1. How does it work when I play an older vampire who has several disciplines on advanced? At the moment I play Duke Dionysios of Athens and he starts with most disciplines on advanced, but in his lifestyle tree no perks are checked. Now it seems that although the perks are unchecked I can use the corresponding disciplines (for example: I can summon people to my court without having any perks in Presence because Dionysios has Advanced Presence from the start). But what is with the perks that grant boni like +10% plot power or something? Do I have those too (because Dionysios would have to had them bought in order to buy the Advanced perk), or does it make sense for me to buy them and start a discipline lifestyle tree even though I already posses the advanced perk?
The advanced discipline trait unlocks the character interaction powers, and will also be used for some script mechanics and events such as in the diablerie scheme duels. We can not assign specific lifestyle perks in character history files. We actually disabled the initial lifestyle experience to starting landed title holders because they were being awarded experience based on their age (which for some vampires is more than a thousand years) and they were starting 1230 bookmark with several vanilla lifestyle perk trees finished. We may in the future award some canon characters at start a lot of resonance experience to fill their trees when they have particular advanced disciplines. For now, you'll need to get and spend the resonance if you want to have every modifier associated with every discipline perk pip.
2. I read that users of Oblivion can summon zombi or something like that. Duke Dionysios is a Cappadocian who possesses the Mortis branch of Oblivion. Why can he only raise ghouls en masse? What did I do wrong?
Our mistake. We mistakenly allowed only Lasombra to summon Zombu. It will be fixed in the next update.
3. Someone here in the forum said it would be possible to gain money by extorting people, when I know secrets about them. How do I do that? I really need money and know many secrets, but all I can do is blackmail them for hooks (Which is amazing but doesn't help me with the money.).
You need the vanilla CK3 Stewardship Avaricious lifestyle perk "
Golden Obligations" which will allow "Can Demand Payment for Hooks "
4. Why do I have a negative modifier on prestige? On the top, when I hover my mouse on the prestige crown it says "-1.0 from domain". Why is that? Is that something the mod added or is it a new CK3 thing I didn't understand properly? FYI I am at 3/3 domain limit, so I don't think that this is the reason..
Probably depends on the buildings you have built and possibly a modifier on your house. Some of our 1st tier buildings have a malus in addition to a bonus. Some building chains are always problematic (the open rule ones that operate in defiance of the Masquerade), while other building chains will lose their malus as you build them up.
5. Who is drinking as a bloodleech supposed to work? It seems the only way to drink from a vampire is diablerie, which is in the long run not very feasible. Alternatively I can totally drain humans to go back to 0, but that's not gonna work for me too, because I'm compassionate and my stress would kill me. There is something like this 'blood tax' or something similar, that I can adjust under the feudal contract, but I didn't figure out how to ask my vassals for blood. That would be great because it seems like a good way to gain vampire blood.
In the future we will add decisions for you to demand and extort blood from other vampires, or take blood willing from a vampiric lover or concubine. Right now, the only way is diablerie. Predator Type is also just a preference and style, not a feeding restriction. Your character can still consume the blood of mortals, and that will remain true even after we add these other options to get vampire blood.
We do need to develop the herdify scheme for compassionate characters to keep a large herd of blood dolls who will willingly give you their blood.
However, if your blood potency gets very high, then the only way to reduce your hunger is through damaging or killing feeds. This is part of the tragedy of being a vampire. A compassionate vampire needs to keep their blood potency low and not raise it through diablerie.
We have not yet written voluntarily entering in to torpor to lower blood potency yet. We will one night.
If you have animalism and the animal succulence perk, you can drain animals at a higher blood potency to satisfy all but the last point of hunger. Even with animal succulence though, you can raise your blood potency where animal blood satisfies no hunger. If you have the bond famulus perk, you can get a pet animal or war horse that you have bonded with and consume its blood for a larger satisfaction of hunger. It takes blood to bond a famulus though.
Its tough being a compassionate vampire, particularly if you are on the Road of Humanity or the Road of Heaven. But you are immortal and can still advanced down the lifestyle trees even if resonance is in short supply.
6. I guess it is a design choice that my vassals don't grant me any levies? But how comes that my enemies are supported by their vassals when they're attacked and mine don't support me? Is this an attacker vs. defender thing?
It is. We tried to eliminate levies entirely, except for torch and pitchfork wielding mobs of vampire hunters, but the AI freaked out and kept launching a multitude of independence revolts, so duchies got some levies buildings. You'll notice that levies are not in the Traditions contract. As to your vassals not coming to your support, we will look into that, but they may also need to like you to help.
These are quite a lot of questions, but I would be very grateful for feedback. This mod is so nice and was one of the reasons for me to buy CK3 (because I played the old one on CK2 to the death).
Thank you very much in advance.
We are glad you like both of our mods so much! It is still very early in Crusader Kings III, but we felt we had made the mod well enough that it would be fun to play and a good inspiration for other modders to see what is possible with the new game. We are committed to expanding it and making it even better than the mod was for CK2. In many ways, we think the new mod has already surpassed the CK2 version. Watch this space for more updates or join us on our discord!
