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

[Wizzington]

I get what you're saying, Wiz, but I still think realms are way too stable. The AI seems to blob quite a bit, and since crown authority is so deathly important in CK2+ a lack of successful rebellions means an ever-solidifying crown authority which means even stronger blobs.

Noted, and as I said I've made some tweaks for the next version to make large realms more vulnerable to civil wars.

 

[Wizzington]

As long as there is some avenue for expansion as a small country - neighbors going independent, in other words - everything is fine. I understand the move to make it harder to expand rapidly but the opportunity to conquer land shouldn't be so rare that you spend decades sitting around doing nothing waiting for the AI kingdoms to collapse: that isn't making the game harder, it's just making it more boring.

But that's just my opinion based on just a couple play-throughs, so it's hardly representative. IMO giving civil wars more support generally sounds like a fine solution.

Generally if you're a small power, you should try to expand inside a realm rather than outside of it. Or start in a region with weak neighbours. It shouldn't be a given that a player Beirut can start conquering the Fatimids.

 

[Wizzington]

With all these medium and higher CA kingdoms around, it isn't always so easy.

Which I suppose brings us back around to the point of too high CA in realms (if that is indeed the case, I am also getting reports like above of total realm implosions). I guess we'll have to see how my tweaks in .29 play out.

 

[Wizzington]

Oh, a totally minor thing, but why are the Jews spawning in Portugal (maybe also in the rest of Spain, but I was playing as Portugal) Ashkenazi?

What culture were you? It's based on ruler culture.

 

[Wizzington]

HI Guys a quick question. PLaying the mod as castille. Have recently inherited tuscany. Question relates to levies. The number of levies I can raise there are tiny. Around 400 soldiers across 9 counties. IN firenze, only 8. Why is this. Dont play much so may be something obvious that i dont know. MY vassals there all love me at the moment so not that at least.

Thanks

Sounds like your levies are depleted? Also levy numbers from vassls are greatly restricted by CA, to make large realms into not unstoppable killing machines.

 

[Wizzington]

I have medium CA. Have not played this save for a while so it may be from previous war with HRE....

Cheers,

Go to your military screen and check levies you can raise versus maximum levies. Also make sure it's your crown law that applies in Tuscany.

 

[Wizzington]

Hey Wiz...ETA for 1.29???

None at the moment.

 

[Wizzington]

One small problem I noticed: the fact the Orthodox realms never go to holy war kinda makes the Dulo Khanata (Sunni Bulgars near the Volga) and to some extent the Cumans and Pechenegs a bit too stable; the ERE used to always take over Wallachia if they had the time.

Byzantium not conquering the Pechenegs isn't really something I'd consider a problem, as it was one of the primary reasons for the change. Anyway Orthodox realms CAN go to Holy War, the AI just won't unless they have very high piety.

 

[Wizzington]

I've had a bit of a strange problem in my most recent game (1.28.4)- playing a game in West Africa, there are 3 or so provinces in my demesne which have slots to build new holdings in, but they are greyed out and unavailable. Passage of time and save/reload don't seem to make any difference on their availability.

I haven't seen this in Vanilla before, and since the area of play is the expanded CK2+ West Africa, I thought I'd check in here first. Has anyone seen this problem before? Is there a solution?

Thanks in advance!

Please let me know which provinces - it means there are more slots than designated potential baronies.

 

[Wizzington]

Cool, have checked levies, they are increasing. How do you check though if the crown law applies there?

Kingdom mapmode, mouseover the province.

 

[Wizzington]

Awesome, in my latest game the Fatimids launched a Jihad for Sicily on the same day the Pope called for a Crusade for Jerusalem. They both won.

They were just taking part of the latest reality show: "Swap your Neighbour".

 

[Wizzington]

Just started a game with Yousif Emirate 1066...Damascus has a slot greyd out...Also the granted the Grand Vizier event fired 3-4 times already...

Damascus has 8 potential baronies so it can't be affected by that particular bug. What event?

 

[Wizzington]

Hey Wiz, I had an idea about the amass wealth ambition. currently, as everyone knows, if you amass 750 gold you get +1 stewardship. but what about adding unique events which are triggered if a character has this ambition. events which help you amass wealth faster like an opportunity to collect a special tithe on the nobilty, the clergy or the peasants, an opportunity to steal money from an enemy/infidel trade caravan etc. could this be done? If someone has the amass wealth ambition they are not going to sit around the castle and patiently wait for treasury to fill up. They will behave like King John I of England and try to find new opportunities to fill their coffers.

That seems like it would just encourage players to keep that ambition indefinitely in order to tax farm...

 

[Wizzington]

I'm currently away of my gaming rig...to upload a photo...But if you open the game starting at 1066 you should see that Damascus has a grey slot in the province out of the control of the player...My bad it's not an event it's when your ruler gives you an office...happened 3 times for the Grand Vizier as I mentioned before...

I hope this will be of help...

Damascus has a grey slot because it only has 3/5 holdings. The bug is when all the unbuilt slots are greyed so you can't build any additional holdings.

 

[Wizzington]

Hey Wiz. Who do you recommend someone new to CK2+ play as?

Ireland being a great tutorial area is still very much true. You could also try being one of the larger vassals of France or the HRE. The main things to get used to compared to vanilla are smaller demesne sizes, more dangerous AI and needing to pay closer attention to vassal relations. The other stuff isn't hard to figure out on your own. If you're having a rough time of it, don't be ashasmed to notch down difficulty as it won't give you any cheats, it'll just make vassal management and strategic AI less challenging.

 

[Wizzington]

what would be a a large and stable vassal of HRE?

Swabia, Bohemia and Saxony are both great choices in that regard. Lower Lorraine and Bavaria are large and powerful but have tiny demesnes which makes them more difficult picks.

 

[Wizzington]

thanks and is it possible to release a broken kingdoms version of CK2+?

It's possible but not something I intend to put work into at this stage.

 

[Wizzington]

Wiz;

I just fired up the game, and I see the issue in:

Kirana, slot #3
Yaresna, slot #2 and 3
Linguere, slot #2

Hope that helps!

Thanks, should all be fixed next version.

 

[Wizzington]

Guys is game definitely better with "no assaults" sub-module included in CK2+ or it's better to leave it as in vanilla?

Personally I think it's much better with it because the AI is more challenging when it doesn't wantonly suicide its armies.

 

[Wizzington]

Regarding the perception of generally high crown authority showing up a lot, what about a very short temporary risk of chaos immediately after raising crown authority? I.E. in addition to all current effects, raising crown authority gives +20% to vassal revolt risk for 1 month. If possible, it would only apply to vassals currently affected by that crown's authority. Something like this would encourage raising crown authority when you're in a stable/strong position to deal with a potential civil war, without making it so that you're better off to just keep CA low.

Hmm, it might be worth considering to have one severe short duration opinion modifier and a longer smaller one. I'll give it some thought.