I know the modding field is pretty full right now but my opinions are starting to differ from a few of my favorite overhaul mods and I've modded since CK1 so why not just make my own?
In general, I will probably stick to mostly vanilla mechanics as they are not my specialty, though I am quite capable of modding them I have no sense for whether an 0.1 increase in cavalry effectiveness on mountains will irrevocably break the game balance forever (probably). What I will mostly focus on is requirements for creation of titles, de jure areas, events, ambitions, and AI (as much as possible).
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Feel free to request things and if they make sense to me I will gladly add them. As of right now I haven't stolen anything from other modders, but this space reserved for when/if I do.
Though I have spent hours modding other mods I haven't put a ton of time into this yet so if there are bugs or things aren't working let me know.
In general, I will probably stick to mostly vanilla mechanics as they are not my specialty, though I am quite capable of modding them I have no sense for whether an 0.1 increase in cavalry effectiveness on mountains will irrevocably break the game balance forever (probably). What I will mostly focus on is requirements for creation of titles, de jure areas, events, ambitions, and AI (as much as possible).
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- Court birth penalties kick in at 40 instead of 30
- Max age for childbearing is now 40 instead of 45
- Succession CB last 1 year instead of 5
- You may change ambitions yearly (instead of 3 years)
- Council members may change activity monthly (instead of every 6 months)
- Attacking someone crusading costs the same piety as defending from heathens (100)
- TEMPORARILY lowered call to war break period to 12 months from 60 to balance as Muslims don't seem to be affected by it.
- Costs 200 Prestige to attack an ally (old 50)
- Costs 1000 Prestige to break a truce (old 100) - AI almost never does this but players know it's negligible, still is if you're a big dog
- Costs 0 prestige to refuse an offensive war, 200 to refuse a defensive one (from 25/100)
- Lowered prestige hit/gain for marrying above/below rank (was 20 per rank, now 5)
- Upped piety gain to 25 (from 5) for releasing prisoners - generally a good and hard to abuse way to gain piety when you might otherwise just let them rot.
- Demesne per 5 stewardship instead of 4
- Gavelkind now 50% bonus to demesne as an attempt to make it feasible
- Women and bastards do NOT inherit pressed claims, you'll have to press them yourself
- Muslim demesne law changes are now 100 (from 50) piety, crown laws 250 (from 100) because of the ridiculously easy piety gathering as a muslim.
- In the same vein, wars against other (same) muslim cost 5 piety per month (from 2)
- Muslim temple holdings down to 0.1 piety per month (from 0.2). Really little reason not to hold them anyway.
- Imprisoning, banishing, and executing cost no piety. If it's allowed its just allowed if not the tyranny is the cost.
- Allies more likely to respond to calls for war (50 threshold from 75)
- Lifting excommunications only costs 10 piety - if you can do it then there's no reason to penalize you that much
- Betrothals autobreak at 17 (from 20) so that you can just wait one out if it turns out bad.
- Lowered direct pope money to 25%, antipope to 10% - he doesn't do anything with that money and antipopes were exploitable
- Upped combat events to every 30 days from 10 - hoping to stem crazy amounts of siege events when you're leading and people randomly dying
- Lowered defending warscore increase if held to 2 months (from 1 year!)
- Lowered overrun ratio to 15 (from 25) - ridiculous amount of running around
- Made AI consider white peace at -25 instead of -50 (you've already won)
- Made overall AI diplomacy a little more friendly - 10+ instead of 25+ to get a yes.
- Changed wrong govt type penalty to 50%, temporary measure until I figure out a counterbalance to muslim temple holdings because the AI will still drop them like a ton of bricks (hardcoded I think)
- Lowered assimilation years to 50 (from 100) - may go further after testing as by the time anything is actually assimilated time is almost up.
- Lowered usurp cooldown to 1 year (from 5)
- Baron claim/revokation costs no prestige. I will make it not cost tyranny too if I can figure out how, one of my pet peeves in this game.
- Upped piety gain from gifting religious figures to a multiplier of 10 (from 3) - never seems to give enough for how much you have to fork out
- Raised limit of elector titles to 2 to match duchies - if you've got a small kingdom you probably have your favorite elected with 1 and if you have a big one 2 isn't gonna change it.
- Lowered wrong govt penalties to 33% from 75% - a possible alternative for small guys but not a good one for the most part and one the AI will never take.
- Max generated traits of historical is 2 (from 5).
- Raised mad about levy interval to 120 from 73
- Barons and counts no longer get prestige penalty for unlanded sons - dukes raised to 1, kings raised to 2, and emperors raised to 5 (cuz really).
- Raised grant to church piety significantly - 50/100/250/500/2500 from 25/50/0/0/0
- Raised disbanding in non-owned territory return to 75% from 50% - AI uses this exclusively and it's just annoying to hike back one province, makes it more balanced and a possibly player option this way.
- Halved merc and vassalized merc maintenance costs but doubled hire costs to compensate - already have to sit there a month
- Raised opinion floor for vassals to give you the least amount of troops they can from -25 to 0
- Merc reinforcement when not in the field is now double the normal (3x previous value), also raised in the field reinforcement rates.
- Occupying capitals is worth triple (no bonus before), occupying demesne is worth half (from 0.3) and occupying vassals is worth 0.2 (from 0.3). This is to attempt to stop the 'siege the other end of the universe to win' strategy, also so if they're getting stomped they don't wait till their whole army/country is gone before surrendering.
- Contested settlements are worth double (from 1.75)
- Holding contested settlements is worth 25% per year or 50% per year on independence wars (eg if they don't hit them in 2 years)
- Lowered flanking bonus to 10% from 30 - thought is to allow units that are still mostly matched but one missing one flank to not instantly fold.
- Made sieges 10 to 0.5 from 15 to 0.6, doubled siege setup time to avoid speedbumps
- Lowered max decadence moral bonus to 10% - 60% is insane.
- Quartered galley maintenance to 75from 300 - this is why the merc navies were insanely expensive, 300 is the same maintenance as 100 light + 100 heavy - 75 is a lot more reasonable imo, maybe lower.
- Lowered tech discovery chance very slightly but raised demnese/neighbor spreads significantly - may look into Meneth's mod later
- Combat has slightly more deaths and slightly less morale loss - always sucks to have to chase around a unit that's 5k but out of morale, or being that unit
- Raised 'vassal will lead troops himself' opinion to 75+, too many random deaths of vassals when I'd be just fine with their marshal unless they REALLY REALLY (75+) wanna come.
- Lowered outbreak chance significantly, needs testing
- Upped coastal, friendly and adjacent-friendly supply rates
- Kingdom creation has had all requirements removed except owning the land. Italy can be formed by Muslims, for example.
- Removed piety cost from Kingdom creation (still have to have 0+ piety).
- Removed some strange dignity modifiers. France for example is perceived as 20 counties more than actual. If you own France I don't think you need this modifier.
- De jure area of the 2 held empires in 1066 (HRE, ERE) have had their de jure empire reduced to the core kingdom. Germany for HRE and Byzantium (Greece/part of Nikaea) for ERE
- De jure area of the fictional empires is now none at all.
- Empire creation has had all requirements removed, fictional empires can be created by anyone if they hold the king titles that were previously de jure.
- Moved Syria from Arabian to Persian Empire
- Latin Empire can be created by anyone that holds Byzantion and not the Byzantine Empire.
- You can now plot to kill anyone if you are cruel or impaler.
- AI-only restrictions on plotting to kill are now the same as the player's restrictions, mostly involves applying the same restrictions to the player.
- You can no longer plot to kill anyone if you are honest, kind, or just (previously only AI was restricted if honest/just)
- You can no longer plot to kill your spouse if you are the above OR lustful. More fish in the sea AMIRITE BRO?
- Each job can be wished for only once, flagged after to prevent repeated skilling up (as fun as it was)
- To qualify for the ambition you must either have 11 of the applicable skill or the top education for that type (EG Martial 11 or Brilliant Strategist for Marshal)
- Removed arbitary limits to prestige/piety to do exalted/holy - can do as long as you're below the target (500/1000)
- Added ambitions for women in the appropriate circumstances to desire a job title
- AI is now allowed to Observe Ramadan if they are a Hajajj, have >=10 decadence and have at least 200 wealth (to keep them from going broke).
- Removed randomization factor for AI from Go On Hajj, simply require that they are married, have 200g and are 22.
- Chancellors now lift FOW like Spymaster so you can at least use them that way.
- Court Imams can be reassigned (too many time you inherit a bad one on inheritance forever).
- When getting any council position, the 'Fired from Council' opinion is removed. No, it's not replaced by another modifier. Just only 1 at a time.
- In cognatic succession, your mother, your wife, your dynasty, and landed females may be chancellor, steward, or spymaster
- In true cognatic succession any female may be chancellor, steward, or spymaster
- Removed 'The Greatest' as a god name for Sunni/Shiite. I have never heard a Muslim refer to Allah by that name other than in the Takbir and if I did use it I would want to use the Arabic phonetic name not the translation but didn't want to get into localization. But it was really starting to annoy me seeing it so often.
- Overhaul of childhood events
- Making traits mean a hell of a lot more than they do now
- Add secondary muslim Holy ambition due to their crazy accumulation of piety vs other religions
- Always: changing of minor things that annoy me.
- Fix 'impotent' event not to fire if target is lustful (duh)
- Add abdication of some fashion, probably trait-dependent maybe elective and/or primo only
- Fix culture change from tutoring to be in the cultural group of the province
- Figure out a balanced way to counteract that muslims can hold 2/3 holding types with no penalty (AI will discard even if penalty is reduced)
- Killed by rabble at 0% revolt risk = stupid
- Fix the auto-cancel revoke title by matching req to abort
- Move Aegean Islands to Aegean Islands duchy and abydos to mainland(!!!)
- Limit childhood traits to 2 (maybe 3)
- Stressed/depressed/lunatic/possessed/syphilitic under 16 = DUMB
- Stop repeat childhood events
- Maybe make "you suck imma be regent now" events actually take your relative skills into account instead of just a 50/50?
[*} Add avee's mod in with a few tweaks
Feel free to request things and if they make sense to me I will gladly add them. As of right now I haven't stolen anything from other modders, but this space reserved for when/if I do.
Though I have spent hours modding other mods I haven't put a ton of time into this yet so if there are bugs or things aren't working let me know.
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