dlc suggestion: Throne room perspective

[William Hansen]

Since ck3 is a rpg grand strategy game, wouldn’t it be awesome to enjoy your accomplishments from the ruler’s perspective?

An expansion involving the ability to walk around in your castle/home would look amazing! Think about it.

As you upgrade your castle it will influence the architecture of your home, and you could display your relics and family banner inside. Maybe include a small balcony for you to look out over the farmlands/town. Yes, even having a castle garden to experience the outsides.

As you play the game, you could enter the “throne room” by pressing a key or button, as you rise from the throne in the throne room.

Your culture will affect the looks of the guards around the castle. While having the ability to walk around and talk with your closest court members and family spread around in the different rooms of your home. As their/your personality traits will affect the conversation.

Furthermore having the ability to change haircut and clothing of your character in the master bedroom and play war games in your strategy room. Yea even carousing in your festive hall. All this depending on the amount of work you would put into it.

And in the end press the esc key to continue with your mainline game.

I know it is an ambitious expansion, but it would be incredibly awesome if it became a reality.

Otherwise I’m truly looking forward playing this game! Thank you for your hard work!

 

[Aquamancer]

This is not merely an idea for an ambitious DLC, this is almost a concept for the mechanics of a separate game of its own. Considering how Clausewitz engine works, introducing a 3d environment with characters and environment that can change and with which you can interact with on a scale suggested here is probably impossible to do.

 

[Drazer]

I feel the game is not about eye candy, but about strategy and decision making. There are certainly more important things to add to the game (linked with political strategy).

 

[prismaticmarcus]

this is definitely for CKIV, though. it's never too early for a wishlist!

 

[Lordy's]

If it is not done in 3d, it might be possible: Just have a picture of your current throne room and one can buy furniture to upgrade it (simplest implementation: sprites). Have a list of the 'Greates Throne Rooms' in the ledger, no other benefits.
Then add microtransactions: 2 bucks for a fancy curtain. 10 for the super cool throne. Let players showcase their throne room to their friends. It is so easy to make money... People gonna love it.

-- Do NOT take this post serious. --

 

[prismaticmarcus]

If it is not done in 3d, it might be possible: Just have a picture of your current throne room and one can buy furniture to upgrade it (simplest implementation: sprites). Have a list of the 'Greates Throne Rooms' in the ledger, no other benefits.
Then add microtransactions: 2 bucks for a fancy curtain. 10 for the super cool throne. Let players showcase their throne room to their friends. It is so easy to make money... People gonna love it.

-- Do NOT take this post serious. --

and then someone comes and burns it all down...

 

[FrancescoT]

Then add microtransactions: 2 bucks for a fancy curtain. 10 for the super cool throne. Let players showcase their throne room to their friends. It is so easy to make money... People gonna love it.

Sky's the limit here.. this could open an interesting synergy with IKEA .

 

[Kainser]

This is not merely an idea for an ambitious DLC, this is almost a concept for the mechanics of a separate game of its own. Considering how Clausewitz engine works, introducing a 3d environment with characters and environment that can change and with which you can interact with on a scale suggested here is probably impossible to do.

Svea Rike had minigames, clearly that engine was superior!

 

[Arko]

This is not merely an idea for an ambitious DLC, this is almost a concept for the mechanics of a separate game of its own. Considering how Clausewitz engine works, introducing a 3d environment with characters and environment that can change and with which you can interact with on a scale suggested here is probably impossible to do.

Considering that characters are 3D and animated, that we have some 3D like event background showing various locations, I don't think it is far fetch actually. Moving your character probably is, but the idea of some throne/castle rooms showing your arms, feats (much better than steam achievement system actually since it would be ingame and not out), your artefacts (when such will be back in the game), a tapestry of your battles or pilgrimage story, the armor of your ancestor, the head of your rival on a pike, etc. is a good idea IMHO.

 

[Weyird]

This is similar to something I suggested in the CK2 forums for a possible CK3, before it was announced.
Not bein g able to walk around the castle, I don't care about that, but I wanted that the advisor screen should show your throne room, along with advisors and notable courtiers. Mostly, I wanted that different cultures should have very different throne rooms - western european should look different to tribal which should look different to indian, etc. I hoped the selectable buttons would be imbedded in a static image. I think that'd add a lot of flavour to your playthrough. I also hoped it'd change a little over time as technology and developments and fashion change.

 

[Will Steel]

Sounds like a great idea, but I don't think it is right for CK3 (or even possible in the Imperator-CK3 version of Clausewitz). Maybe a future game with an all-3D engine.

 

[Ezumiyr]

I feel the game is not about eye candy, but about strategy and decision making. There are certainly more important things to add to the game (linked with political strategy).

I'm always disappointed when I see a comment like that in 2020.
Those two things aren't opposites.
Good-looking strategy games usually means attention to details. This game should be about eye candy just like any game. I would even add that political strategy (whatever you mean with those big words) has to be nice to look at as well.
If I want to deal with numbers on a spreadsheet I just need to work, thanks.

 

[viola]

Sounds like something insanely complicated and completely outside of what the devs are used to work with purely for the sake of eye candy.

Dumb idea.

 

[ImperatorRoman]

Not gonna lie, this sounds like a stupid idea that utilizes development time and resources that would be better spent elsewhere.

 

[J.B.]

This is an interesting idea for some point ahead, but it does not need to be 3-D. Does anybody remember in Civilization III how your palace had upgradeable parts of it, to add as the eras advance? It appeared 3-D, but it was really just 2-D and flat against a wall, horizontal, if that makes sense. There was no movement interaction with that, it was just artistic, as though a painting in the background. Something like that, putting in culturally-related pieces of furniture, architectural details, and art work against a background that represents the ruler's court room could be good.