Europa Universalis IV: Developer diary 42 - The Crusader Kings II Converter

[bitmapmedivh]

I have to admit I was sceptical when the converter was first announced, but this DD actually won me over. Looks like it'll be exciting!

 

[Dankysh]

I have to admit I was sceptical when the converter was first announced, but this DD actually won me over. Looks like it'll be exciting!

Completely agree!! Will have to reinstall CKII and get some interesting games going.

 

[Figus]

You mentioned in the stream that reformed religions will be carried over and unreformed be converted to generic shamanism/animism. But what about Hellenic that exists in between unreformed and reformed? Want to know because I wanna know what will happen to my roman hellenic Roman Empire.

They said that you shouldn't really be thinking about them which leads me to believe that they really just aren't sure and haven't tried it. Really I'm just hoping that the generic pagan religion converts, cause' that one was my favorite.

 

[Ols]

I'm going to start an Old Gods game and become an alternate HRE (probably Italia or Francia) and try to get to 1444 for conversion.

 

[Daema]

Buildings ... and technology are not exported as there is no way to map them to something in EU4 in any snesible way.

Wouldn't modifying tax and manpower values based on buildings and tech be more sensible than suddenly having your most advanced provinces turn into backwaters?

 

[skynet464]

What if you have Sunset Invasion, but you don't run the game up to when they actually invade? Will there still be advanced Aztecs and Incans?

 

[Ols]

What if you have Sunset Invasion, but you don't run the game up to when they actually invade? Will there still be advanced Aztecs and Incans?

I suspect there will be seeing as the event chain starts in 1010.

 

[Krinkle]

The Byzantine Empire is back, I think?

 

[Kensai7]

I'm sure it could use some vanilla V2 pop references to fill in the blanks.

They can always find ways to fill in the blanks, after all, a converter is helped by instructional scripts that modders could fill in with their own details and parameters. So a future EU4 --> Vic2 converter might not be so much out of reality. Abstractions will fill in features that are not in.

But let's focus on here and now!

 

[Jorlem]

Will alliances and royal marriages be preserved? For example, if I've spread my dynasty to another country, or if I convert the 867 start, will we/the Karlings still be allied after the conversion?

 

[Summercat]

They can always find ways to fill in the blanks, after all, a converter is helped by instructional scripts that modders could fill in with their own details and parameters. So a future EU4 --> Vic2 converter might not be so much out of reality. Abstractions will fill in features that are not in.

But let's focus on here and now!

History files might be useful for provinces. ...they still have their own history files, yes?

 

[skynet464]

Will alliances and royal marriages be preserved? For example, if I've spread my dynasty to another country, or if I convert the 867 start, will we/the Karlings still be allied after the conversion?

If you share a dynasty with a country in EU, you get a bonus in diplomacy.

 

[Felicity]

I have a finished Kingdom of Frisia game just waiting to be exported..

 

[Silversweeeper]

Would it be possible to have the converter forcibly ending all wars with a white peace instead of just deleting them so that a war against Duke Backstab McPlotter will not cause an ugly hole to appear right in the middle of someone's lands? Of course, you could use the console to force peace before exporting, but given the number of stupid wars being fought at a given time it would be tedious just to end all civil wars...

Also, will de jure claims be represented by cores, or will (for example) a Sicily which has lost half of the island of Sicily a short while back be unable to take it back with relative ease?

 

[Tom013]

Is one of these empires the Inca empire ?

Or perhaps a break-away viking empire, the one that introduced the Sunset Invasion Aztecs to European shipbuilding and other technology?

 

[the.ront]

I am looking forward to the tidal wave of CK2->EU4 AARs.

 

[InnocentIII]

This is way better than I had expected! Thanks PDS!

Holy crap this looks so awesome.

I'm both horrified and excited.

This is crazy. Thank you!

This looks really well thought out, especially with the fact it creates a Dynamic mod, rather than a save. I'm incredibly impressed by the scale of the convertor, it's more than I was expecting.

+1 all around, this is amazing.

As the converter is a CK2 DLC, are people who do not have the steam version going to get it, too? Would suck to have to waste the free ck2 steam code just to be able to use the converter.

I wouldn't mind burning the code (I think I bought an extra one anyway when Amazon had a sale), but I'm concerned that as all my CK2 DLCs are GG. Would I be playing CK2 vanilla only and then exporting?

There's nothing here (unless I missed something) indicating that the Converter DLC is steam only (even though EUIV is steam only), so I'm hoping/guessing that the DLC will be either steam or GG and then we can convert from a GG version of CK2 and EUIV will just load whatever mod is there. This is fantastic either way, just wondering if I can convert my current Ireland game, that'd be a riot.

EDIT - It's been a few hours and I am still very psyched about this. Just sayin'

 

[Jess135]

How exactly will the rest of the world be affected? I'm really curious about that aspect of the converter and we haven't really gotten anything concrete.

 

[unmerged(1823)]

I ordered the german "Extreme Edition" on amazon.de with 4 DLCs, but no converter...

Pretty sure it only contains the three extreme edition dlcs, but then again.. Its not likely to be out at release..

 

[Revshawn]

I love the Paradox Devs are like "This converter is so awesome, even we aren't completely sure how it works!"