Project Balance

[Meneth]

I just started a new game and at 53% moral authority it's still pretty low. Only 2.85% chance to convert a province with a 20 learning guy. Using PB, PB Viet, Shattered.
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2.85% is more than enough. Do remember that religious conversion would often take centuries. In PB decades are enough (especially considering your vassals too will try to convert provinces)

 

[Meneth]

Found a bug Holstein is danish in the 867 startdate rather than norse cultured . Was wondering why there was danish and only danish courtiers running around so near the startdate.

PB doesn't edit that history file, so it seems unlikely it is the cause.

 

[Meneth]

There's a mistake in the muslim invasion CB, it should be :

    on_add = {
        ROOT = {
            piety = -500
            add_character_modifier = {
                name = holy_war_cooldown
                duration = 1825
            }
        }
    }

Thanks, fixed in the beta branch now.

Is it compatible with CK II to EU III Converters ?

Not without modification; some new provinces, cultures, and religions are added.
It shouldn't be too hard if you know what you're doing though.

 

[Meneth]

If I enable this mod, no characters seem to change portraits as they turn 30-50 years old. There's only portraits of young and old. I haven't had the time to read through the thread to see if there's a fix readily available.

Assuming all you're using is PB, you should have 4 stages:

• Child - 0 to 16
• Young - 16 to 32
• Middle-aged - 32 to 50
• Old - 50+

 

[Meneth]

I have noticed that when educating the children of my ducal vassals as the Byzantine Emperor that there is no +20 relations boost, although the Educate Child info screen indicates that this should be the case. Is this WAD?

I'm pretty sure the relations boost goes the other way; you like them +20 due to them letting you educate their child.

 

[Meneth]

Another city/shield placement issue. Varend in Sweden.

Find me the province ID for that and I'll get it fixed. Having plenty of fun playing Endless Space right now, so I don't feel like digging through the files right now.

 

[Meneth]

c_smaland, #298

Fixed.

 

[Meneth]

Hi Meneth.

Have you done anything to the education system? My 'Skilled Tactician' character just finished tutoring his genius nephew (Formidable Fighter with 20 martial at the age of 15), and the nephew turned out to be a 'Flamboyant Schemer' at 16! Kinda ruined 16 years of careful effort!

FYI, I am using PB+SWMH

EDIT: Posting this question again

Nope, the education system is hardcoded.
There's a something like 10% chance of getting an education other than the guardian's type.

 

[Meneth]

I think the current fabricate claim mechanism is too restrictive when playing in one of the more isolated regions (Iceland). Currently, it is impossible to fabricate claims on Iceland or to fabricate claims when playing as Iceland. Perhaps something could be done about the sea zones?

Iceland and Faroya will share a seazone next version.

 

[Meneth]

Meneth: Any chance you can integrate the cultural province names from landed_titles of this mod ( http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...jure-structure-and-improved-cultural-toponymy ) into PB? The mod makes a lot of other changes, esp to history, that are hefty and you may or may not want to implement but I think just the cultural names should be able to be integrated without changing PB at all.

The content creator has given permission for it to be integrated into PB if you want it to be.

P.S. I have already integrated e_britannia.txt for my own personal purposes, along with the Greek names since those are the ones I use the most and am happy to give you those files if you want them.

The thing is that implementing them makes maintaining the landed titles files considerably more difficult, as it prevents me from easily seeing what's actually been changed between patches.

 

[Meneth]

hi,
could someone explain how de jure drift for empires work. I'm playing as the Byzantine Empre and I am not really how to make my eastern parts de jure (and newly conquered territory) ?
By the way: When you start 1099 the Byzies under Alexios I have reconquered half of Anatolia so souldn't he be ambitious. That would help to reform the thema system which he did reform I think.

As long as you control every county and holding within the kingdom, it should drift into your empire.
In 1.102 though, the kingdom can't be held by anyone. In 1.103b, even held kingdoms will drift.

Meneth: Also -- the Karen dynasty uses a western shield on their title instead of the hexagonal one they should be using, like other Muslim and/or Zoroastrian rulers.

It's probably an error Paradox made in the dynasty files, as I don't edit those.
They've probably forced a western shield for some reason, then possibly forgotten to remove it at some point.
That's assuming you're not using ARKO though; if you are then it might be an old vanilla error that still remains in ARKO.

So report it in whatever place best fits, I suppose.

 

[Meneth]

Naval Tech modifier confers ct_shipyard_1 twice, once at level 1 and once at level 3.

Thanks for reporting.
It has now been fixed in the beta branch.

 

[Meneth]

Hi Meneth. I have another problem with the Despotate of Sicilia.

None of my levy laws are available to me. They are all locked, even the 'No Levy Laws' button. There was no event to fix that too, though there was an event to fix 'King's Peace' laws.

Make sure you're using the latest version of PB. As long as you don't have any external inheritance law a hidden event should trigger within a few months and fix your crown laws.

 

[Meneth]

I am running 1.102. Should I patch it to 1.103 and reinstall PB? Will it be save-game compatible with my current game where I am having the problem?

You can stay on 1.102, or patch to 1.103b. Both should work with the latest version of PB. Just make sure you've got the latest version of PB itself.
It should be save-game compatible.

 

[Meneth]

Any comments on this?

Changing vanilla descriptions is for the most part outside PB's scope.

 

[Meneth]

Is not the vanilla description that I am concerned with. Of greater importance, is the ruler not getting the relation's opinion boost from the parents of the child he is educating like he should.

I'm pretty sure the bonus is supposed to be toward the parent, not toward the guardian. Being assigned as guardian is considered an honor.
Either way, PB doesn't change how that works.

Are you playing with the DLC? If so, how do you like it?

I got the DLC recently, but haven't played it yet because I got distracted while the massive patch was downloading...

Well, it was the first time I played it, so I can't really compare it with vanilla.
Was fun though. The AI was retarded, but that might've been due to Normal difficulty. It built way too many scouts for no reason.

 

[Meneth]

Thanks. That solved the problem.

I noticed this strange behaviour and I am not sure if it is PB or Vanilla or SWMH or just plain coincidence. One of my vassal dukes is repeatedly imprisoning and releasing the same lowborn courtier, some Ignotious. This has happened five times now. Could it be that some event is firing for the same guy again and again?

Beyond the siege events there's no events added in PB that imprison people, so it's probably some sort of vanilla issue.

 

[Meneth]

What's the logic behind making the Kingdom of Germany/East Francia titular? I don't see any reason historically why it wouldn't exist by law when West Francia does and it leads to some pretty screwy inheritance with Gravelkind.

It's more that Germany as such doesn't make all that much sense as a kingdom in 1066, so there's instead Saxony in its place.
It does cause some issues in 867 though, but I'm not entirely sure what to do about them.

Meneth, I think I have gotten so spoiled with how frequent you update your mod. I am like "There has not been an update since 6/27. What little life I have is at a standstill! What's going on!"
So...do you think there will be an update before the 4th of July holiday? It would be great for those of us who have a long weekend coming. Just wanted to know so I can plan ahead. Thanks.

The changelog is currently relatively short, so I'm no entirely sure when I'll release the next update. 4th of July at the latest though, as I don't like having more than a week between patches.

 

[Meneth]

After reading some other mod threads, I'm twice as thankful for your superhuman diligence, Meneth. I'll never stray :blush:

Ciccillo Rre gave permission in his thread to adapt his work for PB, I hope you will. His de jure maps and cultural/historical title names are quite good.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...jure-structure-and-improved-cultural-toponymy

See:

The thing is that implementing them makes maintaining the landed titles files considerably more difficult, as it prevents me from easily seeing what's actually been changed between patches.

 

[Meneth]

Having tried some CKII+ today (yes, I know... please don't stone me) I quite like the de jure layout there. Basically, Germany is a rather big de jure area (like France, which includes the Aquitaine provinces), which incorporates Bavaria and most of Frisia (both of which are titular). I think this is the best reflection of history; the Kingdom of Saxony did not exist before Napoleonic times, and before 1800the Kingdom of Bavaria was extremely short-lived.

As a general rule I try to do dejure things closer to SWMH hand CK2Plus

The Germany bit is true: It is tricky have both a kingdom of Germany and a HRE unless one is titular. However, if on creation of the HRE the German Kingdom is destroyed (if permanent if such a thing is possible) then it is less an issue. In general if the kingdom title is destroyed with the creation of the empire then aside from the emperor it cannot be recreated.

I don't even know what I want to have the HRE form right now. It is not a simple thing to make and enjoyable gameplay wise. To help balance the matter of the HRE starting so weak, it needs to follow that on creation the starting emperor isn't like making a new empire outright. Meaning, if you make a new empire, you overwhelming dominate the empire already. For the case of the HRE, the creator needs to not be in such a dominant position before forming. I haven't fully played out the current HRE creation though, so I don't know if in practice the current methods are better.

My decision for forming the HRE from the 867 start destroys East Francia.