CK2 - Dev Diary #123 - Iron Century

[Citizen Toph]

Thank you, Paradox! For the record, I love historic bookmarks for all the games, and would love to see more of them in the future, whether free or DLC. But preferably free!

 

[LK-]

I'm hoping we'll finally get an Anti-Caliph mechanic.

 

[benjaseth]

Here is a suggestion:

CK2 dev clash set in the Iron Century!

 

[PabloSugo1991]

Gimme gimme

 

[Ivashanko]

I'm glad that the decision to no longer have multiple bookmarks doesn't extend to CKII. It's the one Paradox game where I actually use them.

Me too! Since the focus in more on characters than national growth multiple bookmarks are an excellent thing to add.

 

[R3dLeader]

How are you with the Hungarians? You know Hungarian conquest or Hungarian invasions of Europe or Hungarian Grand Principality or State Foundation and King Saint Stephen?
Since there was a large influence on the history of them.

 

[Dratoran]

Will Cnut the Great play any role in the start date or doesn't he appear at all, because it is too early?

 

[benjaseth]

Now that new bookmarks are on the table. We really need a 1030 bookmark. It seems like just 30 years away from 1066, but a lot of things were different.
Highlights of a 1030 bookmark:

- Caliphate Al-Andalus
- Totius Hispaniae
- Capet France
- Normans
- North Sea Empire
- Brian Boru legacy Ireland
- Holy Roman Empire
- Semi-Pagan Scandinavia
- Semi-Pagan Poland, Hungary and Rus (Rus converted in 988)
- Early Almoravids
- Big Fatimid empire
- Big Abbasid remnant
- Semi-pagan Seljuks

Having Caliphate Spain, Holy Roman Empire and semi-pagan North Sea Empire all in one bookmark would be a total gamechanger.

Have the bookmark focus its date on the battle of Stiklestad (29 July) as this bookmarks historical dilemma, aka 1066s war for England.

 

[BeyondExpectation]

For those complaining about blob stability, that's easy enough to address without new mechanics (not that I oppose those):

• Allow tributaries to join factions
• Allow all vassals a long way away from the capital or whom border other realms the ability to join independence factions
• Vassals that really hate they liege should ignore his attempts to blackmail them out of factions (particularly proud/brave ones)
  • Conversely, at least some vassals that love their liege should refuse to join factions, even when blackmailed

• Increase the likelihood of vassals joining independence factions and breaking off after decadence revolts
• Increase the likelihood that unhappy vassals will join independence factions (vassals with little chance to get on the council should almost never join "increase council power" factions)
• When an independence revolt succeeds, give all tributaries, and vassals of different religion and culture to the liege or a long way from the capital the choice to break free
• Give revolting lords the ability to sent a call to arms to foreign rulers
• Allow lords to join ongoing revolts, particularly if the revolt is going well
• Remove the +20 opinion modifier for rulers in elective monarchies for vassals that voted for someone else
• Have peasant/religious/liberation revolts become more likely if others have been active for a time, actually giving them a decent shot at succeeding against a powerful ruler (would require significant fine tuning, but could have great benefit) (possible substitute for carrion for the vultures)
• Instead of one religious revolt per religion per realm, make it one per duchy per realm
• Make the AI often break NAPs with people it either really hates or really wants to declare war on (but doesn’t love), like ambitious pretenders to a throne.

Culture related:

• Increase the likelihood rulers adopt the native culture, and allow vassals to change their culture even if they have the same one as their liege
• Slow down the rate of province culture conversion (even more important with Reaper’s Due province depopulation), particularly in hills and and even more so in mountains
• Have many courtiers spawn with the province culture, rather than all with the ruler’s culture
• Break up some of the larger, more assimilation prone cultures (particularly Levantine) and culture groups (particularly Arabic)

Muslim specific:

• As Muslims have plenty of opinion bonus traits, change Hajjaj from +5 to lacking it be -5
• Give kings and emperors a small chance to become decedent
• Make it so decadence causes an opinion penalty to non-decadent, non-cynical Muslim vassals, especially zealous ones

Conclave exclusive:

• Zealous vassals should be upset significantly if heathens or heretics are on the council, disincentivising players from keeping their most trouble inclined vassals close
• Make powerful vassals that dislike their liege sometime choose to join factions instead of the council, or resign from the council to make factions

 

[olvirki]

Please add Egil the skald

I guess he would be a mercenary captain in 936, ready to be hired by Æthelstan for the battle of Brunanbuhr?

 

[ShamanMcLamie]

Will you guys fix it where the AI will actually form the HRE right away when it meets the conditions. I have a mod that repaints the map where the Emperor of Germania starts the game with well over the starting territory and titles needed and gets the prestige and money needed in a few short years, but never forms the HRE. I've probably done about a hundred test runs to see how different parts of the map plays out when I finish them and only once when I wasn't even watching the game did the Emperor of Germania actually form the HRE and it wasn't the start date Emperor, but his Heir. I shouldn't have gone back to my computer and be shocked that the HRE actually formed.

 

[raistlin_wizard]

Will you guys fix it where the AI will actually form the HRE right away when it meets the conditions. I have a mod that repaints the map where the Emperor of Germania starts the game with well over the starting territory and titles needed and gets the prestige and money needed in a few short years, but never forms the HRE. I've probably done about a hundred test runs to see how different parts of the map plays out when I finish them and only once when I wasn't even watching the game did the Emperor of Germania actually form the HRE and it wasn't the start date Emperor, but his Heir. I shouldn't have gone back to my computer and be shocked that the HRE actually formed.

I've seen AI kings being able to create the empire and not doing it. Not just the HRE. And I don't know why.

 

[Voy]

scroll-able history from 867 - 936?

Requires way more work than you'd expect.

 

[adriankowaty]

So we have united, prebaptised Poland at early years of Mieszko I's rule? Quite good to know. Though I expect both Bohemia and the HRE (the former is already baptized back then) to be nasty at start.
Will games starting in this bookmark qualify for achievements?
EDIT:
apparently, it's Lestko's rule, Mieszko's grandfather.

 

[AaronPaulRaider]

My stupid comment but. How do I download this patch/DLC? I just started up CK2 and there is no new start date.

 

[Silversweeeper]

My stupid comment but. How do I download this patch/DLC? I just started up CK2 and there is no new start date.

It isn't out yet.

 

[Serenity84]

My stupid comment but. How do I download this patch/DLC? I just started up CK2 and there is no new start date.

This hasn't be released yet. Dev Diaries are generally about teasing future development

 

[Berserk1240]

Hype !

 

[Poliut]

Will there be different requirements to forming the HRE?

 

[AaronPaulRaider]

This hasn't be released yet. Dev Diaries are generally about teasing future development

Ok thanks for the reply!