Crusader Kings II ~ Quick Answers

[Aardvark Bellay]

What happened to the main menu? It was okay last week, now the horizontal stuff is gone, all there is barebone vertical menu.

See https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...v-diary-82-the-spring-cleaning-patch.1096178/

It's practical now, admittedly, but takes away part of the beauty the main menu once had.
It used to be a joy to see and get into the game menu, but now...
Now it only serves as a jumping point into the game.
Bland.

The good part is that one doesn't get constantly told now at that point what DLC were missing
and that i should buy it, but i had already learned to ignore that..

 

[gebali]

Is there a portrait pack to change some bland European faces (Hungarian, French)?

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Is there a portrait pack to change some bland European faces (Hungarian, French)?

no

 

[JT355]

I was thinking of buying the M&M DLC. When I search for info it seems a lot of people were complaining at release that it was unbalanced, eg devil worshippers were overpowered, hermetics unfinished, etc. But it has gone quiet since. Have these problems been fixed in recent patches so that this DLC is more balanced now?

 

[james24eagle]

Is there a portrait pack to change some bland European faces (Hungarian, French)?

Based on the live stream of Holy Fury from PDXCON2018, face packs for the French and Slavs are coming with the new expansion.

 

[CommanderHolt]

What effect does "Leading the Center" from Direct Leader leadership trait do exactly? I imagine in order for it to be active the character must be the center flank, but I am at loss to what it actually does in battle.

 

[Admiral_Obvious]

What effect does "Leading the Center" from Direct Leader leadership trait do exactly? I imagine in order for it to be active the character must be the center flank, but I am at loss to what it actually does in battle.

20% More damage when the character leads from the center.

 

[HatlessCreature]

I have a question about concubine inheritance. I didn't understand the situation I was in and the wiki says nothing about it, as far as I can tell.

First of all, no mods, inheritance law was set to Absolute Cognatic Primogeniture in all my titles, feudal government, reformed Germanic pagan so concubinage is enabled.

So upon inheritance from my last character, I see that my heir isn't my firstborn daughter but rather my secondborn one. I check why and it turns out my firstborn daughter is a concubine of some other character within the same realm - with same laws. I didn't think much of it since my dynasty is huge, and I figured that concubines are just excepted from inheritance like illegitimate bastards or monks/nuns, although I didn't see the game state that fact anywhere.
To my surprise though, when she gave birth to a baby daughter (obviously not my dynasty anymore), the baby, my grandaughter, became my heir prompting the game over alert pop-up.

Now, I'm not asking for solutions to this situation, because there are many ( having Agnatic succession, micromanaging your heir's children in advance if they're not landed, etc), and I've already resolved it by getting rid of the troublesome grandaughter and her father (chariots and mountain cliffs don't mix well, such a tragedy).

What I want to know is:

• Can concubines not inherit their parent's titles, and if so why not? Player exploits, historical reasons, AI doing bad decisions?
• How can a child inherit anything though the mother's side if the mother herself can not inherit? (legaly speaking, not gameplay wise since it's pretty much what happened)
• If concubines can inherit, why didn't the game show my firstborn as my heir in the firstplace?

 

[brifbates]

• Can concubines not inherit their parent's titles, and if so why not? Player exploits, historical reasons, AI doing bad decisions?

• How can a child inherit anything though the mother's side if the mother herself can not inherit? (legaly speaking, not gameplay wise since it's pretty much what happened)

• If concubines can inherit, why didn't the game show my firstborn as my heir in the firstplace?

1) Correct, concubines are ineligible to inherit and rulers can't become concubines, presumably to prevent player abuse
2) Having the (temporary) title "concubine of x" is the block, if she was rescued/set aside her inheritance rights would return. The way the game treats a-c succession is more of a "inherit then immediately abdicate" than "abdicate for posterity".
3) see above, she was ineligible when you died so she didn't inherit

 

[HatlessCreature]

2) Having the (temporary) title "concubine of x" is the block, if she was rescued/set aside her inheritance rights would return. The way the game treats a-c succession is more of a "inherit then immediately abdicate" than "abdicate for posterity".

Thanks for the relply, it does illuminate the mechanics behind succession pretty well.
But aside from mechanics...

1) Correct, concubines are ineligible to inherit and rulers can't become concubines, presumably to prevent player abuse

What bothers me then, however, is that children can inherit through their (concubine) mother at all, given that there's probably a legal/traditional reason why she couldn't inherit in the first place.
I understand that Absolute Cognatic inheritance complicates things a lot, along with the Full status of women law that it requires, as it wasn't present in this region/culture/time (as far as I know).
Perhaps the concubinage system should be disabled with those laws in place. Not really the point of this post though, thanks again for the explanation.

 

[Coalsack]

If a vassal merchant republic controls a sea zone with a SR port (say, Jaffa, Alexandria, Antiocheia or Trapezous), does the MR gets any boon from the SR, or any kind of benefit from controling the near trade area?

The control of the area (for example, having MR post in Manupura and El Alamayn,) gives the MR contact with the SR (on said example, with Alexandria's SR port)?, and if so...

Does their liege gets the chance of being in China's range due the MR making contact with the SR?

 

[Walter Raleigh]

Is there a way to see what game settings one is using after a game has started?

 

[Larva]

Is there a way to see what game settings one is using after a game has started?

Small 'i' button in the corner of your character should help, I suppose

 

[Walter Raleigh]

Small 'i' button in the corner of your character should help, I suppose

Ah yes, tiny little "i" in the top-left corner of the screen - the Game Rules are in there. Thanks.

 

[Count Hasimir Fenring]

See https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...v-diary-82-the-spring-cleaning-patch.1096178/
It's practical now, admittedly, but takes away part of the beauty the main menu once had.
It used to be a joy to see and get into the game menu, but now...
Now it only serves as a jumping point into the game.
Bland.

Not to be a philistine but... isn't that all a menu is?

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Not to be a philistine but... isn't that all a menu is?

It's not just a menu or rather it wasn't and shouldn't be.

It's an entree.
The beginning of something greater.
An opening like a movie.
The start to something big.

Not to mention the sight over the continent.
The majestic horizon.
Lost.

Now there's only one thing covering everything and grabbing the focus..

.....a menu.

Magic killed.

..as with everything bland and silly Paradox torments us with, i'll get used to it in the end, but remain loaded with sadness..

 

[Count Hasimir Fenring]

It's not just a menu or rather it wasn't and shouldn't be.

It's an entree.
The beginning of something greater.
An opening like a movie.
The start to something big.

Don Draper, is that you?

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

Don Draper, is that you?

Have you got no emotions, no feelings ?

That entry into the game along with the music, gone now.
What have we got now ?
"Choose an option".
Ah well...

Yeah whatever, call me Don, why not.

 

[grommile]

I like choose-an-option menus. They get me into the game experience faster.

 

[Walter Raleigh]

If I'm a Count in the Kingdom of Georgia and change succession law to Elective Monarchy, why are some non-nearby people in the Byzantine Empire getting to vote in it?