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Second week and a second dev diary! We will continue for this week as well to discuss new patch features and changes.

I'll start with some more quality of life changes we've done with the right-click menu to make interactions with various entities in the game even more smooth. For starters we've finally removed the capital letters in the tooltip to hint about how to now interact with characters, but that's not really a big deal. We have also extended the menu to now include actions such as plot to kill in this menu to make life a little bit easier.

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But we didn't end there because we also felt that you should be able to interact more with holdings and titles so we added it to them as well, including a decision to switch what you want as your capital holding. Obviously the bishopric of Uppsala should be the capital of Sweden now that the capital holding type doesn't matter for government anymore.

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There's also a thing that has been very difficult to do in Crusader Kings 2 is to get a visual overview of your realm and its hierarchy which is why we have merged the Independent Realms mapmode and Direct Vassals mapmode into one superior mapmode which combine the both plus some more. Let's have a look at the Holy Roman Empire and his realm.

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To now see the breakdown of this realm you Ctrl+Left Click on a province on the map belonging to the Empire and it will break up in-front of you to show you what hides within. Showing you the various duchies and counts beneath the Emperor. Pretty standard to how the Direct Vassal mapmode works but you can isolate it to one realm at a time.

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But let's say you want to look deeper into the hierarchy and break up the Kingdom of Bohemia to view what duchies and counties that it contains? You just click it again and this sub realm will also be broken apart to reveal the King's own direct vassals letting you examine your vassals vassals.

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And like Doomdark did last week I'll finish up with some random snippets from our huge Changelog

- Several Lovers events now checks that ruler/spouse/lover isn't incapable/imprisoned
- Rügen, Öland and Djerba are no longer considered to be ocean terrain provinces.
- You'll no longer try to talk to your dead children when you have the family focus.
- It is now possible to gain the Crusader/Mujahid trait as a character of any religion participating in a Crusade/Jihad.
- To become a cardinal you have to be within the pope's diplomatic range
- Can no longer enforce plot to take vassal land if he is in revolt.
- Go tiger hunting no longer disappears after creating a custom Empire in India.
- Fixed get married ambition for homosexuals.
- Now we have visual indicator when settlement slots are being used by tribals
- Paranoid parents should no longer worry about potential plots against dead children.
- Lovers in prison can no longer get impregnated normally
- Anglo-Saxons are now also allowed to create the Kingdom of Saxony
 
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Question, with the ability to change the capital holding will it be possible (by decision or in some other way) to change your government? Like say I want to make the kingdom of Portugal into a republic or vice-versa, will this now be possible?

We have discussed it but we agreed on no that we won't permit that in a vanilla game but it should be super easy to mod in now.
 
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- You'll no longer try to talk to your dead children when you have the family focus.
- Paranoid parents should no longer worry about potential plots against dead children.
Can these be left in for characters with the lunatic trait?
 
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what is the small sword and shield button above King Magus head ? Declare war, I guess ?
Its forbid yourself from leading your own armies
 
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"Appoint Commander", I think.

Declare war is unlikely, since the player IS King Magnus in this screenshot.
Looks like the button for disallowing a character from leading troops. Guessing it's that so now your ruler wont need to lead automatically.

EDIT: emu'd by a hedgehog
 
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I really like the changes made to the capital holdings, it means I won't need three copies of every building for counties like Rome.
 
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WoW the game is going the correct way :D

So are we getting more focuses ?
Cause a new icon in the focus on the portrait.

And moving capital holdings, is it modable the number of times?
Or is it now x years (so 5 years so you can switch holdings) ?
 
Weird.
Now we have the "Commander' minor title, shouldn't it be the other way around ? Everyone is forbidden to lead armies except for the appointed commanders ?

No the ruler can always lead his own troops
 
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Brilliant. Looking great. Hopefully next weeks diary will be even more juicy than the last two. Looking forward to it guys.
 
More please