Project Balance
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Crown Levies effect the minimum limit. Both the focus and obligations effect the maximum limit. Most of my vassals give me the full 100% of the levies that they're supposed to; it's only some who aren't.
It's the laws, not opinion. His opinion was 100 when I posted that (different guy by now). It clearly says "Laws: -20%". Not sure why.
Still playing as Cumania. I enjoy the raiding casus belli on all my Russian neighbors. Prevents them from getting too uppity and actually stops them from killing each other so often. No kingdoms yet, still just the Kievian Rus.
I somehow got my dynasty in the high chiefdom of Perm. It got me thinking on two things - first of all, it should be easier to get dynastic members to vassalize to you. It really pisses me off when I can't, under any circumstances, get my cousins in the same religion and culture group as me to become my vassals. It should probably take 20-50 years, but I don't want to have to find a claimant and DoW them to make them my vassals. Hell, maybe there could be a special CB for it. I just don't like deposing family members. It gets even more ridiculous when I have over 10x the troops they do. Secondly, Khazaria should be formable, but only by Jews or maybe Orthodox guys. They also should have the duchy of Khazars as their primary title or as a vassal and be Altaic.
Other than Sweden and Norway, I haven't seen the European pagans lose any ground. So good work on that, but maybe they're too powerful? I'm the strongest kingdom right now and all I did was annex Alania, half of Cherson, 2/3 of Georgia, Turkmens, Bulgar, Cheremisa, and Wallachia.
Actually, now that I think about it, that's a pretty big accomplishment. Still, I have 7k more troops than the Byzies, who are about 20% larger than they were at the start. I'm certainly richer, but that's the raids coming in to play. For a titular kingdom, I sure am doing pretty well.
Also, I just noticed that the capital of Senoussi is "b_senoussi."
edit: I noticed that the "arrange courtier marriages" overrides betrothals, mainly for sisters, aunts, and possibly daughters. That kinda sucks.
Also note that I won't be offended if you don't find any of this within the spirit of the mod, just saying what's on my mind.
I somehow got my dynasty in the high chiefdom of Perm. It got me thinking on two things - first of all, it should be easier to get dynastic members to vassalize to you. It really pisses me off when I can't, under any circumstances, get my cousins in the same religion and culture group as me to become my vassals. It should probably take 20-50 years, but I don't want to have to find a claimant and DoW them to make them my vassals. Hell, maybe there could be a special CB for it. I just don't like deposing family members. It gets even more ridiculous when I have over 10x the troops they do. Secondly, Khazaria should be formable, but only by Jews or maybe Orthodox guys. They also should have the duchy of Khazars as their primary title or as a vassal and be Altaic.
Other than Sweden and Norway, I haven't seen the European pagans lose any ground. So good work on that, but maybe they're too powerful? I'm the strongest kingdom right now and all I did was annex Alania, half of Cherson, 2/3 of Georgia, Turkmens, Bulgar, Cheremisa, and Wallachia.
Actually, now that I think about it, that's a pretty big accomplishment. Still, I have 7k more troops than the Byzies, who are about 20% larger than they were at the start. I'm certainly richer, but that's the raids coming in to play. For a titular kingdom, I sure am doing pretty well.
Also, I just noticed that the capital of Senoussi is "b_senoussi."
edit: I noticed that the "arrange courtier marriages" overrides betrothals, mainly for sisters, aunts, and possibly daughters. That kinda sucks.
Also note that I won't be offended if you don't find any of this within the spirit of the mod, just saying what's on my mind.
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I might think that would be the case, if it weren't for the fact that, of all places, Novgorod is one of the problem-makers. There's no question that Novgorod is de jure Russian Empire, so there should be absolutely nothing to stop my laws from effecting them. If it were Denmark (they give me all of their levies, by the way) or something, I'd probably accept it could be other laws. But not in Novgorod.
Actually, I can relate to this. I started my my game as the Count of Zaozerye, but quickly inherited the Grand Principality of Volhynia. In the early game, I found myself frustrated that the constant Cuman and Pecheneg raids were absolutely unstoppable. Even the Pechenegs, whose total territory was perhaps equivalent to a single Rus Principality, could easily field enough troops to stomp the combined efforts of all of the Rus Princes. As I recall, the Pechenegs could field about 6k-8k troops right from the beginning of the game, while each Grand Principality was able to muster up perhaps 1k-1.5k each, or maybe 2k for the strongest ones (they never fought together though, the idiots). The Cumans had about double the troops of the Pechenegs. I considered myself lucky that I bordered neither of the two ruthless tribes, as I was the weakest of the Grand Principalities.
I looked at some of the land that the Pagans controlled and noticed that their Castles had between 1.8k-2.6k troops right from the very beginning of the game, which I thought was a bit ridiculous, as I had boosted a single region dedicated to being my primary military region, with the intent of maxing out the military capabilities of a region to boost with my Marshal, since I figured that would be the best way to get troops with the little money that I had in the beginning of the game. It took me many years to build up enough infrastructure in a single region, and when I finally maxed it out (with the technology that I had - I think 2 stars), it had about 2.2k troops with my marshal boosting it. Less than what the Pagans started with.
That said, later in the game the threat of the Pagans virtually collapsed. I finally squashed the Cuman army of doom by combining my might with as many mercenaries as I could muster, and they didn't really have the money to replace the lost troops (I think most of them were retinues). I noticed that, throughout the whole game, the one thing that the Pagans did NOT have, was a strong income. They did have the money earned from raids though. Lots of it.
By now in my game, about ~1380, the Pagans are on the verge of going extinct. The Golden Horde quickly took out Cumania and Perm, but were conquered by the Ilkhanate after I defeated the Doomstacks of the Golden Horde. The Pagans in Northern Europe are being crushed by the combined might of my vassals (I'm not doing anything to them), plus the Catholics. On that note, I think the Catholics are perhaps too strong in Project Balance.
The Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy have been pushing into Egypt and the Middle East for centuries now. They basically conquered the whole of the Fatimid Caliphate, and pushed into the Levant. North Africa is almost entirely controlled by Catholics now. I'm pretty sure that every single Crusade has been a success, and I don't think I've ever seen a successful Jihad. Scotland, too, seems to be dominating everything. They've conquered Ireland, and they successfully won a Crusade on Sweden, and recently just won a Crusade on Mauretania. Finland is now completely controlled by either my vassals or by Catholics. The battle for Iberia seemed to be going a lot more balanced, until Scotland took Mauretania. Now there's just little blotches of Muslims still in Iberia, but the Sunni religion is almost entirely extinct by now, and Shia is still strong only because the Ilkhanate converted to Shia and the Timurids are Shia. Pagans seem overpowered at the beginning of the game, but the Catholics are definitely too powerful later in the game.
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I'm aware. That's why I didn't bother going to complain about it when my game was still in its infancy. I just mentioned it now because DoubleA said something very relevant to it.
I've noticed that too. It's only the mid 1100s, though. I did manage to get my income up to 200 less than the Byzies make yearly (they make 500), but only after I pumped thousands of spoils into my demesne. Only 5 of my provinces are my culture/religion and another is my religion. The other of my two counties just don't have any RC penalties. Though to be perfectly fair, I've only been able to change my crown laws once, have level 2 or 3 obligations for my vassals, and am mostly inland, whereas the Byzantines have far more laws and coasts than I do. I was doing better than the HRE and Seljuks for a time, but now that they rereuinted with France and stopped having civil wars (respectively), I'm the number three dog again.
Yes, the HRE reconquered France. The duke of Flanders got a claim somehow, and even more somehow, the HRE pressed it for him. Then about 35 years later, France rebelled. After the truce wore off, they got it back, only this time with the Kaiser owning it directly.
Incidentally, the Catholics have half of Spain. Navarra took Brittany but Castille is owned by House de Normandie due to the last queen marrying with some Norman duke. England's owned by them as well, so I guess they're slightly better off, but it's interesting to be sure.
If I beat the Byzies in a raid, I get somewhere between 600 and 1200 gold. You guys think I should go for it?
Yes, the HRE reconquered France. The duke of Flanders got a claim somehow, and even more somehow, the HRE pressed it for him. Then about 35 years later, France rebelled. After the truce wore off, they got it back, only this time with the Kaiser owning it directly.
Incidentally, the Catholics have half of Spain. Navarra took Brittany but Castille is owned by House de Normandie due to the last queen marrying with some Norman duke. England's owned by them as well, so I guess they're slightly better off, but it's interesting to be sure.
If I beat the Byzies in a raid, I get somewhere between 600 and 1200 gold. You guys think I should go for it?
Hi Meneth.
I think I and Yezhanquan have found the cause of the bug regarding not being able to press vassal ducal de-jure county claims. There's a bunch of stuff about ruler traits in the CB types file under the section regarding that CB. It prohibits rulers with most of the positive traits using the CB.
I think I and Yezhanquan have found the cause of the bug regarding not being able to press vassal ducal de-jure county claims. There's a bunch of stuff about ruler traits in the CB types file under the section regarding that CB. It prohibits rulers with most of the positive traits using the CB.
Code:
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NOT = { is_close_relative = FROM }
NOT = { any_spouse = { character = FROM } }
NOT = { any_spouse = { is_close_relative = FROM } }
NOT = { FROM = { any_spouse = { is_close_relative = ROOT } } }
}
NOT = { religion_group = FROM }
is_heresy_of = FROM
is_parent_religion = FROM
FROM = { excommunicated_for = ROOT }
AND = {
OR = {
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trait = envious
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OR = {
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NOT = { trait = just }
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}They'll have better tech, too. Nothing you can do about that.
If I beat the Byzies in a raid, I get somewhere between 600 and 1200 gold. You guys think I should go for it?
Do you border them? If so, you could always just put your retinues on their border, time them to move to the Byzantine land at the same time, then declare war 1 day before they get there. If you want to "play fair", it might be a dangerous gamble to raid them. Depends on how much they're preoccupied in other wars, probably.
I border their two provinces in Cherson and whatever touches the Pechengs at the start.
Most of my troops are to the north and west of Alania, though, and my only guy with organizer died a few months ago. Gonna take awhile to move everyone, though I do have about 110 boats now, so that should help out considerably.
Most of my troops are to the north and west of Alania, though, and my only guy with organizer died a few months ago. Gonna take awhile to move everyone, though I do have about 110 boats now, so that should help out considerably.
That bit just prevents you from attacking allies unless you've got a number of traits (or simply lack the bad traits listed). The same applies to most non-claim CBs in PB.
Since it doesn't apply to regular dejure claims though, I'll remove that bit. Doesn't make much sense to have it apply to one but not the other.
Is it possible to swear fealty to a king while being part of HRE? Im playing as Duke of Austria, and Bavaria has become a very powerful kingdom. Im its dejure vassal, and its already taken a county from me. There is no way i can stop it, how do i swear fealty?
If it is at all possible there should be a button on the diplomacy screen.
Yeah, i looked for it but it isnt there. Guess its because im part of the HRE, even though im a dejure vassal of them.
Even if it's there, if the country you're currently sworn to is a lot stronger than the one you want to be a part of, you get a large penalty to switching over.
I have an issue. Hungary seems to be the small kid in the Balkans. Its levies are always depleted from fighting off Pecheneg tribal raids, wars with the Croats, infighting and the occasional Byzantine fabricated county-claim war. It's common to see it absorbed by a Bohemian claim war and never break out the HRE unless through player intervention.