Thank you for this amazing mod, I could not imagine playing without it. Here are some bugs and issues I found during my last campaign with the latest version of the mod.
[ HIP Release: 2020-07-10 (Frosty3) ]
EMF: Extended Mechanics & Flavor (v11.2 - 2020-07-09)
Arumba and Internal Tab Shortcuts (2020-05-12)
ARKO Interface (2020-06-28)
SWMH (v3.42 - 2020-07-08)
ARKO Armoiries (2020-06-28)
LTM (C - 2019-12-02)
CPRplus (v3.1.4 - 2020-01-06)
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Bug1. An army arriving to join an ongoing battle where one of the friendly flanks has already started fleeing results in the newly reinforced flank getting stuck in the "pursue" tactic endlessly, while the opposing flank properly switches to appropriate tactics. This can mean a 10k vs 10k fight on a flank where your full morale guys are doing "pursue tactic" in melee vs an opposing "charge".
Bug2. "English" culture is excluded from building Housecarl Training Grounds in castles according to the tooltip. However,
Englisc culture, which it is in HIP, is not. The Englisc build them, so either the tooltip or the implementation is wrong.
Bug3. Zealot council member voting patterns are seriously messed up. A zealot voted against joining a Great Holy War declared by our Fylkir that
the zealot himself had just joined, because "there are more important wars right now". And a zealot voted against revoking from an excommunicated known demon worshipper branded apostate traitor because "The target is pious".
Bug4. The Warrior Lodge interaction where you are invited by another ruler to join his defensive war on the promise of renown does not actually give any renown. (Tried twice, had 99% war participation once and 85% another, never got any renown)
Bug5. Elective Gavelkind feudalized my brother. I was tribal, had three sons, personally held the kingdom titles of Norway and Sweden (with the capital duchies and some counties in both), and had the entire territory of Mierce as vassal dukes and counts. I built tribal holdings in all counties and made those the county capitals, so the whole of Mierce was a collection of tribal vassals at the duke and count level. I expected the Kingdom of Mierce title to be created for one of my sons as per Elective Gavelkind rules, but upon succession he became a
feudal king for some reason. I suspect it has to do with the fact that I did not personally hold even one county in Mierce, so my non-primary-heir son had to usurp a county there upon succession. But at that moment not only was I tribal but all Mierce counties were as well, so him becoming feudal makes little sense. The county he usurped had a tribal county capital before the moment of succession and a castle county capital right after.
Bug6. Gavelkind gave my unlanded vassal-pope to my brother. As the Empire of Nordurriki, I reformed Asatru with Hierocratic and Meritocracy, had 3 sons, switched succession to gavelkind (not elective), designated the middle son as the primary heir, moved my capital from Hordaland (Norway) to Norrae Syaland (Denmark), then got assassinated. At that moment, I was still tribal, personally held the empire title, the kingdom titles of Norway and Denmark, 2 duchies in Norway and 1 in Denmark, and had Sweden as a vassal-king. I noticed that the Fylkja ("pope") was generated with a strong claim on the temple in Norway's capital county, but at the time of succession the Fylkja was unlanded with just a titular title. My primary heir got the empire title plus Denmark (as expected), but the Fylkja became a vassal of my youngest (!?) son, who inherited the kingdom of Norway, while my oldest son got the other duchy in Norway. I would have expected her to stay as a vassal of the topmost (empire) title that goes to my primary heir, like all other vassals outside of de jure Norway.
Bug7. The Fylkir keeps declaring mini holy wars and single-county conquests on literally the other side of the world. Not talking about Great Holy Wars, but standard religious wars any duke can start. All he has is his titular duchy the Fylkirate, and a single temple barony on the holy site in my capital. No other dukes or kings do this. My guess is that because his duchy is titular he somehow does not consider distance?
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Bal1. The "Spymaster Studying Technology" effect seems way too powerful. By sending the Spymaster to Konstantinoupolis, any tribal can get to be the second or third most technologically advanced country in a few decades. The 50 tech point event is fine; the passive tech point accumulation in each subcategory with a difference in tech level is what is too strong. If it was half as good as it is now, studying tech would still be a great choice most of the time.
Bal2. Cadet-branch formation is WAY overtuned. Basically any kin with any land forms a cadet branch in about a decade. Here is an example of my own nephew forming a cadet branch. His mother is my half-sister, his father is a dynastic kin. Maybe family for whom we have normal words like "cousin", "nephew", etc, should not yet be forming cadet branches.
Bal3. A strong duke who was in the process of successfully rebelling against his king (my vassal) agreed to my "make peace with" request just because I asked nicely. This results in a white peace, which results in the rebel leader getting imprisoned. So he died in a dungeon, instead of becoming king, just because I asked. If somebody is in a war where if they white peace they get imprisoned, they should probably never agree to a "make peace with" request.
Bal4. When deciding whether to declare war, the AI apparently does not consider the strength of a suzerain when targeting a tributary. A 2k strength duke declared war on a weakened kingdom whose suzerain had a 10k army, which of course joined defensively and crushed the duke. Strong neighbouring coreligionists of the potential enemy should also act as a deterrent to religious wars. Even counts with 1k armies declared religious wars on a momentarily weakened kingdom bordering multiple strong same-religion kingdoms, who then joined each other's defensive wars and crushed the attackers. This happened a lot. "Lost holy wars: -81%" moral authority is a joke when these were all offensive wars started by weak vassals. I specifically made sure our religious Nature is
not Warmongering (reformed with Proselytizing).
Bal5. Even a complete failure in a Fabricate Treason plot has negligible consequences, which makes it incredibly powerful. To compare, Plot to Revoke has some serious restrictions and cooldowns which make sense, but Fabricating Treason can net you a reason to revoke any title from any direct vassal 3-5 times per year. The "cost" of the plot is merely a chance for making the target (and only the target!) dislike you (he probably already dislikes you, which is why you chose him as your target in the first place), and a small chance of a small loss of prestige. These risks are negligible, while the benefits of revoking any landed title of your choice are huge. There ought to be a meaningful consequence for failure.
Bal6. The opinion bonus for joining defensive wars is way undertuned. Joining a defensive war against a huge threat, and single-handedly ensuring the defender gets to keep his kingdom should probably give a bit more than +15 opinion for a couple of years. Considering you can get a long-term +60 from granting just a single county - helping against major invasions and holy wars when he is weak and the enemy is strong (and delivering a win for him) should matter much more.
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UI1. Vassals should not declare war on other vassals while realm peace is enforced (currently they do, and then the wars immediately end "inconclusively", repeat ad nauseam).
UI2. Getting spammed with the "Negotiate with" adventurer Special Action makes little sense when the adventurer literally has 78 dudes vs my empire. They could not even start to siege the weakest garrison in my realm, so a blackmail attempt is a joke. Suggestion: An adventurer should be unable to target the realm of a ruler who could raise an army more than 20x larger than what the adventurer has.
UI3. The Special Interest toggle is terrible for keeping track of what is going on in nearby elective empires. Setting a neighbouring emperor as Special Interest makes a lot of sense, but the Special Interest status only switches to his
dynastic heir upon death. In elective empires it is quite common that next emperor is not the dynastic heir of the previous one, so you now need to track down some random duke somewhere who inherited the Special Interest flag from the previous emperor, while the new emperor is obviously of no special interest.
UI4. It would be nice to have some sort of alert for when focus change is possible, when the holy war cooldown expires, when the recent carousing modifier expires, and when the Court Tutor position is open.