CK2 - Dev Diary #123 - Iron Century

[maxd98]

Guys, guys.

Æthelstan and the House of Wessex after the formation of England are going to be playable!

 

[Snow Crystal]

Do you mean that this one is Eric Bloodaxe?

No, he's in Northern Scotland. What I meant is that he'll have sort of the same role, hopefully.

 

[tribnia]

Guys, guys.

Æthelstan and the House of Wessex after the formation of England are going to be playable!

And it's possible that there will be a bloodline for them!

 

[Serenity84]

I am not sure which one could be considered as the "Chinese Emperor". I prefer that the off-map power should be unavailable since East Asia was just a region with several independent countries in 936, just like Europe.

I'd have said the closest one to Tibet, but even that doesn't seem easy. They could treat this as a civil war or government crisis. Just put China into isolation. Or maybe even have a special event for it.

The issue is that in vanilla they seem to require a character holding a title at all times. So there is the workaround of having Iceland as a Catholic theocracy. The Games of Thrones mod has a nice solution to that by having pseudo-character placeholder instead that doesn't do anything. Kind of an immortal faceless entity instead of a person

 

[Patriarch of Bub]

Pornocracy sounds like a playable government

 

[magriboy0750]

I'd have said the closest one to Tibet, but even that doesn't seem easy. They could treat this as a civil war or government crisis. Just put China into isolation. Or maybe even have a special event for it.

The issue is that in vanilla they seem to require a character holding a title at all times. So there is the workaround of having Iceland as a Catholic theocracy. The Games of Thrones mod has a nice solution to that by having pseudo-character placeholder instead that doesn't do anything. Kind of an immortal faceless entity instead of a person

I hope the offmap will be present.It's my favorite feature of CK2.I will be extremely disappointed if it's not present at this start date.

 

[tribnia]

But isn't the "Civil War" state designed to represent such situation?
Whoever has the "mandate" shall be considered the emperor.

 

[Rupmalya.K]

Thank you very much for all those free updates but... No big expansion on sight? I still worry development will stop soon...

Even though it's support is inevitably coming to an end but I don't think they are done with CK2 yet.
I am not a marketing or finance student but I don't think they have a reason to not announce that they are done with major expansions in advance.
It is a single player game and not like an MMO where people play because they continuously expect it to expand and without expansions the servers will go dry and they will start loosing money.
In CK2 rather it will give more people incentive to buy all the existing DLCs to have the complete collection or at least buy more.It won't kill the playerbase at all and even more so with free updates and mods.

So I believe if they are done with expansions they will let us know officially and otherwise there is no reason to believe that.
For now let's enjoy the free goodies!!

 

[MrParadux]

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HYPE!

This is the funniest thing I have seen all week. Thank you for that.

Also an additional start date is awesome. A lot of interesting stuff happened in the 10th century. Great work.

 

[magriboy0750]

Even though it's support is inevitably coming to an end but I don't think they are done with CK2 yet.
I am not a marketing or finance student but I don't think they have a reason to not announce that they are done with major expansions in advance.
It is a single player game and not like an MMO where people play because they continuously expect it to expand and without expansions the servers will go dry and they will start loosing money.
In CK2 rather it will give more people incentive to buy all the existing DLCs to have the complete collection or at least buy more.It won't kill the playerbase at all and even more so with free updates and mods.

So I believe if they are done with expansions they will let us know and otherwise there is no reason to believe that.
For now let's enjoy the free goodies!!

Based on previous PDS titles,i think we will know that when an eventual CK3 will be released.Remember that the last Vicky 2 patch has been released in 2015.And there is still no Vicky 3,and for this game,they have also not stated 'This is the final patch'.So i think CK2 will follow the same thing.

 

[Buladelu]

They did research where they could, but there aren't detailed records for a lot of the areas. Or what records exist are mixed with mythology. So even doing the best they can there need to be some creative inventions and extrapolations

Yes, I'm calling it not researched because it's impossible to research as well as later dates. With creative inventions and extrapolations it's hard to get something as cool as historical thing. They couldn't add Hasting-level setups to places we know nothing about.

 

[Malivamar]

I'm glad that the decision to no longer have multiple bookmarks doesn't extend to CKII. It's the one Paradox game where I actually use them.

Agreed, they would also prob be used more in EU4 if they hadnt been abandoned there but in CK2 they're great, even the later ones are really fun still.

 

[horizon1984]

Are there going to be new features/mechanics accompanied by the patch? Or is it "just" new bookmark?

 

[sreckom92]

Can't wait for the next Dev Diary next Monday!

 

[Malivamar]

So there is the workaround of having Iceland as a Catholic theocracy. The Games of Thrones mod has a nice solution to that by having pseudo-character placeholder instead that doesn't do anything. Kind of an immortal faceless entity instead of a person

The irish iceland isnt actually just some workaround, irish monks actually did stablish themselves in iceland and wrote about it, but when norse settlers started to arrive most of the irish monks decided to leave so as to not mingle with the potentially dangerous pagans.

 

[sreckom92]

-Devs: "Here's a new bookmark, and it's completely free! Here's also an awesome picture of a King in armor, carrying a sword, leading his men into battle."
-Player: "I dunno...."
-Devs: "Here's the same picture....but with the King flailing his arm like a propeller!"
-Player: "gimme! gimme! gimme!"

 

[Tuscany]

-Devs: "Here's a new bookmark, and it's completely free! Here's also an awesome picture of a King in armor, carrying a sword, leading his men into battle."
-Player: "I dunno...."
-Devs: "Here's the same picture....but with the King flailing his arm like a propeller!"
-Player: "gimme! gimme! gimme!"

Making the propeller gif has been Divines main duty for the past 2 months or so.

 

[ruzen]

I wouldn't mind some changes to the tribes.

 

[El-Daddy]

So... Byzantium.

The year this bookmark represents had Romanos I Lekapenos and Constantine VII as co-emperors. Which one will hold the title in game? Technically Lekapenos was the senior historically, but Constantine is a pretty important emperor, and it'd be a shame to be unable to play as him. (Then again, IIRC, it's pretty hard to actually get the throne as Irene of Athens the way she did in the Charlie bookmark, so...)

"Co-rulers" are one of the things on my wishlist of features. Karlings and ERE did it for a while to try and tie the eldest son down to the title, before primogeniture was taken as a given. There's no real way to replicate this ingame.

 

[sreckom92]

Making the propeller gif has been Divines main duty for the past 2 months or so.

Did you also tell him he was doing it for free?

 

[Tuscany]

Did you also tell him he was doing it for free?

We will have to wait until the cheque bounces!