luxury handset posted:

ToxicSlurpee posted:

1 - yes. You need more tech to get more posts. Your mansion also has upgrades for more. Your spymaster should stay home. A high stewardship score will get you many points and you should always have a high stewardship score in a republic.

2 - you want to have as big of a zone as possible. Each chunk of ocean is not necessarily a separate zone. You want to have the most posts in a chunk to control it for trade as that gives you the biggest bonus. If you have control of multiple continuous chunks it makes one big zone. The number of chunks actually doesn't matter so dogpile your chunk around Venice first then spread from there.

binge crotching posted:

Keep your spymaster parked in Constantinople until you are the tech leader. It shouldn't take more than about 100 years. You probably want to keep your Chancellor there to make them like you, since you'll be losing a fair number of spymasters over the years.

And yes, basically. Trade zones are weird as hell, and sometimes will cross over landmasses to the ocean on the other side. In general though, just assume that they need to be touching.

Also, if you haven't done it yet, make sure you own the trade post in Venice itself. If some other family owns it, make sure to eliminate their bloodline so you have a chance to inherit. If some other family does, rinse and repeat.

Tuxedo Catfish posted:

I'm not entirely sold on the "it's not just West Africa any more, so we made one monolithic African Religion" aspect, but the map stuff sounds cool.

Strudel Man posted:

It's the middle ages. Morbid obesity hasn't been invented yet.

ninjahedgehog posted:

There are more events if she marries or has a kid, but if she loses her celibacy she loses Jesus' military advice. She's better off as a Marshal and court tutor than a queen, unfortunately.

HisMajestyBOB posted:

How do I play nomads?
I started as Kirghiz in the Viking Age start (with an unlocked ruler designed king with good stats), but dunno how to go all Genghis on everyone. Looks like nomads have a CB to take any adjacent province, and can either war for a whole de jure kingdom once a life, or if their pop is above a threshold. What's the general strategy for expansion and kicking settled people rear end?

Pyromancer posted:

Horse archers kinda suck now, their tactics harm light cavalry strength, so go with light cavalry at the start and then mix in the heavy when you're rich.

Pyromancer posted:

Pretty sure it's by design - all harass tactics buff light cavalry but debuff horse archers, all swarm tactics do the opposite. The only skirmish tactic that buffs both is "Harass Swarm" but it's impossible to build the horde in a way to roll just that without swarm tactics.
Also pretty much all horse archer specific tactics don't work in forests/mountain/marsh so you'll be stuck with tactics that just don't change them at best and heavily debuff them at worst.
In contrast mixing 60-80% light cavalry and 20-40% heavy does either harass which doesn't debuff heavies or charge into melee which buffs heavies a lot and doesn't debuff lights, and also works on every terrain.
Going with 100% lights makes you use "disorganized harass" that weakens their defense but not really too bad.

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

What about spares, you fool?

Fintilgin posted:

Dev diary for random worlds looks so, so, so good.


We don't even have a release date yet, do we?

COME OUT NOW PLEASE

Elliptical Dick posted:

Right so then I get the kinslayer trait and have a revolt for gavelkind or some pretender on my hands!

And yes my interest in GoT and this game probably stem from the same place..

Tamba posted:

Ireland in 1066 is the default recommendation for new players. Just don't pick an earlier start date there, or vikings will destroy you.

SlothfulCobra posted:

I guess maybe an additional "nouveau riche" modifier might make sense, but I don't think nobility really worried about that, especially if they got ennobled by a legitimate source, like being appointed by a lord. There's a number of "rags-to-riches" stories like that, and even by the time of the French Revolution, new people were being ennobled by buying titles, although often new nobles concoct stories of how actually they were noble all along, which muddies things.

I think historically most class warfare from the top is preventative. They don't actually try to force people down a strata once they've clawed their way up because that might provide a bad example. Maybe. I'm not a real expert.

Paradox Forums posted:

MTTH is 65 years so it is not super common.

The province must be the crown focus (has_flag = crown_focus_province)
The province must be at the highest level of prosperity (has_province_modifier = prosperity_modifier_3)

An then there is a heap of modifiers based on stats and traits (see the code below) which if you fulfil them all reduces the MTTH to ~22.66 years.

province_event = { #Reclaim Land id = RIP.11705 title = PROSPERITY_TITLE desc = RIP.11705.d picture = "GFX_evt_culture_change" border = GFX_event_normal_frame_economy has_flag = crown_focus_province trigger = { has_province_modifier = prosperity_modifier_3 NOT = { num_of_max_settlements = 7 } } mean_time_to_happen = { years = 65 modifier = { factor = 1.2 owner = { independent = no } } modifier = { factor = 0.9 owner = { stewardship = 12 } } modifier = { factor = 0.9 owner = { stewardship = 16 } } modifier = { factor = 0.9 owner = { stewardship = 18 } } modifier = { factor = 0.9 owner = { learning = 12 } } modifier = { factor = 0.9 owner = { learning = 16 } } modifier = { factor = 0.9 owner = { learning = 18 } } modifier = { factor = 0.9 owner = { is_smart_trigger = yes } } modifier = { factor = 0.9 owner = { OR = { trait = administrator trait = architect trait = scholar trait = gardener } } } modifier = { factor = 0.9 owner = { trait = diligent } } modifier = { factor = 0.9 owner = { OR = { trait = scholarly_theologian trait = mastermind_theologian trait = charismatic_negotiator trait = grey_eminence trait = fortune_builder trait = midas_touched } } } } option = { name = RIP.11705.a ai_chance = { factor = 95 } owner = { scaled_wealth = -2.5 } add_holding_slot = 1 } option = { name = RIP.11705.b ai_chance = { factor = 5 } } }

ninjahedgehog posted:

Come to think of it, I'm creeping up on 1,000 hours in CK2 and I still have exactly 0 achievements because I always roll with a few mods and never play Ironman