Ck2 Dev Diary #21: A Glimmer of Hope

[Darkrenown]

Greetings! If you are reading this you have survived the outbreak launch of The Reaper’s Due. Perhaps you now feel a stirring of hope; can society rebuild? But no, the DLC was too virulent and has spread too far, it is now endemic to CK2 and cannot be cured, there is no hope.

Certain death aside, we are very happy with the reception of Reaper’s Due and the reactions it’s getting. We have had a few problems, but our Code Physicians have been working hard on a cure and if all goes well we’ll be releasing a hotfix today. It’ll cover the education bug non-Conclave owners have, the lack of music when the Context sensitive option is used, and various other things:

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- Fixes songs from the base game being disabled in contextual songs
- If the contextual song doesn't find a song to play, a song will now be chosen by ignoring the contextual song system
- Fixed children not getting their education trait upon becoming adults when you don't have Conclave
- Can no longer call ally into war against their own liege
- You can now get the achievement 'Papal Mache' by killing a Caliph, as implied by the description
- Epidemic diseases no longer stall if you are infected while you have a non-serious symptom
- The "desires a matrilineal marriage" AI modifier no longer happens when matrilineal marriages are disabled
- Horse doctors got a little better
- Incapable people no longer steal your food in seclusion
- characters will not accuse their liege during witch hunts since they have to approve them
- Vassals will no longer refuse their liege's marriage or betrothal offers to get a "better alliance"
- No longer will you get upset about your spouse/parent's grave getting robbed if you were the robber
- Removed the possibility to search for partial titles for performance reasons
- Eunuchs may only select the Groom an Heir ambition if they have a living child
- Fixed several cases of when a Christian Holy Order built a new castle, you would be notified that Beit Dejan was built, instead of the actual castle
- Court physicians now always ask their own liege for money.
- Generic reincarnation event requires your heir to be your child
- Added some more ai factors for when head of religion wants to blame Jews for the plague
- Fixed some broken text in reincarnation event
- The priest generated by event 3021 now has an education
- Murderers are now immune to prune (prevents the red skull from leading nowhere)
- Characters who are marked as special interest by the player, or immune to pruning are no longer killed by the court cleanser
- Fixed in issue with prisoners being able to complain to their liege that the chancellor was looking inappropriately at his wife
- Added the sayyid trait to al-Hadi (id 188648), son of Al-Mansur
- Crash fix that occurred in some mods using custom maps.
- Fixed an issue were you would be notified of eating your own close dynasty members
- Fixed 867 Sápmi setup
- Event WoL.6120 will now only trigger for adult characters
- Further reduced odds of under 16s getting cancer
- Rulers are now willing to negotiate non-aggression pacts with their vassals
- Fixed so infidel penalty is applied properly  for betrothal/marriage
- Modded game rules should now be loaded properly.
- Fixed so call ally alert no longer shows if it's a war against your ally's liege
- Fixed a crash when using custom maps

After this, we’ll be working on the 2.6.2 patch which will, as well as general fixing, add some more events and content we thought up too late to do for the release or that have been suggested on this and other forums post-release -and on that note, please continue to suggest new Game Rules. But 2.6.2 details are for future DDs, that’s all for now!

 

[Servancour]

@Darkrenown :Can no longer call ally into war against their own liege

This is a bad change........

I just took advantage of it in my current save. I was Prince of France(and a SuperDuke) who lost the Election for King, but my wife was Queen of Navarra, Castile, Leon, Galicia, and Aragon. I started a claim war against the new king.....and called her in because it made sense.

With this rule that wouldn't be allowed to happen......

A Married couple with good relations and allies should be allowed to be called in.

You will still be able to call your allies into wars like this, when you as the vassal start a war against your liege. The change we made only affects wars started by the third party. So if your ally declare a war against your liege, you cannot be called into that war.

 

[blackninja9939]

Wonderful! Can also confirm that the game rules are working as they should now for mods

 

[Servancour]

Even if you and your ally has the same liege?

You mean in situations were you and your ally have the same liege, and then you declare war on your liege? Currently yes.

Maybe still allow it for some CBs?

We made this change to fix a few other issues with calling allies in a scenario like this. We'll evaluate and see if we need to do any further changes.

 

[rageair]

Does that also work for faction leaders?

To clarify once and for all; we've actually not changed any alliance rules with this particular change. We just fixed a bug where you got spammed by CtA's that you couldn't accept, as the target of the war was invalid for you.

 

[Moah]

A couple of clarifications regarding character pruning:
- The "useless character pruning" system is not new. It's always been there.
- We have only reduced the court size it triggers at
- Since that first change, we've also added a bunch of test to avoid pruning characters that were actually not useles:
- Will not prune characters who have titles (either landed or minor)
- Will not prune immortal characters
- Will not prune characters who are married, have lovers, friends or rivals
- Will not prune special interest characters
- Will not prune murderers
- Will not prune prisoners
- Will not prune people who have parents
- Will not prune people with claims
- We also have added several defines to control that even more for people who want to do it, or for modders:

    COURT_PRUNE_SIZE = 10,                 -- Courts larger than this will be checked for pruning each month
    PRUNE_MINIMAL_AGE = 40,                -- Minimum age for a courtier to be prunable if considered irrelevant
    HEALTH_IMMUNITY_TO_PRUNING = 7,        -- If a character has that much health, they won't be pruned

 

[Anona]

I dont suppose you guys can clarify the EULA changes regarding modding to the SWMH team so we can get the new HIP?

We haven't done any changes in the EULA regarding mods lately, if that's what you're referring to.

 

[Darkrenown]

This hotfix seems highly experimental. If this hotfix doesn't work, and my game suffers because of this, I want to see Darkrenown trampled by elephants.

Harsh, but fair.

 

[Meneth]

We haven't done any changes in the EULA regarding mods lately, if that's what you're referring to.

The update to the EULA in regards to data collection also updated the user mod conditions apparently. There's discussion of it here: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?goto/post&id=21747189#post-21747189

Probably a better place than this to discuss it.

 

[Moah]

I don't know if this has been suggested already, but as an addition to the 'murderers don't get pruned' feature, can we please have characters who kill another character in battle escape the pruning too?

I misspoke (miswrote?). I should have written "Character who cause someone else's death" instead of "murderers."
So, your Varangian hero will indeed be sung about with this patch.

 

[Moah]

just curious but what do you consider " useless Character " Because I have noticed that it is a lot harder to find Female Courtiers to marry to my council than in 2.5. Since i tend to want to marry my council members because I like the idea of a family always being on the council if they are good and if you prune my court it makes it harder to do and I have to resort to paying for a " Peasant Debutante " A lot more

A couple of clarifications regarding character pruning:
- The "useless character pruning" system is not new. It's always been there.
- We have only reduced the court size it triggers at
- Since that first change, we've also added a bunch of test to avoid pruning characters that were actually not useles:
- Will not prune characters who have titles (either landed or minor)
- Will not prune immortal characters
- Will not prune characters who are married, have lovers, friends or rivals
- Will not prune special interest characters
- Will not prune murderers
- Will not prune prisoners
- Will not prune people who have parents
- Will not prune people with claims
- We also have added several defines to control that even more for people who want to do it, or for modders:

    COURT_PRUNE_SIZE = 10,                 -- Courts larger than this will be checked for pruning each month
    PRUNE_MINIMAL_AGE = 40,                -- Minimum age for a courtier to be prunable if considered irrelevant
    HEALTH_IMMUNITY_TO_PRUNING = 7,        -- If a character has that much health, they won't be pruned

As an addition, I will also say this isn't used on the player's court.

However your specific issue has more to do with generating less random courtiers at the start of the game (or at the creation of a new court) than with the pruning.

 

[Moah]

What are partial titles ?

"tan" when looking for BritTANny for example. We reverted the change that let you do that, so now you can only for titles from the beginning, so you would find TANgiers but not Brittany.

 

[Meneth]

Could you consider a middle ground where it would serch for all words in the name that begin with the input? To elaborate Writing PAP would return "the PAPacy" but not "yaPAPatuna", because PAP is not the begining Yapapatuna. Or maybe a toggle where one could choose between the quicksearch and the long search.

Oh boy, free stuff right after such a great DLC. This is amazing!

That'd probably be just as slow as the partial search, since you'd have to find all the spaces in order to determine the words.

 

[Darkrenown]

Are the doctors that are themselves horsers now better or are doctors better at treating horses?

Doctors who are horses are now better at doctoring.

 

[Moah]

Could you consider a middle ground where it would serch for all words in the name that begin with the input? To elaborate Writing PAP would return "the PAPacy" but not "yaPAPatuna", because PAP is not the begining Yapapatuna. Or maybe a toggle where one could choose between the quicksearch and the long search.

But now it's harder to find titles such as "The Shia Caliphate" and those who start by "the" or something like that.

Could it be programmed to always ignore "the"??

This was a hotpatch fix, and we didn't have time to take a deeper look. We will take, though, and see what can be done. No guarantees, though.

 

[Moah]

Just wondering, @Moah, @Darkrenown, have you seen the AI building hospital buildings in your test games? Because I've seen an AI with over 3000 gold, and not even a single such building.

I'll double check, but yes I have in the past.