CK2 Dev Diary #32: Intriguing quality of life changes

[Enriador]

Really great changes! Now, the next big QoL update we need is the character's screen, with all these titles cluttlering...

 

[clockworkBabbag]

For execution and releasing, it doesn't matter, since those interactions don't care who the character's liege is.
For ransom, it'll ransom the first eligible character on the list for each liege.

How is the "first" eligible character decided? What's the priority?

And a bit more general than just ransom: will the popup warn you about warscore changes as well?

 

[Meneth]

How is the "first" eligible character decided? What's the priority?

And a bit more general than just ransom: will the popup warn you about warscore changes as well?

Same order as the prisoner list.

The pop-up does not currently take warscore into account in any way, no.

 

[Asiak]

For execution and releasing, it doesn't matter, since those interactions don't care who the character's liege is.
For ransom, it'll ransom the first eligible character on the list for each liege.

Just the first eligible character and then the user must hit again, or will it keep a queue and do the rest?

Though to be honest I could hardly complain if I had to hit the mass button multiple times. It is still an improvement.

For execution and releasing, it doesn't matter, since those interactions don't care who the character's liege is.
For ransom, it'll ransom the first eligible character on the list for each liege.

Ahhhh.

That it nice, that does solve the issue of sometimes it does get annoying with certain alerts.

 

[Meneth]

Just the first eligible character and then the user must hit again, or will it keep a queue and do the rest?

Though to be honest I could hardly complain if I had to hit the mass button multiple times. It is still an improvement.

It doesn't attempt to queue them up in any way, no, so you'll need to click multiple times if you've got multiple characters with the same liege.

 

[Jorlem]

Further, at #4, we have a new tab: My Plots. This mostly just moves the plot functionality out of the way to give more space to the decisions list, but it does have one new addition: you can now clearly see who the target of each backed plot is, shown at #5.

Very nice. Any chance the shifting of plots to that subtab, and the plural in the name might be an indication that we finally might be able to start more than one plot at a time? (Potentially limited by the intrigue stat, making that stat relevant to your own ability to plot instead of diplomacy being the primary stat used for plotting.)

Also, is there any chance that the button to mark a character as special interest might get re-added to the character page/window, instead of just being hidden away in the diplo menu? It would be nice to have easy, at a glance access to that button again. (Also, any chance you might know why it was hidden away in the first place?)

 

[luanmameili[LM]]

At #1, 2, and 3 you can see the new prisoner mass actions. These allow you to release, ransom, or execute all prisoners currently shown on the screen

Then, could I castrate (or blind) more than one prisoners at the same time?

 

[Meneth]

Very nice. Any chance the shifting of plots to that subtab, and the plural in the name might be an indication that we finally might be able to start more than one plot at a time? (Potentially limited by the intrigue stat, making that stat relevant to your own ability to plot instead of diplomacy being the primary stat used for plotting.)

As mentioned in relies to the previous dev diary about this screen, it does not imply that, no. The plural refers to the combination of the plot you lead and the plots you're backing.

Also, is there any chance that the button to mark a character as special interest might get re-added to the character page/window, instead of just being hidden away in the diplo menu? It would be nice to have easy, at a glance access to that button again. (Also, any chance you might know why it was hidden away in the first place?)

No clue.

 

[Meneth]

Then, could I castrate or blind them at the same time?

The mass actions are currently limited to the three I mentioned. No mass castration or blinding, I'm afraid.

 

[luanmameili[LM]]

The mass actions are currently limited to the three I mentioned. No mass castration or blinding, I'm afraid.

Well, thank you anyway.

 

[_Perun_]

Hey Meneth
Much love for this DD, you are a great man.

The only thing I would dare to suggest is to sort the prisoners according to their social status, so the first eligible character will always be the one that costs the most in case of ransom.
If you have a Caliph's daughter and a simple courtier and if the courtier happens to be over the daughter and the Caliph has only 119 ducats, ransoming the courtier first will disable the ransoming of the daughter.

Anyway, glad to have you back in Pdx. Cheers and keep doing the fantastic job

 

[Harassercat]

Great changes. I'm really wishing for more improvements to plot handling however: ability to sort and filter plots, and particularly to dismiss unimportant ones. Currently the plot list is like an e-mail inbox full of spam with 2-3 important messages hidden somewhere God knows where...

 

[Chaoslord48]

this is so nice. makes my life much easier

 

[Meneth]

The only thing I would dare to suggest is to sort the prisoners according to their social status, so the first eligible character will always be the one that costs the most in case of ransom.
If you have a Caliph's daughter and a simple courtier and if the courtier happens to be over the daughter and the Caliph has only 119 ducats, ransoming the courtier first will disable the ransoming of the daughter.

You can already sort the list by "title", which is relatively close to how the ransom calculation works. Not identical though, but reasonably close.

 

[Bromatheos]

I am very excited about all of this.

 

[Xinkc]

I find nothing even potentially objectionable in this DD. In fact, I think my eyes are leaking from sheer happiness.

 

[Soeverein]

I see some interesting icon after religion tab. Gut, gut.

I bet it'll allow you to link your game to your MySpace profile. Logo looks similar enough.

And MySpace integration is what we've always wanted!

 

[Dirt McStain]

No mass castration or blinding, I'm afraid.

Knowing the CK2 community, I'm sure this will be a day 1 mod.

 

[Meneth]

Knowing the CK2 community, I'm sure this will be a day 1 mod.

I'm relatively sure mods already do that.
The mass execute/ransom/release actions can't really be modded to do something else though; they're tied in the code to those specific actions.
You could move them around, change the icons, etc., but the actual functionality isn't moddable beyond what modding you can already to to those individual actions.

 

[lordkestrel]

On the Backed Plots page, would it be possible to see the strength of your backed plots? If the strength is at 20%, I might not want to join. But if it is at 90%, then I'll probably jump in to bump it over the threshold.