[MOD] Princes of Darkness

[flintsparc]

Mod updated for 1.5.0.2

Change Log:

Spoiler

Princes of Darkness, "Night Court", Version 1.5.0.2, Change Log, February 17, 2022

- Integration of Paradox gene morph and ethnicities fixes for 1.5.02
- Fix of wonder buildings causing Linux CTD. Thanks Charlie!
- Tweaks to some remaining not vampire appropriate events
- Adapted non-graphical Paradox changes for 1.5.0.2
- Web of Knives won't attack players if set to lowest strength game rule
- Vampires can't die by being "booed" to death by their jesters now
- Increased trigger protection against the head chasing monk event, vampires' most existential threat in RC
- Differentiated the Cappadocian and Tremere primogens bonus (were the same before)
- Coimbra and Portucale aren't wastelands devoid of any civilization anymore
- Artifact Map Mode (by ruler and courtier)
- Each clan now has one (or several) "traditional" faiths they can convert to for half the piety cost
- Converting to Patron only faiths as a non Patron character is now prohibitively expensive
- Various small fixes (loca, MaA balance etc)
- Some religious tenets nerfs
- Qus is Old Egyptian culture now.
- Castle/City keepers traditions don't require feudal gov anymore
- Tweaks to some buildings
- The soulmate frenzy event is less deadly
- Small fix to the grandeur objective
- Tweaked swords for hire tradition
- Fixed the gold scale cost of court amenities
- Small fixes to the last objectives
- Disabled an event making vamps convert to not appropriate faiths
- Integrated Chilemiao's uploads
- If you released a ghoul, then embraced them, they will now lose the "scorned me" modifier
- VTES art for Tapestry of Blood
- New artifacts: Tapestry of the Bone, Tapestry of Nod ("Tapisserie de Noir")
- Weapon display fixes. In duels, special Vampire and Hunter artifact weapons will be wielded without wooden frames around them.
- Added Court Traits for prey restrictions for Ventrue Clan Bane
- Darker Map
- Scrollable Interarctions
- Debug Mode Portrait Editor fixed.
- Fixed the Bellum Justum perk
- Deleted a botched sub bookmark image
- Kiasyd now have access to the Lasombra dynasty perk
- True Brujah now have access to Carthage
- Replaced the zealous people by fervent temple builders for the Greek culture
- Small prowess nerfs for random artifacts
- The scheme icons are back
- Removed the new vanilla option to convert during a stress break #Might be the cause of weird religion vampires floating around
- Added the Eternal Knowledge objective #Requires Royal Court DLC
- Removed the obsolete commander event file
- Nerfed Industrious
- Upped the gold provided by the "Prince of" building chain #To help players deal with the numerous new costs while cementing the importance of a well dev capital city
- Removed the prerequisite of the house head being of x government for cadet branches
- Some loca fixes
- The Brujah legacy track is now available to True Brujah as well
- Made some not appropriate courts events not triggering for vampires anymore (no longer pestered by dozens of Cindarella or decapited by a head chasing monk)
- Giovanni can spawn Zombu now
- Reactivated the court physician position globally #Running into an issue making it conscience only for now
- Graphical fixes for fangs, teeth. All characters should ahve teeth now rather than transparent gaping holes in reality when they open their lips.
- Fix to (REDACTED) mesh
- Fix to Mist form place holder
- Primogens events won't proc for KJ anymore
- Reactivated the Web of Knives now that the HUD is fixed
- Fixed a small consistency issue in city/castle main buildings
- Fixed some visual and costs issues in the amenities maintenance costs
- Lowered the costs of inspirations
- Fixed Catu not starting as house head of the True Brujah
- Fix to Ruler Designer crashing if starting with no splat trait
- Blood Sorcery fixes
- Various Kuei-Jin fixes
- screamer should fell good eat soul too
- devour chi fixes
- Adapt a frozen time
- fixed Dharma succesion
- fix missing kj schme icon, fix kj charater interaction and made then more understandble, nerf yangprana
- nerfing a lifestyle perk, buffing ducal building
- teleport fix
- fix demonic feature can't reset problem, add desc for them
- fixed problem of drain all your chi when have chi flow perk, fixed osmiosis that don't work, fixed various typo, implemented kj soul art perk
- added soul eating, ritual murder as execution, added send to oblivion as wraith execution meanwhile ban other one for wraith
- Various Shih fixes:
- fix shih make prayer duplicate effect, move wall decision into one
- Duel move for shih
- Organizer trait and no more show legacy reward and no more too long opposition
- changed the condition to make vamp no gain dread or murder secret when murder mortal
- the cap on herd based on diplomacy
- the cap on ghouls based on stewardship
- block vamp convert to innocent faith, in interaction
- Dynasty window layout changes
- Additional Chinese Translation
- Revised Patron Carnal Desire additions
- Patron character Aisling Leanhaun

 

[r3xm0rt1s]

Anybody else having problems with religious tolerance? If I want every other realm to be free real estate to seize in holy war, my options seem to be some faiths of Road of Heaven, or a custom Feral faith. Conquests and invasions seem to leave filthy baron tier characters to sully my realm, nevermind AI surrendering to latter before target kingdom is fully occupied.

Now that there is no effect from devotion level, Road of Heaven religious building could use adjustment. Sadly, 75% buff to flat 0 is... 0. Either a new effect or just removal of the ineffective one would be improvement.

Is b_al-qasrayn supposed to be a tribal holding? It is the only one of its kind I have found, though I did not check every county. At least in 1230 it is held by a revenant of a government that cannot make use of it.

 

[karde]

We haven't changed anything related to post holy war shenanigans, so I can't help you here.

No effects from devotion? That's a RC patch change? It worked fine before.

I will fix al qasrayn, thanks.

 

[r3xm0rt1s]

We haven't changed anything related to post holy war shenanigans, so I can't help you here.

No effects from devotion? That's a RC patch change? It worked fine before.

I will fix al qasrayn, thanks.

It is a feature of your custom faith hostility doctrines though. Many consider other faiths of their religion astray or righteous. Nevermind the insanely large three pillars hug box. Might be working as intended though.

Screenshots of devotion level tooltips from dutiful to religious icon, spoilered for size. Fresh new game with only Princes of Darkness mod. Curiously, starting from dutiful, the levels cost 2000, 1000, 2000 and 4500 devotion respectively. In vanilla the costs are 500, 1000, 2000 and 4000.

Spoiler: Devotion levels

Dutiful

Faithful

Devoted Servant

Paragon of Virtue

Religious Icon

Devotion levels for lay clergy faiths only increase same faith opinion in vanilla. I checked if the problem was just in the tooltip and co-faithful vassal's opinion of me was improved, but no. I also waited till next month to see if it takes time to update. The sum of visible opinion modifiers matches the total opinion so it is not a hidden opinion buff either.

Spoiler: Vassal opinion breakdown

 

[karde]

Faiths in the mod mostly represent the personal "code of conduct" of vampires most of the time. So it's rare that they show outright hostility to one another except in some extreme cases (Baali, the more monstruous/aggressive roads) so that's intended.

Devotion being more difficult to grind is intended. You have only one character, so most vanilla values are upped to not just finish everything in 50 years like in vanilla.

I will change the per devotion bonus to something more useful for a future update.

 

[@rodhorv]

Hey! Sorry to bother, but I'm having a CTD after Royal Court. The land just disappeared and it's all sea. Managing characters is fine, but when I try to open the menu of a holding, of the Royal Court, it crashes. Did I install something wrong through the Paradox Menu, did something wrong, or is it an issue with you guys? Thanks a lot.

 

[karde]

Installing with PDX plaza has a lot of issues, you might need to install the mod manually, the PDX plaza allows you to download the mod to do it yourself. There are tutos and such in the web or our discord if you aren't familiar with the process.

 

[@rodhorv]

Installing with PDX plaza has a lot of issues, you might need to install the mod manually, the PDX plaza allows you to download the mod to do it yourself. There are tutos and such in the web or our discord if you aren't familiar with the process.

I'll try your discord then. I have no idea how to manually install mods. I miss the good old days when I cracked CK2 and everything worked fine. Now that I bought CK3 nothing works properly hahaha

 

[@rodhorv]

I'll try your discord then. I have no idea how to manually install mods. I miss the good old days when I cracked CK2 and everything worked fine. Now that I bought CK3 nothing works properly hahaha

Tried doing it after following Discord instructions. It says my launcher can't access the files because it doesn't have access to my documents. Do you know how to bypass it? Thank you and sorry for the trouble.

 

[karde]

A quick google search gives that reply :

Launcher error - can't access game files

After installing the game via Steam, during the first start of the launcher this error occurs: "Zugangsfehler Spieldateien - Wir haben keine Schreibrechte für das Verzeichnis mit den Spieldateien. Kontaktieren Sie bitte den Support." Roughly...

forum.paradoxplaza.com

Worth a try at least.

 

[@rodhorv]

It was a problem with the path. Mod actually works now! Thank you so much. Now I just need to see if it's working with debug in case I want to do some cheating. Oh. And another thing. I'm not going to use the Ethnicities mod for now (as the submods still need updating) alongside POD, now that it's manually installed, do I need to manually install ALL my mods, or can I "mix" manuals with the ones installed normally via the manager? Sorry again. But it's better to ask now than bother you guys a second time with newbie questions.

 

[karde]

We are all newbies in one thing or another, don't worry for the questions.

To answer it, when it's updated to be compatible (it isn't now) you can try the PDX manager first for your other mods. It's "supposed" to work, the manual install is a plan B, you only have to use it if you clearly see that the mod you are trying doesn't work.

 

[@rodhorv]

As soon as they update the things, I'll install them all. For now, I'm after the Book of Nod and the glory of Clan Tzimisce. Thank you so much.

 

[ChriscHoward]

I have been experiencing crashes as well. Everything works fine until I zoom in and click on a county then it crashes. I'm using the paradox launcher. Let me know if I'm doing anything wrong

 

[@rodhorv]

I have been experiencing crashes as well. Everything works fine until I zoom in and click on a county then it crashes. I'm using the paradox launcher. Let me know if I'm doing anything wrong

Hey. Same happened to me. Manually install instead of using paradox launcher. The instructions are in the mod's Discord.

 

[ChriscHoward]

Hey. Same happened to me. Manually install instead of using paradox launcher. The instructions are in the mod's Discord.

I'm going to try this and let you know how it works out for me. Thanks ! Should I do the same with other mods I want to use ?

 

[@rodhorv]

I'm going to try this and let you know how it works out for me. Thanks ! Should I do the same with other mods I want to use ?

Dude on the other post told me to try the paradox manager first. If it doesn't work, try the manual. Sinews of War only worked manual for me.

 

[Zilrich]

Can not complete The Will of Tremere decision. I don't have the requirements of "The Tzimisce Voivodate must be destroyed". Playing as Virstinia "The Great Mother". Vladimir Rustovich has been executed. The Empire of Viovodate title doesn't exist. Virstinia also has the title of "Voivode among Voivodes".

 

[Vegetalss4]

Can not complete The Will of Tremere decision. I don't have the requirements of "The Tzimisce Voivodate must be destroyed". Playing as Virstinia "The Great Mother". Vladimir Rustovich has been executed. The Empire of Viovodate title doesn't exist. Virstinia also has the title of "Voivode among Voivodes".

Voivode among Voivode is the title of the ruler of the Voivodate, (or specifically e_voivodate) so you have that title.
It gets localized to Empire of Carpathia if held by a non-tzimisce or something like that.

So you'll need to destroy that title to achieve your goal.

 

[flintsparc]

POD-CFP-EPE Compatibility

February 28, 2022
* Updated for CK3 1.5.0.2
* Compatible (and requiring) Ascalon's Anarchonisms
* Turned out the sun on CFP's Norman, Goidelic, Andalusian, East African and West African Courts
* Enabled Monstrous Eyes selection
* Integration with latest additions from CFP and EPE (as of 2/20/2022)
* Known issues; some canon characters are not wearing ancient Greek/Roman clothing by default.
* Additional issues will be fixed sometime after Paradox's next patch for CK3, and the subsequent EPE, CFP and AA patches.

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