In the upcoming patch, will you actually disable pacts, shattered retreat, etc?

[Rationalsanity]

Pacts are definitely getting turned off. Not sure about SR though. I'll turn the fantasy events on cause they are fun in small doses. The rest of the rules will be set to historical.

 

[RX2000]

I'm not really a fan of shattered retreats, so more than likely I'll be turning those off. I just dont feel like it adds anything to the game. It doesnt feel more "strategic" or really even harder to have to chase enemy armies around the map to destroy them. Its just annoying.

As far as defensive pacts go, I just recently started playing CK2 again, & havent been trying to do WCs or anything, so I havent really ran into them too much yet. It seems like it would actually be kind of interesting having a real challenge to hardcore expansion though.

 

[Aries666]

Shattered retreat is good, I will be leaving that on (I hated that wars used to be decided in one battle). Defensive pacts as they are I will switch off, they don't really achieve their goal as designed. I would change them so that same religion will not co-operate with other religions against their own, ever. However, at a high threshold they will work together against a third party. I would also make them offensive at a certain threshold. So we get something like this:
0-25% threat - no pacts
25-50% threat - defensive vs offending religion
50-75% threat - offensive vs offending religion, would be granted a liberation CB against the target that would restore the strongest claimant to each title liberated
75-100% threat - defensive across religions