The realm rejoices as Paradox Interactive announces the launch of Crusader Kings III, the latest entry in the publisher’s grand strategy role-playing game franchise. Advisors may now jockey for positions of influence and adversaries should save their schemes for another day, because on this day Crusader Kings III can be purchased on Steam, the Paradox Store, and other major online retailers.
Yeah, that update to the Missions was really great.
Having them be a paid feature is fine, having them be mixed in with random other shit is whats going to cause problems.
This strikes me as the kind of change which could potentially end up irritating to not be in the base game: firstly because it means that new expansions which add governments have to have both a "full government" and a "reform" version of whatever they add and secondly because it limits the extent to which the reforms can affect new systems or the reverse.
IIRC then it has been stated that the new interface will be for non owners too, but they don't get to choose reforms, but instead just have things fixed like if it was the old system. Only being able to choose things which corresponds to the old government changes at times when you could do it before.
In the current system you can have five policies of any kind active, so in theory you could have five military policies active. The new system increases the overall number of active policies to nine, but puts a cap on the type of policies at three, so only three military policies. I assume "number of available policies" means a way to have four or more policies of the same type active.
There's also the very interesting and choice-generating mechanic of forcing and Asian (and to a much lesser extent, African) nation that wants to pursue such a challenge to relocate their capital to Iceland because administrating all of India, Indochina, Indonesia, the Philippines, the Moluccas, and about 3/4 of the population of China from Reykjavik is more efficient and less likely to result in grift and corruption than controlling the same land from a capital in Canton.
I can't picture exactly how that would work, but if they aren't implementing parallel systems in the end, I guess I could call that a win.
Might be the 4 as they previously has stated that Sweden will start with 4 policies in all three categories as the only country in the game.
I could be misremembering as it was long ago it was stated, but I'm pretty sure that it was stated at some point, either on the fora or in the dev clashes, that non owners get the new interface too, but just don't choose reforms.
I really hope it is changed as it makes absolutely no sense historically as if anything then core territories were harder to religiously convert than sparsely populated territories. And for densely populated areas then culture conversions were really rare and hence if they want to limit those, which does make sense, then it'd need to be done some other way, not in this arbitrary way where sparsely populated areas can't be converted, opposite in history where those areas often did change culture as there was a large influx of settlers from the new owner when those areas become more densely populated.
Why change the naming convention of the DLC's? Dharma is the first to break the pattern of two word titles or three word titles with "of" in the middle, my money had been on "Riches of India"
STOP! COOKIE TIME
