great virtue, or Nidaros?
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# ? May 19, 2018 13:02 |
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Let penises rise to full glory across the land, and ladies quoints moisten, for the Crusader Kings board game will soon be among us.
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# ? May 19, 2018 13:38 |
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Can’t wait to get my emperor of Hispaniola and Britannia to get crowned by a bumpkin country priest who can’t read and messes up the whole ceremony because I’ve pissed off the pope and all of my bishops
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Zikan posted:Can’t wait to get my emperor of Hispaniola and Britannia to get crowned by a bumpkin country priest who can’t read and messes up the whole ceremony because I’ve pissed off the pope and all of my bishops MAWWAGE, IS WHAT BWINGS US TOGETHAH.... today.
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# ? May 19, 2018 13:45 |
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I can't wait to die accidentally due to misreading the bible
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Top Hats Monthly posted:I can't wait to die accidentally due to misreading the bible Liberate me ex inferis.
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# ? May 19, 2018 14:10 |
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I am very excited for random worlds, I've been missing the TTG for ages. This is going to be awesome.
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# ? May 19, 2018 15:06 |
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The last DLC I bought was Charlemagne. What are the best things to get while they're on sale to get me going with CK2 again? (I mainly wanna worship satan lets be honest here)
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Sgt. Anime Pederast posted:The last DLC I bought was Charlemagne. What are the best things to get while they're on sale to get me going with CK2 again? (I mainly wanna worship satan lets be honest here) Monks and Mystics is the Satan-worshipping one, if that's your thing.
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I like Jade Dragon a lot, but it's probably not essential.
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