Yup, and that's the issue: after all the normal Crusading places are taken, the Pope goes completely insane in his Crusade targets. It's also a problem for other religions too.
I do hope so.
I take this as meaning the crusade targeting works properly in the upcoming patch, but you could take it as meaning they believe crusades work as intended in current version if you really just want to be mad.
Or, at the very least, neighboring areas like Egypt and Syria (which actually were historical targets for Crusades) should have priority over India and the Steppes.
It won't, I assure you. The next patch will introduce new problems and ignore old problems, like they have done with every patch.
There's no way any Medieval realm would try to conquer a place as distant as India, no matter how rich and prosperous it supposedly was. It would simply be logistically impossible to move troops en mass from Western Europe, through Muslim-controlled Syria, Mesopotamia, and Persia, to India. The Goths and Germans conquered Rome because it was right there; the British conquest of India was a relatively slow process that was only achievable because the British had the naval power to move resources from Britain, or one of their many other colonies, to India; but, to a Medieval Catholic, India isn't right there, it's some far-off country east of the Muslim lands that they should be putting their attentions towards, and they sure don't have the naval capabilities to move troops their en mass all the over there. So a Crusade for Orissa, Mongolia, or any other far-off realm is definitely unrealistic, although I do agree that Crusades shouldn't be limited to just Jerusalem and Andalusia, just to places that Catholics could realistically conquer.
Alexander tried to conquer India after he had already taken over Persia. He didn't just march peacefully through Persia and half of India for the sole purpose of taking over Orissa.
