How many hours have you invested into CK2

[Jaghave]

With one month left before ck3 what is your current hours into ck2. I'm pretty confident I'm going to be over 14,000 before September 1 and already planning on taking the week off to enjoy CK3 in all it glory upon release : )

 

[Kumicho]

Holy. Shit. I've got over 5k hours and thought that was a lot...

 

[jonjowett]

Over 15k is impressive; I "only" have 5.5k.

Perhaps OP finds it easier to keep CK2 running in the background, rather than reloading it every time?

(I used to do this with both CK2 and EU4 to avoid long loading times, until I got a PC with an SSD. As a result, quite a lot of my 5.5k is probably "idle time". And this is the main reason why Steam thinks I have played RimWorld for 4k hours in less than a year: despite the SSD, it takes about 20 mins to start up due to >100 mods, so I leave it running in the background for days/weeks - even while I'm playing other games!)

(Also, perhaps off-topic, I'm not planning to jump on the CK3 launch bandwagon, so my CK2 hours will continue to grow for a while. CK2 is one of my all-time favourite games, so it'll be very hard for CK3 to "measure up". And, further, recent Paradox games have had a tendency to be very flawed on release. All in all, I'd prefer to wait and see.)

 

[Ozamu]

Impressive hours clocked here! As already hinted above, are all of them by actively playing the game or is some part accrued by being idle?

My current number appears to be "only" 2,088.5 hours. All of that played actively, but I've been steadily playing less and less in the last few months while waiting for CK3

 

[ThePettyQueen]

I've been playing since February and I'm at a bit over 800 hours. Being relatively new to the game, I'm nowhere near finished with it; but then I tend to stick with games long after others move on the next shiny new thing. (I still play Civ IV from time to time, and never got around to V or VI.)

 

[Jaghave]

Over 15k is impressive; I "only" have 5.5k.

Perhaps OP finds it easier to keep CK2 running in the background, rather than reloading it every time?

(I used to do this with both CK2 and EU4 to avoid long loading times, until I got a PC with an SSD. As a result, quite a lot of my 5.5k is probably "idle time". And this is the main reason why Steam thinks I have played RimWorld for 4k hours in less than a year: despite the SSD, it takes about 20 mins to start up due to >100 mods, so I leave it running in the background for days/weeks - even while I'm playing other games!)

(Also, perhaps off-topic, I'm not planning to jump on the CK3 launch bandwagon, so my CK2 hours will continue to grow for a while. CK2 is one of my all-time favourite games, so it'll be very hard for CK3 to "measure up". And, further, recent Paradox games have had a tendency to be very flawed on release. All in all, I'd prefer to wait and see.)

I would say about 1/10th is inactivity. Sad part I have so many hours but no achievement since the mod scene is what got me hook to the gamw from the very start, especially making my own character and character family before the character maker dlc and the make your own family mod that appear in the last few years. Perhaps I should deactivate all mods this month and see how many achivements plus challnges I can get done.

As for ck3 I'm pretty optimistic that they won't botch it like the recent Rome game. I'm far more concern that the Vampire Game might be a dumpster fire on release.

 

[DPS]

9522 hours; at a guess, maybe 500 hours at most of that is during inactivity. It will probably be a while, if ever, before I get CK3, so my hours played on CK2 are likely to still go up considerably. Note that I didn't get CK2 until the fall of 2016.

 

[LSF]

I have 500 hours in CK2. And around 3k in EU4, around 1.2 k in Vic2, around 1k in Stellaris, around 100 hours in HOI4 and 5 hours in Imperator. I played all these games since launch and really think those numbers are quite too high, too much.

Dude, 15 k is not healthy for a video game.

 

[Pzt_Kami]

CK2 is the only PDX game I'm sure have played over 1K hours. such high record it only rivals that of some total war titles (especially Rome2 and its mods that I sank thousands of hours in it)

 

[TurtleShroom]

I have exceeded two thousand hours on CK2! Here's the thing, though. Before that, I probably had a few hundred hours more because I had an older, non-Steam copy of the game that I only played offline. Switching to the Steam version was one of the best decisions I ever made in gaming.

 

[Morte66]

1922 hours.

A bit alarmingly, 102 hours in the last 2 weeks. I've been conquering the Slavic Union. Slavs are my kryptonite. I've had maybe 8 attempts at reforming them, and it always goes wrong somehow. I run out of CBs, or run out of MA, or whatever. This time there were four occasions when I thought I was within an hour of it, before something came up. When I finally got it I thought I had missed on MA and would have to knuckle down for five holy sites, when suddenly I jumped 20% for no reason I can explain. I reformed without delay...

Maybe I should try to reform the Tengri. That looks hard...

 

[mangowallaby]

I've been playing since February and I'm at a bit over 800 hours. Being relatively new to the game, I'm nowhere near finished with it; but then I tend to stick with games long after others move on the next shiny new thing. (I still play Civ IV from time to time, and never got around to V or VI.)

Same! I thought I was the only person who still plays Civ IV (I do own CIV V and VI but have played relatively little of Civ V and only 6 hours of CIV VI). That being said, I have been playing CKII for almost six years and now have 3980 hours. Many of the first 3000 hours were idle as I would leave it running overnight so I would not have to restart it in the morning.

 

[ThePettyQueen]

1922 hours.

A bit alarmingly, 102 hours in the last 2 weeks. I've been conquering the Slavic Union. Slavs are my kryptonite. I've had maybe 8 attempts at reforming them, and it always goes wrong somehow. I run out of CBs, or run out of MA, or whatever. This time there were four occasions when I thought I was within an hour of it, before something came up. When I finally got it I thought I had missed on MA and would have to knuckle down for five holy sites, when suddenly I jumped 20% for no reason I can explain. I reformed without delay...

Maybe I should try to reform the Tengri. That looks hard...

I'm playing a Slavic game myself right now, not decided yet whether I'll go for Slavic Union or Russia (or both) and the Empire of Rus is tricky to get, but I did just today manage to reform the faith, after a generation or two of either not having enough holy sites due to gavelkind, or not enough piety, or not enough MA. I still can't form Rus without going to war with a very strong Khazaria.

I think the unexplained jump in MA (I got one too, but only a few points) is most likely due to some old malus wearing off, something like a lost holy war or a converted ruler. Unless one of the holy sites was temporarily under non-Slavic control.

 

[Morte66]

I still can't form Rus without going to war with a very strong Khazaria.

I think patience is the key to Khazaria. Every so often it fractures.

 

[DPS]

[QUOTE="Morte66, post: 26779099, member: 50101922 hours.]

A bit alarmingly, 102 hours in the last 2 weeks. I've been conquering the Slavic Union. Slavs are my kryptonite. I've had maybe 8 attempts at reforming them, and it always goes wrong somehow. I run out of CBs, or run out of MA, or whatever. This time there were four occasions when I thought I was within an hour of it, before something came up. When I finally got it I thought I had missed on MA and would have to knuckle down for five holy sites, when suddenly I jumped 20% for no reason I can explain. I reformed without delay...

Maybe I should try to reform the Tengri. That looks hard...

[/QUOTE]

Tengri is the one faith that I haven't been able to reform yet, but I haven't cared much for nomadic gameplay the few times I've tried it, and Bulgaria is so far away from the holy sites. Start as the Mongol Empire in a start date when they're active, though, and it should be relatively easy (the only time I've seen the AI reform the Tengri faith, it was the Mongols that did it).

Slavic usually isn't too hard to reform, depending on which realm you start out in--places like Croatia in 769 would be fairly difficult, but starting in 769 in Poland or Pomerania isn't so bad. You do have to be careful not to over-expand too quickly, though.

Zunism is tough because of the Abbassids, unless they fracture early. Bon is pretty easy if you start in 769 Tibet. African just takes persistence, usually. I used to think Sousmenusko was hard, but in my current game I found a start that made it almost laughably easy. Germanic isn't to hard in 769.

 

[Jaghave]

1922 hours.

A bit alarmingly, 102 hours in the last 2 weeks. I've been conquering the Slavic Union. Slavs are my kryptonite. I've had maybe 8 attempts at reforming them, and it always goes wrong somehow. I run out of CBs, or run out of MA, or whatever. This time there were four occasions when I thought I was within an hour of it, before something came up. When I finally got it I thought I had missed on MA and would have to knuckle down for five holy sites, when suddenly I jumped 20% for no reason I can explain. I reformed without delay...

Maybe I should try to reform the Tengri. That looks hard...

I've done this with Moldova, they have easy access to three Holy Sites and depending on the start and play style you can do some interesting stuff to try and keep your land united upon succession.

The two methods I've accomplish this was the following
With Before Iron Age Start you just have to avoid being beaten up by the Hungarian during migration then it not too hard to expand to your surroundings.

With Iron Age Start you have to start in the Bulgarian Empire, usurp your vassal land, then take over Bessarabia and gain favor to be granted the Moldovan lands occupy by the local tribes. When the opportunity occurs rebel to gain independence and then convert to Slavic. Then it not that hard to expand from that point on.

 

[CMDR_HERNE]

I've had this game for just over 3 years and I've got 208 hours. For me I can't really get into CK2 much as the other games like Imperator, Stellaris and EU4