[MOD] Lux Invicta

[richvh]

A lot of the starting characters, especially the bookmarked ones, have vassalized mercenaries. These won't be hireable by any other state, and have a "Raise" rather than "Hire" button in the mercenary list.

 

[DarkReborn]

I completely love this mod, but could we have a little lore description on the religions beides the clerical/martial/statist soul ones? Some I know like the Sol Invictus, Imperial Cult or Mithraic cults, but on the Finnish ones or some that seem made up like the Ragnarok cult or the Pyroastic or whatever in the Persian region I have no clue. It's mostly for flavour.

 

[Cèsar de Quart]

Only he is complaining... That's egoistic and an opinion. I know that too much stuff would make the game unplayable, but it isn't right now

It isn't for you, that much is clear.

Well, I won't go through the unnecessary and tedious task of finding all the people that complained in a thread that's 300 pages long. I'm just asking that Darkgamma and Richvh consider to release a light and a heavy version; because I fear "CKPlus features + family histories + getting to 1300" can possibly mean that a day passes every 2 or 3 seconds in max speed.

I completely love this mod, but could we have a little lore description on the religions beides the clerical/martial/statist soul ones? Some I know like the Sol Invictus, Imperial Cult or Mithraic cults, but on the Finnish ones or some that seem made up like the Ragnarok cult or the Pyroastic or whatever in the Persian region I have no clue. It's mostly for flavour.

This is being worked on, or was a month ago or so. But it takes time, and some religions are obscure, only clear in Shaytana's mind.

 

[KabeDerlin]

It sounds like he's a mercenary. Therefore you have to find his mercenary company and raise it like you would any other mercenary.

Ahhh. This along with richvh's comment makes a lot more sense. I was confused because the army appeared to belong to one of his vassals and I had a similar vassal that seemed useless. Now I see in the Mercenary tab, there he is. I suppose this is meant to be like a standing army, except, like a real army, it's expensive to employ. Very cool. Thanks so much for helping me make sense of this.

 

[Polskers]

Hey Rich, I've got to say I am definitely enjoying the mod, however, with the latest Russian DLC pack, the Eastern Slavic cultured looking characters are now having their clothing, headgear, etc. all distorted. Any quick fix for that which I can do myself to make it look good again?

Other than that, not having any single issues at all.

 

[richvh]

Look back a few pages for an explanation of what to do. Copy a couple files from BLC8d11, and rename some graphics files.

 

[Polskers]

Awesome! Fix works like a charm. Thanks very much, buddy. Merry Christmas.

 

[Gradiant]

I'm just asking that Darkgamma and Richvh consider to release a light and a heavy version; because I fear "CKPlus features + family histories + getting to 1300" can possibly mean that a day passes every 2 or 3 seconds in max speed.

Wasn't there previously a lite version that didn't include the BLC features? Why did that stop being a thing?

 

[Leoric Braich]

I believe it stopped after Shay disappeared from us, he was the one who created it in the first place.

 

[richvh]

I just never got around to updating the light version.

 

[Cèsar de Quart]

Hey here's some Localisation for Gallo-Roman and Jewish Titles if anyone wants it.

1_titles.csv

city_baron_galloroman;Aedile;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
temple_baron_galloroman;Pontifex;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
baron_galloroman;Praefectus;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
count_galloroman;Civis;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
duke_galloroman;Dux;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
king_galloroman;Vergobret;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
emperor_galloroman;Augustus;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
barony_of_galloroman;Prefecture of;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
county_of_galloroman;Civitas of;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
duchy_of_galloroman;Provincia of;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
kingdom_of_galloroman;Pagus of;;;;;;;;;;;;;x

I don't agree with some of these. Aediles were not leading a town, Curii were. As for barons and the rest, why Civis as count? What's wrong with the perfectly equivalent late-roman Comes? And the Vergobret was a city title, not fit for a king who's, well, the king.

In a similar way, "Pagus" is hardly a title for a kingdom. It might mean "country", but it means "country" in a sense of "rural hinterland" of a town. The Pagi in Late Roman administration would evolve into Medieval counties and viscounties, because they were as big as that.

My suggestions:

city_baron_galloroman;Curio;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
city_count_galloroman;Vergobret;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
temple_baron_galloroman;Pontifex;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
baron_galloroman;Praefectus;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
count_galloroman;Comes;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
duke_galloroman;Dux;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
king_galloroman;Rex;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
emperor_galloroman;Augustus;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
barony_of_galloroman;Prefecture of;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
county_of_galloroman;Pagus of;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
duchy_of_galloroman;Province of;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
kingdom_of_galloroman;Diocese of;;;;;;;;;;;;;x
## eventually, a kingdom can also be a "Regnum" or a "Dominium", but since Gallo-Roman areas are small, kingdoms like Aquitaine would almost never be bigger than the roman Diocese they are in, so I think it fits.

 

[Bad_Haggis]

Aediles is the standard Roman Title, so i didn't change it, and you're right about pagus thought i'd changed the ducal level to it. My understanding of Vergobret was that it was effectively a romanisation of an old Gallic term for king.

My intention with the Gallo-Romans was to give them a bit of a traditional conservative flair, and to make them slightly more unique, otherwise they may as well be roman.

 

[Cèsar de Quart]

Aediles is the standard Roman Title, so i didn't change it, and you're right about pagus thought i'd changed the ducal level to it. My understanding of Vergobret was that it was effectively a romanisation of an old Gallic term for king.

My intention with the Gallo-Romans was to give them a bit of a traditional conservative flair, and to make them slightly more unique, otherwise they may as well be roman.

You're right there at the end, but I stand on my point about pagi. If you look at how big pagi were and what did they become, some (especially in the north) became counties, while most (in the south) became viscounties.

Anyway, you're right about the whole Gallo-Roman, Romano-Gothic and Romans being more or less the same with different names in the file.

By the way, I would gladly work on some headgear for Romans and Greeks, especially some more crowns (Late Roman style, mithras and fancy feathers, as well as Hellenistic style ringlets, wreaths and olive crowns), but the BLC mod seems to be in halt, with Shay gone, and also I can't seem to make it work. When I tried to change the blinded eyes from ugly looking sockets into just swollen, darker closed eyelids, it just didn't show on the character, he looked as eyeful as ever. Any tips on what can I be doing wrong? Maybe the .dds format?

 

[richvh]

Not being artistically inclined, I don't really intend to expand BLC (and if you're having slowdowns due to memory load, I'm not sure you'd want it expanded either.)

 

[Cèsar de Quart]

Probably not, but still, since I'm not as selfish as some say, I'd like this mod to have a proper "Roman" and "Hellenistic" style that's a bit missing, especially the Hellenistic part. I'm a bit unable to believe that the guy with the Medieval royal crown and the Western clothing is actually a Seleucid...

I can work on it, it's not hard for me, but what's gonna be a problem is that I don't know the format and I've always found that to be a problem. I'll take a look at some tutorials, see what I can do. Then you decide whether you want to add it or not.

 

[richvh]

What graphics program are you using?

 

[Talonmaster812]

Well, crap. I just lost my post I was about to submit and now I don't feel like writing. I just recap what I was typing.

1. Great mod, won't be playing vanilla for a while, etc.
2. Its not clear how to create the titles you listed on the 1st post under "On creatable titles". Didn't know how to do it in game after 100+ hours in the game. Please just post how F is the title search hotkey or something to that effect. Thanks.
3. I've found a few bugs in my Irish Count game. One of them is ruining the entire play through for me.
3a. The King and High King titles are the source of my troubles. The 1st and very minor one(in comparison to the other issue) was a dispute over the title of the High King with my vassal. He declared war for the throne but it ended before it even began, with an invalid claim. Didn't stop him from trying again... about 9 more times.
3b. The second and by far the worst. It is whats going on now that I've founded the Celtic Ímpire. This may also be a bug but my current character has both the King and High King titles at the same time. When I founded the Ímpire the succession event for the King title happened, the one where the vassals decided whether or not to stay with you. This bug in itself is not too bad... that is if it didn't repeat endlessly. Yup, every 10 seconds or so one or more of my vassals decides to leaves me. The reason I didn't run out of vassals is because they all except my invitation back to the big ol' Celtic Ímpire party, only to leave again a few seconds later. So why do they even bother to leave if they willingly join you afterwards? You might want to check into that.

I suppose I'll find another interesting ruler to play as (and there are many of them)in the meantime, or I could load an old save and hold off on forming my Ímpire, at least until my current High King dies. Thanks for reading as well as making an awesome mod.

 

[richvh]

First I've heard of problems with the Celtic succession events, can you send me a save?

 

[Talonmaster812]

I've never actually uploaded a file before so I went with the first site that came up. Both the file I uploaded and the bug that is in it works for me. http://www.2shared.com/complete/yhieiWMb/Celtic_Impire1156_12_31.html

 

[richvh]

First thing I found is that the "You are no longer worthy of being called Prince or King" event firing for your character; fix for this is to open up vassal_loss_events.txt, scroll to the bottom, and add "tier = emperor" in the same OR block as the duke and king tier tests in the trigger block of event 930000011.

I'll look some more tomorrow, if I can tear myself away from Diablo III.