Do you really think that focusing on features 30% or less of players will utilise is actually benefitting the game?
Good for you then, enjoy the games you like. Don't force yourself into playing it if you don't like it.
Ehh, peace time content will always benefit the game, especially in one that has warfare as a gameplay loop for a lot of people. I and most of my friends that play CK3 use Activities all the time for peace time stuff, changing our gameplay loop to do some actual peace time content instead of being at war all the time since Activities gives so much stuff, probably why they made their rewards so good in the first place. I don't use Royal court that much though which is probably what you're talking about.
Yes and don't forget the completly passive AI in CK3, the AI in CK3 is so passive, that the AI has stopped to arrange Marriages for themself or their Childs(if they have some).
Because the CK2 implementations were adjudged too terrible to retain (like a number of other things, such as regencies which we have recently received an implementation of that is much more interesting than CK2's), and other things have been given priority.
Ck2 had warfare as a gameplay loop and yet they managed to keep players involved without the need for convoluted semi cut-scenes. How? Each Religion/Ethnicity/Government was unique. It felt completely different playing Zorastrianism to Islam or Christianity... now... they're all exactly the same thing just with a different name and several perks the player can change on a whim. Or just invent a new one if they so like.
Are you telling me they couldn't retain The Old Gods from ck2 because it was too difficult to implement?
And still no Customizable Notifications Settings, something which the Victoria 3 Devs have added very quickly after the Release of Victoria 3, where the CK3 Devs need more than 3 Years for it.
I strongly disagree. Any feature brought over from CK2 has been improved upon or made more complex when applicable.
I agree the AI needs some work. I do like a lot of the features that have been added over time, but it feels like they exist exclusively for the player, and the AI never uses them or doesn’t ever get the chance to.
I'd like to push back on the idea that ethnicities and cultures feel more different in CK2 than they do in CK3. In CK2 they were extremely barebones, with one or two extra perks for very few select cultures that were static and unchangeable while most had nothing that made them distinct or exclusive when compared to other cultures. Not only does each culture in CK3 have its own tenets that make them much more unique than they were in CK2, the ability to form hybrid cultures and diverge to create a new culture entirely are a massive step up from the previous game and is something that fans have been asking for in every Paradox game since time immemorial. Add onto this a language system that damages your relations with other characters if you can't actually speak to them and you've got what I think is the best way of representing cultures in any Paradox Grand Strategy title.
That's a pretty bold thing to say; concluding that CK3 devs have less passion than V3 because they added message settings, a music player, and day/night cycle faster. Just seems a tad disrespectful to both teams. Here's a dev post about it, I guess.
I wasn't on CK3 when the decision was originally made, but AFAIK it just wasn't thought to be that important to too many people. I'm unsure how good the reasoning was there: equal chance that it was just downprioritised because it was thought to be lesser used, or that we actually had a look at CK2's telemetry and saw that it genuinely wasn't oft touched.
We've talked about it since (and towards the end of the last DLC, as things were wrapping up), and, at last check, I believe it's currently in a large bucket labelled "Stuff Wot We Can Steal From V3".
I'm genuinely surprised how little that omission has annoyed me in V3 or CK3.
And which some people are kicking up a right stink about, because it has the sun rising in the west and Paradox basically went "sorry our bad, can't fix it because it'll look worse".
I'm not a big fan of such categorical statements as "Any feature brought over from CK2 has been improved upon or made more complex when applicable" - that is clearly not the case. @non-entity gives some examples of features that work worse in CK3 than CK2.
I'm inclined to agree about the cultures - while CK3 cultures were useless before the "culture rework" that came with Royal Court, now it is an excellent system that is lots of fun, and has a real effect on gameplay. Clearly superior to CK2 in that regard, I'd say - culture in CK2 was often just a raiding on/off trigger, though some cultures did have fun flavor events.
The lack of message settings is, in my opinion, the single greatest problem with CK3. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say here - are you saying that the player base is making silly complaints, or that Paradox messed up by making the sun rise on the wrong side of the map? Or perhaps both?
You're focusing way too much on the cultures themselves. Sure if you took a Bengali and put them in England with Catholic faith they wouldn't play any different but different parts of the map played differently.
The number of people who say "just drag my favourite feature from CK2 unchanged into CK3" or "give me back the CK2 version of this CK3 feature" is, at the very least, noisy and varied.
Mostly that citing the day/night cycle in Vic3 in support of criticism of CK3 is... not a compelling line of argument.
I'm not denying that, the person I was replying to was making the claim that "...it was completely unique playing as an Indian faction regardless of what religion you were..." which I didn't agree with.
I don't think it's very fair to say that wanting some features from CK2 implemented that people find is lacking in CK3 (or is in CK3, but people find worse) is the same as saying they want to turn the game into CK2, though.
I think they were trying to make the point that the Victoria 3 team is more active in making improvements than the CK3 team is, but perhaps I misunderstood him.
