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If your king is a huge pussy who consistently "leads from the rear" you should probably get some penalty for that. Perhaps a "Huge Pussy" trait, with -10 opinion with all non-pussies.
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Roland Jones posted:Alright, I've become empress of Persia. How many kingdoms can I hold as an empress/emperor without pissing my vassals off? Two, like duchies as a king? You could try pissing him off, eventually he'll plot against you and you'll have free cause to arrest him and revoke one of his titles. Make him the court jester, repeatedly assign him to council and then fire him again, whatever it takes to make him hate you. Afterwards he'll probably hate you for the rest of his life, but his kids won't.
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May 3, 2014 16:54
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Bold Robot posted:Couple questions about characters and stats: 1. Roleplaying. Keeping locals on your council makes sense for roleplaying. Keeping your local lords happy makes sense. Local lords that love you are also a little less likely to join plots and factions against you. Imports can be troublemakers too. You get penalties for different culture and religion. Most guys won't come, and often the ones that will come hate their current liege because they are jealous or ambitious. Once you are their liege that jealousy penalty applies to you instead. All those slightly malcontent imports are potentially more people to join plots against you. It can be worthwhile, but only if your imports will be significantly better than the locals. Going through the list to find the awesome guys also gets a bit tiresome. 2. You can always marry for eugenics the first time, get some awesome heirs, then marry for alliance the second time. No point holding onto a lowborn wife once her uterus dries up.
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May 4, 2014 19:07
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Roland Jones posted:Anyway, patched up now. Holy crap, searching for specifics traits is so nice. This will make my spousal searches and hte like so, so much faster. I'm so jealous. The map expansion was causing my computer to vomit constantly, I had to roll back to 2.0.4 
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May 4, 2014 20:31
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fool_of_sound posted:Have you tried a complete reinstall? I had all sorts of bugs and crashes until I did one. Yeah, first I tried reboots, then reinstalls, then finally rollback. I have a lovely 6 year old computer with 3GBs of RAM running windows 8, lots of games just go "LOL, no" and refuse to work at all. This was at least launching, but every time it tried to save there was alike 50/50 chance it would just freeze up and collapse. This way will do until I get around to getting a new machine.
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May 4, 2014 21:05
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When making your own republic, is it better to use one of your spare kinsmen or a stranger as the starting mayor? With a kinsman you get the same dynasty + to help set off the wrong government - but is there any particular downside?
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May 4, 2014 23:21
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Allyn posted:As a king, you cannot swear fealty to an Emperor who is not your de jure liege. That's why he can't see the option. That is kind of lame, really. If an Empire is rolling through lands outside their historical area, I for one would much rather swear fealty and pay my taxes to them than have them chip away at my kingdom. Get some Realpolitik up in here. We're mongols now, hooray! Pellisworth posted:I usually hand out a duchy or two to dynasty members, I generally don't care too much about the "unlanded son" penalty because Prestige is easy to get, but if I'm expanding and have extra sons I'll give them a single county in a newly conquered duchy or something. I like to marry extra sons to some countess or duchess far away, especially if I can find one that doesn't require a matrilineal union. Too far away and not powerful enough to be a threat to the main line. The son is happy because he is landed now, at no cost to me. Mostly these distant lines just die out, but occasionally generations later you find some kinsman has become a king.
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May 6, 2014 12:15
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Edison was a dick posted:Have you tried not using Windows 8? Before Windows 8 I was using XP, which was fine but wouldn't run X-Com so I got 8 during that window when it was super cheap. Naturally some of my old equipment never got drivers for 8, so I had to install drivers for 7 instead, and frankly it is amazing the whole creaking mess hasn't blown up in my face. I did add a 1TB drive a couple years ago, so I thought about keeping an XP partition when I added windows 8, but ultimately  won and I'm just going to muddle along until I can afford a new system.As it is I can play everything up to and including Sons of Abraham, so I'm not missing much. The worst part is not being able to search the character finder by traits, but that's not a deal breaker. I appreciate the interest though, thanks. 
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May 6, 2014 13:23
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Can heresies install anti-popes?
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May 6, 2014 18:35
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SeaTard posted:Yep, the umads are Sayyid. I bet getting conquered by the U Mad? is super annoying.
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May 7, 2014 19:28
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QuoProQuid posted:If you make your heir a Doge, he will immediately be disinherited. Hmm, that could be useful too. Getting rid of excess heirs is a pain under gavelkind.
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May 8, 2014 18:40
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What are lowborns anyway? They aren't exactly peasants, if they were peasant there would be tonnes more of them. They are noblemen, but noblemen with no notable relatives.
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May 8, 2014 21:14
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Unlanded sons going off to become adventurers sounded so festive when I first heard about it.
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May 9, 2014 07:59
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What religious group are jews in for marriage and whatnot? As norse I can marry other pagans, but only norse will let me take concubines. Christians and muslims are all "must not marry an infidel" and won't give me the time of day. Even norse women in the court of another religion are off limits. It is a very limited pool of potential brides. Seems like that could be much worse for jews, who barely exist at all.
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May 9, 2014 20:00
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My norse guy had 3 daughters and then a genius son. Hell yeah. Then at 12 he drops dead of smallpox. No big deal, my wife isn't that old and I'll load up 3 concubines to hedge my bets. Set my ambition to "have a son". 7 more daughters.  No big deal, I reformed the faith and now I've got elective succession, and a huge dynasty, I can find someone nice. When my guy is 74 years old, he's already outlived 3 designated heirs and 2 wives, my dukes decide to get frisky and several nominate a duke not in my dynasty.  Meanwhile someone in my dynasty wins the republic election, and promptly starts revoking all the titles under him. What? Oh, he's somehow become a different religion. I guess he's firing all the good norsemen so he can replace them with infidels. Fffff. I guess I'll have to assassinate him or something, because I can't revoke his title without disbanding the republic. Okay, you want to play? Lets play. I'm 74 years old, I don't give a gently caress. I revoke all the duke titles except my chosen successor and pet republic. This incurs a wee bit of tyranny, but nobody refuses. Now they start having factions and poo poo. A few decide to try to push "lower crown authority". Before the rest can start firing off "lord chucklfuck for Norway" or whatever, I revoke the all the count titles. This increases my personal levys tremendously, unfortunately I also go broke and have to banish a few people. Why not? There are still 2 dukes and 2 rebelling counts. 54 very angry barons/mayors/godbotherers vassels. My demesne is now 44/6. Come on you pussies, just assassinate me already!
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May 11, 2014 19:27
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beefart posted:Is there a decent mod that adds Satanism or something similar as a religion? I got the demon babby chain about 3 years into a Hungary game and I want to carve out an earthly realm for the Lord of Flies while listening to the theme from The Omen on repeat, but being forced by Satan to convert to Waldensianism or some hippy Christian sect just doesn't feel right. Catholicism. Zing!
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May 12, 2014 06:12
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BioMe posted:Ahaha, I spent years building up these intricate plans to secure a claim on the Byzantine Empire and now the eldest son of the basileus just straight up accepts an invitation to my court. Heh, sounds like some jaded fop decided to go see how the other half lives. Could be fun.
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May 14, 2014 10:41
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Are there some limits on the benefit of Jewish councils? I recently noticed that the Jobs for Jews program hadn't paid out in a long while, like decades, and I still had one Jewish councilor. Could just be the RNG, but I wonder if I hosed it up. I'm Norse so they never show up on their own. When I had a dude with heaps of daughters I used them to matrilineally marry a few jewish courtiers. (This is a pain, because they only appear in Christian and Moslem courts who hate you, so you have to snag them as courtiers before they get a councillor job.) They did a fine job as councillors, and soon started breeding adorable Jewish grandchildren. To maximize Jew production I made my jewish councillors mayors in my demesne. That turned out to be a mistake, because I couldn't lure the best ones back to my court, so only the current mayors would be available as councilors. Their children didn't inherit the "really good at one skill" thing from their dads, so most of them are pretty useless as councilors. My last jewish councilor is a third generation mayor, and he isn't paying out. Is it because he's a landed mayor? Do only the first generation councillors get the bonus? Something else?
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May 15, 2014 07:51
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Strudel Man posted:No, and no. Which is (another reason) why Norse is so great - you get to call the crusades yourself, against whomever you want. You don't get a trait like Crusader for pagan great holy wars, do you? I guess if you're norse you can get Viking, which is kinda like Crusader but way easier to get.
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May 16, 2014 00:12
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loving Iceland. Being waaay off in the corner they join every independence faction that pops up. The land is poo poo, the levies are poo poo, the taxes are poo poo. But if you just ignore them they form a duchy and then start voting for themselves in all the norwegian elections. "Just leave us alone! Unless we can be in charge. Can we be in charge?"
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May 16, 2014 07:13
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Toadsniff posted:Can we please get a prisoner torture DLC please? I have 78 prisoners and haven't had a single event to rack or oubliette them and some of them have been in prison for over 50 years (since they were infants If it is any consolation, they probably are being tortured by the guards. Just not by you personally. If you play a kid you can get an event where you explore the dungeons, hear screaming and guards laughing, and find a bloody knife.
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May 16, 2014 20:11
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Shadeoses posted:What would the original Islamic religion be before the split? Or for that matter, 480 Christianity?  http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0042/0042_01.asp
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May 17, 2014 07:12
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The checksum is annoying. I noticed when loading the game it would get stuck on "generating checksum" for what seems like forever. Taskmanager shows that whenever it gets to generating checksum, "Steam Client Bootstrapper" spikes up to 50% CPU and everything hangs. I tried putting steam in offline mode, and then the game then doesn't get stuck and works through generating checksum quickly. WTF?
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May 17, 2014 20:27
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BioMe posted:So where's the button for "If any of you assholes starts another stupid civil war for the next five years I am going to loving hunt them and their family to extinction"? If it is a minor backwater you could just grant them independence. No tyranny penalty for that. You can sweep them up again later.
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May 18, 2014 22:21
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It is too bad culture is such an absolute thing. Some French guy moves to Hungary and 40 years later he is still annoyed that his liege (and everyone else at court) is Hungarian, meanwhile everyone around him is annoyed by his accent. But if you let adults change their culture, and then the French guy unexpectedly inherits a title back home, everyone in France is going to hate this Hungarian buffoon.
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May 19, 2014 05:02
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Knuc U Kinte posted:definitely not a real solution, but you can roll back to pre-Rajas afaik. But then you lose the ability to search for "genius" in the character finder.
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May 22, 2014 06:05
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Darkrenown posted:Here's the last info I got about Ironman speeds FWIW: What is the purpose in NOT allowing, say, annual saves as an option for ironman? I do it on regular and it doesn't seem to cause any problems to only save once a year. The only thing I can think of is that players could "cheat" if things weren't going well and close the process to roll back to the beginning of the year. But that would be a silly reason, so it can't be that, right? Nobody actually cares if someone else slightly cheeses their steam achievements, right? Because if someone did want to cheese the achievements, they could just use steam achievement manager to give them all the cheevos they want.
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May 22, 2014 12:05
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Main Paineframe posted:This is the point of Ironman - to prevent players from savescumming or modifying things. Even before achievements, that was how Ironman worked. Yes. And by definition if you cheat ironman you are only cheating yourself. Oh noes, we wouldn't want anyone to act dishonourable while playing our child murder simulator. I'm not mad or anything. It just seems deeply silly. Hilariously silly.
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May 23, 2014 04:01
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Could you make a mesoamerican in the ruler designer? :iamafag: One lonely native american rows across the atlantic ocean to take over europe.
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May 24, 2014 18:40
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Roland Jones posted:Doesn't look like it will work; there's a "Merchant Republics will not give up titles" modifier with five minuses whenever I check. Pretty sure it's one of those "will never accept" situations. Maybe if the doge is in your dungeon? I revoked a title from a republic that way, revoking a vassal might work too.
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May 25, 2014 05:01
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Civilized Fishbot posted:Apparently, if you run an empire with Tanistry, and your Tanist is the Grand Mayor of the world's largest merchant republic, the inheritance will destroy the republic and leave your empire feudal Tanistry is such a nuisance if you have a big empire. My dumb vassals love to track down any non-welsh members of my dynasty and elect them Tannist. Some Polish guy with 4 sons is Tanist, sure, I love gavelkind!
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May 26, 2014 00:44
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Shiny777 posted:Is there any good way to retrieve underage children from a foreign court? I'd handed my heir a county in my demesne so he wouldn't go running off to the court of the Genius woman I married him to, since she had a temple. He popped out a pair of daughters, I offered the eldest the hand of the Norse culture/religion Sayyid kid I'd groomed for her, he refuses because he wants a better alliance. So okay, I plot revoke his county. He runs off to his wife's court, I blow some pocket change murdering her and invite him back. I don't know about retrieving them, I wasn't able to get them out when it happened to me. They would let a parent, and only a parent, tutor the children. Not a grandparent, not a sibling, parent or GTFO. So as long as your son is in your court and survives to their 16th birthday, you can get them at least that education. Should be enough to keep them from turning to some stupid foreign culture.
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Is it possible for a duchy level player-made republic to ever become a kingdom or empire level republic? I have an empire and wanted to turn my pet republic Serene with a shiny gold kingdom title, but it looks like I can't grant the doge anything above duke level titles.
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How do you ever find anyone to marry as a Jew or Zoroastrian? The initial dating pool is pretty small even as a Pagan, but Jewish women barely seem to exist at all.
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May 28, 2014 01:36
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Angrymog posted:Would it be easy to mod the game so that women can have council posts apart from Spymaster if say they have a stat at 15 or above, and to lead armies if their Martial is 20 or above? Wouldn't that just make it harder to get exceptional women to your court in the first place? Like when you try to matrilineal marry some sweet peice of rear end and his liege is all "But he is our spymaster" and won't seal the deal. The world would be full of highly skilled spinsters.
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Away all Goats posted:So my first son and heir has Syphilis. What should I do? Passing it on isn't a sure thing. I once made a guy in ruler creator with syphilis, and neither his wives nor any of his dozen children caught it. Likewise if I see a genius or strong character with syphilis I'll get them married off anyway, and often their children don't have it. So if this guy is your best bet for an heir, just run with it. Try to have as many kids as possible, so you get some healthy ones. Marry the unhealthy ones into foreign courts.
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May 31, 2014 01:46
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WeaponGradeSadness posted:So every time I've seen the spawn of Satan event chain happen to someone else, it ends with the child seizing power. What happens if the child is a woman and you're playing a Muslim nation? If I luck out I might be able to convert to Zoroastrianism before she takes over where the gender isn't so big a deal, but is the fact that Muslims can't have female rulers going to mess something up? She kills all her brothers. Still fails to invent feminism.
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Techno Remix posted:I can confirm this. The game must run some kind of check the moment you become a republic but being at max speed must skip it or something. I've tried the same process multiple times (in beta with SI enabled since that seems to be a sticking point for some people) but it only works when you set to max speed right before unpausing to wait for the surrender acceptance from the bishopric. You can choose your culture, religion, and starting zone. Other cultures let you have different retinues. Other religions may give you useful special features like extra wives/concubines for more sons, norse raiding for cash and prestige, or defensive bonuses, etc.
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Azuth0667 posted:Also to make a republic I have to build a city and give it to a relative and give them a county right? Doesn't have to be a relative. Just make sure he is the same culture and religion as you, because all the auto spawning republicans will have the same as his. Give a dude a city, so he becomes a mayor. Then give him the county, now he's a fancy mayor. Finally give him the duke title. The other 4 families will spawn and you've got yourself a republic. You may as well give him the whole duchy, otherwise you'll get an opinion hit. Note: If you are starting in Old Gods time it can take a while to pay off. If Trade Practices hasn't been researched in that county, they will have a -100% modifier to how many trade posts they can build, so for a long time they won't build any. No trade posts means no trade income, so they won't be making much more taxable income than a regular city. Their capital county needs Trade Practices to 3 before they start printing ridiculous piles of cash. If you can I find it help to position their capital adjacent to your capital, so technology from your capital will spread to the republic as quickly as possible.
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