I'm pretty sure the devs have explicitly said don't do this as they are the ones who end up having time wasted supporting it if it's buggy.
[Release] Elder Kings Version 0.2.0
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This is exactly me. I have played Elder Kings for nearly half a decade, but at a certain point I had to stop with CK2. I had a lot of problems with CK2 that a mod like Elder Kings could only alleviate, but, I can guarantee that I would have played it for another hundred or so hours if the updates were even semi-regular (every half year or so). But two years within an update in sight? That is unacceptable, really, there is no excuse for it. I understand that Crusader Kings constantly update their game, I find it annoying myself and a big reason I quit it, but there is a certain level of commitment and dedication that takes to creating a mod and to have it so unseen and so shrouded in mystery for the average player for so long just washes away that hard work that went into it.
It's a problem that transcends the Elder Scrolls community. Projects like Skywind and Beyond Skyrim have kept their builds so close to their chest, and their projects so expansive and ambitious, that regular feedback has died down and the vast majority of the potential playerbase has simply moved on. By the time either of those projects actually release, Elder Scrolls Six will be on the horizon in a very short time frame (it took only a year to release Skyrim after it was announced after all. I suspect at most three years, if not two for it to be). With Elder Kings? Well, Imperator looks to be a spiritual successor to Crusader Kings it seems, at least for the time being, and it's release seems to be slated in half a year or so judging on how complete it looks. Most of the playerbase will move onto that, I suspect. Where will CK2 development and where will Elder Kings be left then?
Sure, CK2 will always have its own unique flavour in the Paradox collection until CK3 rolls around, and likely the only place to find AGOT and EK (I suspect Middle Earth will do fantastic in Imperator if a good mod team can manage it) but there is a certain point where enough is enough. I'm not a teenager anymore, I don't have loads of time, I can't sit around and wait for the perfect edition to be released. I barely remember this game and only check back at seasonal intervals, and eventually, I won't ever check again. My view is that of a consumer, and I would obviously like to play sooner rather then later. Perhaps after CK2 development is done, a 'perfect' rendition of the mod can be created, and I would honestly love to see that as well. Whatever, it's really none of my concern much anymore. Keep doing what you guys are doing, even if I did play it again, I'd likely never see 70% of the content that's actually there. CK2 is just a really clunky game when you actually sit down and think about it.
Well lucky for you they update the mod every day or two. Look up the SVN.
Imperator is way more EU4 than CK2, you don't play a character instead the neblous spirit of the nation like the other PDX game so I highly doubt it will siphon off much of CK2 players base.
It could be a merging of EUIV, Vicky II, and CK2 though. From the little we've seen of the game so far, I've seen elements of both Vicky II and EUIV mixed into the game, so it's possible they have sort of Dynasty management system in the game as well.
Personally, I'd love it if they went even further back in history. To the dawn of civilization.
It seems like EU:Rome 2, sooooo... it's going to be far closer to EU4 than CK2. It will have some characters to interact with but not NEARLY to the extent of the CK franchise.
We will find out if you can play characters that don't control nations or not. If you can control said governors, then it's more then EU4 has ever really done, and I can see it being possible anyways if they don't hardcode it.
Just basing it off of the last Rome game they did is unwise, I think. It has more provinces in Europe then they have ever done, it has a far more complex base then EU4 from what we can observe.
A bigger map has nothing to do with game play though. So far it seems to have a lot more in common with EU4 than CK2, too. I'm not saying that characters won't be important, but that they will likely be a resource instead of the main focus. More in depth than rulers in EU4, but not nearly as much so as CK2.
Rulers in CK2 are just a bunch of bonuses lopped up to create a character. We will have to see, but like I said, the map will be huge - every region will have a potential leader that you can play. Already that is nothing like EU4 and plays far more into inner politics that CK2 features. This is a good thing, and for this to be a feature, these generals/governors will have traits.. Which has basically been confirmed. What is the difference? The family aspect? That could be in too as well, we really don't know. It's an amalgamation.
CK2 players buy DLC. So do Eu4. They aren't going to be making DLC for CK2, and EU4 as well eventually. They want those customers to pay in continuity, so they will mix the aspects they like the best and attract players from CK2 because they will not be supporting that game anymore. This is just basic business procedure, why would they make it eerily similar to EU4, with just a paintjob in a different era, when EU4 is still running and selling DLC... And not a spiritual successor to CK2 to which they are ending?
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We've been told that you play as the "spirit of the nation" a la EU or HOI, not as a character. You see this in the screen shots as well, where the player is playing as Rome or Carthage (complete with flag), not as a character. You can assign characters to tasks (e.g., Decimus Brutus is now the governor of Cisalpine Gaul), but not "play as characters."
Could you please update the mod because it crashes the newest version of Crusader Kings 2
Version 2 of EK is not compatible with the newest update of CK2. You have to rollback to Ck 2.63 or download the SVN the developers are currently plugging along with.
Otherwise you'll just have to wait for a possible future update, hopefully after Holy Fury but currently unstated.
Otherwise you'll just have to wait for a possible future update, hopefully after Holy Fury but currently unstated.
> Rework of the Guilds
> Rework of Vampirism and Lycantropy
> Daedric Princes interactions
> Rework of the artifact system
> Much more
"Minor ones"
Ooph
You're right, I should have said constant tweaks instead of minor updates
Posting latest versions on the Forums are official updates. Housing the latest development in the SVN URL is not.