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I've got a question. In CK2, it is impossible to ransom your relatives out of somebody else's jail if they aren't your courtiers. This includes a situation when e.g. your POV character's spouse is a landed noble in some other realm. Or, say, your queen is the vassal of a duke who's your king's vassal, and she rebels and goes to jail, and you can't get your own wife out of your own vassal's jail. This is something that's been talked about since release (like threads being made about it all the time). Is there a specific technical/balance reason for things being this way? I can't imagine this having been overlooked by accident for like two years (much less obvious and less important things have been fished out and fixed in shorter timeframes), but at the same time I can't come up with a coherent reason why this should be WAD, either. I mean, I can vaguely imagine that it could possibly upset the game balance, potentially, a little, but there are worse exploits.
 

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I've got a question. In CK2, it is impossible to ransom your relatives out of somebody else's jail if they aren't your courtiers. This includes a situation when e.g. your POV character's spouse is a landed noble in some other realm. Or, say, your queen is the vassal of a duke who's your king's vassal, and she rebels and goes to jail, and you can't get your own wife out of your own vassal's jail. This is something that's been talked about since release (like threads being made about it all the time). Is there a specific technical/balance reason for things being this way? I can't imagine this having been overlooked by accident for like two years (much less obvious and less important things have been fished out and fixed in shorter timeframes), but at the same time I can't come up with a coherent reason why this should be WAD, either. I mean, I can vaguely imagine that it could possibly upset the game balance, potentially, a little, but there are worse exploits.

Specific questions about specific games that have their own forums should be asked in those forums, This thread is for more general questions.

:rolleyes:
 

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Why do PDS games cost 37% more in Europe than in the USA (e.g. €15 for an expansion rather than just $15)?
 

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Why do PDS games cost 37% more in Europe than in the USA (e.g. €15 for an expansion rather than just $15)?

Because in Europe, most nations have chosen to follow the more civilized practice of collecting taxes in order to provide basic needs like healthcare and education to everyone, unlike in the USA ;)
 

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Because in Europe, most nations have chosen to follow the more civilized practice of collecting taxes in order to provide basic needs like healthcare and education to everyone, unlike in the USA ;)

lol! :D

As long as the extra money goes to the good healthcare and free education I get, I suppose I am fine with paying a bit extra :)
 

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Because in Europe, most nations have chosen to follow the more civilized practice of collecting taxes in order to provide basic needs like healthcare and education to everyone, unlike in the USA ;)

Or because we think if we earn money its our own & we should be able to spend it how we see fit, & not have to turn over 90% of it to the government to spend it how THEY see fit..... ;)
 

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Or because we think if we earn money its our own & we should be able to spend it how we see fit, & not have to turn over 90% of it to the government to spend it how THEY see fit..... ;)

90% tax rates, sure...
 

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Let's not go any further down this track here please - that's for the OT forums. Back onto questions for PDS only, thank you.
 

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How many years ahead do you schedule titles for? Have you decided yet what the next big game after podcat's project's release is going to be? And the one after that? And after? Do you have your schedule filled till 2020, or more like mid-2015?
 

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How many years ahead do you schedule titles for? Have you decided yet what the next big game after podcat's project's release is going to be? And the one after that? And after? Do you have your schedule filled till 2020, or more like mid-2015?

They said in the reddit AMA that all major titles will get a release before 2020... :unsure:
 

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Should just make Rome 2 with POPs already. :'-(