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CK2 Dev Diary #29: Illumination

By the grace of God, I am finally back and able to pen another development diary, though my hands are still unsteady from the shocking things I saw while in hiding. I think it best to simply recount my harrowing experiences of the last few weeks. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, there is much to be learned from my travails.

For many months, I had felt that something strange was going on at the office. In hindsight, the signs were all there; colleagues naming their daughters “Sophia”, hushed talk of “secret knowledge” and Dan “podcat” Lind suddenly breaking off his presentation of the next Hearts of Iron IV expansion in order to explain how the Creator is just an “evil emanation of the original Monad”. But it wasn’t until Björn “Metal King” Iversen took me aside to listen to the subliminal messages in various Judas Priest tracks that I finally realized the truth: the company had been infiltrated by Sethian Gnostics! I recognized some of the messages from the Second Treatise of the Great Seth and the Gospel of Judas...

I suddenly did not want to help Björn record any more death sounds. Who knows how many souls he has helped “liberate” from this earthly prison in his infernal studio? He eyed me with suspicion when I assured him that I had already achieved Gnosis. Beating a hasty retreat, I was forced to skulk in various unused meeting rooms for a full week until I could finally make my escape. While in hiding, I witnessed many disturbing sights; people wearing inverted pentagrams and muttering to themselves, a secret follower of Mahomet performing an odd prayer ritual, various outlandish and no doubt fraternal handshakes, and worst of all; a vile heathen festival in the lunchroom involving spiderwebs, skulls and a bloody brew spewing smoke.

The rot runs deep. There are worse things afoot than mere Gnostic heretics... I fear there are several other corrupt sects burrowing like ticks within our ranks. How could this happen? What malign stars have aligned in the skies above our afflicted nation? Dark heresiarchs are at work in the Realm, pulling strings from the shadows and inducting naïve game developers into their subversive cabals. Who can feel safe in these dark times?

I have written the Holy See with a plea for aid. My sole hope lies in the Holy Father, Pope Francis, though I wonder if he is made of stern enough stuff to unleash the Hounds of God, for I fear only the Dominicans can save us now, as they did in the times of Cardinal Torquemada, bless his soul...

May God send us a light, for the darkness surrounds us!

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Please actually send a letter to the holy see about this. I want to see if they respond!
They could just have asked him he was in sweden a few weeks ago.

I don't think that CK2 can support population system, even simplistic manpower system would kill the speed. Yet development abstraction might just be simplistic enough to work. How would multiple holding + prosperity do anything justice? According to CK2 any province can be made productive if you invest money to building to it... When we know that City of Rome had buildings to support population of 1, 65M but in 1000 AD its population was 30K. I find prosperity system pointless it is too easy to gain and barely effects anything. Prosperity doesn't even go away even if province has an epidemic.
A number is a number, the difference between storing a big and a small number is negligible thus an abstracted value which we already have is no better than a population. And prosperity works fine. It works even better with my mod which makes the buffs fire at increased level of prosperity and consume a level of prosperity when they come to be and be per holding instead of per province, but the vanilla system is still better, more realistic, than the EU development system.
Yes they should make losing prosperity easier but that just an adjustment.

Feudalism didn't technically die in most of Europe until the thirty years' war.
In a way it didn't until the french revolution.
 
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I was a huge Hearts of Iron 2 fan, and still prefer it to 3 and 4.

Seems we're on the same page, then. Although I have a huge preference for III, but that's most likely because I haven't played it vanilla but a couple of times. After that, it was all BICE HOI3. Love it to this day.

And now I'll stop derailing the thread :)
 
OK, this is a message from Doomdark asking for rescue!
We must do something!
But first...

Who the *beep* allowed that from happening?
We failed to convince him to join our glorious cult?
Now we have to kill him. :eek:
 
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In Sweden we still have it ;)
How so? Your monarch, while formally the head of state, has one of the least executive privileges of all European monarchs - none in fact, the Monarch is a figurehead. Your political system is a representative democracy. There is no legally recognised form of serfdom. No political power comes from noble titles. Since 1977 the Crown has no authority over religious organisations, who are now solely regulated by the country's laws. Capitalism, in the sense of an economic system based on property ownership is the economic system, unlike feudal manorialism...
 
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There are still remnants of it still actively in use (called "Fideikommiss" in Swedish). It is more or less some privileges from the 16th-17th (?) century. Government decided sometime in 60:ies (80:ies?) that when heirs die, it should cease to exist, but it sort of lives on anyway. I think there are like 20:ish places still using it.
 
There are still remnants of it still actively in use (called "Fideikommiss" in Swedish). It is more or less some privileges from the 16th-17th (?) century. Government decided sometime in 60:ies (80:ies?) that when heirs die, it should cease to exist, but it sort of lives on anyway. I think there are like 20:ish places still using it.
Is Fideikommis simply a rule for heritage ? Because then, it just means that there's still a swedish nobility. And there can be a nobility without feudalism.
Everyone doesn't agree with the definition of feudalism, but I think that everyone agree that this is about the relationship between the owner of a land and the people that work in that land (with obligations and services). I doubt there is still serfdom in a modern country like Sweden. And there can't be feudalism without serfs.


Well, I guess it would be a weird kind of legal feudalism (like in Germany or until recently in Scotland), but it's not technically feudalism (more like a fancy name, like "dukes" and "princes" in France).
 
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There are still remnants of it still actively in use (called "Fideikommiss" in Swedish). It is more or less some privileges from the 16th-17th (?) century. Government decided sometime in 60:ies (80:ies?) that when heirs die, it should cease to exist, but it sort of lives on anyway. I think there are like 20:ish places still using it.
That is positively fascinating! I've found some articles in German which I am also proficient at :) Thank you!
 
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