An observation about CKII DLCs

[marceror]

I love CK2, and have been impressed with how much the game has improved over the course of many DLCs, but it seems to me that some DLCs bring features that represent changes, yes, but not really improvements.

Take, for example, educating children. It used to be that there were tons of flavor events that occurred when educating your child. You felt like you were helping to shape their upbringing. But when I play now, the experience of educating a child feels a lot more formulaic. Select this when they get to this age. This other thing when they get to that age. And make a couple of standard decisions along the way. It's not a horrible new system, but it certainly doesn't feel like an improvement over the previous.

We also have a new way to manage laws of our kingdom. It's good, but I'm not sure it's superior to what we had before. Maybe certain aspects are more interesting, but others are less.

I don't know, perhaps it's just me. But a lot of the changes just feel like lateral changes more so than improvements. Of course, the majority of changes surely are improvements, but not all of them seem to rise to that level. Do others feel similarly? Or am I out on a limb here?

 

[Rags17]

I definitely miss the old education system. Unfortunately some idiot weasels complained that once they started painting the map with their leet skillz it became too much effort to keep track of kids education so as a result we all lost out.

They should bring back a revised version of the old system (less eugenics and more flavour events and trade offs) and simply allow a new honorary title holder (the Court Philosopher or Court Teacher) to carry out all teaching decisions if you so choose.

 

[Ferrumius]

Have you ever played as a child? It turns out being educated is much more fun than educating and has a lot of flavor events.

 

[marceror]

Have you ever played as a child? It turns out being educated is much more fun than educating and has a lot of flavor events.

In 1k hours played in CK2, sure, of course. Since coming back to it a couple of weeks ago with the new system, no. It's far more common to that you'll be playing an adult character rather than a child, so if the more interesting experience now exists while you're playing as a child, that would seem like a rather strange decision on the part of the devs.

I did have a daughter recently who was the spawn of Satan. I bet playing as that character as a child would have been interesting, killing off brothers and sisters for the sheer enjoyment of it. I had to start landing sons I cared about ASAP, to get them the hell out of my court!! She even had her own Satanic caretaker, who just showed up at my court for no apparent reason.