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Dev Diary #114 - And the Winner is…

Greetings!

The polls are closed, and the winner is…

Wards and Wardens

Which I’m very excited about! Not only because it was the theme I personally liked the best, but because there’s a lot of interesting history to explore! We’ll definitely aim to make both rearing and playing as children more historically immersive, while also adding timeless content such as the (sometimes tenuous, sometimes wholesome) relations between parent and child.

As mentioned in the previous Dev Diary, this event pack will be worked on later this year, after the next expansion is finished. For now, we will slowly start drawing out plans of content we’d like to make, and areas that’d be fun to explore - and here you can help!

If you have a specific topic you’d like to see made into an event, or a situation you’d like to see expanded upon, please reply in this thread!

For example, a specific topic might be ‘I’d like to see an event about one of my foreign wards missing their home’ or ‘I’d like an event where I as a child can become best friends with a vassal child’.

Examples of situations you’d like to see improved could be ‘I’d like to have the ability to impose a specific personality trait on a ward’, or ‘I’d like if educating another ruler’s child would have more diplomatic benefits/complications’.

Finally, I’d like to leave you with another small teaser for the expansion. Last time some of you came extremely close to the truth, to the point where we had the artist of the image giggling with excitement… we’re hoping this one will throw you off a bit.

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[Image - Teaser2]
 
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I solemnly swear that if Love & Lust wins the poll, I will add non-wolf pelt ways to prove your love to other characters.

By contrast, for every percentile that Love & Lust loses the poll, I will add one additional piece of wolf-only content to the romance scheme.

These are my terms. Vote as you will.
You have all made a terrible, lupine mistake.
 
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Look, Villains & Vagabonds may not have won as it should have, but it did beat Love & Lust and I think that's something we can all appreciate. Literally all of us. Not a single person who doesn't.
 
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I want there to be something for kids to grow and appreciate, or loathe, the education/tutor they had, i.e. "He really was very good", "He set me down an awful path".
 
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Yeah, I'd like long-term relationships between wards and their guardians to have more of a lasting impact. Especially if they raised them for a long time. Sometimes I have randomers raise my kids if I have a lot of children, and when they grow up I have no idea who was raised by who. I should know! Maybe a Memory or something, tie into that system.
 
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Some events focusing around your regent taking authority into his own hands would be cool. making his own council appointments for example or hiring new men-at-arms or building buildings
 
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I definitely would love some kind of hostage system tying into peace deals. Especially being able to ask for hostages as a war result.

As for the image, I think this is just a new hunting event background.
 
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You have enough wolf credits to add werewolves at this point. This is said as a positive thing obv.
There's going to be so much wolf in romance, that automatically everyone turns into a werewolf as soon as they are being romanced.
No way to de-wolf romance, either. It's wolves or solitude.
 
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