Do you shut the gate ?

[Kliwarrior]

I rarely do, only if the ruler is too young and too good to die, or without heir (or the heir himself is too young and i don't want to risk).

I think that the -5 diplo is a too big hit (not to mention the ghost of famine after few months)

 

[Olligarchy]

Yes.

I also build walls between my realm and those that I don't like.

 

[orochi2k]

I may sometimes decide to lead a troop to go on vacation into some other places and leave all those guys I hate behind in capital...

 

[Aries666]

Yes and I throw out all the infected

 

[sreckom92]

It really depends on the type of character I play with.
Cruel, Paranoid or Possessed = Shut the gates!

 

[Knotz]

My fully upgraded level 5 hospital means nothing but the Black Death touches Gwynedd. Before then tho, mooostly. There seem to be a few fun events related to being in seclusion, not that they've fired for me but still. Kinda wish the filthy peasants would appreciate it if I stuck it out with them.

 

[Heiliges Thüringens Reich]

Yep. You should just kick out all those Gluttonous people (except your heir) and, if your Physician is not a... professional, the infected too (I once didn't kick out of my daughters, but my Physician was good with tools and she was saved!)

 

[wildcat_paris]

Yep. You should just kick out all those Gluttonous people (except your heir) and, if your Physician is not a... professional, the infected too (I once didn't kick out of my daughters, but my Physician was good with tools and she was saved!)

No! You need "gluttoneous" people because when you start to starve in the Castle... Well you can surprise them eating in the food stock... so I have become canibal... Interesting when the desease lasts far too long. the penalty is only "-10" you can eat as many people as you want.

So yes, invite as many courtier as possible before shutting the gates

 

[Kliwarrior]

Well you can surprise them eating in the food stock... so I have become canibal...

Doh! I just have the chance to eat some rats..
I wonder if there are any events related to eating your own cat or dog (I'd prefer eating a courtier!)

 

[Xinkc]

Anytime a major disease gets close to my lands. Completely survived the Black Death like that. Though, I tried to kill an unwanted heir by sending him off to a non-secluded court for education. The kid got the Plague and lived...

 

[MagnusTheLewd]

What do you call a concubine in seclusion ?
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DINNER!

I think my ruler ate like 3 persons. I tried to save my favourite concubine but she continued to steal food so we had to kind of split. Seems like it was a healthy diet because he did not only manage to survive a very long Black Death period (entire map), he also lived until 83.

 

[balmung60]

I did early on, but then I got a high-level hospital and disease no longer touches my capital, so now I just leave the gates open.

 

[Dakilla TM]

Only during the black death, other times I can make it through well enough with my local hospital standing by

 

[Lazarae]

Always so far, because it takes a long time to get a decent hospital. But only once it hits a province next to my capital. I don't bother if it's at the far end of my realm, only once it's an immediate threat.

 

[RelVleDy]

Yes.

I also build walls between my realm and those that I don't like.

Okay, you know what, just for saying that, the wall just got 10 ft taller. Believe me, the wall just got 10 ft taller.

 

[Rags17]

I'm still on my first post-TRD campaign and I only had the Black Death once, which hit Italy in 1111 AD.

Praise be to God my duchy of Lombardy was completely untouched (although my outrider of Padua was screwed), I shut the gates at the last possible minute as the sea of pink rolled into Genoa, I am guessing my high cash reserve, Level 2 Hospital, good Court Physician and Temperate leader somehow combined to yield absolutely zero cannibal or starvation events.

I did get bored silly a few times and want to place myself into seclusion but I shook that off both times.

 

[gmoney]

only when the plague threatened. I closed the gates as soon as it reached trade posts owned by my MR vassals as a precaution. Got to eat 4 different courtiers including my lover However it was all a waste of time-the plague never touched any part of the English Isles o,O Lucky I guess-but I was kind of pulling for the plague to kill of some of my more unruly vassals

 

[wildcat_paris]

Yes.

I also build walls between my realm and those that I don't like.

Walls: I often "like" Donald Trump on Twitter. Maybe Paradox could include him in CK2 as an option for reincarnation, so you can build the Great Wall

What do you call a concubine in seclusion ?
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DINNER!

I think my ruler ate like 3 persons. I tried to save my favourite concubine but she continued to steal food so we had to kind of split. Seems like it was a healthy diet because he did not only manage to survive a very long Black Death period (entire map), he also lived until 83.

3 people? only. When you invite many many courtiers from out of your realm (sometimes I have 600~700 courtiers), I probably ate 30~50 courtiers. it was so cool... I remained in seclusion long after the end of the plague.

I did early on, but then I got a high-level hospital and disease no longer touches my capital, so now I just leave the gates open.

yes completing the whole hospital makes quite immune to disease. The disease strength value is too low to reach the capital. a value below 200 seems to avoid a disease to spread.

Also, it seems once a disease is set the direction doesn't change much, so the disease can stall: the hospital in Constantinople can really block disease going East or West. It seems much a bug: if blocked the disease should spread north or south

 

[Kliwarrior]

completing the whole hospital makes quite immune to disease.

Is this viable on a simple cost/benefit ratio ?
To complete an hospital, it costs gazilions of gold coins. I understand that your capital usually is your wealthiest province and you have to protect it, but I'm not sure investing so much money is a good choice.

 

[wildcat_paris]

Is this viable on a simple cost/benefit ratio ?
To complete an hospital, it costs gazilions of gold coins. I understand that your capital usually is your wealthiest province and you have to protect it, but I'm not sure investing so much money is a good choice.

viable, probably only for Emperor tiers level. The final improvement costs 5100 gold coins.

the whole hospital probably cost 10~15000 gold. I completed twice as Byzantine

So you don't have to shut the gates anymore! But it doesn't protect from cancer or STDs

Alas!