As for your second question: Yes, it's very possible Horse Lords will mess up any game started on the previous patch, whether you're using HIP or not. If you want to maintain game continuity, you're better off waiting to start a long campaign until after Horse Lords releases and HIP updates to support it.
Don't forget: it may take HIP awhile to update for Horse Lords this time. We're tired of rushing to put out compatches before the main patch is even stable (forcing us to continually compatch as Paradox releases more minor patches, plus also somewhat violating the HIP guarantee that somebody's always looking out for your game quality), and we are also trying to get the last bits of SWMH's expansion, NBRT+'s associated rewrite, etc. finalized at the same time, so it won't be the lightning-fast single day turnaround that we've done in the past.
Good choices when selecting day one customization decisions could let you reset the map so that everything is balanced (everyone is no higher than duchy for example, but only for Catholics and other non-Pagan religions). Of course, at that point screw history!
Yeah, EMF does let you pretty much say "screw history" if you want. But nevertheless, if you happen to be one of the types of folks that would like to finish in 1453 with a Europe / Near East that doesn't wildly differ from loosely representative history (except perhaps for your contributions), the 1066 start is the way to go rather than 867 or 769. With the very latest EMF (especially with the beta, if looking at proper HRE formation and such), 867 is getting fairly close to a relatively well-balanced start, although obviously the extra time duration to 1453 and simply the number of butterflies still make for something fairly crazy. [Though with SWMH, the Seljuks don't spawn properly after the 867 start, which is a sore point.]
Or keep a copy of the current version of the game outside the Steam folder…
And that is brilliance, yes. The game is actually only a couple GB, and it's easy enough to copy out of the Steam folder if you want to ensure that a game you start now will keep working after Horse Lords.
Thanks a lot for the mod, it really improves the game, specially for history buffs such as myself.
One question: do you have any idea when this will be updated after the release of horse lords and the new patch? I ask not to piss you off, but because I imagine that with the so called "full mod support" being offered by paradox developers of major mods such as yourself have access to beta(hope I'm not wrong about this!).
Cheers
See above, my first reply in this post. We'll just have to see how the new content and the compatibility patch come together once we see the code.
But:
What "full mod support" is being offered by paradox developers/anyone of major mods? Did I miss a memo or something? We don't receive any special treatment / any support at all from Paradox, aside for them now officially hosting the wiki that the community had already put together for modding "documentation," indirectly. Perhaps AGOT does or something? Where did you see this?
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