Dev Diary #117 - Shave and a Map Mode

[PDXOxycoon]

Are these additions part of the free update or the yet announced DLC ?

Improved Barbershop and map modes are in the free update for the upcoming update.

Does the introduction of the new economy tab on the map mean that you will someday make the economy a little more complex and at least a little more population-based than it is now, or will it just be a county income map?

Maybe some more complexity in the future, but not as detailed as making it pops based like V3 is.

Wait a minute. The control map is already in the game. When we select a marshal task to increase control, a county control map appears.

This is a bit upgraded and made available without having to select the marshal task beforehand. You can see other people's county control. It's also not quite the same as the one being used when you select the marshal task.

 

[Alien-47]

Ok, I love what I'm seeing. I expected more on regencies, but well, I love what I see. Can't deny that.

On that note, since we're already talking about how things look and showing more things... may I ask if there are any plans to allow ultrawide resolution in throne rooms? Currently 21:9 (or higher) isn't supported in throne room view, we have those black areas to the left and right. Which is a shame, I might add, as the rest of the game looks fabulous on higher resolutions.

No plans for that for now. Currently scene and its camera FoV is set just for default 16:9/10 aspect ration, and changing it to ultrawide would require quite a bit of rework and rethinking of the scene. Just naively enabling a wider scene will introduce ugly perspective distortions on the sides, and everything will look smaller, more distant and much less impressive

 

[PDXOxycoon]

I mean the barbershop and map modes are items that people have asked for but I hope it’s not the meat of a “large” DLC.

Considering the annoucement show next week, we cannot really go into the meat of what's coming ahead of the annoucement itself We can show you some of the other things though

 

[PDS_Noodle]

Don't you think that it's not entirely fair that a player can see the internal affairs of another country just like that? It would be possible to send a spymaster on a spying mission to the court of another ruler, and only then the control map of other characters would be available to the player.

As mentioned below you by others, this is more a question about obfuscation as a game mechanic than a map mode itself. This map mode - and all map modes - doesn't show you any new information that you can't get in other places. If you want you can click on any county in the world and find out its control. This map mode is just a neat way of showing that as a whole.

 

[PDXOxycoon]

Don't you think that it's not entirely fair that a player can see the internal affairs of another country just like that? It would be possible to send a spymaster on a spying mission to the court of another ruler, and only then the control map of other characters would be available to the player.

I do agree with the sentiment, but this is outside the scope of a map mode, because the county control status of a county is available to the player by just clicking the province.

Take me looking at a county in Iberia, as the Duke of Bohemia:

Spoiler: Taifa County

I think obfuscating information like this more falls into the scope of an update where we look more into espionage and such things, if we get around to such a thing. I hope we do, but we'll see.

 

[PDS_Noodle]

I do agree with the sentiment, but this is outside the scope of a map mode, because the county control status of a county is available to the player by just clicking the province.

Take me looking at a county in Iberia, as the Duke of Bohemia:

Spoiler: Taifa County

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I think obfuscating information like this more falls into the scope of an update where we look more into espionage and such things, if we get around to such a thing. I hope we do, but we'll see.

All this is correct but my post was first, thus making me the victor

I'll accept your applause now, everyone!

 

[PDXOxycoon]

Spoiler

I got the first agree, so I win

 

[Arakrates]

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Tell me I'm not the only one who sees it.

It's my proudest work
I am happy with all the positive responses on the barbershop images, I had a lot of fun crafting them for this DD!

I can't wait for you all to see what's next in store for CK3 at the Paradox Interactive Announcement Show on March 6th!

 

[PDXOxycoon]

Wait, 'if' you get around to espionage, and 'hope' you do? Does that mean CK3 has a short projected lifespan?

Consider Dev Diary #109 - The Floor Plan For the Future with a ton of things we want to do, which is not even an exhaustive glance of all the areas we want to look at, I would not say CK3 has a short projected lifespan.

Another mention of espionage and all of the above quotes were dev responses. Why bring it up and say "if we get around to such a thing," and "I hope we do, but we'll see," unless its already been decided.

While I love riddles, teasing and so on, this is not it.

Nothing has been decided in regards to when or if we will do espionage and information obfuscation. We already have lots of other things on the floor and I personally think expanding espionage and information obfuscation is too big for a

ontent Pack, and I'm not sure if even a flavour pack would be sufficient considering the adjacencies espionage has with diplomacy. Right now though the focus is on the upcoming release.

And before anyone inevitably reads too much into the up there: we, the developers, insist on calling event packs "

ontent packs" because of how we labeled F&F internally the first time: bp1. For reference: you can see this structure if you look at the game files themselves in the internal naming convention: bp for

ontent packs (and no one can tell us otherwise ) like Friends and Foes; fp for flavour packs like Fate of Iberia; and ep for expansion packs like Royal Court. Now go forth! Spread to all the corners of the world:

ontent packs! We will reclaim our rightful name!

I think the way you should read the "if" is that the team has an ever evolving set of things they want to do with ever evolving priorities, such that even if espionage is desirable to do soon, that could change as they do other things first. Also that particular dev (PDXOxycoon) is not one of the lead designers that decides the next direction of ideas to follow. I would not read into it that they mean CK3 to have a short lifespan.

This pretty much summarizes it. I don't set priorities and the direction we go for what comes next. I can influence it with giving feedback on what's ahead internally, but at the end of the day I go where our Benevolent Overlord of Ducks, may his hungry armies ever stay satiated on our enemies, leads us!

 

[PDXOxycoon]

I did wonder what "bp" stood for in those game folders. I don't think I'd have ever guessed "View attachment 951997ontent pack" but it is nice to know.

... silly forum not doing my embeds like I want it! I tried to do it with regular emojis, but was forced into using embeds! Curse thee forum for spoiling it for me!

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[PDXOxycoon]

Sigh .... How can clothes still be TODO , when you have mods out there with a full screen barbershop , that even has modded clothes .

That is localization on a clothing item, not the clothing item itself.

 

[PDXOxycoon]

Or did you mean that there will not be anything new as far as how schemes/the spymaster works?

Nothing. Simply nothing. Spymaster and scheme functionality has not been touched at all.