Saith posted:

(Oh also, a big thank you to DrSunshine for teaching me the basics of modding this game, pretty much 2 years ago today.)

Funky Valentine posted:

New patch, new dev diary:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/weekly-dev-diary-5-clan-management.860536/

UYGHURS

Moon Slayer posted:

What's a fun/interesting non-Catholic, non-Norse start? I've played 1066 Ireland to death and the Norse seem really OP.

Moon Slayer posted:

I gave this a try and did indeed get my face pushed in pretty quickly by a Crusade, even after using the Ruler Designer Unlocked mod to make an ubermensch warlord. Pretty fun up to that point, though! Also my Crusade strategy was to make a beeline for Rome for poetic justice.

ecavalli posted:

2) Outside of the tutorial campaign, which ruler/starting date would you suggest those familiar (but not deeply experienced) with CK2 play to learn the mid- to endgame concepts? I'll worry about strategy later, but first I'd like to nail down all the core gameplay concepts.

The Cheshire Cat posted:

Basically just keep sending chaplains until you get lucky and convert the realm leader. There's no real trick to it except to just keep trying.

Torrannor posted:

There is a way to keep your ruler 100% safe if you really want to. You know that your character will always be put in charge of one of your troops if you raise your personal levies, the only way to avoid that is if he is already the commander of another unit.

So to avoid him randomly dying on the battlefield, you park your cheapest retinue somewhere far away from all fighting, and assign your ruler as their commander. Problem solved, you only need to make sure that that unit won't fight with anybody (best park them on a province of your culture and religion with no unrest), and you have to remember to reassign your character as the commander every time your ruler dies.

Dallan Invictus posted:

Silk Road dev diary

Eeeeenteresting. If the Silk Road is more moddable than EU4 trade nodes then it could well be extended into a full-blown inland trade system, and refining the old-school non-claimant adventurers into this raiding adventurer system is a much better idea.

(also, if you really look at the map SS it looks like the new provinces are just filling in some current wasteland, thank gently caress - even if the Paradox forums are flipping out because one tribe has a Chinese-sounding name.)

SeaTard posted:

If they are adding this new mechanic, they are absolutely going to add at least one bookmarked character you can play as.

Ofaloaf posted:

So then, since government type is now separate from the primary holding of a province, are government types going to be determined province-by-province within the province history file of every province individually (with like an extra line added in say govtype = feudal or somesuch), or something like the technology history file, where there's a big file with some poo poo like govtype_theocracy = { d_latium d_cologne } and so forth where every landed title is entered?

Volkerball posted:

rip tricky? what did a poster loving die? man, ya'll take that multiplayer poo poo serious.

Shadeoses posted:

Ahh I was just thinking that line.

What's next for Sonendar?

beefart posted:

Hell yes. Throat singing makes everything better.

I can't wait until we get a Mongol Paradox mega-LP and inevitably go socialist so there will finally be a reason to sing the Internationale using khoomei.

Shadeoses posted:

Mr.Morgenstern posted:

Regardless, his LP really makes me want to play Horse Lords. Nomads look like a lot of fun, and it's nice to see that at least one non-Norse pagan religion is now getting some love.

Autonomous Monster posted:

I checked it out and it looks pretty straightforward. This is a standard Christian feudal government, for example (in common/governments/feudal_governments.txt):

code:

feudal_government = {
	preferred_holdings = { CASTLE }
	allowed_holdings = { 
		CASTLE 
		FORT
	}
	allowed_holdings_culture = { # Will not get the wrong government type penalty for tribes of the same culture
		TRIBAL
	}
	accepts_liege_governments = { # Gets the wrong religion modifier instead
		muslim_government
	}
	free_revoke_on_governments_religion = { # Tribal vassals of other religions can have their titles revoked for free
		tribal_government
	}
	potential = {
		NAND = {
			controls_religion = yes
			NOT = { religion_group = muslim }
			NOT = { religion = norse_pagan_reformed }
		}
		NOT = {	religion_group = muslim	}
		is_patrician = no
	}
	
	color = { 91 133 207 }
	
	dukes_called_kings = yes
	barons_need_dynasty = yes

	can_build_tribal = no
	
	ignore_in_vassal_limit_calculation = {
		tribal_government
	}
}

Also, check out the merchant republics:

code:

merchant_republic_government = {
	preferred_holdings = { CITY }
	allowed_holdings = { 
		TRADE_POST
		CITY
		CASTLE
		FAMILY_PALACE
		FORT
	}
	allowed_holdings_culture = { # Will not get the wrong government type penalty for tribes of the same culture
		TRIBAL
	}
	accepts_liege_governments = { # Accepts other republics
		republic_government
	}
	free_revoke_on_governments_religion = { # Tribal vassals of other religions can have their titles revoked for free
		tribal_government
	}
	frame_suffix = "_merchantrepublic"
	title_prefix = "city_"
	potential = {
		NAND = {
			controls_religion = yes
			NOT = { religion_group = muslim }
			NOT = { religion = norse_pagan_reformed }
		}
		is_female = no
		OR = {
			AND = {
				is_patrician = yes
				OR = {
					liege_before_war = {
						NOT = { character = PREV }
						is_merchant_republic = yes
						NOT = {
							liege_before_war = {
								NOT = { character = PREV }
								is_merchant_republic = yes
							}
						}
					}
					has_game_started = no
				}
			}
			AND = {
				OR = {
					AND = {
						has_game_started = yes
						is_merchant_republic = yes
					}
					capital_scope = { port = yes }
				}
				higher_real_tier_than = count
				any_demesne_province = {
					always = yes
				}
				NOT = {
					liege_before_war = {
						NOT = { character = PREV }
						is_merchant_republic = yes
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
	
	color = { 250 0 0 }
	
	merchant_republic = yes
	
	can_imprison_without_reason = no
	can_revoke_without_reason = no
	can_usurp_kingdoms_and_empires = no
	have_gender_laws = no
	can_grant_kingdoms_and_empires_to_other_government = yes
	allows_matrilineal_marriage = no

	can_build_tribal = no
}

See that "capital_scope = { port = yes }" line? 99% certain that commenting that out will instantaneously give you playable inland republics.

Torrannor posted:

Yes.

GunnerJ posted:

What's the easiest legit way to change your character's religion? Or at least your dynasty down the line? I remember reading that one of the DLC patches removed the ability to do so using tutors.

Schizotek posted:

Foreign Tudors work and everyone loves hostages.

Strudel Man posted:

There is or was a mod that added homozygosity level traits, to track just how inbred someone was. Though ultimately it allowed total inbreeding without penalties once you got a few generations in, as 100% homozygosity got you the "purebred" trait, where you had no more chance of inbred appearing from close-kin marriages with other purebreds. It also guaranteed passing on of genetic traits, if both parents have them; essentially it represents the kids being genetic clones of the parents.

verbal enema posted:

how in the gently caress does this occur

darthbob88 posted:

I've done that with the Caliph, but how do you get a vassal Pope as a non-Catholic ruler?

Iceatollah posted:

Does anyone have some suggestions for a easy(ish) second playthrough character? I last played this game a year or so ago and united Ireland as the Ua Chennesailligs. I've got all the DLC minus Charlemagne and Horselords, but I've never played a non catholic for more than like 20 minutes

Angry Salami posted:

Won't they come around when they remember their beloved Byzantines had no less than three reigning empresses during the CK time period, and god-knows how many empresses-regent?

(On that note, why is Irene of Athens' religion Catholic in the Charlemagne scenario? She opposed the Iconoclasts, but never showed any real sympathy for the Pope...)

Groogy posted:

Without a problem actually, just a lot of scrolling.

Disclaimer: Haven't been tested, is theoretically supported

TheCIASentMe posted:

Yes... Time for elective monarchy Vikings. All of my sons will struggle. Only the best will receive the nomination to rule the others shall be cast off as mercenaries.