They try to find an existing character that can fit else they create one, either way they are added to your entourage
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For Tours, there is currently a hard limit of 10 total stops and then you return home. It's less expensive to do a circular tour since each stop costs a different amount based on how far away it is from the previous stop, but you can do a really long spaghetti tour if that's what you wanna do
They are currently being fixed!
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I'll try to answer the tour-related questions here and leave travel for the travel team.
- Dinners do indeed include opportunities to increase your character's weight; in particular we have an event about you growing quite fond of the local dessert.
- A vassal can choose to welcome their liege, or turn them away, but beware as turning away your liege can have consequences, especially if your liege is not so forgiving.
- 10 stops is the limit right now for everyone.
- For all tour types including intimidation, each time you depart from a stop, you make a demand. Taxation is money, majesty is a show of submission, and intimidation is a promise to not join factions. Your vassal can always refuse this demand, and how likely they are to do so depends on what your demand is and some general personality checks. So your brave and unruly vassals are more likely to refuse an intimidation demand.
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Nope, Tours are entirely opt-in content, though you will miss out on bonuses from not doing them
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As it says in the diary you can specify what route you take completely
Different terrains come with different risks.
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You get quite a lot of these and they can impact multiple provinces at once; usually a direct vassal's held counties. Collecting screenshots takes a bit of time, and I was quite busy so I just used the one I had to hand to demonstrate what kind of effect you get as a same-culture ruler. You also get a guaranteed reward at the start of each stop so you do not rely entirely on random events to get your rewards.>Same-culture festivals still yield powerful rewards.
>popular opinion +5 (literally)
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Glad we're delivering something you feel you'll enjoy!
As for the latter point about other features and future reworks, I refer you to the floor-plan DD I'm afraid. I can't promise any specific features, but just know that many of these things are on our minds.
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There are some events and outcomes here and there in both tours and travels that are influenced by cultural traditions, yes. For example, you're more likely to enjoy your dinner if your host has the Culinary Artists tradition.
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Balance is always a concern and numbers will change to accommodate of course.
Tour rewards are strong since this is a Grand Activity, it is a large investment that also yields large rewards. The Byzantine tour included in the screenshots cost 2300 gold, for example, and that's not even going for the most expensive options.
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You cannot visit barons on a tour at all, and counts cannot tour.
You can visit direct vassals of count or higher. There is also some age requirement but I don't remember the exact age.
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Rest assured, the Lechery intent is not the default and the ai weights in favor and against picking it are based on their traits and how likely they'd be to fornicate broadly.
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Yeahhhh that is correct, but we made the decision to allow any eligible ruler to tour. Byzantium was just who I happened to be playing when grabbing screenshots.
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The incentive to Tour is that Tours are rewarding and fun, and the rewards can help you out in various circumstances. I don't believe it is good or necessary to arbitrarily punish the player for not participating in Tours, players should participate in an activity because the activity is fun to do.
Much like how Hunts and Feasts and Pilgrimages are all optional, whether or not you need to tour will depend on your circumstances. A Tour will likely be pretty vital if you've just ascended to the throne, getting those unruly vassals in line and out of factions against you.
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Goodness me, I sign off and leave you lot alone for a bit and you've hyper fixated and made wild assumptions based on one comment.
Of course we will continue to update the balance of the game based on what we add. Tours yield powerful rewards but they are also expensive. If we find that realms are too stable, we'll make some tweaks and changes to accommodate.
Activities have been opt-in content since the game was released, I did not think saying that we won't directly force you to do Tours would be controversial.
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Only unlanded courtiers and guests will be able to come along on the Tour. Vassals participate by being visited. In fact, part of planning your Tour is deciding just how big your entourage should be! Larger entourages are more expensive, but grant you larger prestige bonuses.
This tooltip is being worked on, mind you.
We decided it would be mechanically weird if you were both accompanying your liege on Tour and being visited, plus it would require an extra pool of events for being an attendee of a tour but not the liege or the stop host, so we decided to just focus on the experience of touring and being visited.
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Most Tour events are bilateral; meaning that either the liege or the vassal will get an event, and then the other party will get an opportunity to respond. Take the "An Early Pledge" event included in the diary as an example. If you take advantage of your vassal's gullible heir, your vassal can step in and prevent the hook in exchange for some other consequence.
Many of the precise activities in the Cultural Festival are decided by the vassal beforehand, and to use another example from the diary, the "Precarious Prey" event offers the vassal an opportunity to either help their liege or steal their liege's glory, should their liege fail to make the shot. Lots of back and forth for a lot of these Tour events.
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I have not at any point in this thread claimed that we are not touching game balance surrounding realm stability and vassal opinion. Obviously when there are new mechanics or tools introduced to the game, balance has to be adjusted to accommodate and we have whole internal processes dedicated to exactly this; playing the game, running overnight AI games, etc.
All I have said is that I'm not going to force you to go on Tours. That literally just means I'm not going to make a random event that makes everyone hate you. It doesn't mean there won't be incentive to go on Tours or that we won't touch realm stability balance.
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I think there's some confusion about what a tour is here. Travel and Tours are different things. Travel is the broad concept of characters moving from point A to point B on the map, which is talked about in the first half.
A Grand Tour is an activity which uses the travel system extensively. It is about visiting your subjects. This does not mean you won't be able to Travel to your liege under different circumstances
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