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Eimi posted:It's kind of insane that the threshold for a vassal not factioning against you is +80. On top of how good dread is in general there is very little upside to being a nice queen this time around, as only clan governments even really care about opinion. Counterpoint: 1 diplomacy perk gives you access to befriend, another one gives you stress reduction for friends. I love getting those early on after succession, then just make ALL THE FRIENDS - usually you get high success chance and it takes about 1 year to make a friend. If you can spend a few years befriending your powerful vassals, realm priest, smaller vassals, family, wife, neighbouring rulers it's trivial to get them all as friends and you'll have no factions, some positive events, and very little to no stress gain. Those that you can't befriend you can imprison, murder or just isolate, no one cares if the duke of Bumfuckia with his 2 counties is the only one very angry with the Emperor after all. Dread is great and even easier to get, with a couple perks in the intrigue tree you get basically free dread as long as you have prisoners, and while it's arguably better from a mechanics point of view I'd still rather play as a nice guy sometimes since it's not that much worse after all.
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Yeah but succession problems for me have usually begun in the first year, well before you can get your first perk and run a befriend scheme. Dread is nice because it's instant. It's also a lot easier to sit on foreign prisoners than duchy titles to make, as you eventually run out of those. Befriend and such is great for long term stability, but when you get back to back successions you want stability and you want it now.
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I find myself spending a lot of sway schemes on random electors with an unexpectedly high number of votes in my realm because it's the only way to get them to vote on my heir.
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Sep 18, 2020 09:17
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Yami Fenrir posted:Can you please elaborate on what exactly you're doing there? On a specific title's screen, you can click on the "Add Laws" button to give that specific title its own succession laws, which cost prestige to add (for a Kingdom title it's 500). As far as I can tell, these can be redundant with your top-level title's laws (I'm adding "Equal" succession to the titles even though my empire has Equal laws already), and when you do that it's handled as a separate inheritance at succession. I have been doing this to kingdom titles that would go to my other children and every time it has made my primary heir first in line for them...  So I am up to four kingdom titles actually, and I recently switched to High Partition so I changed back to check, and sure enough my heir is still getting all of them CharlieFoxtrot fucked around with this message at 09:26 on Sep 18, 2020 |
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Sep 18, 2020 09:20
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Eimi posted:Yeah but succession problems for me have usually begun in the first year, well before you can get your first perk and run a befriend scheme. Dread is nice because it's instant. It's also a lot easier to sit on foreign prisoners than duchy titles to make, as you eventually run out of those. Befriend and such is great for long term stability, but when you get back to back successions you want stability and you want it now. True, dread is a very effective short-term solution, but it doesn't always fit your character or playstyle  having 1500 gold to just buy 5000 mercs when factions fire, then beating up and imprisoning all your rebellious vassals is also a great solution. They can stay in jail until the short reign penalty expires, then I'll strip them of titles if appropriate or ransom them to recoup part of the mercs expenditure: I really like how there's many way to keep it all togheter even if they're not perfectly balanced against each other!On an unrelated note, I'm trying out VIET events and I have seen 0 dick jokes yet. It might not be TOO bad after all.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:On a specific title's screen, you can click on the "Add Laws" button to give that specific title its own succession laws, which cost prestige to add (for a Kingdom title it's 500). So basically if I were to add any law whatsoever to, say, two of my kingdom titles, they'd both go to my heir? Now that is interesting...
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I'm going to drop this North Korea game. Even with Pluralist, Sanctity of Nature, Adaptive and Clerics working on Pacification the peasants revolts are getting annoying. Going for the +50 popular Opinion trait on every ruler is time consuming and boring.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:OK so it really seems like basically with enough prestige I can just attach a succession law to a Kingdom title and my heir would receive it because it does a separate check? This seems extremely gamey, I am up to five kingdom titles staying with my heir when the realm is overall Partition lol. It is gamey, because it’s a bug. It will probably be fixed in the first patch.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:OK so it really seems like basically with enough prestige I can just attach a succession law to a Kingdom title and my heir would receive it because it does a separate check? This seems extremely gamey, I am up to five kingdom titles staying with my heir when the realm is overall Partition lol. You absolutely can. It's how the Yngling dynasty now has a technical claim on every single empire in western Europe.
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Just got this game yesterday. I really like the new UI but there's one thing that annoys me. I invited a new court doctor and the game gave me 2 options. So there was a dialogue box with: 'invite xxx' or 'invite yyy'. To see the details of xxx or yyy, I had to hover over each choice, and in that separate popup window I could click on their name. However, I couldn't really hover over to that separate popup. It would always disappear because I wasn't hovering over the dialogue box anymore. It's hard to explain, but I hope it makes some sense. Did I do something wrong? Is there a better way?
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Sep 18, 2020 10:29
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The default tooltip mode is you hover over the box until the faint background bar fills up and it will lock in, allowing you to move to the other window. You change this in the options to just click to lock it in
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Sep 18, 2020 10:30
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ModernMajorGeneral posted:What's the best way to break up a large stable enemy kingdom? If you're able to get off confederate partition, consider staying as a mega-duke and swearing fealty to the biggest neighbouring kingdom. This will let you be a big fish among their vassals and give you room to expand further whilst under the protection of a larger power. Eventually you can grow large enough to either break free or take over the kingdom entirely which should give you more than enough strength to stand on your own. Similarly if you don't want to destroy your kingdom title and there's an empire nearby, join that. The liege-vassal relationship can be used to your advantage in both directions and it's far better to join willingly than have chunks taken out of you via conquests you have no chance of winning.
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Is it intended behaviour that when I try to disband an army who are literally standing in my capital that I get a two month penalty to reforming them? I still have an active ally war (albeit one that's pretty much won). I find it weird that I can disband them *anywhere* during peace without penalty, but even after marching them all the way home the game won't let me disband without taking a hit.
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I have no idea how to fix France. I guess this is the feeling most French Kings have.
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AnEdgelord posted:https://youtu.be/3Y1NrGQClJU Thank you, this is A Nice Video.
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Gasmask posted:Is it intended behaviour that when I try to disband an army who are literally standing in my capital that I get a two month penalty to reforming them? I still have an active ally war (albeit one that's pretty much won). I find it weird that I can disband them *anywhere* during peace without penalty, but even after marching them all the way home the game won't let me disband without taking a hit. Those levies didn't all come from your capital, they came from the various counties and vassals you control. The real question is why you can instantly disband armies at peace.
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Has anybody done a list of all the livestyle events and their possible outcomes ? I usually keep taking the same sub-style ( like Wealth in Stewardship, for the +10% income), but that is probably not a good idea if the other styles have different or better events. Or when going Martial, I tend to go for Chivalry - the extra prowess and +5 advantage seem to good, but the events seem bad. The warhorse is buggy, others have a very high failure chance. Is Strategy focus any better ? If I plan to fill out one of the trees directly, is there an obvious advantage to taking the fitting focus ? I read something about events having special responses if you have the capstone trait.
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shut up blegum posted:Just got this game yesterday. I really like the new UI but there's one thing that annoys me. In addition to the tooltip mode thing mentioned, you can just click the character on the event screen to open their panel, no fuss.
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Sep 18, 2020 11:54
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:In addition to the tooltip mode thing mentioned, you can just click the character on the event screen to open their panel, no fuss. Yeah that worked for most of them, but not for that particular screen iirc. Their names weren't underlined and I couldn't click on them 
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My current ruler was given witch trait from his ward. Is it doing anything except for the witch coven decision?
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Those levies didn't all come from your capital, they came from the various counties and vassals you control. The real question is why you can instantly disband armies at peace. The other weird thing is that you can't disband at all when at war unless you're in friendly territory. In both cases I get the historic justification, but like you say it's super weird that they just wave that away if you're at peace.
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Dwesa posted:My current ruler was given witch trait from his ward. Is it doing anything except for the witch coven decision? It's giving you a secret that others can blackmail you with. I think it's also giving you +1 intrigue and learning along with a +20 relationship bonus for others who're also witches.
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Son of a gun I was a shoe in to win prestige with my lord helping him in a war, then he kicked the bucket, his infant son took over with less than half the levies and now my enemy refuses to finish the fight. Never trust the french.
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Communist Walrus posted:It's giving you a secret that others can blackmail you with. I think it's also giving you +1 intrigue and learning along with a +20 relationship bonus for others who're also witches.
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Fat Samurai posted:I'm going to drop this North Korea game. Even with Pluralist, Sanctity of Nature, Adaptive and Clerics working on Pacification the peasants revolts are getting annoying. Going for the +50 popular Opinion trait on every ruler is time consuming and boring. tbh I usually gave in to peasant factions every time and only fought liberty factions. it's not like losing Control on some of the counties you already get 90% reduced levies and taxes from really matters
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:The default tooltip mode is you hover over the box until the faint background bar fills up and it will lock in, allowing you to move to the other window. Holy poo poo. This changes everything.
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Sankis posted:Agh... I ended up being able to get absolute crown authority and designate one of my non-dynasty daughters to be an heir. Surprisingly the game let me continue after that. The plan now is to marry back into the Karlings in the next generation or two. Though who knows if I'll make it that far. My vassals are very unhappy.
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Dwesa posted:Ah yes, but I thought whether it for example adds some option to events like personality or education traits sometimes do. Being witch seems to be less exciting than it seemed to be. Witch has some unique events but they're not exactly common pops.
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shut up blegum posted:Just got this game yesterday. I really like the new UI but there's one thing that annoys me. The Nameplates mod makes the interface a lot better when people pop up in events.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:So, one of the perks of working for Paradox is getting added as a character. Just reading some random pages in this thread and lol at this. I found that character yesterday and was wondering wtf was up with her name.
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Sankis posted:Hm. I don't understand why it's telling me I have no heir, then. Without knowing the specific, it could be a similar case to what I ran into, where I've played around with inheritance laws to combat some of the excesses of Partition in combination with new religious restrictions, which simply led to there being no valid heirs for religious and legal reasons. Check things like crown authority and if your other branches aren't allowed to inherit because they're already lords of a different realm; check if your only otherwise valid heirs are women, but subject to male only religious or inheritance laws. Also check diplomatic range, because it has some screwy (probably bugged) effects sometimes, and Jerusalem has an annoying tendency to be juuuuust out of range from western Europe. For instance, my fooling around led me to set up the Supermodernity heresy, where pretty much everything was allowed for everyone, and only a handful of vassals converted, somehow excluding my children. So even though my 5 daughters should have gotten a windfall from the new laws, they got nothing because they were now “evil” and had fled to other courts… or some such. Had one of my vassals not been a dynasty member, it would probably have counted as a game-over state.
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I've noticed that I don't like painting the map, since I became Emperor of Italia I haven't fought an offensive war and my realm only expanded because of vassals waging holy wars or whatever. I mostly raise my levies/MAAs only after succession when some faction gets uppity and forces me to break the emergency piggybank to hire a couple merc bands to put them in their rightful place (the dungeon), or to help out allies if I feel like it. I enjoy the politicking, scheming, and eugenics simulator much more than the wargame, even though I find war is a lot improved over CK2. With that in mind, what's a good start for "tall play" where I can have fun with small-scale wars and consolidation, then managing my small dukedom/kingdom/empire without feeling like I absolutely have to expand?
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have i installed some kind of hosed up mod or are there normally nude 16 year olds with their tits out? i've run into some hindu nudist variant and at first it was funny but its really creepy with kids e: imo raise the age they turn nude to 18, its wierd its not this anyway. the procedurally generated boobs are funny so add dongs and do the same Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Sep 18, 2020 |
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Communist Thoughts posted:have i installed some kind of hosed up mod or are there normally nude 16 year olds with their tits out?
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Dwesa posted:There is a jainist nudist sect, but anyone below 18 shouldn't be depicted naked in any circumstances, so... yes, it seems you installed some mod. welp! none of them remotely hint at doing that so time to figure out who the weirdo is
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PittTheElder posted:Speak of the devil. The short answer is that the Barracks line of building is extremely good, you want them in every holding you personally own, to enable the following composition: Fantastic, thank you! Just quoting for posterity so I can find it in the future.
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The nudism adds nothing to the game and makes it embarrassing to play.
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Lawman 0 posted:The nudism adds nothing to the game and makes it embarrassing to play. You can turn it off.
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Lawman 0 posted:The nudism adds nothing to the game and makes it embarrassing to play. Lucky for you there's a game rule to turn it off then!
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