Paradox Interactive Thread: V2 The cartographers nightmare. - Games

[QUOTE=Burnyhands;40889093] But then I started playing Crusader Kings. Now I'm a backstabbing child jailing adulterer who constantly bullies people lower than me. Thanks, Paradox![/QUOTE] I have removed far too many testicle and eyeballs as a Byzantine lord and emperor.

[QUOTE=Smooth Jazz;40893281][url]https://mobile.twitter.com/producerjohan/status/341505597478432768[/url] Looks like we're getting two more years of Crusader Kings 2 expansions![/QUOTE] Only bought the game for the Viking Simulator DLC. Can someone give me a reason why the main game is worthy of my attention? [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] Oh god. It's 3 AM!

Vikings and Mongols are pretty enjoyable. 200 years is added to the game which allows you to experience the rise of the Great western european kingdoms and more of the Islamic golden age. Raiding and conquering vast tracks of land as vikings is really just a fresh experience compared to forging land claims as a lord.

I personally was hoping to be able to play as the Avars and form a Khangate of vast horse riders, but the Magyars just screw them in a year.

I managed to lose all 3 sons and fail at matrilineal marriages with 4 daughters. My bastard sons are going to infight for everything and my dynasty is non-existent. In other news, i'm the king of Denmark, Petty king of Svibsvap and Jarl of everywhere else. How did i do so well, yet fail so hard?

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does playing as a female character make you have a higher chance of having daughters instead of sons? every time I switch over to a female character i end up having 4-5 generations of only daughters til everything falls apart horribly in independence and throne claimant wars.

I feel kinda bad, because of what I did. So in CKII this bitch of a faction kept popping up, some lady from Scotland for Ireland. I'm not even close to being related to her. So Ireland kept rebelling, and I kept trying again. So I did the unthinkable and loaded up the save as Scotland, and ruined her. And threw Scotland into a little more turmoil, but nothing that couldn't be recovered from. I feel a bit bad about it now, but I need this family to survive at least until 1399. I'm going to be transferring the save over to EUIII.

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[QUOTE=bdd458;40895123] I feel a bit bad about it now, but I need this family to survive at least until 1399. I'm going to be transferring the save over to EUIII.[/QUOTE] Instead of reloading the game you could have simply had her and her family killed through plots, asassinations and wars. Thats kind of how the games played.

[QUOTE=kamikaze470;40893917]As much as I absolutely adore Andreas Waldetoft, his music starts to get repetitive when you play Paradox games for hundreds of hours. I just listen to classical symphonies and the like, but thats not to say he's bad or anything.[/QUOTE] His music is alright, but it gets really stale and generic sounding after you play for ages. Personally, I would like the music to be how it was in EU2. It changed in each century (15th century, 16th century, 17th century, and 18th century music) at roughly the same pace as sprites for units and some of the artwork. It really helped to make you feel as though at the start you were at the end of the middle ages, and by the end, you were in the Napoleonic era.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40894287]Vikings and Mongols are pretty enjoyable. 200 years is added to the game which allows you to experience the rise of the Great western european kingdoms and more of the Islamic golden age. Raiding and conquering vast tracks of land as vikings is really just a fresh experience compared to forging land claims as a lord.[/QUOTE] A Tengri player is the most OP shit i've seen yet. You can invade at your leisure without a casus belli, and you get 20% levy increases. What usually happens is simply you unite the Tengri's into one super nation and then start steam rolling any nearby Orthodox countries until you've amassed enough to conquer arabia then it's all game over.

[QUOTE=Keyblockor;40895705]A Tengri player is the most OP shit i've seen yet. You can invade at your leisure without a casus belli, and you get 20% levy increases. What usually happens is simply you unite the Tengri's into one super nation and then start steam rolling any nearby Orthodox countries until you've amassed enough to conquer arabia then it's all game over.[/QUOTE] Well you have the Seljuk, Mongol and Timurid megastacks to to deal with.. as well as huge internal instability that is simply going to happen with giant empires.

What else can they do to keep CKII DLC going for another two years? I suppose eventually they might get into system overhauls like between EU3 HTTT-DW but the only things I can think of that can't be covered by mods is naval combat and theocracies.

[QUOTE=Frayyyy;40896072]What else can they do to keep CKII DLC going for another two years? I suppose eventually they might get into system overhauls like between EU3 HTTT-DW but the only things I can think of that can't be covered by mods is naval combat and theocracies.[/QUOTE]At this point I feel like they're deliberately saying they won't do naval combat solely to save it for later as a expansion opportunity, there's also holy orders they could brush up upon as well. [editline]3rd June 2013[/editline] I like your idea of overhaul themed expansions better actually, maybe they'll take advantage of that by polishing important things like the papacy and crusades.

[QUOTE=Frayyyy;40896072]What else can they do to keep CKII DLC going for another two years? I suppose eventually they might get into system overhauls like between EU3 HTTT-DW but the only things I can think of that can't be covered by mods is naval combat and theocracies.[/QUOTE] They can do Theocracy, and perhaps an ahistorical DLC that makes it a "Fantasy" universe, one such with Dragons, Trolls in Scandinavia and such.

I kinda forget the Crusades even happen. They never succeed most the time, the player has really no control on when they occur or making them occur, and when a state is made it's basically no different than being in Europe.

Rebellions seem a bit ridiculous now. No matter who I play as, every three seconds I get the message: "We have presented an ultimatum to blah blah blah for you, wish us luck!" And then five seconds later I get the same thing targeted at me. My realm is completely split at the county level at this point.

Crusader Kings is such a bizarre name. The crusades barely happen in both games. And the first was horrific compared to the second. At least technology/buildings/provinces were in a way more interesting (prestige, piety, tech, character traits, army movement, building construction time, supply limit, loyalty of the nobility, peasantry, clergy, burghers, base taxes, tax modifiers, etc). Budget screen was also more varied. You could choose to devote a portion of taxes to the church for piety, another chunk to army maintenance, and finally, the slider for taxes on the Nobility/Peasantry/Burghers. Unfortunately, it's a buggy game that Deus Vult manage to make playable, you can only play Christian males (despite promises of theocracies or muslims, I can't play them). Laws are incredibly limited as well. If Paradox is going to flesh out the game with 2 more years of expansions (into 2015?) then they should probably focus on allowing us to play Theocracies, put some more work into crusades (the Albigensian, Baltic, and Middle east ones), flesh out heretics a bit more (maybe bonuses for different types of heresies) and some more historical events. They could probably make it as a "Faithful DLC" or some other silly name all about crusades and heretics.

[QUOTE=ThePinkPanzer;40896589]Rebellions seem a bit ridiculous now. No matter who I play as, every three seconds I get the message: "We have presented an ultimatum to blah blah blah for you, wish us luck!" And then five seconds later I get the same thing targeted at me. My realm is completely split at the county level at this point.[/QUOTE] u suk at da gam work on your vassal management, if they're all pissed at you you're doing something wrong. if you're taxing them, MAKE THEM EXEMPT. fuedal lords will be your main county holders, so appease them. chances are you won't have any lord mayors or bishop level guys so tax the fuck out of them, it won't matter. [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] a reworked heresy system would be beautiful, imagine if you could create your own heresies like ruler designer [editline]4th June 2013[/editline] [video=youtube;6oSoBCLhgGg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oSoBCLhgGg[/video] best song

[QUOTE=Killerjc;40899410]u suk at da gam work on your vassal management, if they're all pissed at you you're doing something wrong. if you're taxing them, MAKE THEM EXEMPT. fuedal lords will be your main county holders, so appease them. chances are you won't have any lord mayors or bishop level guys so tax the fuck out of them, it won't matter.[/QUOTE] But I am doing literally nothing different from past games, very few of my vassals dislike me but it's nearly impossible to hold a large realm or to conquer another now. I only have three vassals who actually dislike me at the start of the war and the kingdom still splits like humpty dumpty.

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;40895168]Instead of reloading the game you could have simply had her and her family killed through plots, asassinations and wars. Thats kind of how the games played.[/QUOTE] Thing is, I tried that. Multiple times. But none of it was in time. The full blown civil war started every damn time, every one of my Vassals and they were pulling troops out of no where. I just need this dynasty to last till October 14th 1399. Gotta transfer it to EUIII :P

The years 998 to 1012 are those which turned Lithuania from a Pagan decentralized annoyance into a unified state. I imprisoned all of my vassals 1 by 1 and forced them to convert, followed by bringing in absolute crown authority and getting rid of taxes and levies for the nobility. My son has been groomed to have as high learning, stewardship, and diplomacy as possible, and holds all of the seven virtues. He shall rule Lithuania for many years, and finish the unification and final tasks of ensuring the longterm stability of Lithuania. He shall be the greatest king in Lithuanian history. Also he's a closet homosexual.

I expanded my realm as the Wendish empire by twice the amount of space completely on accident and I don't even want the land. One of my Vassals took over Hungary right? They also happened to have a claim on Cumania and took that over.

I tried out this custom world mod for EU3, I generated a world with an very large U shaped European continent in the middle; and all other continents are situated Islands. I started as Morea, a one province island-state situated next to South America. The game became pretty intense, as Before 1650 I had colonized just about the entirety of South America. Now I have to fight off the French to the East, which try to invade my continent every 8 years or so, after they blobbed over half of the European continent. In the west are the Ottomans, the largest nation of this custom map, which blobbed over the Islamic islands and also try to invade me once in a while.

[QUOTE=Keyblockor;40896426]They can do Theocracy, and perhaps an ahistorical DLC that makes it a "Fantasy" universe, one such with Dragons, Trolls in Scandinavia and such.[/QUOTE] Nononono that would mean super duper scary shit in the slavlands

The prepared invasions cause weird things sometimes. Some kinsman decided to invade Venice, and when he won he became lord mayor of Venice, vassal to the serene doge of Venice, who actually became the king of Venice and reigned in Ancona. Then the king got conquered by the duke of Ancona and now there's a Norse pagan republic of Venice expanding in the Mediterranean.

[QUOTE=ThePinkPanzer;40900100]But I am doing literally nothing different from past games, very few of my vassals dislike me but it's nearly impossible to hold a large realm or to conquer another now. I only have three vassals who actually dislike me at the start of the war and the kingdom still splits like humpty dumpty.[/QUOTE]Bribe them with money. Handling out a few honorary titles can also make them like you more. I've averted a few possible civil wars that way.

Woah, You can transfer saves from game to game?

Is it normal to go from a petty king to this within a single reign? [img]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/882983718948394964/9DF978F21204614A86DF28EA377F105992823A26/?.jpg[/img] Did Norway and Finland within 9 years since i noticed that my ruler got old and i kinda NEEDED not to lose Sweden to another son.