Project Balance

[joos]

Hi Meneth. More explorations with your mod and another issue. Want to check with you if it is PB or vanilla.

What's happening is, as an emperor, I create some kingdom, let's say the Kingdom of Aragon, and grant the title and all under it to some vassal of mine. All the dukes in de jure Aragon become his vassals except for any Doge. I can't even transfer the Doge as a vassal but the newly created King of Aragon has a 'Desires Republic of Barcelona' penalty against me. Is this WAD? I finally ended up revoking the Doge's duchy, making it feudal and then handing it to the King of Aragon. Also, I am not able to grant kingdom titles to my doges. Is this also WAD? FYI, I don't have the Republics DLCs. I just like seeing their sea zones in my map

 

[Meneth]

Hi Meneth. More explorations with your mod and another issue. Want to check with you if it is PB or vanilla.

What's happening is, as an emperor, I create some kingdom, let's say the Kingdom of Aragon, and grant the title and all under it to some vassal of mine. All the dukes in de jure Aragon become his vassals except for any Doge. I can't even transfer the Doge as a vassal but the newly created King of Aragon has a 'Desires Republic of Barcelona' penalty against me. Is this WAD? I finally ended up revoking the Doge's duchy, making it feudal and then handing it to the King of Aragon. Also, I am not able to grant kingdom titles to my doges. Is this also WAD? FYI, I don't have the Republics DLCs. I just like seeing their sea zones in my map

The vassal transfer mechanics are hardcoded, so there's not much I can do about it.

 

[Meneth]

Project Balance 3.2.23 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

• Slowed down the regular culture spread events by about 30%
• Slowed down spread of Turkish culture to ports even further (3x as long as base rather than 2x), but the modifier now disappears if the Byzantines lose their war to retake the coast
• Fixed a minor bug with trait inheritance
• The Ransom All decision will now also try to get the ransom from the prisoner's father/mother if the prisoner is their heir and they can afford it
• Fixed the middle point of the city focus slider giving far too much tax
• Moved Damman to the kingdom of Arabia rather than Mesopotamia
• Aquitaine can no longer be formed by the king of France
• Doubled the prestige requirements for upping Emperor's Peace
• Greek characters can form Italia (empire-tier)
• Fixed characters of Persian culture having the wrong settlement pictures and such
• Reduced overall retinue sizes by 20%
• Norman culture no longer spreads to Saxon provinces
• Significantly slowed down culture spread in realms affected by the HRE Decentralization law (unless target is Baltic or Pommeranian) or a Decayed/Intact Theme System
• (PB+SWMH) Fixed some issues with the event for the expansion of Portugal

 

[jordarkelf]

This was in 3.2.22 so it may be fixed:
The 'Release all prisoners' decision freed one of my men held in a foreign court, costing me nothing. I had no prisoners in my own court when the decision was selectable.

 

[Meneth]

This was in 3.2.22 so it may be fixed:
The 'Release all prisoners' decision freed one of my men held in a foreign court, costing me nothing. I had no prisoners in my own court when the decision was selectable.

I've made a small update to the beta branch that should eliminate any chance of this happening.

 

[birdboy2000]

I've noticed Khazaria is split in three in the "no ahistorical empires" start, which I thought just altered de jure empires. What's the reason for this?

 

[Meneth]

By the way, I recommend people to count how many versions of PB there have been.
The next one is quite important.

I've noticed Khazaria is split in three in the "no ahistorical empires" start, which I thought just altered de jure empires. What's the reason for this?

Thanks, a fix has now been committed to the beta branch. The module was still using a modified file from before TOG released, so there were no rulers in the 867 start.

 

[birdboy2000]

On a related note, the de jure "Khazaria" kingdom seems really weird. Even at their height the Khazars never ruled Perm, while Crimea, not included, was integral to their state.

IMO, "Khazaria" should be a tribal kingdom ala the Pechenegs or Cumans, and the big mass of eastern territory from the Urals to the Volga should find a new name.

 

[makif130289]

Hi Meneth, Is Additional Objectives 2.0 mod compatible with your latest release ? I am asking this here because owner of the mod doesn't look at the thread for some time and may be you are also using it in your games.

 

[Meneth]

Hi Meneth, Is Additional Objectives 2.0 mod compatible with your latest release ? I am asking this here because owner of the mod doesn't look at the thread for some time and may be you are also using it in your games.

To be honest I've no idea. But it probably is as I haven't changed the objective files lately.

 

[superskierpat]

By the way, I recommend people to count how many versions of PB there have been.
The next one is quite important.

I suspect it will be out already before I finish counting

 

[Meneth]

I suspect it will be out already before I finish counting

Well, here's an image of every version of PB released, plus the next release:

 

[Opera]

It's gonna be the hundredth. Even without counting, I don't know what else it could be. Quite an impressive number of updates. What governs when you go from 3.1 to 3.2?

 

[Meneth]

It's gonna be the hundredth. Even without counting, I don't know what else it could be. Quite an impressive number of updates. What governs when you go from 3.1 to 3.2?

The middle number changes when saves break.
The first number is meaningless, and I've got no idea why I put it there to begin with. In reality I should be at version 9.23 currently.

The 100th release is correct

 

[cybrxkhan]

The middle number changes when saves break.
The first number is meaningless, and I've got no idea why I put it there to begin with. In reality I should be at version 9.23 currently.

I've also wondered by I used the first number myself in VIET as I'm not sure what's exactly the point of using it and how do I really know when I switch to VIET 2.0(.0). It's what I get for copying your style.

(Well, CKII+ does it too, so yeah.)

The 100th release is correct

Congrats! I remember when PB had only like a fifty-page thread or something. Good times.

 

[nitroholic]

The middle number changes when saves break.
The first number is meaningless, and I've got no idea why I put it there to begin with. In reality I should be at version 9.23 currently.

The 100th release is correct

Congratulations on the centennial!

 

[Meneth]

Congratulations on the centennial!

It's not out quite yet

I almost have to come up with something special to do for the occasion.

 

[Jaidal]

It's not out quite yet

I almost have to come up with something special to do for the occasion.

Improved Factions? Awesome!

 

[unmerged(587143)]

Not sure if this is a bug or just weird luck on my part, but:

I was playing PB+SWMH recently (as France), and noticed that England and the ERE both had a succession of rulers who for some reason never got married. In England's case, this started after Eadgar of Wessex had a successful rebellion against the House de Normandie. In the case of the ERE, some Catholic Venetians somehow became Emperor; after the first Venetian Emperor, who had a wife and two daughters, the following three did not marry (though one is still alive and could, in theory, marry at some point).

Both realms have also had lowborn characters become king/emperor, though it looks like only one of each. In the case of England, this appears to have been the result of a Cathar uprising; I can't tell why the ERE is now ruled by a lowborn Emperor, but it looks like he won it from the previous holder in a war of some variety.

 

[Gnostiko]

Can't speak for England, but both of those situations happened IRL in the Roman Empire; Basil I was a lowborn peasant who climbed/murdered his way to the top of the Imperial foodchain, and the great Basil II for reasons unknown never married nor had any recorded lovers.