Project Balance

[Meneth]

Did a game as Nubia. I've noticed that I cannot expand into the Sahel because in my path there is a province which is Sunni (I can't holy-war it), and it is ruled by a burgher so I cannot fabricate a claim on it. Is there any way this can be addressed in some way?

(Edit) And some more:
Ultimogentire is available to unreformed pagans.

You should be able to fabricate claims anywhere you've got a landborder or a shared seazone unless it's the capital of a merchant republic.
Committed a change to the beta branch that should hopefully fix Ultimogeniture.

OK. What about the pagan with Primogeniture? Any idea?

Nope.

 

[Meneth]

Isn't ultimogeniture what the Mongols use when they arrive? Aren't they generally going to be unreformed Tengri? Will the fix cause problems there?

Nah:

OR = {
    culture = mongol
    NOT = { religion_group = pagan_group }
    is_reformed_religion = yes
    religion = hellenic_pagan
}

 

[Meneth]

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You know, that's a vanilla event
Not any more or less common in PB.

Well... this is one lucky guy!



Blind people really shouldn't be allowed to lead armies...

My king is a blind excommunicated kinslayer, by the way.

Being blind makes you 10 times as likely to lose if I remember correctly, plus the martial debuff.
As blind characters can lead in vanilla I'm fine with them leading in PB.

 

[Meneth]

I'm guessing this is a no, but it it possible to have an event drift remaining territory out of a de jure kingdom that has lost basically everything? In a few years, all of Egypt except Cyrenacia is going to be de jure Shia Caliphate, and I don't really think it's appropriate that Egypt lingers on as Cyrenacia.

I don't believe there's any decent way to quantify the amount of dejure territory there's left in a kingdom.

 

[Meneth]

Hey Meneth...Are you aware of this???
http://i.imgur.com/PYHeZUP.jpg
Rebels took the settlement and imprisoned the Komissa.

Is that a named character rebellion, like was introduced in the Old Gods?
If that's the case I can probably code something to prevent it.

Edit: I've made a commit to the beta branch that should fix it.

 

[Meneth]

I don't think it was a named rebellion, just the normal one...Is it possible to fix that???

There should be no way for rebels, named or not, to seize prisoners via sieges in the latest version of the beta branch.

 

[Meneth]

I see...Thanks.
Something else now, Have you found a way to prevent characters dying during tourneys???

Nope.
Hopefully jordarkelf will release an updated version soon.

 

[Meneth]

When playing a norse character I don't get the notification about the founding of the Varangian guard and none of the varangian events. And if I try to fire via console any of the events about them I can see on the console the requirements and this appear:
(X)Have culture group North Germanic

Is something wrong in here? I'm using PB + Viet Events + ARKO + Cultures and Portraits Revamp

In PB they're in the North Germanic group, so that's likely not the cause. I imagine CPR might be at fault.

 

[Meneth]

@Meneth: One little thing I noticed while merging - I noticed that in the creation/usurpation requirements for the Empire of Persia, you did not account for the Kingdoms of Khwarezm and Armenia even though you moved them into the de jure Empire of Persia. Just wanted to bring that up, as I don't think that's WAD on your part.

WAD, yes. They weren't core to the empire.

Bug I found: When someone asks you permission to duel someone else (duel engine events), it always ends up with them dueling you.

Report to jordarkelf.

Is it possible to prevent adventurers from starting invasion wars for e_pirates/rebels stuff?

I'll see what I can do.
Edit: From looking at the CB the only valid targets should be dejure duchies.

 

[Meneth]

Project Balance 3.2.16 released

Should be compatible with any saves from 3.2.X. Some changes might only apply to new campaigns.
If you encounter any issues or have any feedback, please report it in this thread.

Download: .7z archive version

• Now compatible with CKII 1.101 (non-beta version)
• Fixed it being possible to skip the Intact Theme System stage
• The Norman Company is no longer called "the the Norman Company"
• Disabled the vanilla loan event
• Added some Norse-Gael dynasty names. Credit goes to cybrxkhan
• Ensured all faction members get imprisoned if the faction war is lost
• Ensured that all faction event forces get disbanded when the war concludes
• Ensured that Ultimogeniture is not available to unreformed Pagans with the exception of Mongols
• Prevented all rebels from taking prisoners via the siege events, rather than just the old style unnamed rebels
• (PB+SWMH) Fixed the Norman Company having no soldiers
• (PB+SWMH) Fixed the Fatimids having lower decadence than they should
• (PB+SWMH) Fixed some succession law restrictions not properly applying

 

[Meneth]

Congratulations on the quickest update ever. The patch has been up for like... five minutes and the mod is already updated.

lol.

Now I only need to wait for VIET and CPR's versions for the 1.101 patch.

Luckily only... four files changed compared to the beta version, so updating was pretty easy.

 

[Meneth]

As king erik "the heathen", I conquered sweden, norway and denmark. I also have title king of sweden and norway. How do I create scandinavian empire?

Also, currently I disabled all retinue because in my last playthrough in 3.2.10, when a son with a title (and retinues) inherited his father kingdom, he also inherited his father retinue. Which is beyond the retinue cap. Is it still happened?

You need Denmark as well in order to create Scandinavia.
Inheriting retinues is a vanilla thing that I can't do anything about. I believe you're not supposed to be able to inherit enough to go over your cap, but this doesn't always seem to work.

 

[Meneth]

I'm not sure you can do much about this, but you can also greatly exceed your normal retinue cap by building retinues right after conquering land. I'm playing a Zoroastrian campaign, and I went way over my cap by building retinues right after conquering the 8 province duchy in Persia (when I held about 24 holdings over my limit). Apparently all of the +retinue buildings count at that point. I realized what I had done somewhat later and disbanded the surplus.

Luckily that's something only the player really does

 

[Meneth]

How does this work? I loaded up, waited a few days through event spam which killed off all kids in the world, but the counties are not independent... ( help!

The world should be shattered the moment you start the campaign. Make sure you start it with PB itself enabled.

 

[Meneth]

Is it possible for there to be a merge culture for Norwegian and Anglo-Saxon, similar to the Norman conversion, for example if Harald wins the 1066 battles for England?

I think that would be a cool addition.

Anglo-Saxon is essentially a mix of Anglo-Saxon and Danish though, so I'm not sure how much sense it'd really make.

 

[Meneth]

Not sure if it's been mentioned yet but there is a minor bug with the Absolute Cognatic option. It requires that you have a fitting nickname to implement it, but it doesn't accept "the Saoshyant", which is probably the most prestigious one you could possibly have.

I'll have it accept it.
Edit: Change committed to beta branch.

 

[Meneth]

I cant seem to increase crown law as a reformed pagan even though I meet all the requirements listed.

The issue is likely the opinion requirement. It'll always show as "true" on the UI regardless of whether it's actually true or not.
Make sure you've got no duke or above vassals with a lower opinion than what's stated in the requirements.

 

[Meneth]

I'm a bit confused by an issue with Holy Wars. I'm using the SWMH map playing as the Zirid and have formed the Empire of Africa, covering north Africa to where it borders with Egypt. The Il Khanate has swallowed up Persia, the Levant and Egypt, and now borders me in the east. They have converted to Nestorian Christianity, and I've been wanting to try to take Egypt. I meet all the requirements for non-de jure Holy Wars (and have waged a few to take Sardinia and Corsica, so I'm confident I'm not misreading the requirements) and the Holy War cooldown has expired, but I am unable to wage a Holy War against the Il Khanate. All I can think is that because I'm a Muslim heresy (Shia) and they're a Christian heresy, somehow we can't launch Holy Wars against each other. Is this the case? And if so, is there any way to change that?

Do you meet the base requirements? You have to meet those for any holy war.

 

[Meneth]

can you guys give the jews holy sites, and make khazaria jewish? Also why does all the tribes except Khazaria start with free troops in 876? Khazaria didn't even reach its peak until the mid 10th century and didn't decline( though very quickly) until 1016 after a massive defeat at the hands of a combined Rus / ERE attack. Also shouldn't a lot of duchy of cherson be jewish at game start as well as they had large majorities of jews that fled from ERE to the tolerant Khazaria?

also an idea for the 5 holy sites for jews unless you guys already have those planned
Jerusalem (for obvious reasons)
Sinai ( around the mountains where moses got the ten commandments from yahweh)
Mecca (Muslims claim that the rock they worship has something to do with Abraham)
Gondar ( around semien mountains where ethiopian jews are defending)
Itil (capital of the Khazaria, a known jewish empire)

To make the Khazars Jewish they'd have to get the same religion mechanics as Tengri Pagans. That however would probably not be fitting for Semien. As such, Tengri in Khazaria works best.
To be honest I'm not entirely sure why I bothered to keep Jewish religion in the game when I integrated the North African Expansion, as it doesn't add much to the game.

 

[Meneth]

okay, it was just a thought. Shame you are going to remove them :unsure:

I don't think I'll remove it (labeling the kingdom of Semien as anything but Jewish would be silly), but I don't think I'll expand on it either.