Rajas of india
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I'm in no position to claim what someone does or does not know, but the post itself wasn't clear enough for me to suggest that. I agree that I might have been wrong.
Of course it will, most people have no idea what they buy in the DLC until they try it and there are no returns. It doesn't mean it will be the best DLC.People are complaining now but watch as this becomes the most sold CKII DLC
The patches are financed with the DLCs
Or, they're supposed to be.
I'm kind of skeptical that they're just going "Damn! We're all out of cash, there's no point in fixing any of the bugs. ...If only we had some way of drumming up some cash for this patch... I KNOW, INDIA!"
Obviously, DLC generates cash, and no one's arguing that, but I don't think it's as simplistic a relation as you make it out to be.
People are welcome to voice their displeasure in a civil manner (as most people have done). All I'm saying is that you have to be realistic.
- Improvements to existing functionality have to be paid for. Therefore, patches have to accompany a DLC.
- DLCs have to add new yet optional gameplay. They can't easily enhance existing features.
Yes, you can already expand the map and add religions, but every time they've added playable religions so far, they've also added (partly) moddable new features for them. Modders can use any of those that fit for e.g. heresies or fantasy religions or whatever.
I buy into the relationship at least superficially, but from the way I see it ... patching some of this stuff can't be too expensive or time consuming. Fixing decadence has to take nearly years? I don't know, maybe Paradox just doesn't have the focus/interest? It's all so confusing!! Haha
Hmm... let's do some math about how much this expands the map in terms of titles.
We're getting 300 new counties (roughly a third of how many we already have), but that's just a start. Extrapolating, this means (in 1066) about 895 new holdings and about 1253 new holding slots (including those already occupied), so that's a lot of barons. It also means about 85 new duchies, about 20 new kingdoms, and about 5 new empires (with fewer if they're hugenormous empires like Byzantium or more if they're tiny empires like Mali and Abyssinia).
So this means that RoI will add about 1580 titles to the game, including uncreated titles and disregarding any tribal or titular titles.
We're getting 300 new counties (roughly a third of how many we already have), but that's just a start. Extrapolating, this means (in 1066) about 895 new holdings and about 1253 new holding slots (including those already occupied), so that's a lot of barons. It also means about 85 new duchies, about 20 new kingdoms, and about 5 new empires (with fewer if they're hugenormous empires like Byzantium or more if they're tiny empires like Mali and Abyssinia).
So this means that RoI will add about 1580 titles to the game, including uncreated titles and disregarding any tribal or titular titles.
The problem here is the fact that if they add India, then it will sit there at the edge of the map even for those without a DLC, so it's adding features for free that people may not want to have. If India is somehow made entirely optional then there is no problem here, and my only gripe is the developement time wasted (in my opinion) on something irrelevant to me. However, recent examples suggest that it will not be the case and India will be there for everyone, whether you buy the DLC or not.
So I may get my better crusades, but at the cost of having to deal with India.
Where is the official announcement? I see no dev started threads and nothing on Johan's or the official PDX Dev twitters.
Exactly. And, to respond to iron's point, there wasn't some mythical time period before modular DLC that free patches didn't exist (and, no, I'm not playing word games to suggest that, instead, they accompanied large expansions, although that was also sometimes the case). They're not incapable of patching the game unless they get x amount of money (and, if they are, then it's a really odd design limitation imposed by Paradox, but whatever).
The inability to get your wife and kids out of jail is obnoxious, and it's slightly unrealistic to have chaplains that aren't bishops. But I would hardly call such items immersion-breaking. I mean, how realistic is it for characters to be transported from England instantly to the head of an army in Persia? Why is the supply limit for a province the same in summer versus winter? There are lots of minor issues like this, some more readily fixable than others. But if you want these quibbles fixed, then like I've been saying, you have to figure out a way to fund it. They've chosen an India DLC since they can't sell you a Court Chaplain DLC.
I wonder the same....
They said that it will be announced next week, yet here we are....