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Starting to work a bit on Bulgarian events now. The first event I'm making will eventually have a whole chain most likely, but currently what happens is that after Rum is form, the Byzantine Emperor gets an event telling him about Bulgarian unrest. Currently it causes the Bulgarian Empire to become a dejure title, covering this land in PB+SWMH:
I'll definitely consider it, though I wouldn't do it as severely as with the factions.
Perhaps restricting each crown authority law to the first two levels (three for levies) would work?
Keeping Elective Realms from instituting Revokation and Internal Peace is all that would keep me from using it. I don't even use Crown Levies or Levy Demesne laws.
Quick question. If you start as Alexios Komnenos using the Alexiad bookmark, when should you expect to be able to use the "Imperial Reconquest" casus belli (if at all)?
Assuming I've read the changelog correctly, I think it should be 1092 since Rum appears to have been formed in 1077 but looking back at previous saves it appears I can use it from at least the end of 1087.
EDIT: it appears I can use the "Holy War" casus belli against the vassals of Rum when they are in the middle of a civil war. Not sure this is intended (although doesn't make much difference as I've got de jure casus belli and "Imperial Reconquest" casus belli).
The global flag isn't set in starts after Rum is formed, so you're not prevented from using Imperial Reconquest.
As to holy wars against revolters, I'm not sure if there's much point in disabling them.
The de jure Bulgaria Empire events seem a tad arbitrary in the sense that I dunno what the exact connection between losing Rum and the Bulgarian Empire are, other than the loss of central Anatolia weakening and causing instability in the ERE, but I suppose it's really the only way to do it for now. Hopefully with the Bulgarian counts I'm whipping up (sometime... soon...) we might see a bit of rumblin' here and there on the northern borders of the Empire.
Out of curiosity, when on average does 1.092's crash spam start getting real bad for you with PB?
If the Byzantines had never lost Anatolia, they'd never have been weak enough for the Bulgarians to gain independence. Thus it makes quite a bit of sense.
For me the crash spam often starts around the late 12th century or early 13th century. I've had to abandon some test games because they crash within a few years of loading the save.
Not sure if this is a PB or VIET bug (or a vanilla design), but I had a plot to revoke county (playing as Robert of Puglia, revoking the county of Gravina) when the count rebelled against me for a faction war. I was then given the option to enact my plot and I think it succeeded by default because the count couldn't declare war again, so I got the county and instant peace in the faction war to boot.
I gave the Feature List a scan (because I got slightly burned out with my current pendings), and the following are some of the preliminary edits I've made (not that this is nowhere near comprehensive - I'll do the actual revision in wording/formating to make it more concise sometime after I've finished my pending, but this should increase your buffer for the moment)
Increased the effect of combat on decadence by 25%
Reduced the effect of realm size on decadence by 20%
Incresed the reduction in decadence gain titles give by 50%
Increased the reduction in decadence gain councilors get by 50%
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Tweaked decadence effect on/of combat (+25%) and realm size (-20%)
Decadence-gain reduction of titles and councillors increased by 50%
(101 char)
Converting Pagans, Zoroastrians, and Jews takes twice as long
Pagans, Zoroastrians, and Jews now convert provinces half as fast
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Pagans, Zoroastrians, and Jews convert provinces half as fast but are converted twice as long
(38 char)
Added melting pot events for Norse-Gael
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Added melting pot events for Sicilian
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Added melting pot events for Norse-Gael and Sicilian
(29 char)
Increased supply bonus for bordering a province to 50%
Reduced supply bonus for coastal provinces to 30%
Reduced supply bonus for realm holdings to 40%
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Tweaked supply bonus for bordering a province (50%), coastal provinces (30%), realm holdings (40%)
(61 char)
Tribal Invasions and Muslim Invasions will now vassalize rebelling vassals in the dejure area
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Tribal Invasions should no longer end inconclusively if all the vassals in the dejure area are rebelling
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Tribal Invasions can now only target kingdoms the attacker borders
Tribal Invasions will now vassalize kingdoms rather than destroying them
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Muslim Invasions now vassalize rebelling vassals in the dejure area
Tribal Invasions now vassalize rebelling vassals in the dejure area, no longer end inconclusively if all vassals in the dejure area are rebelling, and vassalize kingdoms rather than destroying them
(71 char)
Made France less likely to expand via holy war
Made the HRE less likely to expand via holy war, except into Pomerania
Made the Byzantines less likely to expand via holy war, except in dejure areas
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France, HRE, and the Byzantines now less likely to expand via holy war (except Pomerania for HRE and dejure areas for the Byzantines)
(71 char)
Warrior Cult gives 75 each of Light Infantry, Heavy Infantry, and Archers
Warrior Cult gives 1.0 fort-levels
Warrior Cult gives -25% levy size (causes them to have a larger advantage at campaign start, but it slowly declines)
Warrior Cult gives -40% tech growth
Warrior Cult gives a 10% offensive and defensive boost to heavy infantry
Warrior Cult gives a 25% penalty to garrison size (they're still much larger than everyone else's garrisons)
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Warrior Cult gives Light/Heavy Infantry and Archers (75 each), fort-level (+1), levy size (-25%, to give a declining campaign-start advantage), tech growth (-25%), offensive/defensive heavy infantry boost (+10%), and garrison size (-25%, still larger than the others)
(196 char)
Provinces in the same culture group as their liege, but different culture, get -2.5% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
Provinces in a different culture group than their liege, get -5% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
Provinces in the same religion gorup, but a different religion, get -5% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
Provinces in a different religion group than their liege, get -20% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
Heretic provinces get -20% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
Isolated provinces get -50% tax, levies, garrisons, and levy reinforcements
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Tweaked tax/levy/garrison/levy-reinforcement values of provinces: same culture group with liege but different culture (-2.5%), different culture group than liege (-5%), same religion group with but different religion (-5%), different culture group than liege (-20%), heretic provinces (-20%), isolated provinces (-50%)
(333 char)
Added the new province of Teruel to Navarra
Added the new province of Pontevedra to Galicia
Added the new province of Huesca to Aragon
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Added new provinces: Teruel to Navarra, Pontevedra to Galicia, and Huesca to Aragon
(59 char)
Gave the Seljuk Sultan claims on eastern Anatolia
Gave the Seljuk Sultan a claim on Derbent
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Gave the Seljuk Sultan claims on eastern Anatolia and Debrent
(34 char)
All empires (except the Arabian Empire and Mali Empire)) display as kingdom-level, E.G., King of Scandinavia, not Emperor of Scandinavia
All the empires have short names, E.G., Scandinavia rather than Kingdom of Scandinavia
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Renamed Russia to Rus
Renamed the Arabian Empire to Arabia
(I'm guessing for the first two, the latter cancels out the former, and you forgot to change it) to
All empires have short names (e.g. Arabia, Rus, Scandinavia)
(236 char)
Added an Italian empire
Added an Abyssinian empire
Added a Mali empire
Added a Polish-Lithuanian empire
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[*]Added an Italian, Abyssinian, Mali, and Polish empire
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(62 char)
Reduced the prestige for having baron vassals by 25%
Halved the prestige for having counts, dukes, and kings as vassals
Reduced the prestige for holding a county, duchy, or kingdom by 25%
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Reduced prestige from having vassals (barons by -25%, others by -50%) and holding titles (county and higher by -25%)
(79 char)
Reduced the tax income from trade posts from 6 to 5
Reduced the tax income from family palaces from 10 to 8
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Reduced the tax income of trade posts (6 to 5) and family palaces (10 to 8)
(36 char)
The Christian Iberians now start with the second level of their cultural building rather than the first
The Christian Iberians now start with the first level of stables
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The Christian Iberians now start with the second level of their cultural building and the first level of stables
(60 char)
That should spare at most 1466 characters, hopefully a tolerable buffer, until I finally finish my pendings.
Incidentally, I liked some of the features I've read (specifically the Muslim Decadence modifications and Tribal CB stuff), that I'll probably borrow some of them in my libert3 module if you don't mind (it also goes without saying I'm borrowing more Faction ideas for Kyrie as well )
On a side note, would you be willing to help reduce my pending by looking into events someone's been having trouble with? I promised they guy that I'll look into it, but work on libert3 is taking more than I estimated so I haven't managed to get to it yet.
Since helping me fix those events for that guy will reduce the queued stuff I have before I could more comprehensively work on your Feature List, it's technically quid-pro-quo
I'll PM them to you if you agree.
Thanks, did most of your suggested changes. Also added you to the credits list.
Sure, use those changes.
Sure, PM me them, though I can't guarantee I'll be able to help.
Hey Meneth, sorry to be such a PITA with my latest playthrough, but I noticed something annoying. I'm doing PB/SWMH/VIET and I started as Duke of Sachsen. I formed the Kingdom-tier Sachsen title, but because I'm vassal to the Emperor, I can't set Crown Laws. Because I can't set crown laws, I can't get "Kings Peace" so I can invade those annoying Pagans on my eastern border. I even abandoned my inner-Empire fighting to advocate for Emperor's Peace, but apparently my Imperial liege having Emperor's Peace won't allow me to invade Pagans. Is there a work-around to this, or does Holy Warring pagans mean I have to revolt against the HRE (not necessarily a deal-breaker, but it wasn't something I was planning to do until later)?
I have a second Kingdom title (Jerusalem) which I put under "King's Peace", but that didn't solve it, and neither did making Jerusalem my primary title.
Quick question, playing as the Byzantines using the Alexiad start date I notice that the empire still has all of it's de jure borders except Cilicia. Is this WAD? I thought Iconium and Armenia were supposed to be removed from the empire. I'm using VIET and SWMH if that makes a difference.
Playing v3.1.19 only (SoI & LoR installed & active, still don't have The Republic yet). No other mods installed.
Started a new game from The Alexiad bookmark as the aforementioned Basileus. Try to declare war on the Sultan of Rum, no "Imperial Reconquest" casus belli available.
Checking my save games from the game I started a couple of days ago. 27th August 1086 still no "Imperial Reconquest" casus belli while 10th December 1087 & onward it is available.
History tab says the Sultanate of Rum was formed on 1st January 1077 so it seems to be blocked for at least the first 10 years.
BTW I have no problem with this as I don't agree with the C.B. anyway (game is easy enough as it is without stuff like this making it even easier) just found it weird when it showed up.
I kind of agree with you on the holy war C.B. since the "Imperial Reconquest" one is way more powerful if the player wants to (ab)use it.
Maybe I should just disable Imperial Reconquest against enemies who you'd have a Holy War CB against.
You should be getting the Imperial Reconquest CB as long as you meet the requirements though (available in "is war possible").
Imperial Reconquest is much better than Holy War, as neighbors won't dogpile you. I do have a bug/exploit to report with it, though. Normally, when you take a character's last county, they automatically get one from their vassals. If you declare an Imperial Reconquest on a character and victory gives you all their counties, their ducal and higher titles will all be destroyed. I popped a huge Fatimid blob in one war with that trick by taking Cairo.
Are there known issues running this mod on a mac? I'm getting an insta-crash as soon as I press start in the launcher with any combination of the suggested mods in the first post. I have redownloaded/reinstalled etc...
Meneth, is it possible to disable the HRE being dissolved when Byzantium turns into Rome? The ERE already claimed to be the only Rome, I doubt just because of recent successes the HRE would throw in the towel when they heard "OK, now we're REALLY serious, we're the only Rome".
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