PDX Games IX: Western Pre-Turkic Empire

[Bralia]

Hate this.

[Dakran]

Hate this.

What on gods green earth am I looking at, that can't possible be a human being, can it be?

EDIT: I'm playing as the Armenian Apostolic king of... Armenia, obviously. Married into the French royal family. Sons had a claim to France. So I took it.
EDIT 2: I'm in a position where I could genuinely consider reforming the Roman Empire if I press my claims. I... I think I might.

[Valrifell]

Hate this.

What on gods green earth am I looking at, that can't possible be a human being, can it be?

EDIT: I'm playing as the Armenian Apostolic king of... Armenia, obviously. Married into the French royal family. Sons had a claim to France. So I took it.
EDIT 2: I'm in a position where I could genuinely consider reforming the Roman Empire if I press my claims. I... I think I might.

Gods please do, those borders are horrendous.

[The New California Republic]

What on gods green earth am I looking at, that can't possible be a human being, can it be?

EDIT: I'm playing as the Armenian Apostolic king of... Armenia, obviously. Married into the French royal family. Sons had a claim to France. So I took it.
EDIT 2: I'm in a position where I could genuinely consider reforming the Roman Empire if I press my claims. I... I think I might.
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Gods please do, those borders are horrendous.

You think that's bad? The current borders in my playthrough are a mess. The British Isles were especially a mess, but I could actually do something about that: I just finished creating the Empire of Britannia, after wrestling control of it from about a dozen other European countries that had chopped it up amongst themselves.

[The New California Republic]

Hate this.

I've not got anything that bad yet, but there have been some very fugly characters ngl.

[Valrifell]

Hate this.

I've not got anything that bad yet, but there have been some very fugly characters ngl.

Thankfully, in the only full playthrough I've done, my main dynasty had a "give everyone a big fuckin beard" gene so I couldn't see how ugly some of them were.

[Bralia]

CK3's 1.1 patch is absolutely massive and will be arriving tomorrow.

And Imperator is radically changing their UI!? What the hell is going on here!?

[The New California Republic]

CK3's 1.1 patch is absolutely massive and will be arriving tomorrow.

Good to see they are giving much higher penalties for high amounts of debt. I've seen some of the Islamic empires rack up debts of tens of thousands of gold during times of war, which I have thought to be sheer douchebaggery that they can get away with it with no major penalties at all.

[The New California Republic]

I've not got anything that bad yet, but there have been some very fugly characters ngl.

Thankfully, in the only full playthrough I've done, my main dynasty had a "give everyone a big fuckin beard" gene so I couldn't see how ugly some of them were.

Long hair, a big beard, and a big Emperor crown all hide a multitude of sins.

[Bralia]

CK3's 1.1 patch is absolutely massive and will be arriving tomorrow.

Good to see they are giving much higher penalties for high amounts of debt. I've seen some of the Islamic empires rack up debts of tens of thousands of gold during times of war, which I have thought to be sheer douchebaggery that they can get away with it with no major penalties at all.

Hopefully that hurts the Pope, too, if it weren't for him hiring literally every merc company on the planet, I might have actually stood a chance against him during my Irish game.

[Plzen]

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- Wounded Knights are now less likely to die in battle
- Outnumbering the enemy now further increases the survivability of your knights

Yes, please. No more slaughterfests in war. :p

- The Renown gain from alive dynasty members is now capped at 2/month (100 alive members)

Yeah... this really needed a fix. The dominant strategy for renown won't be having a huge and stable realm with vassals of your dynasty everywhere. Now there's a serious incentive towards letting go of vassals. Which is actually very interesting, because it comes in the same update with...

If you have Partition and your primary title has a special election form, the heir to that title will be the primary heir for your Partition and get a share as long as they're a valid player heir, even if they otherwise wouldn't have been part of the Partition, or later in the Partition order

...this. Very much yes; this alone makes it worth starting another Scandinavian campaign; I'll be able to form Scandinavia, remain one-empire Scandinavia instead of having to seize a second empire title quickly, and not have to worry about losing my capital duchy every succession. Scandinavia, England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland and I'm already 5/10 for the Dynasty of Many Crowns. :D

- Added a descriptive text in the Dynasty View that tells how you pan it

But did they fix the issue of the Dynasty View setting my laptop on fire whenever I try to open it?

- Gave the AI dancing lessons

I wonder what this means...

The two things I had hoped for that didn't make it in concern tribal-to-feudal transitions (it should be way less brutal than it currently is, more in line with how it was like in CK2...) and de-jure drift for realms with more than one top tier title (if I hold the kingdom of X and the kingdom of Y, de-jure duchies of Y shouldn't de-jure drift into X).

[Lunas Legion]

CK3's 1.1 patch is absolutely massive and will be arriving tomorrow.

And Imperator is radically changing their UI!? What the hell is going on here!?

A lot of changes there.

[Bralia]

Now there's a serious incentive towards letting go of vassals.

Over my dead fucking real life body.

[Plzen]

Over my dead fucking real life body.

One de-jure empire satiates my greed. :p Plzen is a ruler of modest ambitions.

Also, lucky break for me, because there's a local holiday here and I have a 5-day weekend from Wednesday to Sunday. Plenty of time to delve into a new 867 campaign...

[The New California Republic]

- Added a descriptive text in the Dynasty View that tells how you pan it

But did they fix the issue of the Dynasty View setting my laptop on fire whenever I try to open it?

I was hoping there would be some mention of the dynasty tree issues being fixed, such as the incredibly long load times.

[Grenartia]

Good to see they are giving much higher penalties for high amounts of debt. I've seen some of the Islamic empires rack up debts of tens of thousands of gold during times of war, which I have thought to be sheer douchebaggery that they can get away with it with no major penalties at all.

Hopefully that hurts the Pope, too, if it weren't for him hiring literally every merc company on the planet, I might have actually stood a chance against him during my Irish game.

Fucking scandinavians trying to colonize my island.

[Purpelia]

Reading those patch notes for CK3 I am deeply disappointed. They are already going down the route of ruining the game by plugging fun exploits.

[Heloin]

- Gave the AI dancing lessons

I wonder what this means...

I should actually read the rest of the thread before making a joke.

[Holy Tedalonia]

CK3's 1.1 patch is absolutely massive and will be arriving tomorrow.

And Imperator is radically changing their UI!? What the hell is going on here!?

I tried to check the CK3 update and it crashed my phone's browser.

[Dakran]

Unfortunately my king with all the claims died before I could claim much more, and then a catholic populist uprising stole some land from me because even though it was in *my* land, it was still technically against Byzantium as opposed to me, so I didn't notice what the war was about until it was too late.

[Plzen]

I should actually read the rest of the thread before making a joke.

Lazyness is a trait shared by many, myself included. :p

It's annoying reading the discussions about these patch notes on the Paradox forums because too many posts boil down to "I didn't read the patch notes, is X included?" Read and find out, you lazy internet folks. >_>;;

[Serrus]

Anyone know if there's a CK3->EU4 save converter yet?

Unfortunately, not yet, but they are working on it. Whoever they are

[Heloin]

I should actually read the rest of the thread before making a joke.

Lazyness is a trait shared by many, myself included.

Like my father and his father before him.

It's annoying reading the discussions about these patch notes on the Paradox forums because too many posts boil down to "I didn't read the patch notes, is X included?" Read and find out, you lazy internet folks. >_>;;

I bring tidings of a tool built into every computer ctrl+f.
But I'm on my phone.
Then you are dead to me.

[The Hindustani State]

Imperator’s Vetruvius update is being touted as the "definitive free update" before they begin releasing expansions

So I guess this update will finally make Imperator what it should have been at release

[The Hindustani State]

In other news, Johan on Twitter posted a teaser for tomorrows EU4 DD, and… it seems Steppe Hordes will be getting a rework!