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

[Wizzington]

Will saved games be backwards-compatible? It was so much fun watching France constantly implode after Phillip Capet died childless (Also resulting in England owning all of Northern France, including Flanders).

Don't know yet. Probably not.

 

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I'm hearing that 1.05 launched with a lot of fairly critical bugs. I'm testing now and I might put off porting ck2+ until a fix comes out depending on their severity.

 

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Yup, education is too broken. I'll wait for a hotfix.

 

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Yeah, I'm holding off until I know the major bugs are sorted for real. It seems they should really have pushed back this patch a week or so for testing.

 

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Yeah, I'm not releasing 1.02 for 1.04, sorry if I wasn't clear on that. I will be porting to 1.05 instead as soon as I'm convinced it's not broken.

 

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Here's the 1.05 port. This is very much a beta version, as 1.05 radically alters gameplay balance in a lot of ways. Expect (and report!) bugs and balance issues. Absolutely not save game compatible.

1.02:
- Now compatible with 1.05c. Certain things (like the Kingdom/Empire de jure CBs) were not ported because I feel they break gameplay balance.
- Reduced supply limits experimentally, to see how the improved military AI works out.
- Tribal Invasion CB now targets Kingdoms instead of Duchies.
- Upped De Jure assimilation rate to 200 years.
- Titular Kingdoms (such as the Wends) are now created through 1.05's create titular title mechanic instead of via decision.
- Reduced revolt risk from distance.
- Removed the civil war modifier for now, to see how the new +revolt risk from independence revolts works out. Regency modifier is still in place.
- Removed the war of independence winning all wars of independence mechanic, since new ticking warscore makes it redundant.
- Tweaked the way traits affect piety. All virtues will now give at least a small amount of monthly piety, while all sins will give at least a small malus. The effects of traits such as humble, chaste and lustful that already affected piety were tweaked down to compensate.
- A player that is holding a 'landless' title (such as a mercenary company or a holy order) will now receive a one-time warning that doing so can cause severe bugs with the game.
- Fixed a bug where Kingdom-level titles would sometimes not be grantable to your vassals.
- Rulers whose religion has a religious head can now request sanction for a Holy War or Religious Invasion at a small prestige cost. If granted, it will allow them to wage a Sanctioned Holy War/Religious Invasion that has no piety cost and will give you some piety if you win it. The chance of sanction being granted depends on your piety and head of religion's opinion of you. Requesting sanction can only be done once every five years.
- The AI will now be less keen on doling out its entire demesne to its sons.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the 'ruler goes native' event from firing.
- Fixed a bug that was causing you to get tyranny when a prisoner died in house arrest.
- Muslims can now get the Crusader trait for participating in Jihads. I will likely make a separate Jihadist trait at some point in the future.
- Temple holdings now give the province they're built in a 10% research boost, even if they don't have any research buildings built.
- Reduced the size of the Norman, English and Norwegian armies in the Stamford Bridge scenario. While the armies are now smaller than they were historically, they are no longer confusingly out of sync with the actual army sizes in the rest of the mod.
- CK2Plus now features full French localisation.
- When taking or extending a loan you will now get a character modifier showing you when the loan is due.
- Restored the family trees that were broken to prevent certain claims from existing. Instead, those claims will be removed by a startup event that fires shortly after game start.
- You must no longer have the prestige on hand to fabricate claims, but you cannot fabricate claims if your prestige is below 0.
- The final level of Heavy Armor is now actually an upgrade.
- Titles created by decision will now inherit the succession law of your primary title (no more forming Empires with Gavelkind).
- You can no longer grant independence to De Jure vassals, to prevent certain exploits with De Jure CBs.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the AI from abandoning certain failed plots and objectives.
- Renamed 'Get a Lover' to 'Fall in Love' to make it more appropriate for when the ambition is completed by falling in love with your spouse.
- Fixed a bug where 'Get a Lover' would abort if the character is chaste.
- Replaced the Pagan bonus buildings with culture buildings, so that foreign conquerors do not get the benefit of them.

Download CK2Plus 1.02 (2shared)
Download CK2Plus 1.02 (MediaFire)

 

[Wizzington]

Vassalizing is not an issue, just holding it personally.

 

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Oh, I forgot to disable the death causes mod so for now you'll have to live with double death causes.

 

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I just started a game as Leon and after declaring war for Galicia and beating my brother, he became the Duke of Galicia and my vassal, with an opinion of -100. I tried improving his opinion of me so I gave him an honorary title and then I sent him a gift which increased his opinion of me by 840. That's right, 840! His opinion of me went from -100 to +100. That's isn't intended right? It seems like a bug that might be related to the changes in how the gifts work from the patch. Hope that helps!

I might have messed up defines.lua, let me have a look.

EDIT: Found the issue, hotfix incoming.

 

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Hotfix for buggy gifts in 1.02:

Hotfix 1 (2shared)
Hotfix 1 (MediaFire)

 

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Hotfix for various issues with titular titles in 1.02 (most notable Latin Empire). Also includes hotfix 1.

Hotfix 2 (2shared)
Hotfix 2 (MediaFire)

 

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Hotfix for indulgence CTD (let's see if I can get into double digits hotfixes tonight...)

Hotfix 3 (2shared)
Hotfix 3 (MediaFire)

 

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I should also mention that the character creator is a bit wonky in CK2+ right now because I didn't set any traits to be non-usable by it, so you can create pregnant men and the like. Will be fixed in 1.03 or hotfix 4, whichever comes first. I don't feel it warrants a hotfix just by itself though.

 

[Wizzington]

did you adjust the baron ai so they don't blow all their money on indulgences? Just wondering if I should apply my manual fix to it or not since you had mentioned doing it in the past (I think). thanks

Yeah, this was fixed.

wiz could you make it so that you can target anyone with murder plot, or was that intentional?...or i'm bugged or something xD.

Are you a lunatic? Lunatics can murder anyone.

 

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Crashing to desktop when clicking on one of the last two starting scenarios. Only happens on CK2+

Confirmed that starting post-1200 causes a crash, but tracking down the cause may be tricky. Can't guarantee a fix tonight.

 

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could you make it so people with cruel or other evil traits can kill a wider range of people? ussually if I got a intrigue char I like to murder my brothers for land lol

I want to keep plots limited to a few select uses since they are very powerful tools. For everything else there is send assassin.

 

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Ive noticed that in the Dynasty coat of arms creation there is a a lot of new patterns to chose (some very neat aditions). But some that were there without the mod have gone missing, which is kinda sad. Also, most of the new Dynasties and title CoAs were really cool (either from the 1.05 or the DLC, I dont really know)

I will just disable the Heraldy mod but I figured you might want to know about this

Yeah, I already have a fix for this.

 

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Confirmed that starting post-1200 causes a crash, but tracking down the cause may be tricky. Can't guarantee a fix tonight.

Okay, I sorted the post-1200 crash but it's a bit of an extensive a fix for a hotfix. What I'll do is that I'll release another version within a couple days with various fixes and integrations from vanilla (like new CoA patterns) that didn't make it into 1.03. If there's any critical bugs I will continue to hotfix them, but non game-breakers can wait for 1.03.

 

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not sure if this is the case with everyone else but republics have completely done a 180 with me going from free land to well genoa 15 years in has taken provence,most of sicily and now is going on a complete tear thru north africa seems like the city levies building ontop of higher income is allowing them to tear apart anyone they have a valid cb on

I was worried this might happen with their new coastal CB. I'll tweak it to cost prestige to use and downgrade their troop buildings.

 

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Death causes are buggy due to unfinished implementation. Fixed in 1.03.