1.30.4 Public Beta

[Johan]

• AI evaluation for Holy Order placement no longer gets locked in mana spending decision making
• Fixed the too many tags mod ctd
• AI - Economy: Fixed bug causing AI to evaluate prio to pay back loans to zero if they had too many loans
• AI - Economy: AI now better on calculating ROI when comparing loans and buildings
• Fixed so you now get gold when razing as a horde
• Fixed issue where you can add more estates than you are supposed to
• AI will now build less coastal defence buildings
• Can no longer bail out of excommunication war by paying indulgence
• Limited events to not trigger if it would result in more than 4 privileges

Available as "1.30.4_public_beta" on steam

 

[Lucododosor]

oh god FINALLY

 

[Willem IV]

What is mana, and how do you spent it?

Thanks for the public beta, will test it tonight for sure

 

[ColdFrozenYeti]

will this save the debt spiraling?

 

[ColdFrozenYeti]

What is mana, and how do you spent it?

Thanks for the public beta, will test it tonight for sure

the monarch points

 

[OoshR32]

What is mana, and how do you spent it?

Thanks for the public beta, will test it tonight for sure

Monarch points.

 

[AFKaiser]

Thanks for the update!
Does this also solve the horde ducat razing bug?

 

[motiv-8]

Nice! Will this affect existing saves or is a new game required?

 

[grommile]

Nice! Will this affect existing saves or is a new game required?

Most of the AI's "thoughts" are not recorded in the save, so this should work fine with an existing save.

 

[AlphaMikeOmega]

"literally playable"

But seriously, thanks!

 

[Willem IV]

@Johan or @Groogy do we ever get an statement on the performance issues on macOS.
I takes 10:49 to complete an observer run to 1450 in macOS, while Windows 10 does it in 4:51 on the same hardware.

 

[Canute VII]

So this AI debt thingy didn't actually have to do anything with hiring and disbanding mercenary companies?

This thread (not mine) by the way has some good suggestions on mercs that would probably also help the AI:

On mercenary costs, size and army professionalism

Emperor brought the much awaited mercenary rework and I think it was in general a great success in terms of both gameplay and flavour, as well as diversifying warfare. However there are two problems that I think is holding back the system and...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

 

[Groogy]

So this AI debt thingy didn't actually have to do anything with hiring and disbanding mercenary companies?

Well it's an expense, but at the root no. You could give an AI 1 000 000 ducats and it would refuse to pay back the loans anyway if they were large enough.

 

[neheri]

Many thanks.

 

[Logist]

This looks really great!

Just out of curiosity, is the plan to add more to this beta patch or are we waiting til the next major patch for further bug fixes?

 

[Vohen]

Well it's an expense, but at the root no. You could give an AI 1 000 000 ducats and it would refuse to pay back the loans anyway if they were large enough.

I came across this video recently reporting some issues there, thought it might be useful.

The tl;dw is basically this:

 

[Meglok]

Thanks for the update!
Does this also solve the horde ducat razing bug?

@Groogy This. Not getting gold when razing in 1.30.3 is a killer.

 

[Owocm]

Razing is still bugged.
Feelsbadman

 

[Cyber-Freak]

Good, now you just have to fix the send indulgence to the pope, while in excommunicated war.

 

[Drmcdevitt]

@Johan or @Groogy do we ever get an statement on the performance issues on macOS.
I takes 10:49 to complete an observer run to 1450 in macOS, while Windows 10 does it in 4:51 on the same hardware.

A response on it would be interesting. The Mac version does seem about half as fast as the windows version. I’ve given up and run it in parallels 16. Some results below. I ran in observer mode speed 5 until 1450. The results surprised me a bit (it’s not half the speed).

Mac OS 4:10 (1440p)
Parallels 16 Virtual Machine Windows 10 3:51
Bootcamp Windows 10 3:39

So the windows versions even the VM are running in full 5k resolution. So the Mac version is actually a bit slower if I run it in 5K and looks a lot crappier (not devs fault). All this was run on a 2020 IMac27 inch 5k with i7 and 5500xt gpu. The bootcamp version seems to not have been updated for this Mac so the windows version may be a bit faster with driver updates.