CK2Plus Continuation - Balance improvements, more kingdoms and empires, more ambition

[CSAGeneral]

Any ETA on the new BLG? I'm sorry I keep pestering you all. It's only because I love this mod so much. Also Better Looking Garb should be renamed Better Looking Portraits, because it fixes a lot more than just the garb.

 

[zeress]

Any ETA on the new BLG? I'm sorry I keep pestering you all. It's only because I love this mod so much. Also Better Looking Garb should be renamed Better Looking Portraits, because it fixes a lot more than just the garb.

Looks like Schwar got sucked into Christmas chores, so I tossed it up for now for you guys

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...ed-Modules&p=16606001&viewfull=1#post16606001

 

[Nivve]

Is there a tutorial on how to do this? (Change interface/coat of arms choices) If so maybe I could try and save you some of the work.
It seems to be working fine, in terms of crashing, but a lot of leaders seem to have problems with their titles. Like the Caliph is just named Caliph. The Ecumenical Patriarch is Ecumenical Patriarch, etc. However it recognizes I am Pharaoh at least.

I noticed the lack of names myself. I must admit I have no clue why the game refuses to show the names

I managed to fix the name problems of the abrahamic rulers. I posted a patch for this and some more changes in the thread.
I also finished Reign of Princes, so that's now also enabled.

 

[CSAGeneral]

Looks like Schwar got sucked into Christmas chores, so I tossed it up for now for you guys

http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...ed-Modules&p=16606001&viewfull=1#post16606001

Thank you!

 

[highsis]

Any ETA on the new BLG? I'm sorry I keep pestering you all. It's only because I love this mod so much. Also Better Looking Garb should be renamed Better Looking Portraits, because it fixes a lot more than just the garb.

Yeah, actually BLG makes the best looking portraits among all portraits mod.

 

[Zepheyr]

Quick question.

On one my current saves, it seems the Cultural Titles optional mod included in CK2Plus has been activated somehow, and I can't get it to turn off. I figure I must have accidently clicked it on before and it stuck with that save. If I start a fresh new game without it activated, everything plays with normal titles. But this one particular save always loads up with Cultural Titles, even with the mod deselected at the start window. How do I revert it? Is it possible or is it permanent with this save now?

And as for my earlier concern about the extreme laginess, for some reason it evened itself out after the first 10 years of gameplay and never came back. It was hell for a while, but everything is working now.

 

[unmerged(474593)]

Quick question as well for those of you playing on the newest version, I just downloaded it and the Coat of Arms are 158 total?

Are these the custom coat of arms you guys mentioned, I love the mod but the ones i'm looking at now kinna look off.

 

[schwarherz]

Quick question as well for those of you playing on the newest version, I just downloaded it and the Coat of Arms are 158 total?

Are these the custom coat of arms you guys mentioned, I love the mod but the ones i'm looking at now kinna look off.

We went back to vanilla for the most part then tacked a handful of new ones at the end.

 

[eatme]

Any ETA on the new BLG? I'm sorry I keep pestering you all. It's only because I love this mod so much. Also Better Looking Garb should be renamed Better Looking Portraits, because it fixes a lot more than just the garb.

Nice thanks for updt

 

[Shepp2230]

Is 2.06.2 CK2+ compatible with the 2.03 patch?

 

[schwarherz]

Is 2.06.2 CK2+ compatible with the 2.03 patch?

Yes i just haven't updated the main post yet

 

[Athalcor]

Version 0.7 of Byzantine Themata System is up.
- updated to CK2+ 2.06.2
- created a system of Imperial Decadence for Byzantium
- created a system of Imperial Coronation for Byzantium
- overhauled the Themata system to be compatible with the new mechanics
- added a moral authority bonus for Orthodoxy as long Byzantium exists, holds Constantinople and is Orthodox
- restored Cilicia to Muslim hands in 867
- rebalanced the Byzantine-Bulgarian war in 1000 (though while using Better Armies module)
- AI Byzantine Emperors will no longer create any Kingdom-level titles
- overhauled the post-Rum Anatolian beyliks by removing a lot of the Sultanate titles there
- implemented another AnaxXiphos's icon (thanks again!)

Bear in mind that it is largely untested so even though the events should be working just fine, it might need some fixing in terms of tweaking the ai_chances and so on.

 

[simonthekiller]

Version 0.7 of Byzantine Themata System is up.
- updated to CK2+ 2.06.2
- created a system of Imperial Decadence for Byzantium
- created a system of Imperial Coronation for Byzantium
- overhauled the Themata system to be compatible with the new mechanics
- added a moral authority bonus for Orthodoxy as long Byzantium exists, holds Constantinople and is Orthodox
- restored Cilicia to Muslim hands in 867
- rebalanced the Byzantine-Bulgarian war in 1000 (though while using Better Armies module)
- AI Byzantine Emperors will no longer create any Kingdom-level titles
- overhauled the post-Rum Anatolian beyliks by removing a lot of the Sultanate titles there
- implemented another AnaxXiphos's icon (thanks again!)

Bear in mind that it is largely untested so even though the events should be working just fine, it might need some fixing in terms of tweaking the ai_chances and so on.

file.mod is missing

 

[schwarherz]

UPDATE: 2.06.3 released (mirror)


Changelog:

Spoiler

Major Additions:

Minor Additions:
- Implemented Reign of Princes bookmarks in the Altered Bookmarks module. (beta)

Tweaks:
- Bookmarks pane is bigger now

Fixes:
- Minor West Africa history fixes
- Znojmo now properly belongs to Bohemia 1000 AD and on
- For the Cultural Titles sub-mod, added missing Muslim religious heads
- Duplicate Muslim religious heads removed in core
- Some missed cultural titles stripped from the core mod
- No more CTD when reforming Norse Paganism or creating the Pontificate Maxima with the Cultural Titles sub-mod
- Montbeliard can now properly build its extra barony holding

 

[simonthekiller]

There are changes in the localisation files? Because I try to translate them in French

 

[Minrog]

I have a newish computer that's just a year old, so it shouldn't be computer-related.

I deleted my mods and uninstalled CKII altogether, and then reinstalled just CKII with no mods to see if I could narrow down the lag issue. When I played CKII just by itself it was perfectly smooth at full speed and ran fine with no random freezes or pauses. I then extracted CKII+ 2.06.2 and ran the game again and the lagging and one second freezing every 10-20 seconds began again.

The pausing and lagging is bad enough to force me to not use CKII+. I'll be scrolling across the map with the mouse when suddenly the game will freeze and then it will pick back up again but halfway across the continent. I'll be dragging my mouse towards an option to click on and I'll click but the game will freeze... and I'll end up clicking on something I didn't mean to.

Quick question.

On one my current saves, it seems the Cultural Titles optional mod included in CK2Plus has been activated somehow, and I can't get it to turn off. I figure I must have accidently clicked it on before and it stuck with that save. If I start a fresh new game without it activated, everything plays with normal titles. But this one particular save always loads up with Cultural Titles, even with the mod deselected at the start window. How do I revert it? Is it possible or is it permanent with this save now?

And as for my earlier concern about the extreme laginess, for some reason it evened itself out after the first 10 years of gameplay and never came back. It was hell for a while, but everything is working now.

For the Cultural Titles optional mod issue, my guess is that the titles might work themselves out when they change hands or some other event affects them somehow.

As for the strange lag issues, I wanted to mention I've been trying to isolate it. Haven't had too much time but I've been able to discern that it is machine related. On two of my test machines the game has nearly imperceptible lag spikes every 20 days or so, but on the third test machine it locks up for a full 3-4 seconds on a 20 day cycle. I found that it is related to some Events (using the 3-4 second lag test machine); when I removed all of the files in /Events/ it was really fast and when I put the file "YouMessedWithThePope.txt" back the lag spikes occurred but moving back other batches of 5-10 event files by themselves didn't recreate the bug. Unfortunately, there's more than one problem file and I haven't had the time to iterate through each one individually to find the others.

Probably once Christmas is over I'll be able to do more with it, hopefully before our next release.

 

[Athalcor]

Version 0.7.1 of Byzantine Themata System is up.
- updated to CK2+ 2.06.3
- added the missing .mod file
- fixed a minor history bug

 

[CaesarVincens]

For the Cultural Titles optional mod issue, my guess is that the titles might work themselves out when they change hands or some other event affects them somehow.

As for the strange lag issues, I wanted to mention I've been trying to isolate it. Haven't had too much time but I've been able to discern that it is machine related. On two of my test machines the game has nearly imperceptible lag spikes every 20 days or so, but on the third test machine it locks up for a full 3-4 seconds on a 20 day cycle. I found that it is related to some Events (using the 3-4 second lag test machine); when I removed all of the files in /Events/ it was really fast and when I put the file "YouMessedWithThePope.txt" back the lag spikes occurred but moving back other batches of 5-10 event files by themselves didn't recreate the bug. Unfortunately, there's more than one problem file and I haven't had the time to iterate through each one individually to find the others.

Probably once Christmas is over I'll be able to do more with it, hopefully before our next release.

This sounds like poor event coding. Some event or number of events is taking a long time to calculate who exactly it should affect. I believe the team is currently working to optimize events, but it is understandably a long process.

Edit: After looking at that file specifically, I found a couple ways to improve the efficiency. Try this version of the file, I moved slower triggers after faster ones in the first event and a couple other events in that folder.

View attachment YouMessedWithThePope.txt

If you find other files that cause excessive lag, let me know, I or the team can take a look at them.

 

[Nivve]

This sounds like poor event coding. Some event or number of events is taking a long time to calculate who exactly it should affect. I believe the team is currently working to optimize events, but it is understandably a long process.

Edit: After looking at that file specifically, I found a couple ways to improve the efficiency. Try this version of the file, I moved slower triggers after faster ones in the first event and a couple other events in that folder.

View attachment 97266

If you find other files that cause excessive lag, let me know, I or the team can take a look at them.

One of the last patches made the game automatically order the trigger (so the game will handle quicker scopes first), at least that was my understanding of one of the changelogs.

 

[zeress]

One of the last patches made the game automatically order the trigger (so the game will handle quicker scopes first), at least that was my understanding of one of the changelogs.

Event triggers yes, but I doubt it orders the modifier checks like in this case.