Project Balance

[Meneth]

That CK2Plus icon for loans doesn't fit into the UI style at all, so in my opinion it'd be better to not have an icon at all.

Anyway, the invitation decisions now without white borders:

 

[Meneth]

Fantastic!, would we have to wait until next version? or would you upload it on the beta branch eventually? (same question for the tourney icons)

It's all up on the beta branch already.
Also added the icon for mending the schism to the Catholic version. Not 100% fitting, but better than no icon.

 

[Meneth]

@Meneth: How do you add icons to decisions? I'll need to add some for the gazillions of decisions I have in VIET. :unsure:

Check out PB_decisions.gfx.

 

[Meneth]

Right, here's a showcase of all the new decision icons (not including those copied over from vanilla decisions):

If anyone knows about a vanilla icon anywhere in the game with a question mark, please do tell. Alternatively a sword or two crossed swords, but I think a question mark would work best for the "is war possible" decisions.

 

[Meneth]

Currently I'm missing icons for these decisions:
- Is war possible: A question mark would be great here; if anyone knows of a vanilla icon or UI element that has a question mark, please do tell
- Request dejure transfer: No idea what would work here; if anyone has any ideas, please do tell
- Request prisoner exchange: No idea here either
- Request important prisoners: Probably the same icon as prisoner exchange
- Bring family out of hiding: No clue

 

[Meneth]

Made an icon for the prisoner exchange decision:

 

[Meneth]

For question marks, there are a couple in gfx/interface/charaction_sub_diplomacy_big.dds, unfortunately they are on top of other things so it might be a bit to isolate them.

Yeah, not workable. I can probably use that one with the crowns and the question mark as dejure transfer though.

 

[Meneth]

Dejure transfer:

 

[Meneth]

New prisoner exchange icon. The previous icon is now used for "request important prisoners" instead.

 

[Meneth]

A guy made me a questionmark for the "is war possible?" decision.
I've also made an icon for checking war against allies:

What I'm missing now:
- Imperial reconquest
- Holy war
- Pagan subjugation
- Pagan county conquest
- Muslim county conquest
- Muslim invasion

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Nice. Another guy made me a questionmark though, which is more fitting.
Might be able to use your icon for something else though.

I think I've encountered a bug. I can't declare holy war on any of my muslim neighbors, whether as the late 2000 piety Uberking or the new 50 piety babyking. Also, I'm unable to fabricate claims on Venice, despite owning every province around it. How are you supposed to conquer them if there's never a valid Casus Belli?

You can't fabricate claims on the capitals of merchant republics.
You can push dejure claims though, so you'd have to become emperor of Italy.

As to holy war, check the "is war possible" decisions.

 

[Meneth]

County conquest:

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I'll use it for the Muslim Invasion until/unless someone comes up with something more fitting.

 

[Meneth]

If you look at gfx/interface/muslim_interface/alerticons.dds and gfx/interface/pagan_interface/alerticons.dds you can see some of the popup buttons they have. Might be a bit too big, and most probably won't work, but I thought I'd throw that out there in case something catches your eye.

Can't see anything that fits the remaining icons:
- Call family out of hiding
- Pagan Subjugation checks
- Holy war checks

 

[Meneth]

Let's see...

For the last two, if you're fine with generic military stuff, there's job_advance_mil_tech.dds (if you remove the plus sign), job_assist_arrest.dds (the best one I think), and job_train_troops.dds.

That fist works well for subjugation, thanks.

 

[Meneth]

A quick question:
My ruler is a Cynical Orthodox and another allied ruler is a Zealous Catholic so why he has the Zealous -50 trait along with the normal zealous vs cynical -20???

http://i.imgur.com/xMx3i8G.jpg

Thanks...

It's because you're a different religion. Zealous characters really don't like people like that.

I was trying to set up a Shattered Balance game, and after a few tries I realized that the customization options beyond the first "enable special CBs?" one don't fire when I use the ruler designer. This is a fairly big problem because merchant republics already blob everywhere when there are other king-level entities around. I'm sure it's the ruler designer because the merchant republic option window always opens up when I select an existing ruler, but never when I design a ruler. Is there a way to circumvent this, like maybe triggering them through the console?

The final option ("make all counties feudal?") also doesn't seem to work, as I still see lord mayors and prince-bishops around. Does it take a few days unpaused for it to happen?

Yeah, the ruler designer thing is a known issue, but sadly I don't really know how to fix it. You could look up the event IDs in the Shattered Balance event file and call them from there.
Counties without any castles can't be made feudal, but everything else should. It can take a couple days to apply though.

 

[Meneth]

Ah, I see. Thanks, I'll do that.

I think I set it up so the next event will trigger within a month if you unpause though, so you could try that first.

 

[Meneth]

All the war check CBs have icons now.
Though if someone has ideas for better ones for holy war and muslim invasion, please do tell.

I'm still missing an icon for the "bring family out of hiding" decision though. Ideas would be appreciated.
Suggestions for improvements to the icons in general are also of course appreciated.

 

[Meneth]

Hi Meneth.

I've finally gotten to try your mod and quite frankly - it is grand. Thanks for making it.

However I do have a question regarding trooptypes. Along the way Paradox rebalanced troop stats making some very significant changes there, yet your mod either doesn't support them or keeps them unchanged.

Biggest difference is with ligth cavalry obviously - in your mod (and in first versions of vanilla) light cav was basically light infantry on ponies - wrecking havoc in pursue phase, but being useless in pretty much everything else. Right now in vanilla their melee attack is 4.5 as opposed to 3 which makes them quite a lot more useful as unit.
So - did you decide to keep the stats from earlier versions as it suited your mod more, or did you not care all that much?

I'll look into it, thanks.

Meneth

Thanks for a great mod!

I have a few suggestions.

Regarding Russia I Think you should remove the artificial kindoms of Novgorod and Kiev and just have one russian kingdom. The present configuration blocks the soutward expansion in all my tests. The viking state around Novgorod expanded fast to the south and the capital were moved to Kiev. Se the wikipedia Russia and Varngians.

Regarding Norse religion there in no known case of a conversion to the norse religion on the contrary the colonizing norse quickly adapted to the local religion, for example in England and France. Christianity had substantial advantages based on for example better administrative skills and higher knowledge. The transformation of the norse kingdoms in Scandinavia and Russia were thus highly rational when the Contacts grew between the norse and the christian states.

To my knowledge the Novgorod-Kiev split makes more historical sense for the most part. SWMH splitting things up even further solidifies this idea.
Pagans get a significant penalty to religious conversion, yes.

Love the new decision icons, gives a more "finished" look to the whole tab!

Glad you like them!

But it's not like I'm an infidel or something I'm also Christian...
Catholics had their differences with Orthodox people but the -50 is too much.
Don't you think???

EDIT: The new icons are looking good...

The thing is that he's a zealot, so he really cares about those small differences. I'd make it a bit less severe for same religion group if I could, but I'm afraid I can't.

 

[Meneth]

@Meneth: Any ETA for the next version, out of curiosity?

Once I've got an icon for "bring family out of hiding"
Though before I go to bed at the latest.

 

[Meneth]

Maybe

the left one, with an edit. From "charaction_sub_diplomacy_big.dds".

Which icon is put them into hiding though? Maybe just that one with a red arrow on.

Could work as a placeholder at the very least.
There's no icon to put them into hiding as that's handled by event when your capital is besieged.

 

[Meneth]

Project Balance 3.2.17 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

• Unreformed West African Pagans now get defensive attrition
• Almost all Lifestyle traits now give 2 stat points
• Reduced Diplomacy gain from many traits
• Having held a feast no longer gives a bonus to Diplomacy, but gives a slightly larger opinion bonus
• Reduced max opinion from prestige and piety to 10
• The Saoshyant nickname is now on the list of nicknames that lets you enact absolute cognatic succession
• The Scandinavian kingdoms now have Norse Pagan CoAs defined rather than using random ones
• Winning the War for the Balkans now gives prestige
• Moved the starting Seljuk army to Amida
• The AI is an idiot that will use up half his army assaulting forts, so now it'll only assault if it outnumbers the defender 20-1
• Halved the troop loss for the besieger for most siege events
• The HRE losing an independence war now causes all non-dejure vassals to become independent as I'm tired of terrible HRE borders
• Ensured the Seljuk Invasion of Anatolia happens a bit quicker/more often
• Ensured the retinue block is always in place when it should
• Vassal single-province counts can no longer raise retinues
• Ensured that vassals don't get given away with the formation of a Crusader State
• Being a councilor now gives 0.25 prestige per month rather than 0.015 (spies and court chaplains get less)
• Being a court chaplain now gives 0.1 piety and 0.15 prestige per month rather than just 0.015 piety per month
• Being a spymaster now gives 0.15 prestige per month
• Characters now get a bit of prestige upon becoming a councilor, ranging from 50 for count-level lieges to 200 for emperor-level lieges. Spymasters get half this amount. Firing and rehiring a councilor will not give the bonus again
• Minor localisation fix for West African Pagan clergy
• Zoroastrian inbreeding won't affect fertility, occurence of inbreeding, etc
• Fixed courtiers often converting to Shia Islam when they shouldn't
• Updated Sniggles' Bookmarks to the latest version
• Added icons for all of the decisions PB adds. Credit goes to Crater for the "is war possible?" icon. Credit goes to Korbah for the Muslim Invasion icon
• (Shattered Balance) Fixed it crashing on campaign start
• (PB+SWMH) Added an event to transfer the duchy of Benevento from the Pope to Sicily after the formation of Sicily
• (PB+SWMH) Fixed Amalfi not having a center of trade
• (PB+SWMH) Fixed a number of province issues
• (PB+SWMH) Fixed holy wars for the Sahara sometimes being possible
• (PB+SWMH) Fixed an issue with some courtiers having "noculture"
• (PB+SWMH) Fixed the republic of Gotland not existing