1.05 FINAL RELEASE CANDIDATE...Download from this thread

unmerged(6777) · Oct 14, 2004

THE LATEST BETA PATCH CAN BE FOUND AT THE END OF THIS THREAD

IMPORTANT REMINDER: if you gain a new title that is a higher rank than any title you own then you must pause the game, save, and then reload in order for it to take effect.

So if you're a count and become a duke or king, or if you're a duke and become a king, then you should save and reload. Failure to do so will cause all sorts of possible bugs or crashes.

Patch info posted by Johan in this thread on October 10th. This is the same patch file as was attached to that post and contains no new updates. This is being added to this thread to keep it all together in one place.

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------------------ PUBLIC BETA PATCH OCT. 10/2004 -------------------
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This is a public beta patch, not an official release version of the game. The attached is for testing and balancing purposes and we ask that you adhere to special “rules” when commenting on the effects of the patch or reporting bugs.

If you start a new thread that comments on anything relating to the patch, always have the thread title start with the words “beta patch” (example: “Beta patch: The new crusades need tweaking!”).
DO NOT use cryptic thread titles! Make the title something that is informative and easy for us to look at when quickly scanning the forum (also useful if we need to run a search for all threads to date on a specific topic).
In the first post of the thread, indicate which beta patch you are commenting on (the date of its release). We expect to give you roughly one patch each week for the next little while and we’ll need to know which one you’re referring to when we read your feedback.
Do not start a new thread that comments on any patch that isn’t the current one. Once the Oct. 17th patch is out, for instance, we will cease to care about your results with the Oct. 10th one.
When replying to a thread, make sure you’re using the same version of the patch. If you’re using a newer version (some threads will be discussed for a
while) then make sure that you let us know what patch you’re basing your comments on. ALWAYS base your comments on the most recent patch release!
If you’re reporting a bug (CTD or whatever) in the Bug Forum, ALWAYS indicate the beta patch in the thread title and in the first line of your bug report so we know that you’re reporting on a patch problem, and which patch you have the problem with.
DO NOT use any other scenarios, mods, events, etc that are posted in the scenario and modifications forum. We need testing feedback based exclusively on the official version with this patch added. Running any other mods may skew the results and result in meaningless feedback!
If you want your comments listened to and potentially affecting future patches, make sure you use constructive criticism. We won’t be reading it otherwise.
DO NOT GO OFF TOPIC! If you want to discuss something different, start a new thread. The moderators have been told to mercilessly purge OT and spam, and warn any repeat offenders.

To use the patch, do a fresh install of CK (you may wish to use an alternate directory to allow you to play the non-patched game with others who choose not to participate in the beta) and then patch to 1.04a. Alternately, you could make a copy of your current installation. Then download the attached rar file and unzip it to your CK root directory.

Remember, you’re sharing the beta patch with the public forum, which includes many players who are not using the beta patch. Refrain from posting beta-related stuff/comments/etc. in threads that are started by members who wish to continue playing the official public release.

Thanks!

Your Development Team:
Johan (lead design, coding)
Doomdark &Bjering (coding)
MrT, Cat Lord, Havard & Styrbiorn (crusades, scenarios & events)

And special thanks to the active betas for their continued testing!

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------------ CHANGES SINCE PUBLIC RELEASE 1.04a ---------------------
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- A ruler can now press the claims of vassals, if the ruler lacks a claim of his own and there is a vassal fighting the same enemy with a claim.
- A ruler can now press the claims of courtiers, if the ruler lacks a claim of his own and there are no vassal fighting the same enemy with claims.
- Lower tier rulers will now also make peace with an enemy when their liege does.
- You now get a truce with the ruler of any country you arrange a marriage with.
- Powerful rulers now have a lot easier to get marriage proposals accepted.
- The AI is now much more likely to ally with someone if he's married to his dynasty or reversed.
- AI is now a lot less likely to marry away someone that has an important position in their realm.
- Independent AI dukes and counts will now pledge allegiance to the rulers of their "default" kingdoms and duchy's if that ruler does not have a too horrid reputation.
- It is now possible to re-create a fallen title IF you control one of its provinces and have a claim on the old title.
- Its now possible to create titles even if your vassals control all the land.
- Its no longer possible to destroy a kingdom completely when you take their demense and they still have vassals.
- Newly joined vassals will now start with maximum loyalty.
- Vassals becoming independent because they disagree on religion get a claim before leaving.
- AI will no longer waste prestige on claiming titles currently held by religious enemies.
- Improved AI for assigning court positions.
- Female Courtiers should no longer lose their positions when they get married.
- Only unmarried adult males with no court position or military command in the court of the papal controller may now become bishop.
- Excommunicated and Heretics are no longer even considered for Papacy or Bishoprics.
- The Pope can never inherit any titles anymore.
- The pope now gains as much prestige each month as the papal controller does in the monthly increase.
- Province converting to Islam or Paganism are now losing all their catholic religious buildings (the non-catholic AI cannot construct them)
- Split up a lot and revised the default setup of the Eastern Kingdoms to balance them.

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- Coded a cyclical targeted crusade system.
- Scripted Crusade events for Jerusalem, Antioch, Cairo, Tunis, Byzantium (if it falls), Roma (if it falls),Sicily, Cordoba, Toledo, Lisboa, Valencia, Cadiz & Burgos. Note: these will require significant balancing based on feedback from the public beta – I have scripted them based on some quick calculations and, given the time available, could only use approximate guess-timates!...MrT
- Lots of crusade flavour events to follow, based on great suggestions from public discussion thread!
- Naval transports to religious enemies is now 5 times as expensive unless a crusade is going on in that region.
- Increased the likelihood of major AI kingdoms crusading.
- Added undocumented "type = papacy" condition to the event_effects file.
- Added a "province" condition for character events to check on a specific province owner’s religion. (for use with new crusade events…see events in the 1500-1999 range for examples)
- Added a target condition to check which crusades-target currently is active.
- Added a condition which returns true if character is at war with the owner of the current crusade target.
example: condition = { type = on_crusade }

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- While a number of changes are being discussed and debated, we'd like your feedback on the current set-up before these are implemented. The other changes made to the game may suffice to bring them in line without making major adjustments here.
- We intend to make whatever changes are required prior to 1.05 release but need your feedback before we proceed.

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- You should no longer get claims on the special religious tags from events.
- Tweaked Thoughts and Religious Tech discovery.
- Tweaked Thoughts and Religious Tech spread
- Added event for the Pope to discover the Religious Stringency tech even if the Pope AI doesn't research them.
- Added events discovering the Religious Stringency/Flexibility tech even if they are not researched-
- Large changes to provincial conversion events including removal of heresy from them.
- Reduced frequency of provincial structure events.
- Changed the event pictures for religious tech.
- Added trigger for Clergy power event not to fire if province is heretic.
- Tweaked the Religious Authority Strengthened / Religious Authority Decline / Religious Post-Crises Reform series.
- Tweaked some courtier events triggers.
- Added a new set of events for various Heresies.
- Added battle event 7059 - "A Nobleman Distinguishes himself in Battle".
NOTE: Translation needed.
- simplified a couple of trigger verification in the regency events.
- Tweaked event 1085 (vassal conversion)
- Added a new set of events for the Chaplain.
- Added a new trial event for Kinslayer character.
- New set of events to recreate the Papacy implemented.
- Tweak some modifiers to provincial conversions events.
- Added bonus event creating a steward courtier under certain condition
- Added a new set of events for flavour in the court.
- Tweaked the frequency of CSC events.
- Added a condition which checks the number of courtiers in a ruler’s court eg. returns true if there are n or more adults in the court.
example: condition = { type = court value = n }
- Added undocumented "type = papacy" condition to the event_effects file.
- Added a "province" condition for character events to check on a specific province owner’s religion. (for use with new crusade events…see events in the 1500-1999 range for examples)
- Added a target condition to check which crusades-target currently is active.
- Added a condition which returns true if character is at war with the owner of the current crusade target.
example: condition = { type = on_crusade }

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- Only Christians will build churches and monasteries now.
- Non-Christians will no longer build templar houses.
- Heretical provinces are now colored red on the map.
- Only alive characters are now visible in the list to grant titles to.
- Morale is now saved on units.
- Changed some country colors.
- Tweaked alot of province data files.
- Added some names to the name database.
- Revised the Coat of Arms for Naples to not have the French style one

- Tweaked the names of some important Swedish dynasties.
- Added pillage_score and percentage_score to heretic effect.
- Tweaked Traits like this.
* forgiving is now intrigue -1 piety +1
* heretic no more has diplomacy malus (and stronger opinion bonus of other
heretic)
* honest does not give prestige anymore
* health bonus/malus for indulgent/temperate inverted
* lustful now gives piety -2
* vengeful is now martial +1 diplomacy -1
- Religious orders are now forced to Catholics in the eu2 conversion process.
- Improved culture and religion assignment in the eu2converter.
- Assignment to eu2 province is now depending on the one controlling the most provinces, while a capital is weighted far above everything else.

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- Fixed some problems with duchy titles and the "Grant Title" and "Revoke Title" actions. (The allegiance of the correct counts will now come with the duchy title.)
- Fixed a few potential crashes with papacy.
- Fixed a few tags which was not converted to eu2 format, causing MIN to appear.
- Add liege counterpart to event 1096, to rule out an event problem in the "vassal becoming quietly independent" bug
- Add liege counterpart to event 5209, to rule out an event problem in the "vassal becoming quietly independent" bug
- Fixed the overlapping province effects box.
- Periodic Score updates on prestige/piety from various traits are now working properly.
- Fixed another thing which corrupted savegames.
- Fixed a MP ctd.

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- 1066: Remove all the religious buildings from non-christians provinces
- 1187: Large changes to the 1187 scenario, revising Poland and adding in Occitan and Basque culture at various places.
- 1337: Toned down axe technology
- 1337: Ilkhanate broken up (happened historically 1335-36)
- 1337: Golden Horde rulers Turkified.
- and a whole bunch of other stuff

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And a ton of other little tweaks, fixed, etc. that are too numerous to document in detail.

Have fun!

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Note: there have been some problems discovered with this patch that are being worked on and should be fixed for the next beta patch.

Note also: I have no idea why the rar file says "15th Oct." since it's from the 10th...

unmerged(6777) · Oct 17, 2004

Public Beta - Patch of October 17/04

You can unpack this over your current beta installation or over a clean 1.04a installation.

Reminder: please only report bugs that you find with this new version (not with the previous beta patch).

Enjoy!

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- Changed network protocol from tcp/ip to directplay internal.
- Vassals should now also get truces with everyone when you sign peace.
- It should no longer be possible to become at war with one-self.
- The crusades message will now appear whenever a new crusade is called.
- Added a new target for character-events, called "this" to allow to trigger further events for that character.
- Added a new target for character-events, called "knight" which selects a random adult male in the court.
- Turned off the old crusade tag in the 1187 scenario.
- Fixed a nasty bug that made the crusades incredibly slow to end
- Fixed a province ID error that made the Toledo crusade *never* end

- Added a set of province conversion events that will make it somewhat likely that you will be able to convert captured provinces in the crusade target and regional modifiers list while you are crusading. (special thanks to Ilkhod and Byakhiam for doing the bulk of the
scripting!)
- Independent rulers can't call a crusade if they are excommunicated, heretics, or sceptical
- Tweaked ai_chance for some crusade events.
- Added the first in a series of Holy Land flavour events (some free crusading troops)
- Added a series of court purge events for Catholic rulers harbouring non-Christians in their courts
- Added the first in a series of Spanish reconquista flavour events (some free crusading troops)
- Added a series of court purge events for Catholic rulers harbouring non-Christians in their courts
- Added the first in a series of general crusade flavour events (some free crusading troops and leaders)
- Changed the trigger on completing education to aged 16 so the event can also double as a "time to get married" reminder to players

- Tweaks to 1066...
* Scandinavia
-Norway and Denmark's inheritance law now salic consanguinity
-added historical rulers and courtiers for Iceland
* Iberia
-Iberian Muslims tuned down in military technology
-Emirate of Toledo created, owns Valencia
-Cordoba now one-province republic
-Emirate of Mallorca instituted, to represent Denia
-Emirate of Murcia independent
-Malaga to Granada
-Algeciras to Sevilla
-Molina independent
-Albarracin independent
-historical rulers in the taifa kingdoms
-Catalonian dynasties expanded, linked with Toulouse
-ex-king Ramiro's of Aragon marriage with his real wife's Evil
Twin(tm) removed...
-Zaragoza's vassal made disloyal
* Ireland+Wales
-Ulster duchy split up, title removed
-dynasty in Ulaid created
-Ui Canannain dynasty in Tir Connail
-southern O'Neill dynasty in Mide
-O'Neill dynasty expanded
-dynasty in Leinster renamed Ui Mordha and expanded
-Dublin to count of Man
-Western Isles to Gudröd Crovan, future king of Man, representing the from Dublin banished Vikings
-created Ua Rhuairc dynasty in Sligo
-created Ui Faelain dynasty in Urmunu
-created Ui Flaithbertach dynasty in Galway
-added Welsh rulers to Daheubarth and Glamorgan
* Russia
-slightly tweaked Rurikid dynasty
-Gleb Rurikid now count of Tmurakan
-reshuffled the Russian lands to match historical setup
+Vladimir principality removed
+Smolensk to Pereyaslavl
+Galicia to Kiev
+Ryazan to Pronsk (representing Chernigov)
+Finnic areas in the North expanded
+Pskov, Romny to Novgorod
+Kolomna, Pronsk, Ryazan, Murum to Chernigov
+Lower Volga, Saray, Itil to Cumans
* East
-Abbasids vassals of the Seljuks
-emirate of Aleppo created
-Aintab/Bit Argusi/Arpad to Aleppo
-Homs, Hamah to Fatimids
-Amida emirate represented by al-Jaziras
-historical rulers in Tabaristan, Mazandaran, Luristan
-expanded Seljuk demesne
-Seljuk genealogy fixed
-ruling dynasty of Qara-khanate made turkish
-tweaked the Bagratuni characters
* France
-lots of people lacking education got one
-Lyon to Forez
-Bearn dynasty tweaked
-Armagnac dynasty tweaked
-Aquitaine dynastical errors fixed
-ditto for Toulouse
-removed char 10031 Etienne - duplicate of 40260
-d'Albret dynasty in Albret
-Euphrosyne's uncle Guy replaces her as ruler of Vendome
-the count of Macon is now properly dead, and his son has taken over.
-dynasties fixed in:
+Provence
+Forcalquier
+Venaissin
+Dauphine
+Gevaudan
* HRE
-tweaked Low Country cultures
-tweaked Billung dynasty (eg Magnus lacked mother)
-moved around some women to their husbands' courts
-historical bishop in Altmark, Mainz and Salzburg
-dynasty von Jülichgau in Jülich
-a young Friedrich von Hohenzollern placed as count in Swabia
-house of Askanien replaced placeholder in Plauen/Lausitz (geographically, Ballenstedt is in this province)
-added some missing kids of the Bavarian duke
-Kyburg dynasty in Schwyz
* Poland, Bohemia
-Kaliskie bishopry removed
-Opava to Bohemia
-tweaked Premyslid dynasty quite a bit
-Ostrava a bishopric
-Konrad to Hradec Kralove
* Italy
-Aleramici family expanded, now also rules Saluces
-Genoa vassal of ITAL
-Pisa vassal of ITAL
-lots of former Papal Land vassals of ITAL
-Parma, Padua, Cremona, Siena bishoprics
-Brescia, Ferrara, Modena, Mantua, Spoleto ruled by Tuscany
-Piombino to Pisa
-Ravenna archbishopric
-Bologna, Treviso republics
-Sicilian muslims independent - the island had disintegrated by 1060
* Balkans
-Croatian royal dynasty tweaked
-Rama to Croatia
-fixed the Vojislavljevic dynasty
-Petrislav count of Rashka+hum
-Zeta demesne of Serbia
-religious setup tweaked
* Africa
-Zirid kingdom expanded, Tunisia removed
-Hammadids expanded at expense of Orania
-Algeria transformed to Zenata kingdom
-Berber kingdom in Tangiers/Cebta+surroundings
-Tripolitania independent
-Beni Sumein kingdom in Libya/Tunisia

unmerged(6777) · Oct 18, 2004

REMINDER

Please read the instructions! After all, I do write them for a reason. :wacko:

1. The beta patch must be applied to a 1.04a installation. You will get error messages if you apply it to any installation earlier than this.

2. DO NOT apply any user mods/scenarios to the beta patch! You will probably get error messages and/or CTDs if you do, and any reports that you make re bugs or balance will be utterly useless to us. Only use the official Paradox Release.

Failure to do as requested may result in you giving us incorrect information so the net result will be to make the next patch worse than the previous one, if anything! I believe I am safe in saying that this isn't the direction we want to take for 1.05...

Thank you!

unmerged(6777) · Oct 24, 2004

Public Beta Patch of Oct 23/04

Here you go folks!

Johan is tied up with other projects so there aren't any exe changes in this week's patch. That means that some reported bugs - noteably the nasty sound issues and the MP problem) haven't yet been fixed. Don't worry...they will be.

We would greatly appreciate feedback in several areas and if you can do anyting to help test and report back on these it would be greatly appreciated:

1. 1066 Iberia....balance should (we think) be better with many changes to the technologies, laws, and claims in the region. My initial hands-off games have looked pretty promising. Since we're aiming for about a result where the Iberian Christians survive (without any direct interference from the player) about 65% of the time, wee need as many reports back as possible. That means that 35% of the time we still expect them to get gobbled up, so don't play 1 game and then report back that the balance is FUBAR. Play 100 games and then tell us.

2. Crusades...have been tweaked rather extrensively. With no exe change there won't be any AI behaviour change, but I think that things nay be helped somewhat. Of particular interest...please report back in any game where the Papacy ceases to exist. We want to know what happens (we know, theorectically, what should happen, but want to find out what does happen).

3. Hordes...I am not certain that the remove_regiment comand is working properly but I haven't had time to run a thorough test. Nevertheless, this patch includes a modified version of the Horde events that includes an interesting wrinkle. Try to resist the urge to peek at the files first, and let me know how they do. I'll be particularly interested in reports from those who prefer to play at normal or hard level. Note that the overall impact will take some time to manifest itself...

4. I've added a nasty set of events for people who like to go poaching pagans (should be most noticable in the Baltic). I'm interested to see how players find it; as well as getting feedback on how the AI copes with the new difficulties. Don't be surprised to see half the provinces on fire for a loooooong time.

5. Having a diseased province condition in your demesne capital will probably serve up a nasty surprise to you. I *really* hope you play through the "Masque of the Red Death" series since it isn't quite as nastily destructive as you might think it is. It should be extremely rare to have your court utterly destroyed, but you'll probably be in for a bit of a rough ride.

6. I've added a new incentive for players to have a martial cleric or mastermind theologian appointed as their chaplain. You should get a nice set of province conversion events...but you'll have to decide whether to put your chaplain's life on line to get the best results, and whether to help finance his efforts.

I guess that's it for the time being...

Enjoy!

This patch can be unpacked over your existing public beta installation, or directly over an official 1.04a installation.

Change Log for Oct 23 Patch

- added a new set of pagan events designed to help prop them up when being attacked and make them quite a bit harder to keep under control (except for the TO)
- new set of events added that I am affectionately calling "The Masque of the Red Death" (a tribute to E.A. Poe). Try to resist the urge to peek at them.

- added an interesting little province conversion event series for a court who has a chaplain who is a martial cleric or mastermind theologian
- made some major revisions to the Mongol Horde events to (perhaps) better model succession issues
- added some possibilities of traits being added when calling crusades, calling them off, or mandating that they should be continued.
- added an event to end a crusade if the Papacy ceases to exist
- tweaked some crusade mtth values for balance
- tweaked mtth and ai_chance values for abandonning crusades so they aren't quite as endless
- tweaked mtth for ending crusades with target captured
- added a condition that prevents a new crusade from being called to anywhere other than Rome if the Papacy doesn't exist
- removed event 9115 to prevent odd situation of someone being excommunicated for retaking Rome if it has fallen into heathen hands and the Papacy has been removed.
- tweaked effect of event 9116 to make it considerably less appealing for someone to *not* re-create the Papacy in Rome if/when the opportunity arises.
- tweaked mtth modifiers to make it a little less likely that a court officer will ask to change jobs (bepending on the job)
- altered a few event effects that were giving multiple simultaneous province conditions (eg. struggline and prosperous at the same time)
- changed the court purges event to send courtiers who are escorted out of your realm to the "none" court to eliminate the chance them from coming back or bouncing between neighbouring courts like a ping-pong ball.
- added some missing event text (1904, 1905)
- fixed incorrect event graphics call (apparition-->appearance)
- fixed minor bug in lordship "Son revealed as bastard" event (prestige should be reduced, not increased)

1066 Scenario Changes
- re-applied the changes made from previous 1066 scenario update since Styrbiorn reports that some apparently didn't make it into the last patch correctly and then...
- Sofia Rurikovich now a woman
- Eferyd & Edwin's marriage fixed
- Otto von Nordheim's duplicate fixed (it was supposed to be his father)
- Padova now a bishopric
- lots of tech revisions (more or less globally)
- added a lot of claims for Iberian Moslems against one another to inspire some in-fighting
- implemented a large number of otehr changes to the Iberian setup (a mixture of work by Styrbiorn, Solmyr, Mad King James and I....thanks everyone!)

1187 Scenario
- some young characters that were missing educations got them (thanks Jinnai!)

1337
- some young characters that were missing educations got them (thanks Jinnai!)

unmerged(6777) · Oct 25, 2004

Since a couple people have posted about this, I thought I should just note that because the release version is pulled directly from the exe file, the beta patch I posted on Saturady will still say "Oct 17th" release when you launch the game. That won't change until Johan makes a revision to the exe.

Sorry if that's caused any confusion.

unmerged(6777) · Oct 31, 2004

Oct 31st Patch

Happy Halloween, everyone.

This week's patch continues the tweaks to the cyclic crusades and to the Iberian situation, plus hopefully corrects a few errors that have made CTD's a bit too frequent in this last week's patch.

Please give as much feedback as possible on your experiences with this new patch in those three areas in particular during the next week.

Note that Johan is devoting 150% of his time to HoI2 at the moment so this week also has no change to the exe file. This means that when you load the game it will still say that it is the Oct 17th version. It also means that the AI behaviour, etc, will be largely unchanged. That doesn't mean that you won't notice some major adjustments, though.

Enjoy!

Change Log for Oct 31st patch

- tweaked Masque of the Red Death event healing effects
- fixed the graphics for the Masque events
- updated the pagan events to prevent revolt spam and piety exploit
- added the first of a set of events relating to current realm laws (events designed by Secret Master - thanks!)
- made yet another massive revision to the crusade mtths and modifiers
** revised crusades notifier text for the history log
** changed the Egyptian region crusade target from Cairo to Alexandria (by popular demand)
** Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria crusades are now far more likely to occur before any of the others (unless Rome falls)
** If Byzantium falls to heathens, a crusade is far more likely to be called than before
** Iberian crusades are now weighted and given priority by geographic location (Burgos>Toledo>Cordoba>Valencia>Lisboa>Cadiz)
** Iberian crusades are far more likely to be called by rulers with Castillan or Catalan culture
** missing modifier for chaplain_csc condition fixed
** an extraneous bit of mysterious script was purged
** the determination as to who will call a crusade is now correctly weighted (it will look strange, but it's correct!)
** the frequency of a crusade starting is now correctly balanced
** fixed a minor script error in a couple of the free troops events
- made some fairly significant tweaks to base combat values and made a variety of small tweaks to the effects of the combat advances. This should greatly reduce the vast differences between early tech levels but is likely to require some further tweaks to achieve an appropriate balance.
- added a couple new general conversion events for crusade periods
- added a Moslem counter-conversion event for the crusade period
- fixed a large number of character health event related bugs (generally faulty logic errors) discovered unexpectedly when modifying the file to do something else
- Moslem rulers now have their own special death events instead of the regular ones, and are excluded from events #998, 1127, 1001 and 1128
- Interesting things may happen now in the succession of certain Moslem-ruled demesnes. This could cause a temporary shift of their succession laws and may (should!) tend to break up their realms to a degree before a more appropriate inheritance law is re-instituted. Granted, it isn't 100% historical but it better simulates the situation in that era - and gives the Iberian Chritians, in particular, a better chance of survival. Note that assassinating a powerful Moslem ruler may no longer be the best strategy since this by-passes this chance.
- removed a few nested random chance effects that we suspect were responsible for many of the CTDs
- some further tweaks to the Iberian situation made by Mad King James (per the Iberian discussion thread).
- made a couple more tweaks to characters in 1337 (courtesy Jinnai). I would have added the 1066 changes but it produced a fatal error that I didn't have time to resolve. I also ran out of time to do the validation on the changes to the formatting of the 1187 file.

Johan · Nov 18, 2004

18th November 2004

- Savegames are now transferring properly in the Multiplayer lobby again.
- 1066: Fixed a few provinces marked as controlled by multiple countries.
- 1066: Fixed some guys that was marked as their own father, causing fun little crashes.
- 1066: Removed a double marriage.
- Fixed a few syntax errors with the pagan_events which made them not work properly.

Johan · Feb 3, 2005

3 February 2005

- Fixed a crashbug.
- Fixed the problem with St.Gallen

- The AI will no longer grab titles and focus on fighting other christians when there are moslems nearby.
- The AI will no longer pledge allegiance to a ruler with less prestige than themselves, nor to anyone they have fought a war with.
- The AI will now give out ducal titles as well.
- The AI is less likely to revoke titles when vassals are disloyal.
- Losses are now displayed in the combat-result window.
- Revised characternames alot, and added alot of names.
- New "Knight" target documented in the event-effects file.
- Re-balance previous changes in courtier_events.
- Heresy should be easier to get rid of as Orthodox/Byzantium.
- Non Heretic province revolting shouldn't make empire collapse that easily.
- Miracle workers now cost you money (as it should).
- Removed Finland from Sweden, Pagan areas from Russia, Brittany from France and the Islands from Norway/Scotland as their "default kingdom areas."

unmerged(6777) · Mar 21, 2005

Beta Patch - March 21, 2005

Hi folks!

It seems that the Easter Bunny has come a little early this year.

Attached is the latest beta patch for public testing. Johan is away this week, and initially the idea had been to wait until he returned before posting the patch (after Easter) but since we’ve accomplished quite a bit already, we’d like your feedback on these changes so when he returns we can have some specific things ready for him to look into.

This patch addresses many (not all) of the reported issues over the past month and a half. It does not directly address most of the ideas you’ve been giving in the “call for input” thread since that will take some more time to sort through and prioritise. In some cases, however, there is a change in this patch that might resolve one of your requests or affect the priority you’d assign to it.

As always, your observations and experiences will be crucial in determining where we focus out attention for the next patch. I will be starting some new sticky threads that request your feedback on specific areas that we feel we’ve addressed – at least partially. Please take a look at those and give us your results.

Cheers

MrT

P.S. I think we've fixed the virtual call crash bug (I haven't had one in about 12 hours of testing) so please let us know if you get one and give detailed description of the circumstances where one occurs.

This patch should be applied over a clean 1.04a installation or on top of the previous patch. If you’ve edited any of your own files or are using any mods, please remove them and revert to a vanilla copy if you want to give feedback (else your feedback will be either worthless or potentially detrimental to the process).

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Change Log

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AI, Event and Datafile Changes
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- Found and fixed virtual call crash bug.
- Found and fixed the sound bug.
- Added the 'crusade_target_owner' target condition for a character event. This targets the ruler of the owner of the crusade province. Use with caution!!!
- Added a 'declare_war' effect. Only works properly against a ruler. Use with caution!!!
- Tweaked the amount of females being born down slightly.
- Crusaded expectations now slightly larger.
- The remove-regiment effect now works properly.
- made it impossible for a character with piety <= 0 to be cannonized
- increased likelihood for a character with high piety to be cannonized
- added retirement event to character_health that will help to prune courts of elderly characters with few redeeming values (should reduce CPU load and makae it a bit easier to find a suitable bride)
- tweaked crusade events to make it considerably less likely that a crusade will be called before 1075
- it is now very likely that a crusade to the Holy Land will be called first (c. 1075-1085)
- tweaked Iberian crusade events to reduce likelihood of a crusade being called before 1150
- it is now very likely that the Reconquista will begin somewhere between 1150 and 1200 unless another crusade is already active during that period
- further tweaked to reduce relative likelihood of a Palermo crusade (was a bit too frequent)
- further balancing of the crusades to make it more likely that there will be some period of respite between them
- counts will no longer initiate crusades (unless they are the PC)
- dukes are now somewhat less likely to call a crusade
- AI independent Catholic rulers (particularly kingdoms) will now be quite a bit more likely to involve themselves in a crusade unless already at war elsewhere.
- AI Lieges will usually demand that their vassals join them when crusading or face the consequences (AI will generally agree to participate)
- Rulers will sometimes gain additional free troops to assist them on crusades
- The chance of religious conversion is now somewhat affected by their province's regional historic trends
- tweaked mtth and modifiers for religious and cultural conversion
- tweaked mtth and modifiers for some illness events
- tweaked mtth and modifiers for some character health events
- did some major tweaking of pagan events based on public beta feedback
- did some more tweaking to the Mongol Invasion events and adjusted event effects now that remove_regiments works properly
- tweaked some values in the province power events
- tweaked some values in the battle events
- tweaked some values in the csc_events file
- tweaked some values in the improvement events
- tweaked some values in the province structure events
- major tweaks to some values in the advances discovery events
- major tweaks to some values in the advances spread events
- tweaked some values in the eveil events series
- made some tweaks to the random event-generated claims
- fixed a missing picture on the pagan shrine event
- added a miracle worker event that may cure war invalids (or kill them trying)
- tweaked miracle worker event frequency somewhat
- added court size modifiers to the generic courtier retirement event to reduce exploitiveness a bit
- added a new set of intrigue events to stimulate some interesting activity (particularly in Byz. realm)
- added an event to agressively purge the courts of the Catholic Orders of any non-Catholic characters (to reduce chance of one becoming the next GM)
- further tweaking to crusade flavour events
- adjusted frequency on courtier retirement event
- tweaked independent rulers crusading to favour kings slightly more
- tweaked counts to be slightly slower in responding to liege's crusade request than dukes are

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1066 Scenario Changes
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- gave Iberian Christians L1 leather armour to somewhat reduce the slaughter in early religious wars

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1187 Scenario Changes
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-added dynasties 4046, 101714-715
-fixed immortal/negatively aged people (IDs 15, 6520, 23582, 12520)
-fixed the Kexholm owning a Cuman province error
-moved the count of Carcassone's wife to his court

Province Culture:
-Lowland provinces has now Dutch culture
-Scandiavian culture setup tweaked

Ireland
-added Ua Ruaircs in Sligo
-added John de Courcy with dynasty in Ulaid
-added historical ruler in Tir Connail
-added mac Lochlainns in Tir Eoghain

Scandinavia
-Viken, Jemtland and Herjedalen to Norway
-independent Swedish provinces now incorporated into Sweden
-Danish dynasty expanded a bit
-Swedish dynasties of Bjälbo, Sverker and Erik added/expanded
-Sverker Karlsson Sverkerätten residing in Denmark with a claim on Sweden
-duchy of Östergötland created, duke Magnus [Minnesköld] till Bjälbo
-Norwegian king's father is now properly dead

Scotland
-Added Dunkeld Kings of Scotland
-Added Dumbar Dukes of Berwick
-Added Stewart Dukes of Strathclyde
-Added Dunkeld Dukes of Atholl
-Added Dunkeld Counts of Fife
-Added Comyn Counts of Buchan
-Added of Angus Counts of Angus
-Added a few members to the Galloway family
*Duchy of Orkney
--Added Dunkeld Dukes of Orkney
*Duchy of the Western Isles
--Moved the Duchy from Man to the Western Isles
--Added the County of Argyll to the Duchy
--Added MacDonald Dukes of western Isles
*County of Man
--Downgraded this to a County
--Added Crovan counts of Man

France
-Constance de Penthievre duchess of Brittany
-linked Penthievre and Brittany branches of Penthievre dynasty
-created duchy of Burgundy, added dynasty

England
-Matilda Angevin's marriage fixed (that particular little Heinrich kid was not the Lion

-added Geoffrey Angevin archbishop of York
-added Hugh Pudsey count of Durham
-added William FitzPatrick count of Salisbury
-added William Marshal count of Dyfed
-expanded Beaumont dynasty - connected three branches

HRE
-fixed Schwabian Hohenstaufen dynasty
-added Henry the Lion, with dynasty included, in Lüneburg (just came back from exile)
-added family to Heinrich von Tirol
-added family to Walram von Nassau
-expanded Askanien dynasty
-Otto Askanien is now duke of Brandenburg
-Otto von Hohenstaufen demoted from Duke to count(palatinate) of Burgundy
-Chalons to French Burgundy
-added Wettin dynasty in Meissen
-bishopry of Salzburg created, bishop Vojtech Premyslid

Poland
-Slupsk, bishopry, vassal of Pommerania
-Stettin and Werle to Pommerania, vassal of Denmark
-Lubusz vassal of Silesia
-Chelminskie to pagan Prussians
-Jaroslaw new count of Opole
-Mieszko former count of Opole now count of Cieszyn

Iberia
-Portuguese dynasty expanded
-removed 9502 (duplicate of 9510)
-Leonese royal dynasty expanded a bit
-Aragonese dynasty expanded (removed 10515, duplicate of the king)
-Rosello and Provence to king of Aragon
-created Urgell dynasty

Italy
-southern Italy given to Sicily
-Guillaume de Hauteville's dynasty expanded (11500-11532)
-king G. also duke of Apulia
-Simon de Hauteville count ot Taranto
-Tancred de Hauteville count of Lecce
-Helion d'Altaville count of Benevento
-Ancona a republic
-duchy of Spoleto created, duke Konrad von Urslingen.
-Urbino a county, count Antonio Montefeltro
-Aquileia a bishopry
-Piombino to Toscana
-Florence vassal of Toscana
-created dynasty in Savoy
-kingdom of Italy in Northern Italy, representing the administration of king Heinrich of Italy

Holy Land
- Renaud, duke of Tripoli, now also duke of Galilee
- the two women in GALE court moved to their husbands
- Renaud de Chatillon now appropiately married.
- Saint-Gilles expanded
- dynasty in Antioch renamed Poitiers and expanded
- Hospitaller order created

This patch should be applied over a clean 1.04a installation or on top of the previous patch. If you’ve edited any of your own files or are using any mods, please remove them and revert to a vanilla copy if you want to give feedback (else your feedback will be either worthless or potentially detrimental to the process).

unmerged(6777) · Mar 25, 2005

Public Beta - March 24, 2005

Hi again.

The attached is the latest set of tweaks based on your feedback this week. There is no change to the exe (Johan's away) so it will still read as March 17th, but we've been busy making other changes that we'd like you to test and give us feedback on.

Change Log

non-Catholic vassals will no longer be asked by their liege to join a crusade (even if liege is Catholic)
the pope is now even less likely to declare war on the crusade target (to reduce chance of pope going solo vs moslems and losing Roma as a result). That's what he asks catholic monarchs to do for him.
moslem ruler deaths are now handled via the normal death event sets once more
Added a new set of events to make moslem and pagan realms that exceed their demesne limits have a good chance of imploding. Note that the mechanism involves changing the realm law to semi-salic gavelkind for a period of time. It is historically inaccurate but the only current means of achieving this effect. Once implosion has happened, the realm laws will be changed back to either semi-salic primo or semi-sali-consng depending on region. This will probably also result in some very odd looking moslem realms but should self-correct after a while. Would like lots of feedback from public beta on this!
The capture of Rome and removal of the pope by an Orthodox ruler will no longer result in a crusade being called against that ruler. That will be handled by a separate set of events (once I figure out how to script them). For now, Catholics will be remarkably unperturbed if this happens. The elimination of the Pope will still almost certainly trigger the end of any current crusade happening elsewhere.
Moslem rulers should now get some very active help from their vassals if at war with whoever currently owns a crusade target...
Independent rulers will now include national and/or cultural considerations when deciding whether to go crusading (to reduce the instances of dogpiling somewhat).
Independent rulers now pay differing degrees of attention to crusade targets depending on the target
Traditional kingdoms that were historically active in the crusades are now more likely to be active in them in the game
The Mongol Hordes have a new set of dentures as apparently I pulled too many of their teeth in the last patch. Note that there is still a significant element of random chance involved in their size and subsequent volatility, thus it should come as no surprise that in some games they may prove to be nearly insurmountable while in others they may be fairly tame.
To compensate for this, the Ilkhanate now has a more friendly, pleasing colour on the map (by special request).
added some new intrigue events to ferment a bit of rebellion in the Byzantine empire if the Emperor is weak
added event to simulate border raids in the Byzantine Empire
fixed an event logic error (made it impossible to satisfy the trigger trigger)
fixed an error in the intrigue events that could cause unnecessary loyalty issues to crop up with vassals
two more (minor) bugs have encountered the inevitable window of betatesters
saint event now removes cannonized trait
scum of the earth can no longer be cannonized upon death by illness
tweaked chance of succession nastiness in Moslem realms when ruler dies
child mortality rate has been tweaked a bit higher, and significantly higher if they are ill
1066 scenario: moved Attaleia from being vassal of Lykia to vassal of Ikonion, to buff up the historical successor Romanos Diogenes to actually be the top dog so that the historical successor should become next emperor most of the time...
1066 scenario: some minor (or not so minor, depending on your view of things) changes made to the Dutch setup
1187 scenario: pressure from the pro-Dutch lobby has yet once again resulted in some minor tweaks to their setup. The next request I receive for further Dutch tweaks to a scenario files will result in them all being shipped off to Greenland while their former lands will be split evenly between the Golden Horde and the Ilkhanate (and I'm *so* not kidding!...well...only a little)

There are no changes to the Iberian setup since we feel that some of the other changes (new events, etc.) are going a long way to accomplishing our goals in the region.

I found a couple more bugs but I am certain that there is still at least one instance of the dreaded VFC crash bug still in existence (possible theory is that it might relate to the mouse buffer interfering with saves). Until we can track it down and kill it the best way to avoid it appears to be some combination of:

When saving manually, pause the game first and then make a "slow" series of mouse clicks (wait half a second between clicking on buttons) instead of rushing through it.
Avoid making rapid, jerky mouse motions while waiting for a save to finish
If possible, slow game down to "below normal" or lower just prior to each autosave and avoid unnecessary mouse motions just before the save.

Yeah...not ideal, but we're working on it.

Enjoy, and happy Easter to you all!

This patch should be applied over a clean 1.04a installation or on top of the previous patch. If you’ve edited any of your own files or are using any mods, please remove them and revert to a vanilla copy if you want to give feedback (else your feedback will be either worthless or potentially detrimental to the process).

Johan · Apr 1, 2005

1st of April

Hi folks.

Here's this week's progress for CK. There are quite a few major changes that you will want to pay careful attention to, and we'd appreciate it if you could provide as much feedback on these changes to us as possible. In particular we are interested in what you're seeing happening in the crusades, the Byzantine Empire, the Moslem Kingdoms, and how you feel about some of the changes in the way that the AI is behaving.

Read the change log!

Also...

We have been diligently trying to track down the few remain bugs - and in particular the elusive VFC crash bug. We haven't suceeded in trapping yet - although I think you'll be happy with the reduction in overall issues - so we would like to solicit the assistance of anyone who is very patient and has some extra free hard drive space. Here's what you can do:

This week's exe has been enabled for a limited debug mode. To use this, install the beta patch as per normal. Create a shortcut on your desktop (if you don't have one already). Now make a copy of that shortcut. Right click on your copy and choose the "Properties" option from the menu. The target will probably be something like:
Code:
```
"C:\Program Files\Paradox Entertainment\Crusader Kings\Crusaders.exe"
```
(the exact path will depend on where you've installed your game and what version you have, but it should look soething like that).

Change that line to add the word DEBUG immediately after the existing path (there MUST be a space between the closing quotation mark and the word DEBUG) so the line will now read something like:
Code:
```
"C:\Program Files\Paradox Entertainment\Crusader Kings\Crusaders.exe" DEBUG
```
Click the "okay" button to save that change, and then rename the shortcut to remind you that this is the DEBUG version. Now double-click this to start the game.
You will notice a performance hit - not a major one - when you run under debug, and you will need LOTS of hard drive space. When you start the game, a new file will be created in your CK root directory called "savedebug.txt" where all behind-the-scenes activity will be recorded. This file will get very big very fast! We recomend setting your autosave to yearly and then after every autosave or two, surrender, exit the game, go to your CK root directoory and delete the file. Then restart and load up the autosave and resume the game. This will keep the file size down to something reasonable if (or when) you need to later open it.
IF you get a crash of any type immediately go to this file. Rename it to "debug_crash_yourname_whoyouwereplaying_yearifyounowit.txt" (example: debug_crash_MrT_King_of_France_1106.txt". This will avoid accidentally overwriting or deleting it. Now open the file with any text editor (Word/WordPerfect/Notepad/NotepadPlus/etc.) and when it finishes loading go to the end of the file (I use the ctrl+end keyboard shortcut). Copy the last 10-20 lines of the file and then post it in a thread that we will be creating on the forum for reporting purposes. ALSO please go to your ...\CK\sceanrios\save games\ directory and rename your most recent autosave using the same format (example: save_crash_MrT_King_of_France_1106.eug) just in case we need that save game. Now start up again (under debug) and load your save game and resume. If you have a reporducable crash from a save game then you've hit the jackpot and we'll want your save, but even a large sample of debug log crashes may suffice to track the few remaining bugs down and squish them.
Reminder: this will hurt your CK game performance (it will run more slowly and may seem to respond sluggishly at times) and if you keep running for a long time without exiting and deleting the debug file then it will get immensely large (so large that many text editors will simply refuse to try opening it!).
For those who feel up to the task, this extra effort will be greatly appreciated by everyone! For those who don't feel up to it, remember to thank those who do. It's an annoyingly time-consuming un-fun way to play.

So without further ado...

Change Log

Vassals are now sorted in the order of their loyalty on the character details screen.
Laws of the liege is now taken into account on the loyalty effect instead of the characters own law.
Intrigue instead of stewardship is now determining the demesne size.
Byzantine bonus on max-demense size is now x2 instead of +10.
Martial stat of the ruler now affects the speed with which troops are recruited. (5 is the base value.)
AI: Rewrote assignment of ducal titles, to only give duchies to vassals with a province in that area already.
AI: Learned to offer peaces in some instances when it had completely locked up.
AI: Fixed one major reason which caused the AI to freeze with its troops.
Added 5 new character event effects that will appoint the character for whom the event is trigger to a specific court position.
format is: effect = { type = [spymaster/chaplain/marshal/chancellor/steward] }
Updated event effects.txt to reflect these 5 additions
Illusive Shadow trait attributes tweaked to reflect new realm importance of intrigue and remove martial penalty
cultural conversion event has been fixed and updated
naval movement takes a little longer and costs a bit more now
water bodies have been remapped in the province csv to three types (ocean/sea/river) depending on location and size
transport time and cost for each type is now somewhat different (3/2/1)
religious conversion of captured provinces in the crusade area have been toned down significantly
tweaked chance of independent Catholics DOWing crusade target owner downwards somewhat
reduced the rate at which vassals will jump into their liege's crusade
major balance tweaks made to rate that moslem realms self-destruct
made major tweaks to reduce spawn rate of possible heirs during moslem self-destruction periods
made major regional tweaks to the degree to which the moslem realms will fracture during the self-destruct periods
made major regional tweaks to the rate at which moslem vassals will be interested in declaring independence during self-destruct periods
adjusted a few event options in the law series to prevent the same vassal receiving multiple identical effects (although it's possible that slight duplication could still happen on occasion)
provincial religious conversions (generic ones) have been toned down quite a bit unless as a result of spread from an adjacent province (which has been toned up a little)
the religious orders (TEMP, HOSP, TEUT) will now convert their subjects to Catholicism much more rapidly than anyone else during non-crusade periods
religious orders (HOSP, TEMP, TEUT) will no longer want to pledge allegience when they are created. Nor will the papacy if it is re-created via event.
added some intrigue modifiers to the random events giving claims
coutier_events have now been updated to allow you to appoint a "better court officer" directly from the event (though you'll still pay a bit of gold to him as well so it pays to manage your court without event prompting)
evil events tweaked somewhat to reflect change to intrigue as a determining factor for max demesne size
powerful vassals of a generic liege with elective law may decide to get a bit feisty (intrigue events)
the intrigue events for Byzantine Empire rewritten with new logic chain and (we hope) less spam (note that in worst case there might be moments of event spam if things are going very badly)
Beware! At higher difficulty settings, the Byzantine Emperor may periodically find a knife in his back
vassals that are a considerable distance from their liege's demesne capital now have a chance of declaring independence (via intrigue event) unless liege has excellent stats or vassal has poor stats.
there is now an event that will tend to try to form crusader states from Catholic gains made in the Holy Land.
Moslem vassals located in ahistoric regions are very likely to declare independence unless their liege is in the same region as they are.
large Moslem empires are likely to lose satelite vassals but should fracture somewhat less than they did with the previous patch
Moslem demesne breakup series now reflects intrigue as demesne max determining factor and will break up less if ruler intrigue is high
Trigger conditions of recreating papacy (if it ceases to exist) have been reorganised to somewhat reduce CPU load
Added an event to help replenish the papal court if it gets low on bishops
Added a new siege event to make it possible for a siege could end a little earlier...or get ugly.
All English provinces changed to Saxon. Cornwall changed to Welsh, York to Danish and Isle of Man, Galloway and Cumberland to Norwegian.
1066 Scenario: Northumberland is now a part of England
English "melting pot" event updated to handle some culture changes, plus the mtth is now increased (changes should now happen in 20 to 75 years time).
New melting pot event added to handle conversion of Norwegian provinces in Scotland
1066 scenario: Álmos now has the correct father and can inherit County of Abauj
1066 scenario: Duke of Champagne is intentionally married to two women (lucky guy!) so no change made
1187: Fixed all scripting errors.

This patch should be applied over a clean 1.04a installation or on top of the previous patch.

If you’ve edited any of your own files or are using any mods, please remove them and revert to a vanilla copy if you want to give feedback (else your feedback will be either worthless or potentially detrimental to the process).

Thanks!

Johan & Your beta team

unmerged(6777) · Apr 1, 2005

A glitch in the way that the new changes to naval movement were applied caused a bit of silliness that required a quick fix to the province.csv file.

I've updated the patch in the above post to include the fixed file so you can safely go ahead and use it as is if you're downloading it after the date/time fo this post.

If you've already downloaded it, you can either download and apply the new one, or download the attached fixed province.csv and unpack it to your ...\CK\db\ folder and replace the previous one.

Sorry about that.

Johan · Apr 8, 2005

Change Log - April 8

Expanded debug-output.
Fixed a random crash.
Fixed the bug which caused AI and event-changed courts to have multiple chars at the same position.
Increased the male ratio of random courtiers severly.
The marshals martial stat now helps with the recruit speed as well.
Rather major reworking and tweaking done to heresy events to greatly reduce CPU load and also to assist AI in coping with them
You should be able to build fishing_wharfs, harbours, etc. once more
Tweaked cost and speed of sea movement a little
Sacrificed a virgin and a few beers and made one more fix to cultural conversion event (9007). Hopefully the Gods will be appeased by this offering and will allow the event to finally WAD.
further tweaking to make Jerusalem crusade a little more probable.
further tweaking to make Antioch crusade a little more probable.
further tweaking to make Iberian crusades a little less quick to trigger during reconquista era, but extended the era by an extra 50 years
Tweaked religious conversion events during crusades to make them happen less often
During a crusade, if your court runs out of males you are *much* more likely to have a semi-suitable random marshal wander by and offer his services
Further tweaks made to the crusade "dog pile" rate and regional/national preferences thereof
Certain moslem realms are now quite a bit less likely to break up during specific eras when they were historically strong; and are more likely to pull themselves back together if/when they do
Trouble for Byzantium made more common and harsher
All vassals breaking free from the Empire will now give a notification
North African and Middle East vassals breaking free should not be revasallized immidiately
Updated all character development events to take mother into consideration as well as father (HUGE thanks to richvh for his excellent work on this!)
revised triggers in steward, chancellor and chaplain events to be somewhat less CPU-intensive
Added a couple events that give Golden Horde and Ilkhanate neighbours something new (extra) to worry about.
Some moslem rulers will now receive periodic offers of assistance from regional warlords with archer_cav at their disposal.
Fixed some typos in the more recent event texts
Added Silk Road, Nile Road and "Varangian Road" to spreadneighbors, added some spread up the Danube, created a spread link for the otherwise-isolated island of Bahrein, fixed incorrect link intended for Canaries, and tweaked various other spreadneighbour stuff (big thanks to Gratianus for some great suggestions!)
Tweaked a few country colours in the country.csv
1066 scenario: Göttingen now has german culture
1066 Scenario: Vsevolod Rurikovich's marriage is now properly ended
1066 Scenario: Added scores for starting rulers missing them
1066 Scenario: "of Bulgaria" dynasty members (even dead ones) now orthodox
1066 Scenario: Friedrich von Hohenzollern is now german
1066 scenario: al-Mustansir stats tweaked a little to reduce likelihood of FATI imploding too rapidly
1066 Scenario: County of Gent is now part of the demesne of the Duke of Flanders (blame BiB!)
1066 Scenario: Duchy of Flanders remains a vasal of the King of France (in spite of gaining Gent) (blame BiB!)
1066 scenario: Robert de Flandre and all his courtiers moved to beomce part of the court of the Duke of Flanders (blame BiB!)
1066 scenario: Flandern demesne province power settings adjusted to weight them towards burghers (blame B!B)
1066 Scenario: Konstantinos Dukas became ill and hole in the pocket
1066 scenario: to simulate Konstantinos X Doukas' horrendous problems at the time, many wealthy provinces in Byzantine Empire will now start the scenario with all three levels of "thieves guild" type "province improvements". This should reduce the Empire's starting manpower and give incentive for the Emperor to avoid raising many regiments.
1066 scenario: the kingdom of Spanish Galicia has re-emerged out of the ashes of previous balancing efforts to resume its rightful place.
1066 scenario: tweaked Spanish Catholics tech setup a bit (only duke and king demesne capitals now have the extra leather armour instead of it being the global change we gave to them last week)

Edit (MrT): REMINDER

This patch should be applied over a clean 1.04a installation or on top of the previous patch. It will crash on a new installation that hasn't been patched to 1.04a since the official patch contains necessary files that are not included in this public beta patch (to help keep file size down).

If you’ve edited any of your own files or are using any mods, please remove them and revert to a vanilla copy if you want to give feedback (else your feedback will be either worthless or potentially detrimental to the process).

The debug mode remains active in this beta - and has actually been extended somewhat to provide more detailed reporting. Please see this thread for details on how to enable the debug log and how to report results.

Thanks!

C.

Johan · Apr 15, 2005

15th of April

Change log

Added more bugtracking code to the saving of games, and fixed a way which may have caused VFC's.
Fixed another crash.
The liege of a vassal who declares independence as a result of an event will now get a claim on all titles held by the departing vassal (just as he would if it happened via regular game code mechanics)
Fixed the revoke title message.
Fixed a broken progress bar that was clipped (province improvement building completion status).
Difficulty no longer affects max-size of regiment, but instead the speed of recruitment.
Removed tax-rate effect on regiment sizes.
A character may now only have one alliance (same rules as before as to who may ally, etc.).
Full name+title is now always used for event messages.
Fixed the problem with peace being forced on you if someone else at same level in your realm signs peace with an enemy.
Changed the 'click-area' of units to make it easier to select a province with a unit in it.
Fixed a couple names that cause province search function to fail (public bug report)
Tweaked MTTH of advance discovery events to allow many low level techs to be discovered a little more rapidly but higher level techs to be a little slower
Tweaked MTTH of advance spread events to allow somewhat more rapid spread of some low level techs
Bankruptcy events now reduce fortifications by one level instead of removing them entirely (reflects general reduction in state of repair rather than having a huge castle simply crumble into dust)
fixed a trigger in the illness events
fixed rather big scripting logic error in the intrigue vassal independence events (and Byakhiam has been slapped around a bit with a large wet salmon)
Tweaked AI chances a bit in Civil War series
Added new event to end revolts (thanks to The Phoenix for idea)
Fixed an issue with the new Horde raiding events
Tweaked start dates and mtth a little for the Hordes to expand the range a little
Added modifiers to tame down the Hordes a bit towards the end of the game
Added modifiers to avoid Horde breakup/internal nastiness towards the end of the game.
Made a few additional tweaks to the moslem breakup events
Surprise surprise...made some more tweaks to the Crusade events mtth values and modifiers
The "war veteran wants to join your cause" event is now scaled to income instead of having a fixed ccost
With some considerable trepidation I have scripted a corresponding event for moslems to aggressively attack Christian who captures a crusade target (as long as the crusade hasn't ended yet). This will almost certainly need quite a bit of additional tweaking and balancing and could end up causing some problems with even more moslem armies trecking across Europe...Let's try it for a bit and see how it goes.
Bastards now have their own unique event to start off their education
Bastards have some special modifiers added to the finish education events if they possess an additional "tag trait"
You will see somewhat more bastards created during the game (apologies if they happen a little too often now and the mtth needs to be tweaked a bit)
Bastards will now play a somewhat more active role in court life - in some cases this will be good and in other cases... Once in a while a bastard event will trigger that branches out into several event chains. Resist the urge to look at them in advance and have some fun role-playing them. The event chains might result in a little bit of spam once in a while, but it's all in a good game-play cause. This is the first instalment of a larger planned set. Enjoy!
Event 6609 (vasal unhappy with your ruling laws) now has two possible actions for a liege to choose between
Applied a major rewrite to provincial cultural conversion event (9007) with kind thanks to richvh who wrote it
Updated the definition of "ruler_child" in the event effects.txt file
Updated the definition of "independence" in the event effects.txt file
Some new events to alter provincial power balance (idea from WanV)
Added new court flavour events, mainly to entertain human players without vassals
1066 scenario: Bob the Younger (son of former Count Bob of Gent and apparently idolised by B!B ) now begins the scenario in same court as daddy (where he's supposed to be)
1066 scenario: ID 6533 gender now corrected for Beatrix
1066 scenario: County of Kaisereia vassal to archbishopric of Galatia
1066 scenario: Counties of Philippopolis, Tyrnovo & Dorostrum vassal to duke of Adrianapolis
1066 scenario: County of Nikopolis vassal to duke of Dorostrum
1066 scenario: Duchies of Dorostrum & Peloponnesos adopted laws of Semi-Salic Consanguinity, Royal Preorgatory & Regal Supremacy
1066 scenario: Duchy of Butrinto adopted laws of Elective Law, Royal Preorgatory & Regal Supremacy
1066 scenario: The starting setup (tech, etc.) has been somewhat revised for Byzantine Empire as per the thread in the public beta forum. This seems to reduce their power in the region so they have a harder time making much headway if they're agressive but hasn't seems to make them much more suceptible to being attacked (probably because the AI looks at their overall strength and decides to give it a miss). Feedback on this should go in the Byzantium thread.
1066 scenario: Sigelgaita is now sleeping with her husband once more.

Edit (MrT): REMINDER

This patch should be applied over a clean 1.04a installation or on top of the previous patch. It will crash on a new installation that hasn't been patched to 1.04a since the official patch contains necessary files that are not included in this public beta patch (to help keep file size down).

If you’ve edited any of your own files or are using any mods, please remove them and revert to a vanilla copy if you want to give feedback (else your feedback will be either worthless or potentially detrimental to the process).

The debug mode remains active in this beta - and has been even further extended for more detailed reporting. Please see this thread for details on how to enable the debug log and how to report results.

Thanks!

C.

unmerged(6777) · Apr 22, 2005

Just an FYI...

The anticipated April 22 patch has been unavoidably delayed. We'll try to get something for you early next week if posssible. Until then, April 15th remains the most current patch.

* * * * * * *

Copied from the DIY bugfix thread:

There are two new bugs that we've found in the April 15th patch (both accidentally introduced by yours truly) that will accasionally cause a crash and will be fixed in the next beta. You can make a temporary fix your self by:

Spread neighbour bug
- Go to your..\ck\db\ directory and right-click on the spreadneighbors.csv file.
- Select "properties" from the menu
- At the bottom of the window that opens, un-check the "read only" box and then click okay (this allows you to edit the file)
- Now open the file using Notepad (or equivalent simple text editor). I strongly recommend AGAINST using Excel or Word for this unless you now what you're doing.
- Scroll dodwn to the bottom of the file.
- The last three lines of the file should be changed to read:
  Code:
```
844;848
846;848
-1;-1
```
- Save and close the file

Invalid trigger event ID

Go to the ...ck\db\events folder
Use the same technique described above to allow you to edit the "bastard_events.txt" file.
Open the file and scoll down almost to the bottom of it until you inf the event 8625 which starts with the line
Code:
```
character_event = { #Your bastard son petitions you to recognise him as a legitimate heir
```

Scroll down to action_c of the event which will look like this:

Code:

	action_c = { #I welcome you with open arms!
		effect = { type = prestige value = 25 }
		effect = { type = loyalty value = 1.0 }
		effect = { type = remove_trait value = bastard }
		effect = { type = trigger for = best_son value = 8626 }
		effect = { type = trigger for = worst_son value = 8627 }
		effect = { type = trigger for = random_son value = 8628 }
		effect = { type = random chance = 20
			effect = { type = trigger for = ruler value = 8629 }
		}
	}

Simply add a "#" to the last three lines of the action so that it now reads:

Code:

	action_c = { #I welcome you with open arms!
		effect = { type = prestige value = 25 }
		effect = { type = loyalty value = 1.0 }
		effect = { type = remove_trait value = bastard }
		effect = { type = trigger for = best_son value = 8626 }
		effect = { type = trigger for = worst_son value = 8627 }
		effect = { type = trigger for = random_son value = 8628 }
#		effect = { type = random chance = 20
#			effect = { type = trigger for = ruler value = 8629 }
#		}
	}

This will disable the 20% chance of the ruler getting event 8629 which I somehow managed not to include in the beta patch.

Save and close the file

And that should clear up two sources of CTDs that you may be experiencing.

Sorry about that folks.

Johan · Apr 28, 2005

28th April 2005

Fixed a crashbug where usurps happened while someone lost the title at the same time.
Added a 'type = pregnant' condition for character events.
Fixed the cost tooltip for usurping a title.
Fixed another reason for crashing while saving.
AI learned to mobilize more of its realms troops at need.
AI is now more likely to honor mobilization requests, especially from other ai rulers.
Improved some aspects of the military AI for it to fight some battles more focused.
The Crusades won/lost message should now appear when a crusade ends depending if its new ruler is catholic or not.
Added debug-messages for script-errors for modders. (written to savedebug.txt)
Fixed some event-effects that showed the wrong target.
Regiment commanders of another religion that its ruler will no longer become vassals of the ruler when taking a province, but the province becomes the rulers directly.
the effect type = set_to_realm_religion can now be used on non-rulers.
Vassals of a human ruler will not jump into the crusades automatically (via event) any longer.
Vassals who renounce liege as a result of being called to join a crusade now get the chance of receiving several unfavourable traits but are no longer turned into bastards.
Made some tweaks to the Muslim counter-dogpile events
Vassals of a Muslim ruler will be a little slower than before in jumping to their liege's defense during a crusade
Muslim breakup events will now happen for vassals as well as rulers
Religious conversions during crusades tweaked alot
Made lots more tweaks to the crusades (yeah...again...)
Another large batch of new events added to the bastard event series. No peeking! Some very good effects may now occur if you have bastard children - particularly if you appoint them to court offices - although there are some new nastier ones too. You should be careful about promoting bastards to court positions (even though they're going to demand it!) if you have other sons who are legitimate and old enough to hold a position themselves...even if the bastard has better stats. Generally, your legitimate and illegitimate children will probably not like each other very much and this could lead to one or the other leaving court (whichever ones you neglect).
Some tweaks made to the existing bastard events
Some papal indulgence-peddling events have been added for unbelievers. Bankruptcy might be worth it...
Some new events added to help in situations where courts become excessively depleted
Childhood events completely revised
AI uses different childhood event than player
Others than ruler's children get childhood traits now
There is now a chance of inbreeding being discovered in children after their birth.
Some new flavour events added
Rebelling vassals get claims now in Byzantine Civil War
The "win siege" event is now limited only to rulers to prevent other regimental leaders (courtiers) from accidentally stealing sieges from their lieges and gaining the provinces for themselves.
Fixed a bug with event 8615 having an extra closing brace.
REM-ed out parts of 8625, 8651 and 8652 and their sub-trigger events, and adjusted %chance on ruler effects for the time being.
With some trepidation, the mtth for cultural conversion has been reduced. It would be really nice to have more than 4 or 5 people respond with their in-game observations this week.
Tweaked a few modifiers and conditions in flavour events
Knight Orders now have some more punches to deal out (thanks to Jools for idea)
Orders no longer ask you for land if you have negative piety
You now actually can get people sainted, though only your father
The Pope will probably now spam you a lot less about allowing him to set up shop in Rome again...but there are some nasty consequences to this decision.
Fixed an error in the civil war events
Tweaked triggers in the "I could be a better xxxxx" events a bit
The "I could be a better xxxxxx" events (for promoting court officials) are now scripted in two sets - a basic set for the AI and a more interesting set for the player. The AI will simply promote or reassign based on highest stats, but a player will now need to give careful consideration to the court/hereditary standing of the character in order to try to keep people happy. A ruler's son will want a decent job even if he has inferior stats to the person currently in the post unless that person is his brother. Males will also be more pushy about getting a job and be insulted if you elect to stick with a woman instead. This should create a bit more of a fractious situation in (human) courts. (Note: this is too complex a consideration to teach to the AI, hence the different event set for them).
Corrected a bunch of text/grammar errors in the extra_text.csv file, though there are undoubtedly many more to do.
Fixed a couple minor glitches in the spreadneighbor matrix
Added 263;264 to spreadneighbours
Colour of Toledo changed on kingdoms map to make it easier to distinguish from Leon
Sent home some roving Finnish dynasties that were masquerading as gypsies in Hungary
The "of Horthhampton" dynasty (#753) has had its name legally changed to "of Northampton"
1066 scenario: Kingdom of Spanish Galicia is now once again the duchy of Galicia instead, but it's independent this time.
1066 scenario: Braganza is now an independent duchy and begins the scenario allied to Galicia
1066 scenario: Garcia has a claim on king of Leon and Castile
1066 scenario: Some guys in county of Léon have discovered they are Tough Soldiers
1066 scenario: Byzantium and Seljuk Turks now start at war <---for now at least...this may change in the future since it's something we really don't like doing in scenario set-ups. Feedback would be appreciated!

Edit (MrT): REMINDER

This patch should be applied over a clean 1.04a installation or on top of the previous patch. It will crash on a new installation that hasn't been patched to 1.04a since the official patch contains necessary files that are not included in this public beta patch (to help keep file size down).

If you’ve edited any of your own files or are using any mods, please remove them and revert to a vanilla copy if you want to give feedback (else your feedback will be either worthless or potentially detrimental to the process).

The debug mode remains active in this beta - and has been even further extended for more detailed reporting for modders. Please see this thread for details on how to enable the debug log and how to report results.

Thanks!

C.

unmerged(6777) · May 5, 2005

May 5 Special mini-patch

Hi again.

PLEASE READ THIS POST BEFORE DOING ANYTHING WITH THE ATTACHMENTS!!!!

There won't be a full beta patch this week since it's a holiday in Sweden (hence no exe coding time for Johan) and there are some rather large projects that a couple of us are working on that aren't ready yet.

HOWEVER...

I have two things for you. Both will be found in the attached rar labeled "May 5 Mini-Patch" which you should unpack to your main CK directory. The mini-patch only contains 3 files so you have to unpack it over a APRIL 28 INSTALLATION.

There's a "fixed" version of the ...\ck\db\events\courtier_events.txt file that will make some rather major changes to the recently-added "free courtiers" that are presenting a problem for many of you. They've been toned down in frequency and had their triggers/modifiers adjusted (and in some cases rewritten) and should be a little more palettable for you now.

There is also a revised version of two other files (provinceimprovements.txt and terrain.csv) that I would like you to try out and give me some feedback on (I'll be starting a special thread for that purpose so please ONLY USE THE NEW THREAD FOR FEEDBACK ON THIS so I know which patch you're commenting on). There are some rather major changes that I've been playing with in these two files that I think might have some beneficial impact on play: the cost and speed of ocean travel has been greatly increased, but the effect of civilian harbours, naval shipyards, and grand shipyards has been correspondingly adjusted to make the net effect roughly the same at an advanced development level). It can create some odd pathfinding issues so bear with me for now as far as the cost that it charges verss the path it actually takes. It will take a little getting used to but once you're into the swing of it I think you'll find it rather interesting. I've also increased the length of time required to build a number of the other improvements so you might want to pay careful attention to the drop-down tooltips to be sure that you really want to build something right now...

I would not be surprised if some people will strongly dislike the changes so I have also created a second patch file called "May 5 Reversion". DO NOT APPLY THIS PATCH unless you have already added the May 5 Mini-patch and then want to revert to the April 28th instead. It only contains the 3 files you're replacing with the moini-patch.

I'll be interested to read your feedback on the changes.

Cheers!

MrT

MINI-PATCH CHANGE LOG

Some small adjustments made to the province improvements effects
Many province improvements now take longer to build - particularly advanced structures which will tend to bring all other construction to a halt unless you have other structures that speed up the build rate.
Many of the courtier events have been tweaked in their trigger conditions, modifiers and effects.
The recently-added "free courtier" events have been hugely re-worked. Trigger conditions are now if less than C3/D4/K5 in your court OR you lack someone in a court office and have no eligible (and reasonable) unemployed courtier is available (i.e. you will no longer be able to exploit the event by not appointing someone as long as they have a 5 or more in the primary stat). Refusing the services still isn't free, but should be more palettable than before. The cost of them is also a little less extravagent.
Naval travel will now be a lot slower except on seas (i.e. zones identified as "sea" in the province.csv - which isn't many)
Naval travel will now be rather ruinously expensive unless you possess advanced harbour structures (civilian harbour, etc.)

REVERSION PATCH CHANGE LOG

Un-does the changes made by the May 5th mini-patch

REMINDER! THE MINI-PATCH MUST BE APPLIED TO AN APRIL 28TH BETA PATCH

REMINDER! THE REVERSION PATCH ONLY UNDOES CHANGES MADE BY INSTALLING THE MINI-PATCH

!!!!! THIS IS NOT A FULL PATCH !!!!!

.

Johan · May 13, 2005

May 13th Beta Patch

Change Log

From Johan

Expanded debug-message logging to track down further crashes.
Fixed an event effect which could cause some crashes.
Added the can-inheritance-pass-through function to all aspects of the law code. This should resolve the reported tracing bugs.
Should no longer be possible to get multiple claims on the same title.
Reduced the piety/prestige gain from crusading.
Only rulers can be excommunicated by the Pope now (by the papal controller...events can still excommunicate a non-ruler).
Reduced the frequency of females being generated as random courtiers.
Reduced probability of lieges involving themselves in inter vassal wars, to depend much more on reputation and loyalty.
A liege with royal prerogatory law will always involve himself in vassal wars.
Fixed an exploit which allowed a vassal to drop his loyalty to 0 at will.
Tweaked capital allocation algoritm, introducing some inertia in it.
Added a system for terrain restrictions on buildings (was part of original design but finally found time to code it).
Bastards from events are now created as sons of the character getting the event, instead of the ruler of the country.
Found and purged the source of a nasty VFC relating to combat resolution!

From last week's mini-patch

Some small adjustments made to the province improvements effects (May 5th mini-patch)
Many province improvements now take longer to build - particularly advanced structures which will tend to bring all other construction to a halt unless you have other structures that speed up the build rate. (May 5th mini-patch)
Many of the courtier events have been tweaked in their trigger conditions, modifiers and effects. (May 5th mini-patch)
The recently-added "free courtier" events have been hugely re-worked. Trigger conditions are now if less than C3/D4/K5 in your court OR you lack someone in a court office and have no eligible (and reasonable) unemployed courtier is available (i.e. you will no longer be able to exploit the event by not appointing someone as long as they have a 5 or more in the primary stat). Refusing the services still isn't free, but should be more palettable than before. The cost of them is also a little less extravagent. (May 5th mini-patch)
Naval travel will now be a lot slower except on seas (i.e. zones identified as "sea" in the province.csv - which isn't many) (May 5th mini-patch)
Naval travel will now be rather ruinously expensive unless you possess advanced harbour structures (civilian harbour, etc.) (May 5th mini-patch)

New stuff from your beta team

Fixed a grammar error in the text.csv (is now "...too loyal to pledge...")
Duchies now discover new advances somewhat more quickly, and kingdoms even a little faster than that
Trigger conditions of advances discovery re-optimized for reduced CPU load
Discovery of new advances now quicker if you have capital with one of the more advanced harbours (i.e. bonus increased and scaled for them)
Discovery of military technology now quicker if ruler has one of the military educations or is a martial cleric
Discovery of new armour and weapons technology now quite a bit quicker if you are at war
Discovery of new military tactics and improved castles is somewhat quicker when you are at war
Discovery of infrastructure technology now quicker if ruler has one of the stewardship-type educations or is a scholarly theologian
Discovery of most infrastructure technologies will now be impeded if you are at war
Discovery of most infrastructure technologies will now be affected by the province conditions (plague/disease, etc. is very bad, a high level of prosperity is good for structural advances but now impedes farming and livestock - and visa versa)
Discovery of church structures also more likely if you have a ruler with a religious vocation and quite unlikely if at war. Your laws regarding regal/church supremacy are also quite important in the likelihood of such dicoveries (generally more likely if strongly religious)
Discovery of almost all cultural advances will stagnate unless the realm is at peace
Discovery of most cultural advances now takes ruler education type and ruler laws into account (which traits/laws are good/bad varies depending on the area of inquiry)
Spread of technology will tend to be a bit faster when either the "to" or "from" province has larger harbours (and even faster if both do)
Spread of technology from a vassal to a liege will tend to be a little faster now
Spread of military technology will be quite a bit faster within a realm when the "to" owner is as war
Spread of military technology will come to a near standstill if the "from" province is at war and not part of the same realm as the "to" province
Spread of military technology will be a little faster if the "to" province is at war and the "from" province is not part of the same realm and is not at war
Spread of production technology will be very slow if the "to" province is at war
Spread of production technology will be extremely slow if the "from" province is at war and not part of the same realm as the "to" province
Spread of cultural advances will be extremely slow if the "to" province is at war
Spread of advances (in general) is now somewhat influenced by the ruler's education path (generally it shows his preference/knack towards certain areas of realm improvement)
Spread of advances will tend to be a little faster when the "to" province is a demesne capital
Tweaked effects of some of the sale and closure of buildings due to bankruptcy
When bakrupt, you can no longer sieze land from a Holy Order unless you have a templar improvement in your demesne (and chance of being excommunicated for doing so has been reduced, although you may also be branded a heretic)
When bankrupt, you can only sieze a monastery if you have one somewhere in your demesne
A few bankruptcy events that forced the closure of a "service" building will now allow you to recoup at least some of your original investment (sale of assets)
Bankruptcy will now result in the degradation of defenses (castles) rather than having them fall completely apart - and you recoup a bit of their building materials
If you are bankrupt and have moneylenders in your demesne you can "borrow" a rather large sum of money if you wish...but be aware that the chuch tends to frown on usary. The more heavily you are in debt, the more rapidly and the more often you are likely to be offered this money (unless you are zealous).
Your ruling law now determines the likelihood that you will be able to demand some cash from your vassals when bankrupt
You now have a choice of how much gold to demand from your vassals (and the amounts are now scaled) but these demands will have a rather dangerous effect on your relationship...particularly if you go to the well too often. A large demand now has the chance of the vassal declaring independence and getting a claim on you for your greed and fiscal mismanagement.
Made a ton of revisions in the bastard events (adjusted trigger conditions, mtth values, etc.)
Revised a couple of bastard events (or event texts) to accomodate the change to the way bastards spawn now.
Fixed absurd prestige cost from one event (was { type = prestige scale = 150 } instead of { type = prestige value = 150 }!)...oops o
Fixed a couple logic errors in the long-chain Bastard event triggers/connections
Made a couple text adjustments to make bastard events make slightly more sense
Accusations of legitimate children actually being a bastard are now highly unlikely unless you are away on campaign when the kid is <2
It is no longer possible for women who are already pregnant to give miracle births to bastards (i.e. spawning a bastard while remaining pregnant)
Bastards will wait a little longer before deciding whether to be complacent or not.
Added a bunch of commented conditions that are simply waiting for a test to be coded to check if a character is actually alive. Once coded, a global replace for #condition = { type = is_alive } will active them.
Tweaked a few battle events
Disabled a few of the annoying battle events that allows an enemy to somehow loot your provinces or burn your buildings to the ground even though his closest regiment is 20,000km away. They will be re-activated if we can get a "is_besieged" or a "enemy_present" condition.
Fixed a trigger error in the chancellor events
Fixed a couple triggers and adjusted a couple mtths and modifiers in the chaplain events
The bad childhood events series (relating mostly to characters with birth traits) has been removed and merged with/incorporated into the new set of childhood development events (see below)
Rewrote a few triggers in the character_health events and added a few exclusions to prevent them from interfering with the new trait series.
Stress will now not occur "randomly" for children under 10 (i.e. through the "generic" stress symptom event). They can still become stressed from a few other events.
Rulers will recover more slowly from stress and depression if they are currently at war or have over-sized demesnes.
Some claims event triggers have been rewritten for better load optimization.
Most claims events now have minimum age restrictions (so infant rulers won't participate in tourneys or other such unlikely ventures)
You will no longer be able to accuse your wife of adultry if she is currently pregnant
Some other claims events had their modifiers and/or effects tweaked
The "nobles will accept naturalise bastard" event has been removed since this is now handled within the bastard event series
Many (most!) of the court_events have had slight revisions to triggers, modifiers, mtth, and/or effects to optimise load and remove or adjust a few oddities.
The Pope is now likely to disapprove of players exploiting the recent changes to the rules about conquering non-coreligionist territories with regiments led by heathens. Now you wouldn't want the Pope to get angry with you now, would you?
The Pope will also now object should a player decide to place a heathen scum in any position of authority in his/her court.
The Patriarch will also mow be less than impressed...although he is somewhat less forceful about such things.
The Pope will now be somewhat displeased if an Orthodox courtier is allowed to lead a regiment or hold a court office.
Made a large number of changes to the advance_names.csv text to improve grammar, etc. - HUGE thanks to King of Men for his hard work on this!
Made some text corrections/changes to the existing extra_text.csv per a number of people's feedback/suggestions.
Based on player feedback and continued interal testing, Byakhiam has made another massive set of changes to the development of characters throughout their youth. There are roughly three sets of events now and each child is likely to be the recipient of one event from each set (one during early childhood, one during middle childhood, and one during late childhood). Most kids will now have 3-5 traits by the time they finish their education and in some cases the early traits will be influential on later traits (in many cases in an off-setting way). Both AI and player sets have been completely revised.
Most of the childhood and "mentor" events have been overhauled/removed/replaced/etc. so as not to cause problems with the new character development events (due to trait exclusion triggers).
Changed the claimable kingdom in province.csv as follows: - RUSS to CUMA: Olvia (542), Oleshye (543), Chortitza (556), Lukomorie (557), Lower Dniepr (558), Crimea (559), Korchev (562), Lower Don (563), Desht-i-Kipchak (564), Sharukan (565), Sugrov (566), Khopyor (593), Sarkel (594), Don Portage (595)
Changed income in British Isles provinces in provinces.csv as follows: Norfolk to 5 (was 4), Suffolk to 5 (was 4), Hampshire to 4 (was 3), York to 6 (was 3), Lincoln to 4 (was 3), Sussex to 4 (was 3), Oxford to 4 (was 3), Northampton to 3 (was 2), Surrey to 3 (was 4), Salisbury to 3 (was 4), Dorset to 3 (was 2), Northumberland to 3 (was 4), Atholl to 3 (was 2), Berwick to 3 (was 2), Lancaster to 2 (was 6), Durham to 2 (was 3), Dyfed to 2 (was 1), Mar to 2 (was 1), Devon to 1 (was 2), Cumberland to 1 (was 3), Argyll to 1 (was 2).
Various events that might accidentally give the Pope or one of the three Orders (TEMP, TEUT, HOSP) either the excommunicated or heretic traits have been rewritten with trigger exclusions, ai chance modifiers, or whatever is necessary to make this rather unlikely to happen.
As a precautionary measure, someone who shouldn't be the Pope or the Grandmaster of an Order will now be quickly struck by lightning.
As will come as no surprise...the crusades events have been tweaked in many various small ways yet again.
Crusades will now be slightly faster to initiate in non-peak crusaading times than they were.
Religious conversions will be somewhat slower during the crusades.
Tweaked dogpile to be slightly slower for Christians and slightly more responsive from Muslims.
Religious orders (and the Pope) are a lot more likely to get free troops if they are actively crusading
Roving bands of volunteer Seljuks are now more likely to sign on for a campaign with Muslims defending themselves against crusaders, and the size of them is now somewhat larger than before.
Some trigger optimizations made to the csc_events.txt file
Some trigger optimizations made to the evil_events.txt file as well as one event's trigger has had an exclusion check added to avoid trying to kill the son of a ruler who doesn't have a son.
Bubonic plague appearance is no longer restricted to its short 10 year historic period -- although it is far more likely to occur at that time than any other.
Pneumonic plague appearance is no longer restricted to its short 10 year historic period -- although it is far more likely to occur at that time than any other.
Both plagues will now spread somewhat more rapidly than before - particularly within realms and between provinces that have more advanced improvements.
Now, as soon as a province has dairy farms it can get cattle disease - although it is far more likely to manifast during the late part of the game (after the date that was the previous trigger condition ).
Added trigger exclusions that were missing (and would allow a type of plague to re-trigger for a province that already had the plague).
A character who is ill is now somewhat less likely to contract leprosy
A character who is ill is now somewhat more likely to contract pneumonia
In an effort to address some player concerns, it is now possible for plague to be contracted by a character in a court if any province in the realm is experiencing the plague and the demesne is at less than 100% efficiency or have fairly large courts (relative to realm tier). Making it a global test is simply too heavy a load for slower processors but players who have fast machines could edit the event trigger to remove these restrictions. Do so at your own risk.
Children are now considerably less likely to develop more severe forms of mental illness
Event triggers completely rewritten and many modifiers adjusted and rewritten for the "Masque of the Red Death" series for better load optimisation and a little more challenge
Further tweaks (mostly mtth and modifier) were made to the "free courtiers" events for understaffed courts (based on min-patch feedback).
Further tweaks made to the cost of naval travel (now lower than mini-patch value) and the speed of naval travel (now faster) based on feedback from the May 5th mini-patch values (but these are still noticably higher than the previous April 28th values). This is still in the experimental phase and is likely to change again in the next patch.
Some minor adjustments made to the provinceimprovment.txt file based on feedback from the May 5th mini-patch and to readjust for the new changes made to the ocean travel values.
A few bonus effects added to province improvements to compensate for them taking a little longer to build and/or costing more.
Implemented a whole new set of terrain restrictions to many of the province improvements so that they can't be built in places which would be unlikely to support them. Since this was just added I am quite open to additions/changes/revisions to this based on feedback.
A few tweaks made to the mtth values and scales of the province_improvement events.
Heresy will now be a little less likely to materialise in realms
Heresy will spread a little less rapidly
Heretical courtiers will only cause trouble with one another when they are in a realm of the same religion as they are
Massive overhaul and optimization of triggers in the herery_events file
Many mtth values and modifiers adjusted (and in a couple places fixed) for the heresy events.
some of the heresy event effects have been changed or scaled.
The Pope and the three Holy Orders are mow largely immune to heresy and are rather virulent about stamping it out whenever they find it.
Catholic crusader states are now quite a bit more likely to form
The former liege of a break-away crusader state is now rewarded for the state's formation instead of being penalised for it.
Muslim vassals with very distant holdings will tend to break away from their lieges quite a bit more rapidly.
Muslim rulers will tend to get more free troops than before.
Muslim rulers will only get free troops when at war with non-coreligionists.
Tweaked some other triggers, mtth values, and modifiers in the general events in the intrigue_events file.
Oversized Muslim realms are now somewhat slower to fracture than before.
All Lordship events are now scaled
Some event triggers adjusted or added to the lorship events, and many have had changes to modifiers and a few to effects.
Made a few fairly minor tweaks to the marshal events
Adjusted a few trigger conditions in the Horde events to optimise load
Tweaked many of the Horde event modifiers and a few of the effects to make them a bit nastier again (no one has been complaining about them at all and that's a bad sign )
An endless loop caused by a missing trigger condition in the pagan events was fixed (should reduce load a bit)
Removed events 9105-9110 from Papacy_events which were massively CPU intensive and achieved the same thing by adjusting the trigger conditions of the advance discovery files to allow the Pope to make the discoveries even if he wasn't focussing reseach on them. (er...and CS can't help but wonder why they weren't originally scripted that way...)
Some precautionary trigger exclusions and/or ai_chance on actions were added to many of the Papal events
Religious conversion via spread is now a bit slower
Religious conversion of a province due simply to the ruler's religion is now quite a bit slower.
Religious conversion by the "zealous chaplain" events is now quite a bit faster (thus having a martial cleric or - if you're Catholic - a mastermind theologian as your chaplain is highly desirable)
The cost and effects of the "zealous chaplain" events have been tweaked somewhat to compensate a bit for this change.
Cultural conversion spread is now a somewhat faster (largely compensating for overall slower religious conversion rates...you won't see as much earlier in the game but you should see more later in the game).
Pagan cultural and religious spread is now quite a bit slower (and more in line with other cultural conversions)
Thieves/smugglers/highway robbers will now be more likely to establish themselves in a province if your regiment is otherwise preoccupied.
The chances of a province becoming poorer is reduced if it is already poor, and is slightly increased if it is prosperous or rich - and visa versa - which will have a tendency to push provinces towards a "normal" condition.
The realm's steward will now contribute significantly to a province recovering from being looted, and if you don't have a steward appointed then the province will likely remain looted for a very long time.
The realm's chancellor will now contribute significantly to a province revolt coming to an end, and if you don't have a chancellor appointed then the province will likely remain in revolt for a very long time.
Regecy embezzlement effects changed slightly and also can now only happen to human players (AI has enough trouble with its finances and the load reduction is worthwhile)
Made some other minor tweaks (mostly in consolidating effects of multiple calls to random_vassal within the same action) to the regency events.
Some trigger conditions and effects tweaked in the steward_events file.
A few benficial steward events that were previously excluded from firing for the AI will now do so.
Size of free Templar troops for other Catholic rulers has been increased a bit - but so has the prestige hit for accepting them
Refusing to grant a province to form one of the religious Orders will now have a chance to cause that province to be considered heretical. This has dual purpose: (1) to let the player know which province is being asked for (since it will now show up in the action_b effects) and (2) once a province has the heretic effect the Order will stop spamming your to hand it over. The AI will almost always grant land.
Tweaked/optimized a few other trigger conditions and modifiers in the Templar events.
A new trio of events added to the Templar events to cause the creation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem to form if Catholics capture provinces in the region and the KoJ doesn't already exist. The KoK (if AI) will gain a bit of free prestige to help attract vassals and will get some free troops if attacked. Thanks to Grell77 for the idea!
Tweaked the trigger conditions for "a [pretty wench/strapping young man] catches your eye" events
Also made about 1000 other small changes to various event triggers/modifiers/ai_chances/effects and such that were too minor to bother documenting thoroughly.
Corrected some spelling and minor errors in Greek, Dutch, Norman, and Ugricbaltic names (thanks to Solmyr!)
1066 scenario: Tribe of Ugric has realized how they are actually tribe of Mordvins
1066 scenario: Garcia Jimenez of Galicia has been given the "my_brother_has_me_rotting_away_in_one_of_his_prison_cells" trait (but we used the short name for it)
1187 scenario: Raymond Saint-Gilles of Tolouse was revised a bit
1187 scenario: added Neuchatel dynasty in Neuchatel
1187 scenario: made Valais a bishopry (bishops of Stitten ruled Valais)
1187 scenario: added Hohenzollern dynasty as courtiers in Nürnberg, likely to inherit
1187 scenario: added Habsburg dynasty in Schwyz
1187 scenario: duchy of Milan created
1187 scenario: Grisons(Ticino) to Milan
1187 scenario: added Zähringen dynasty in Bern
1187 scenario: expanded and connected the Zähringen branches
1187 scenario: added Kyburgs in Aargau
1187 scenario: made Chur a bishopry
1187 scenario: Free Country of Burgundy (Besancon) directly under the emperor
1187 scenario: made Köln a bishopry
1187 scenario: Zeeland to Holland
1187 scenario: Friesland independent
1187 scenario: count of holland claim on Westfriesland (granted by Barbarossa in 1168)
1187 scenario: made Sticht a bishopry (utrecht)
1187 scenario: expanded and fixed dynasties in Holland, Kleve and Loon
1187 scenario: added Adolf von Schauenberg count of Hamburg&Lübeck (Holstein)
1187 scenario: added Querfurts in Plauen(burggrafs of Magdeburg)
1187 scenario: fixed and expanded dynasties of Macon, Capet, Coucy, Nevers
1187 scenario: Etienne no longer count of Nevers (he ruled a county on the border of Dijon and Besancon provinces)
1187 scenario: Nevers transfered to Agnes de Nevers, cts of Nevers&Auxerre
1187 scenario: Sens now Royal demesne
1187 scenario: created Angouleme dynasty
1187 scenario: added count and dynasty of Auvergne
1187 scenario: expanded Montcade dynasty
1187 scenario: expanded Comminges dynasty in Bearn
1187 scenario: Armagnac's marriage fixed
1187 scenario: connected Blois branches
1187 scenario: removed duplicates 13113, 12860, 12861, 6856, 5962, 6010, 5594, 5870, 5544, 6880, 12971 & 12972

REMINDER

This patch should be applied over a clean 1.04a installation or on top of the previous patch. It will crash on a new installation that hasn't been patched to 1.04a since the official patch contains necessary files that are not included in this public beta patch (to help keep file size down).

If you’ve edited any of your own files or are using any mods, please remove them and revert to a vanilla copy if you want to give feedback (else your feedback will be either worthless or potentially detrimental to the process).

The debug mode remains active in this beta - and has been even further extended for more detailed reporting for modders. Please see this thread for details on how to enable the debug log and how to report results.

Thanks!

unmerged(6777) · May 20, 2005

Just an FYI....

No patch this week. We're working on a bunch of stuff but some of it (notably something I'm working on) isn't ready yet and rather than rush it and screw it up it's better to wait another week instead.

Also, of course, with E3 Johan's time has been very limited so he hasn't had much coding time available to do anything for us this week.

Next patch will be sometime next week (though maybe sooner than Friday). Until then, please continue with the May 13th patch.

For people having a hard time with the plague materializing within the first 5-10 years of starting, go to the ...\ck\db\events\ folder and open the file "global_diseases_events.txt".

Replace the first two events with the following:

Code:

#################################
# The Bubonic Plague arrives	#
#################################
province_event = {
	id = 1069

	picture = "event_plague"

	trigger = {
		condition = { type = year value = 1100 }		
		condition = {
			type = or
			condition = { type = area value = 693 } 	#Baghdad
			condition = { type = area value = 628 }		#Bukhara
			condition = { type = area value = 796 }		#Fustat
			condition = { type = area value = 646 }		#Isfahan
		}
		condition = { type = not value = { type = has_province_effect value = { bubonic_plague = yes } } }
		condition = { type = not value = { type = has_province_effect value = { bubonic_plague_immunity = yes } } }
	}

	mean_time_to_happen = {
		years = 2733 #gives significant statistical likelihood of plague showing up within 25 years at base value

		modifier = {
			condition = { type = not value = { type = year value = 1175 } }
			factor = 100
		}
		modifier = {
			condition = { type = year value = 1175 }
			condition = { type = not value = { type = year value = 1250 } }
			factor = 50
		}
		modifier = {
			condition = { type = year value = 1250 }
			condition = { type = not value = { type = year value = 1325 } }
			factor = 25
		}
	}

	action_a = {
		effect = { type = add_province_effect value = bubonic_plague }
	}
}
#################################
# The Pneumonic Plague arrives	#
#################################
province_event = {
	id = 1070

	picture = "event_plague"

	trigger = {
		condition = { type = year value = 1100 }		
		condition = {
			type = or
			condition = { type = area value = 693 } 	#Baghdad
			condition = { type = area value = 628 }		#Bukhara
			condition = { type = area value = 796 }		#Fustat
			condition = { type = area value = 646 }		#Isfahan
		}
		condition = { type = not value = { type = has_province_effect value = { pneumonic_plague = yes } } }
		condition = { type = not value = { type = has_province_effect value = { pneumonic_plague_immunity = yes } } }
	}

	mean_time_to_happen = {
		years = 2733

		modifier = {
			condition = { type = not value = { type = year value = 1175 } }
			factor = 100
		}
		modifier = {
			condition = { type = year value = 1175 }
			condition = { type = not value = { type = year value = 1250 } }
			factor = 50
		}
		modifier = {
			condition = { type = year value = 1250 }
			condition = { type = not value = { type = year value = 1325 } }
			factor = 25
		}
	}

	action_a = {
		effect = { type = add_province_effect value = pneumonic_plague }
	}
}

Johan · Jun 3, 2005

3rd of June 2005

Change Log

Added a province condition called 'is_besieged'.
Added the 'papacy_csc' and 'controller_csc' csc conditions for character conditions.
'papacy' and 'controller' are now valid targets for character event effects.
Added an 'any_enemy' csc condition for characters.
Added an 'is_alive' condition.
Added a 'primary_heir' which is true if first heir to his fathers primary title.
Added a 'other_heir' which is true if a heir but not the first heir to his fathers primary title.
Added a 'primary_heir' csc for characters.
Added a 'primary_heir' target for character effects.
Added a 'other_heir' target for character effects, which picks a random heir which is not the primary heir of current char.
Added a 'badboy' event effect for characters.
Sieges and occupations are no longer reset if a ruler dies in a war.
Fixed a major bug with the 'this' character target which did not work at all before.
Added more debug-code to track down faulty event-effect targets.
Cleaned up several typo'ed effect targets.
Adjusted some of the effects for traits.
Made some revisions to the trait names (as displayed in game...and yes, this includes the oft-requested correct religious terminology for beatified and sanctified)
Fixed some typos/grammar/descriptions in the trait_text.csv file and added a parenthetical summary of each one's effects to the end of the descriptions)
Vassal break-away event for Catholics now checks that liege is also catholic in the trigger. (Non-coreligionist vassal break-away is handled by a different event.)
Fixed an error I made in the calculations to set the base mtth values for plague events (and executed myself for the stupid error in not noticing that the trigger is for area, not province, and was thus 82 times more likely to trigger than I had originally expected)
Tweaked recovery rate from plague to be a little lower
Plague will spread a little more slowly into and out of certain terrains.
Pneumonic plague will now not break out unless Bubonic plague has already run its course.
Tweaked a few of the health and fertility reducing events to be a little less severe
Several illnesses (plague, pneumonia, leprousy) now have a perminent, lasting effect even if your character manages to recover from them.
For load-reduction reasons, rewrote triggers for the character catching the plague event. Only rulers and court officers will now get plague if any demesne province has the plagu-- as long as they aren't commanding an army. All other courtiers and children will only be at risk if the demesne capital has the plague, or if another character at court has the plague.
Characters who are commanding active regiments will now be at significant risk of contracting the plague if they are located in a province that is suffering from this affliction.
Characters who are commanding active regiments and are located in provinces that are experiencing various diseases (typhoid, malaria, etc.) now stand a very good chance of contracting illness from being there.
Characters who are commanding active regiments will no longer spread any diseases they have to anyone else in court, nor will they be able to contract a disease from another courtier.
Rewrote many of the triggers for the Masque of the Red Death series of events to be less CPU intensive (plus the above changes to make sure spread doesn't happen to or from someone who isn't at home)
Characters who have contracted the plague will have a much better chance of recovering if they are located in a province with either bubonic or pneumonic plague immunity (which is the demesne capital if they aren't currently commanding a regiment).
Added a few more spread neighbours in the Holy Land (thanks to Jinnai for the reminder and leg work )
The KoJ formation event will now only trigger for the province of Jerusalem
The KoJ event will now be far less likely to trigger if one of the local duchies - TYRE, SINA, PALE, OULT, ASCA - is in existence (but it still could) and it will not trigger if Jerusalem is directly part of one of those duchy's demesne AND the duchy is independent (but it could happen if the duchy is a vassal).
If you avail yourself of the "free courtier" events you now have a chance of gaining the "trusting" trait, and if you decline them then you may gain the "suspicious" trait. Rulers who are trusting will now be more likely to be visited by the fleeing nobles and rulers who are suspicious are quite a bit less likely.
New ultracomplex event for distant vassals to break free has been added (which is really just Byakhiam shooting for the Guiness World Record for "the longest event ever scripted for CK" award )
Crusader state breakfree event tweaked (liege and vassal must be the same religion for this particular event to fire now)
Byzantine Civil War events should work a little better now.
A set of new even more ultracomplex events added to make it rather difficult to maintain law, order, and loyalty in demesne provinces that are distant from the demesne capital (i.e. are not in the same area or an adjacent area). For further challenge, the player will also be at some risk of two of these events whenever the demesne's ruler is far away at war (an approximation of Prince John's treachery when Richard was off on crusade). The ai isn't suject to this latter case since it could be too hard for it to manage. (Oh...and these make Byak's aforementioned world record event-length attempt all for naught )
All childhood events can now fire until age 16 so a child that begins life in another (AI) court can still get some interesting traits if he or his dad inherit and become the player's principal dynastic line)
Large courts (15+ adults) will have only ruler and ruler's children receiving the "special" childhood trait events. All others will revert to the "generic" set of childhood traits.
Few areas and regions tweaked slightly in the province.csv, and the base income values of a few provinces in Sicily were adjusted. Also fixed two province area assignments where the area name was incorrect (Syrian Desert instead of Syrian_Desert).
The Kingdom of Navarra is now non-recreatable if it falls. Prov 152 now treated as "naturally" part of CAstile and prov 201 now treated as "naturally" part of Aragon. Yes, historically it managed to endure throughout the era but it's a rather big exploit that needed to be at least partially removed.
Tweaked the Mongol Invasion events a bit. Political choas leading to gavelkind is now less likely to happen. Settlement less likely to happen. Reinforcement events are now double-scaled -- playing at higher difficulty levels will spawn reinforcements when number of realm regiments is below X (with "X" varying by difficulty from 6 to 10).
Temporarily de-randomized the Horde troop events so we can get a better handle on them via consistent testing. They will be re-randomised once overall balance level is better known. (Good idea Pode!)
It is now extremely unlikely that plague will continue to spread within a court once the demesne capital has developed an immunity to the plague (mtthx10 for each immunity so if capital has both then event would have mtth of 3600 months sintead of 36 months)
Fixed a frighteningly large number of event errors where culture = moslem or religion = muslim were used in error (should be the reverse)
Found and fixed a potential situation that could be created by an event and might cause save corruption or a possible crash.
Made some tweaks to the terrain restrictions for province improvements. Huge castle restrictions remain (the terrain effect on attrition in those regions at least has some similar impact). Also tweaked a couple ai build priorities.
It should now be impossible to have two educations (all are now treated as the antithesis of each other).
Fixed an error in the law events that changed a vassal's law to the wrong one.
New random courtier dynasties added in Georgia & Rus
Italian random dynasties expanded and made more historical
To make it a little easier to keep track of, the various large realm disruption events have been removed from their previous assorted files and assembled together in a new file called "realm_disruption_events.txt" and a new ID range has been assigned for future events of this type.
A ruler will no longer get the "you're a coward for not leading your troops" event unless at least one regiment in the realm is active.
Fixed some misleading event text.
Chaplain now has positive modifier effect on the "plays chess" event.
Some minor tweaks to low class power events to make action A a little more appealing in the level 2 and level 3 versions of the event.
Slightly tweaked the effects of the "reward for investment" class events.
Scholarly theologians and mastermind theologians will have a significantly better chance of converting an orthodox province to Catholicism and visa versa.
Some other tweaks made to modifiers on the mass scale conversions events.
The mtth for province cultural conversion has been temporarily dropped rather a lot until I have time to thoroughly review this again and figure out why it isn't happening as expected. All cultural modifiers also remmed out for now.
Made a lot of other tweaks to province_version events.
The heresy event series is under review but no changes have been implemented to this patch since they are not yet fully ready and tested.
English metling pot events will now happen somewhat more slowly than before.
Papal controller will now get a little more benefit from the position by hvaing indulgences trickle his way more often than before.
The Pope and Patriarch will now no longer get upset if you have a non-Christian regimental commander but will continue to be pissed off if you grant them one of the main court offices.
The foreign claim-holder event now allows an option to reject the courtier if you wish.
Court religious purges during crusades will no longer kill (or be otherwise nasty) towards a Catholic ruler's children (if they are living at home and not Catholic). Instead, they will immediately convert to Catholicism.
Vassals with extremely low loyalty may now receive an event to allow them to break free from theier liege (but must declare war when doing so, even without a claim) or attempt to reconcile. They are far more likely to do this if they are not at war at the same time that their liege is. This will give players (and the AI) a chance for freedom without pledging to another liege, however they do not receive a claim when they become independent so they will need to either manufacture one or force their liege to peace by demanding cash and/or recognition of their titles.
Demesne provinces that have a different religion than their owners are now far more likely to cause problems and become rebellious...although this now offers a new chance to convert them (bloodily) to the realm religion.
Added a set of very nasty disruption events for rulers holding multiple kingdom titles.
Removed them again...needs a couple bits of coding before it will work properly.
Byznatine Civil war events reworked a bit. It will tend to lead to internal wars instead of the ping-pong independent/vassal behaviour we've had in previous patches.
Young adults with somewhat conflicting traits may epxerience events that allow them to reconcile these by focussing on one or another trait. They may also have the opportunity to remove the lazy trait or lose the energetic trait.
Regency events have been given a major revision/overhaul.
Nubia now has its own random courtier dynasties separate from the Muslim world
1066 scenario: Mathilda of Canossa now Duchess of Toscana and Papal controller
1066 scenario: Savoie dynasty now called de Savoie and is fully Italian
1066 scenario: historical dynasties/rulers in Sardinia, Corsica, Urbino, Ancona, Orvieto, Trent
1066 scenario: Hildebrand (Gregory VII) now bishop of Orbetello and is likely to become the next Pope
1066 scenario: other historical future Popes now have their historical names/dynasties and traits
1066 scenario: all of Bohemia now Bohemian instead of German
1066 scenario: Franche-Comte now Frankish instead of German
1066 scenario: Lorraine now German instead of Frankish
1066 scenario: Milano now elective with Fulco d'Este as first heir
1066 scenario: many northern Italian domains now direct vassals of the HRE
1066 scenario: Sardinia and Corsica now independent
1066 scenario: added claims: Pope on Benevento, bishop of Parma (antipope) on Papal State, Pisa and Genoa on Corsica and Sardinia, Apulia on Napoli and Capua
1066 scenario: Zachlumia, Ragusa, Hum, Rama now catholic
1066 scenario: Ansbach now represents bishopric of Bamberg
1066 scenario: Von Lenzburg dynasty in Bern
1066 scenario: D'Ardennes/de Bar/de Luxembourg dynasties expanded and connected
1066 scenario: County of Holand expanded its territory
1066 scenario: Mecklenburg and Pommerania now Western Slavic
1066 scenario: Estonia now Ugric Baltic
1066 scenario: Amida, Aleppo, Palmyra now Arab Muslim
1066 scenario: Kiev and Novgorod now allied (father and son)
1187 scenario: tweaked stats of Queen Thamar the Great of Georgia
1187 scenario: Queen Thamar now some month prematurely married to David Soslan of the same dynasty, in order to make the country playable
1187 scenario: Abkhazia to Georgia
1187 scenario: connected the various Rurikid branches
1187 scenario: removed duplicate 22688
1187 scenario: made Rurik Rurikovich count of Belgorod
1187 scenario: Kujavia now a vassal of Wielkopolska
1187 scenario: added historical figures in Italy: future popes and consuls
1187 scenario: historical ruler in Senj, Subic dynasty
1187 scenario: added Frangepans in Veglia
1187 scenario: added Komnenos dynasty, rulers of Cyprus
1187 scenario: added Rubenid dynasty in Cilicia
1187 scenario: added Laskaris dynasty
1187 scenario: added Hetumi dynasties in Adana and Lykandos
1187 scenario: added Basileos Batatzes, prince of Thrake
1187 scenario: added Kantakouzenos dynasty, princes of Lydia
1187 scenario: added Alexios Banas, ruler of Adrinopolis
1187 scenario: upgraded the techs of the Rûm sultanate
1187 scenario: added de Preuilly dynasty in Vendome
1187 scenario: gave Philippe of France claims on the areas he conquered right after gamestart
1187 scenario: Richard the Lionhearted now start at low loyalty
1187 scenario: Rastko Nemanjic's stats tweaked
1187 scenario: added Thouars dynasty
1187 scenario: fixed minor issues with dynasties of Forez & Perigord
1187 scenario: expanded dynasty in Limoges
1187 scenario: added Saladin
1187 scenario: added de Clare dynasty, likely to inherit Gloucester
1187 scenario: added/expanded de Redvers dynasty
1187 scenario: expanded Gwynedd dynasty
1187 scenario: added counts of Powys
1187 scenario: added Montfort dynasty in Evreux
1187 scenario: kingdom of Sicily changed to Naples, due to tier problems
1187 scenario: principality of Cilicia upgraged to kingdom, due to tier problems
1187 scenario: changed CROA tag to DCRO

REMINDER

This patch should be applied over a clean 1.04a installation or on top of the previous patch. It will crash on a new installation that hasn't been patched to 1.04a since the official patch contains necessary files that are not included in this public beta patch (to help keep file size down).

If you’ve edited any of your own files or are using any mods, please remove them and revert to a vanilla copy if you want to give feedback (else your feedback will be either worthless or potentially detrimental to the process).

The debug mode remains active in this beta. Please see this thread for details on how to enable the debug log and how to report results.

Thanks!

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