Huh. I thought you could subjugate one sea zone away. I bet this is my problem. I'll verify and let you know tonight.
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Do note that the city can't be the capital of the province.Hi
I've encountered a problem while playing a republic. The CB for conquering sea provinces does not work. I play Amalfi, build a trade post in Naples, but don't get a CB on the city of Neapolis, not even after reaching 100 prestige and 50 piety points.
Beyond that all you should need is a trade post, and not having declared a coastal republic CB war in the last 5 years.
Do we have to do anything for PB compatibility for this version of Arko? I seem to recall deleting a folder last time.
When playing with this, if I use the 867 start date none of the west african territories have characters in them. o.o
OK. Now I'm talking to myself (or at least replying to myself...).Huh. I thought you could subjugate one sea zone away. I bet this is my problem. I'll verify and let you know tonight.
I've been poking at the subjugation CB code as well as my game. It looks like there are a few non-obvious (obvious being things like target must be top liege that normally apply as well as the stuff in the decision) conditions on the CB:
- Target is not defending from a different subjugation
- I (or a vassal) must own a title in the de jure area I want to subjugate
- The subjugation target (or their vassal) must be a neighbor of my de jure territory
Did I miss anything major or misunderstand anything?
My confusion appears to stem from the neighbor condition and the target of a different subjugation condition.
1. is listed already in the "is war possible" decision:
"in addition to holding a dejure title within the target kingdom either directly or via a vassal"
Next version I'll add this:
"You also cannot target characters currently being targetted by another subjugation war, and they must share a border with you."
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In all stages of the game, from owning an empire to having just one county, I always find it more useful to save for mercenaries then to invest in military buildings. For the amount of income for one or two buildings, allowing me to maybe field an additional 50 - 100 troops, I can fund a campaign of 1800 mercs to settle a war.
I see that west africa being messed up is just how it is at the moment with the random generation thing, is there any way to replace the PB West Africa with the one in the newest version of VIET?
PB VIET uses the PB's Africa map based on NAE (a really old mod from the 1.05 in case you didn't know), which, despite its problems, was not only good for it time but also in my opinion is superior to vanilla VIET's African provinces (which really were just added as a way for me to practice map editing). That said, replacing PB's NAE-based Africa map with vanilla VIET's Africa map would probably take a bit of time, though.
While I tend to agonize a bit about building the upper tiers of military buildings, I dunno that they could really be any cheaper than they are. The player is just too good at making money not to have massive drains on it, otherwise they'd just be able to bring in a number of mercenary companies to every war and have the buildings anyway. In my game I actually have been building up the military stuff in my holdings and I've still got enough room for a 1000-1500 rainy day mercenary fund. Although that's partially because muslims can hold mosques too (I built two baronies like an idiot before I realized this fact as well).
And I'm not sure the AI can handle mercenaries being more expensive, unless there's a way to increase cost for the player without doing so for the AI (although at that point you could just be playing on a higher difficulty if you aren't already?)
Finally playing Project Balance by itself, it's good fun so far. Only one issue so far, you can raise ships from Bononia along the Danube.
Do note that each military building will give you 25 retinue cap as well, so you're not just getting troops.
Next version I'm removing the 50% increase to all building costs that was added in 1.10 for some reason though, so that should also help make mercs a less obvious choice.
I'll get it fixed, thanks for reporting.
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Sorry, when there might be a posting which answers this, but is there an end date that differs from vanilla? Like 100000 A.D. or is it just vanillas end date?
I used search thread but you get a whole bunch of results for "date" or "end" when you re looking for "end date"...
btw.: Just started out with PB and like it a lot, thx for your work!
I used search thread but you get a whole bunch of results for "date" or "end" when you re looking for "end date"...
btw.: Just started out with PB and like it a lot, thx for your work!
Is it just me, or is the holy war cooldown not preventing you from declaring holy war?
If the target has provinces of your religion within it, virtually all requirements are bypassed, including the cooldown.
Can I only use the Events from VIET along with SWMH and PB? I tried switching on everything but that destroys the map...
Only Events, yeah. And Assets of course, but that's mandatory if you use VIET at all.
PB's end-date is 1453, like in vanilla. SWMH's end-date, and thus PB+SWMH's end-date is 1492.Sorry, when there might be a posting which answers this, but is there an end date that differs from vanilla? Like 100000 A.D. or is it just vanillas end date?
I used search thread but you get a whole bunch of results for "date" or "end" when you re looking for "end date"...
btw.: Just started out with PB and like it a lot, thx for your work!
When PB alone is used, the end-date from vanilla or any mod that changes the end-date will be used as I simply don't touch that file currently.
Sorry for missing your question earlier.