Hi everybody,
I just came back to playing Crusader Kings (last time I played the version was still 1.03). I must say this game is heading to very good direction indeed.
In my game I'm playing Duchy of Provence, the long campaign. The year is now about 1170. Difficulty hard/normal. So far I've got one crash to the desktop and one VFC crash. The latter happened in the end of yearly autosave.
So the bugs first:
1) About 15 years ago I developed a bad relationship with my liege (king of Germany). Soon, the king of France (who happened to be Arab Catholic, ruling a very scattered realm that was still quite powerful) asked for an alliance and I accepted. After a couple of years he (the French king) attacked some backwater county of his realm and asked me to join the battle. After pondering this for a moment I decided to go for it. Immediately, two distinct French dukes (Toulouse and some other) declared a war on me. This was not so strange but at the same moment the King of France himself declared war on *me* as well! This was the immediate effect after fullfilling his own request! Something might be a bit wrong here?!
2) After leading my crusading forces to Portugal I saw my piety wasn't very good so I decided to grant a new bishopric in Coimbra. When I selected the 'create bishopric'-option in the realm menu, there was one dead guy on the list! He was my old diocese bishop, to whom I already granted a bishopric some 20 years before, then he had died as a bishop of his own province about 5 years ago. Well, I made this zombie bishop of Coimbra and there he still is, ruling with his eternal hand, already more than 40 years after his death. I suppose he is going to be bishop of Coimbra until the game ends.
Then some other observations, not necessarily bugs:
3) The seats of some kingdoms and the pope are too easily moved to obscure places and there they'll stay. King of France lives nowaday in Tunis (although most of France is in Christian hands already). Rome was taken over by moslems some 100 years ago, afterwards a crusade was called to free it. Duke of Trondelag from Norway freed most of Italy quite soon and now for the last 50 years Rome has been in hands of the Archbishop of Sussex. The Pope has recently (about 10 years ago) moved his seat to Malta but for the preceding 90 years the Holy See was constantly situated in the desert of Sinai. Shouldn't there be some events to restore the Papacy to Rome for AI as well?
4) The papal controller thing still seems to be bugged (or why after my vassal bishop of Athens was made pope his controller was first king of Bohemia, then king of Denmark). Also, almost always when the game is reloaded the papal controller is changed, why is that?
5) Doing your own crusades against some independent sheikdoms is very economical money-wise, three times after winning some minor battles my duke was offered some 4000+ ducats (everything they had) for peace. I think those moslems should try to keep their treasures and not immediately give up all their money to Christians. For example this specific crusade gave me abou 12500 as money, although my armies on the field were less than 10000.
6) Most prestige and piety events are laughable in scope, I'm only a duke and after about 10 years of reign I have at least about 700 prestige 500 piety. Then some 'great' events come where you lost 30 prestige and gained 20 piety, or lost 40 gold and gained 20 prestige. Shouldn't these events be scaled to the level of your realm?
On the other side, the 'sellsword company' events still ask for unbelievable amount of money,for example it might be 900 ducats for some 400 men. Is there an out-of-balance issue here?
7) What is the issue with the 'marriage aid duty' -event? Shouldn't you sometimes be asked to pay money (as I undestand when you marry off your eldest daughter at least)? Always, when this event comes I either get a nice sum of money or ridiculous amount of prestige (depending on what I choose), not depending whether I'm marrying my daughter or someone else's. A bug?
8) Vassal rebellion AI is not very good. Some of my crusader states are revolting with 125 men although I'm waging wars in their border provinces with 5000+ armies. IRL this wouldn't be very likely.
I just came back to playing Crusader Kings (last time I played the version was still 1.03). I must say this game is heading to very good direction indeed.
In my game I'm playing Duchy of Provence, the long campaign. The year is now about 1170. Difficulty hard/normal. So far I've got one crash to the desktop and one VFC crash. The latter happened in the end of yearly autosave.
So the bugs first:
1) About 15 years ago I developed a bad relationship with my liege (king of Germany). Soon, the king of France (who happened to be Arab Catholic, ruling a very scattered realm that was still quite powerful) asked for an alliance and I accepted. After a couple of years he (the French king) attacked some backwater county of his realm and asked me to join the battle. After pondering this for a moment I decided to go for it. Immediately, two distinct French dukes (Toulouse and some other) declared a war on me. This was not so strange but at the same moment the King of France himself declared war on *me* as well! This was the immediate effect after fullfilling his own request! Something might be a bit wrong here?!
2) After leading my crusading forces to Portugal I saw my piety wasn't very good so I decided to grant a new bishopric in Coimbra. When I selected the 'create bishopric'-option in the realm menu, there was one dead guy on the list! He was my old diocese bishop, to whom I already granted a bishopric some 20 years before, then he had died as a bishop of his own province about 5 years ago. Well, I made this zombie bishop of Coimbra and there he still is, ruling with his eternal hand, already more than 40 years after his death. I suppose he is going to be bishop of Coimbra until the game ends.
Then some other observations, not necessarily bugs:
3) The seats of some kingdoms and the pope are too easily moved to obscure places and there they'll stay. King of France lives nowaday in Tunis (although most of France is in Christian hands already). Rome was taken over by moslems some 100 years ago, afterwards a crusade was called to free it. Duke of Trondelag from Norway freed most of Italy quite soon and now for the last 50 years Rome has been in hands of the Archbishop of Sussex. The Pope has recently (about 10 years ago) moved his seat to Malta but for the preceding 90 years the Holy See was constantly situated in the desert of Sinai. Shouldn't there be some events to restore the Papacy to Rome for AI as well?
4) The papal controller thing still seems to be bugged (or why after my vassal bishop of Athens was made pope his controller was first king of Bohemia, then king of Denmark). Also, almost always when the game is reloaded the papal controller is changed, why is that?
5) Doing your own crusades against some independent sheikdoms is very economical money-wise, three times after winning some minor battles my duke was offered some 4000+ ducats (everything they had) for peace. I think those moslems should try to keep their treasures and not immediately give up all their money to Christians. For example this specific crusade gave me abou 12500 as money, although my armies on the field were less than 10000.
6) Most prestige and piety events are laughable in scope, I'm only a duke and after about 10 years of reign I have at least about 700 prestige 500 piety. Then some 'great' events come where you lost 30 prestige and gained 20 piety, or lost 40 gold and gained 20 prestige. Shouldn't these events be scaled to the level of your realm?
On the other side, the 'sellsword company' events still ask for unbelievable amount of money,for example it might be 900 ducats for some 400 men. Is there an out-of-balance issue here?
7) What is the issue with the 'marriage aid duty' -event? Shouldn't you sometimes be asked to pay money (as I undestand when you marry off your eldest daughter at least)? Always, when this event comes I either get a nice sum of money or ridiculous amount of prestige (depending on what I choose), not depending whether I'm marrying my daughter or someone else's. A bug?
8) Vassal rebellion AI is not very good. Some of my crusader states are revolting with 125 men although I'm waging wars in their border provinces with 5000+ armies. IRL this wouldn't be very likely.
