CK2Plus - Balance improvements, more kingdoms and empires, more ambitions and plots

[sTaz2o]

I'm currently playing a campaign as England and I noticed that the various heresies are much more prevalent throughout Europe. Most of Ireland, France, and the HRE are Cathar and I can declare holy war on their rulers. Is this intended, or just a fluke game? I'm playing with the latest version on a fresh game and I have the Ad Limina Apol. CK2+ version.

 

[Shaytana]

Wiz, not sure if you noticed I updated BLC to 3b then 3c, added new Byzantine clothes and brought in the ethnicity/dna uncoupling so someone with Swedish dna can wear Arabic clothes etc.

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To those wanting to give feedback/complain about portrait graphics: if you think something is off etc, please post your issue/feedback in my mod's thread. I spend an immense amount of time moding and researching (hey and I thought my history degree was useless hahahaha) and I honestly can't acquire eagle vision and check this thread all the time. I would appreciate if knowledge took precedence over personal preference when making a suggestion, although I'm willing to listen to all feedback. BLC is getting better all the time, and as long as I get feedback that is actually constructive I can improve it. I am at the moment hard at work on new dna skin sets for the muslim cultures that I switched to white skin tones... but that work is time consuming especially trying to get it _just_ right, so please feel free to post constructive feedback!

 

[Ramong]

I'm currently playing a campaign as England and I noticed that the various heresies are much more prevalent throughout Europe. Most of Ireland, France, and the HRE are Cathar and I can declare holy war on their rulers. Is this intended, or just a fluke game? I'm playing with the latest version on a fresh game and I have the Ad Limina Apol. CK2+ version.

Do you have an antipope ?

The games I have played where I got one half of Europe was heresies

 

[sTaz2o]

Do you have an antipope ?

The games I have played where I got one half of Europe was heresies

Nope, I don't have an anti-pope, that's why I'm surprised at the situation.

 

[Rodwen]

Version 1.07 :

- You can no longer fight De Jure wars against characters of a different religion group, to prevent them being used to get around the Holy War defensive chains.

This is a TERRIBLE change. i mean absolutely terrible. Right now fighting a holy war means you are going 1v10. It's fucking ridiculous and Spain completely fails to Christianize in every single game. Making it so that there is no way around the broken ass holy wars just means that the AI (and player) will have to slam their heads against a wall of 10 allied enemies over and over again, loosing dramatically every time, in hopes that they'll pull off a win one time.

That's neither fun, nor realistic. There is literally no good justification for this change.

Also, that change would make heretics remarkably resistant to invasion because the only way to take their territory is through a Holy War CB, and doing so will bring in all other heretics, despite the attacker having a completely legitimate claim on the territory.

What you need to do is fix the broken ass Holy War, not eliminate the work-around people are using to avoid it.

Hey Wiz, I begin a new game with the 1.07 version of your fantastic mod .... but it's has become impossible to gain territories against the Muslims in Spain. Could you find a solution ?

 

[Arthasus]

- A ruler defending against a Crusade or Jihad can now call on a very large portion of their levies (players cannot do so if they are also fighting an offensive war).

I think this thing isn't working too well. I mean this keeps Iberian nations from getting facerolled by muslims in the first 30 years but IMO 30k army of shia caliphate durning crusade - when I, as the most powerful christian country, can gather only about 7,5k - is slightly too much. No crusade has any chance to succeed against that big force.

 

[quasery]

Version 1.07 :

- You can no longer fight De Jure wars against characters of a different religion group, to prevent them being used to get around the Holy War defensive chains.




Hey Wiz, I begin a new game with the 1.07 version of your fantastic mod .... but it's has become impossible to gain territories against the Muslims in Spain. Could you find a solution ?

just go to C:\....\crusader kings ii\mod\CK2Plus\common. Search for the file: cb_types

Look for the following:

dejure_county_claim = {
	name = CB_NAME_DEJURECLAIM
	war_name = WAR_NAME_DEJURECLAIM
	sprite = 16
	truce_days = 1825
	hostile_against_others = yes
	is_permanent = yes
	check_all_titles = yes # if permanent, setting this to true will check against all of someones titles, including vassal held titles
	press_claim = yes
	can_ask_to_join_war = no

	can_use_title = {
		ROOT = { NOT = { has_character_modifier = holy_truce_timer } }
		FROM = { NOT = { has_character_modifier = holy_truce_timer } }
		ROOT = { NOT = { has_minor_title = title_castellian } }
		tier = count
		OR = {
			FROM = {
				has_landed_title = PREV
			}
			holder_scope = {
				is_liege_or_above = FROM
			}
		}
		
		FROM = {
			religion_group = ROOT
		}

Delete this part:

FROM = {
			religion_group = ROOT
		}

This enables the claims against other religions.

 

[Ravenous.BE]

I'm still using 1.06 (latest) but I accidentally installed 1.05e.
I was playing just fine until a certain date. It was maybe a month or 2 after the Mongol announcement.
This may be a long shot, but if anyone can point me in a direction to help out... I was having the time of my life with my current game until a CTD.

 

[Ravenous.BE]

I think the error is [texturehandler.cpp:169]: Couldn't find texture file: .

 

[Wizzington]

Ah, never mind. Just needed to delete the trigger = { } block in event 190064. Looks like the conditions don't hold because the war is already over.

Oh! I'll fix that.

 

[Wizzington]

Version 1.07 :

- You can no longer fight De Jure wars against characters of a different religion group, to prevent them being used to get around the Holy War defensive chains.




Hey Wiz, I begin a new game with the 1.07 version of your fantastic mod .... but it's has become impossible to gain territories against the Muslims in Spain. Could you find a solution ?

I intend to rework the way joining religious wars works in the next major update.

 

[Wizzington]

OK well, at this rate you guys are gonna think I'm not trustworthy, but it seems like 1.07 has enough issues that it needs a fix edition... so big update is going to have to wait yet another version. 1.08 should be compatible with 1.07 but as always no guarantees.

I'm going to just use the dedicated hosting for now (because mediafire is INCREDIBLY slow for me), but if anyone has issues with it I'll put up a mediafire mirror.

1.08:
- Players can now do De Jure wars against other religion groups, until I rework the way joining Holy Wars works.
- Tumbling your courtiers is no longer a male-only or straight-only activity.
- Crusader states should now always become Feudal, even if the most participating attacker in the Crusade is not.
- Halved the effects of legalism on demesne size.
- Vassals will no longer join a claim on liege war that is not targeting one of the liege's primary-level titles. This should prevent situations where you are fighting your liege for a claim on a vassal and that vassal joins the war on your side.
- Tweaked West Africa to be slightly more historical and considerably more balanced.
- Increased frequency of bad events (buildings destroyed, characters killed, armies rising up) from revolts.
- Restored economic buildings to former levels, with the exception of ports as they made coastal cities rather overpowered at their previous income levels.
- If you press a claim of lower rank than their primary title on behalf of a vassal, they will now stay in your realm (so you can press Count claims on behalf of Dukes, etc).
- Fixed some issues with weird straits caused by province realigning.

Download CK2Plus 1.08

 

[Wizzington]

I think this thing isn't working too well. I mean this keeps Iberian nations from getting facerolled by muslims in the first 30 years but IMO 30k army of shia caliphate durning crusade - wh
en I, as the most powerful christian country, can gather only about 7,5k - is slightly too much. No crusade has any chance to succeed against that big force.

It's only against Crusades, not against Holy Wars, but it is an experimental change and I may need to tone it down.

 

[Synjin]

Any chance we can get some more +piety events? I am having an extremely hard time gaining piety as Orthodox because there are no crusades to join, and all holy wars COST me piety and give NONE for winning. I've noticed a lot of the small piety gains that were in vanilla were taken out -- no piety for granting a bishopric, and now very few +piety events for siding with the church decisions, etc, etc. As it stands they only way that I could ever become a "paragon of virtue" would be if I spent 3-4 generations hoarding piety and passing it down to my heir when I die.

Anyone else having a problem with this?

 

[Wizzington]

Any chance we can get some more +piety events? I am having an extremely hard time gaining piety as Orthodox because there are no crusades to join, and all holy wars COST me piety and give NONE for winning. I've noticed a lot of the small piety gains that were in vanilla were taken out -- no piety for granting a bishopric, and now very few +piety events for siding with the church decisions, etc, etc. As it stands they only way that I could ever become a "paragon of virtue" would be if I spent 3-4 generations hoarding piety and passing it down to my heir when I die.

Anyone else having a problem with this?

Have you tried asking sanction for holy wars? If you win a sanctioned holy war you get piety.

I'll try to add more ways to get piety though.

 

[Synjin]

I wasn't asking for sanction. I will try that, thanks!

 

[The_Blind_One]

So I became emperor...

and lo and behold, everyone loves me! atleast 40+!

Yet no vassal is even willing to send soldiers to my cause...

At most I can get like 2000 men out of the entire HRE!

...

Apperantly I need max crown authority to allow the guys that love me 100% to send me 40% of their troops that they control...

If I want to bolster that I need ''max'' fuedal levies to get another 20% minimum.

That still leaves me 40% short of troops that I will never get control over. EVER!

Currently I only get around 6-7% of my direct vassals because I have minimum crown authority (10% max vassal levy).

Okay I get the idea that ur not supposed to get that many troops because I am a emperor more in name than actuality...but still, those vassals that like me should still support me. Right now it doesn't really matter how poor of character my guy is, he won't get anyone to help him out anyway, his own lands have to support all his visions.

The crown authority law only allows vassals to send out troops if they like your character enough. This is currently at -100% default. So no matter how much they like you, without crown authority they won't even want to send anything out. Crown authority raises this to 40% at max level, but thats it, you're still missing the other 60% that you'll never see. I can understand what the system is going for, but right now it technicaly deprives me of 40% potential troops. It should allow these 40% extra troops to be commited if the feudal contracts are higher. So at first feudal_1 you get 10% min & max levy, feudal_2, 20%. etc etc.

This way you can get ur 40% troops but only if the vassal actualy likes you.

 

[CodenameMolotov]

I have a game going where I started as Abyssinia and I just now made Ethiopia. Unfortunately, the game always crashes towards the end of the year 1128. I've tried going back a few years and doing different things, but it happens every time. I started the game with version 1.07 and just now tried updating to .08 to try and fix it, but there's no change. If anyone has any ideas about what to do, I'd appreciate it.

 

[aybarsalp]

i don't know if this is the right place, but the "request invasion" button is no more available as you may already know. yesterday i read that this was a bug that was going to be fixed, any chance we might see it fixed in this mod before the vanilla?

aaand i was about to write that women claims can't be pressed, but i realized that that might be because of the succession law (agnatic only) that the respected country might have. so i'm just answering my question and finishing the post up here

 

[Federalist girl]

Have you tried asking sanction for holy wars? If you win a sanctioned holy war you get piety.

I'll try to add more ways to get piety though.

How do you ask for sanction? I don't see such an option anywhere. I would have thought the logical place would have been in the diplomacy screen for the Ecumenical Patriarch, but...