The Obligatory CK3 Strange Screenshot Thread

[The Founder]

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We like long range traveling to warm countries...

"I don't like Vikings.
They are coarse, rough and irritating.
And they get everyhwere."
- Anakin Caelus Pedes

You know those occasional posts you get of a ruler with many, many daughters and no sons? Here's my present character, with his 11 sons and 0 daughters:

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"Nice empire you got there. Would be a shame if gavelkind would happen to it!"

Imagine that some people unironically claim that "partition is great because it discourage blobbing".

Gavelkind has been the destroyer of Empires in that age. So it is doing exactly what it is supposed to do!

If anything, it is not doing it's job well enough...

 

[Vanhal]

Gavelkind has been the destroyer of Empires in that age. So it is doing exactly what it is supposed to do!

Oh yes, it is excellent in destroying every empire (and everyone other too) near the player, who conquer everything to give their sons some titles.

If anything, it is not doing it's job well enough...

It work as intended for AI, but completely fails for the player. To work for the players, it would need to be completely unavoidable whoich would be flushing out the baby with bathwater.

 

[TheDarkMaster]

It work as intended for AI, but completely fails for the player. To work for the players, it would need to be completely unavoidable whoich would be flushing out the baby with bathwater.

Changes to confederate partition in upcoming patch:

• Children under the age of 12 are not considered part of the partition unless they are the three oldest.
• Dead children with no children of their own are not considered part of the succession. Surviving grandchildren will get a share as if their parents were alive.
• If the current ruler has less than 3 available successors, their siblings will be considered instead for partition.
• If neither children or siblings are available for partition, then councillors and powerful nobles will be used instead.
• If no one else is available for a minimum 3 heir partition, then new characters will be randomly generated to be heirs on succession.
• Characters who already have land will be excluded from confederate partition succession, unless they are the primary heir or the character they are inheriting from is two ranks higher than them.
• Landed characters can never inherit a title outside of their diplomatic range.

Changes to partition succession:

• Works almost exactly like confederate partition except,
• There is a minimum of 2 heirs instead of 3.
• Titles will not be automatically created.
• More distant family members than direct decedents and siblings of the ruler are considered potential heirs.

Changes to high partition:

• There is no guaranteed split. The minimum number of heirs is 1.

EDIT: If it wasn't obvious, this is not actual patch notes.

 

[Karlington]

Changes to confederate partition in upcoming patch:

When you say "in upcoming patch" you mean things you would like to see in the patch and not things that are actually in there, right?

 

[Vanhal]

Changes to confederate partition in upcoming patch:

Like... bloody hell. Does that means that even if i murder my every single relative game will still generate some random people to break my land?

 

[The Founder]

Like... bloody hell. Does that means that even if i murder my every single relative game will still generate some random people to break my land?

Breaking the land up is what partition does. It is it's single, defining gameplay purpose. Its biggest weakness in history.
The better sucessions laws are the biggest driving factor for getting through the tech-tree.

Exploits like killing all heirs but one had to be fixed. I asumed just disallowing murder against your children was enough, but apparently it was not enough. These rules apply when they are unavoidable - at sucession.

 

[Karlington]

Like... bloody hell. Does that means that even if i murder my every single relative game will still generate some random people to break my land?

It means that instead of writing "A parody of what we'll see in an upcoming patch" he wrote "Changes to confederate partition in upcoming patch"

 

[Karlington]

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Robert don't think it be like it is, but it do.

And for more on the same theme:

Lope bullying him.

 

[MishaTX]

Question: Is there any particular reason why, when educating your own heir, you almost always get a choice between three traits:

1) Bad.
2) Worse (and gives you stress).
3) Terrible (and gives you stress)?

I seem to recall that at least in CK2, you usually had one choice that would cost you that benefited your heir.

But, back on topic. Less chit chat, more weird screen shots

 

[TheDarkMaster]

Question: Is there any particular reason why, when educating your own heir, you almost always get a choice between three traits:

1) Bad.
2) Worse (and gives you stress).
3) Terrible (and gives you stress)?

I seem to recall that at least in CK2, you usually had one choice that would cost you that benefited your heir.

But, back on topic. Less chit chat, more weird screen shots

There are a set of personality choice events. Each event always gets the same three options. The child will pick one of them, then the guardian gets the chance to change that choice to one of the other two at the cost of stress. Keeping the child's choice will have no stress gain.

Many choices are from all good options or all bad options. A couple notable ones are:

• Affectionate, sadistic, or arrogant.
• Lazy, coward, or arbitrary.
• Impatient, glutenous, or paranoid.
• Temperate, diligent, or patient.

 

[ptrudelljr]

Changes to confederate partition in upcoming patch:

• Children under the age of 12 are not considered part of the partition unless they are the three oldest.
• Dead children with no children of their own are not considered part of the succession. Surviving grandchildren will get a share as if their parents were alive.
• If the current ruler has less than 3 available successors, their siblings will be considered instead for partition.
• If neither children or siblings are available for partition, then councillors and powerful nobles will be used instead.
• If no one else is available for a minimum 3 heir partition, then new characters will be randomly generated to be heirs on succession.
• Characters who already have land will be excluded from confederate partition succession, unless they are the primary heir or the character they are inheriting from is two ranks higher than them.
• Landed characters can never inherit a title outside of their diplomatic range.

Changes to partition succession:

• Works almost exactly like confederate partition except,
• There is a minimum of 2 heirs instead of 3.
• Titles will not be automatically created.
• More distant family members than direct decedents and siblings of the ruler are considered potential heirs.

Changes to high partition:

• There is no guaranteed split. The minimum number of heirs is 1.

EDIT: If it wasn't obvious, this is not actual patch notes.

I'm shocked people couldn't feel the sarcasm dripping off this post. The second bullet point sealed it for me. "Dead children with no children of their own are not considered part of the succession." LOL

 

[The Founder]

I'm shocked people couldn't feel the sarcasm dripping off this post. The second bullet point sealed it for me. "Dead children with no children of their own are not considered part of the succession." LOL

Why would you asume that is sarcasm, instead of a legitimate bug?
I have seen way more stupid bugs, in way less complicated mechanics. This one is basically par for the course

 

[Karlington]

I'm shocked people couldn't feel the sarcasm dripping off this post. The second bullet point sealed it for me. "Dead children with no children of their own are not considered part of the succession." LOL

Why would you asume that is sarcasm, instead of a legitimate bug?
I have seen way more stupid bugs, in way less complicated mechanics. This one is basically par for the course

I believe he was talking about the post he quoted.

 

[The Founder]

I believe he was talking about the post he quoted.

EDIT: If it wasn't obvious, this is not actual patch notes.

It was not obviously fake.

Indeed it was the exact opposite of obvious fake. It is the perfect immitation of the exact format, logic for changes and even fixes for bugs/exploits I would expect for it.

 

[Karlington]

It was not obviously fake.

Indeed it was the exact opposite of obvious fake. It is the perfect immitation of the exact format, logic for changes and even fixes for bugs/exploits I would expect for it.

Random guy posting a few lines of alleged patch notes that nobody has ever seen in the screenshot thread is not obviously fake?

Well...

 

[Riamus]

If there isn't a sticky about the patch, then any "patch notes" posted by regular users (not devs) are almost guaranteed to be fake. So, yes, it was obviously fake. Besides, as was pointed out, why would they add to a succession "Dead children with no children of their own are not considered part of the succession ."? The question of maybe that's a bug ignores the fact that the post is specifically about upcoming additions to partition. The "patch notes" weren't written in a way to suggest that line was referring to a bug that was fixed. It was written as that was a new change being added (not removed/fixed). And obviously a dead person isn't going to be part of succession. A child of a dead person is part of succession, but certainly not the dead person themselves.

And whether or not a person had children doesn't affect whether or not the person is part of succession (dead or alive). Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing this as a feature in some succession types. You'd have to prove your fertility in order to gain the title. I think that was sometimes used in the past, though I'm not positive.

 

[Secret Master]

EDIT: If it wasn't obvious, this is not actual patch notes.

I was almost taken in by it, but I noticed that:

a) It mentioned taking dead children out of succession.

b) The changes made almost too much sense, except for some really obvious exploits/flaws. Which is a clear indication of someone poking fun at something.

Well played, though.

 

[Vanhal]

I'm shocked people couldn't feel the sarcasm dripping off this post. The second bullet point sealed it for me. "Dead children with no children of their own are not considered part of the succession." LOL

Random guy posting a few lines of alleged patch notes that nobody has ever seen in the screenshot thread is not obviously fake?

Well...

Honestly, this isn't even close in nonsense to some of the things i saw unironically proposed or even demanded in the main forum, Poe's law is really working hard there.

 

[explosivealan]

So, what is the prestige cost for enacting Poe's law in the up coming patch?

 

[The Founder]

I know I am kinda responsible for it, but we should really stop being off topic like that.