New Startdates ... Please?

[tsf4]

Do you guys plan to add more start dates in this mod, particularly earlier? Also, how playable is the game if you start a game on a random date and not on a scenario?

 

[Imperator1993]

Are you talking about adding dates before the Bleeding Years scenario? I think a problem with that is we don't have much info on those dates, though playing as Old Valryia could be fun, maybe make the doom have chance of happening or not.

 

[blackninja9939]

We can't add any before the bleeding years not because we don't want to but because the ck2 engine doesn't support having multiple maps.

 

[D Toccs]

The game is 100% playable starting at any date from the Bleeding Years through to AFFC. There are several interesting easter eggs in there such as Aegon's 1st and 2nd invasions of Dorne, Raymun Redbeard's invasion, the Reynes of Castamere rebellion and the 3rd and 4th Blackfyre Rebellions.

 

[Imperator1993]

We can't add any before the bleeding years not because we don't want to but because the ck2 engine doesn't support having multiple maps.

I'm don't know really anything about map modding but is it possible to have like the main game has the current map and if you wanted to play a before the Bleeding Years scenario you could check a mod in the launcher screen that will start the game with a map where Old Valryia is still around but you can't play any scenarios after the doom?

 

[Duke of Awesome]

I'm don't know really anything about map modding but is it possible to have like the main game has the current map and if you wanted to play a before the Bleeding Years scenario you could check a mod in the launcher screen that will start the game with a map where Old Valryia is still around but you can't play any scenarios after the doom?

That would essentially be an entirely different mod, separate in every way from this mod except by premise.

 

[blackninja9939]

I'm don't know really anything about map modding but is it possible to have like the main game has the current map and if you wanted to play a before the Bleeding Years scenario you could check a mod in the launcher screen that will start the game with a map where Old Valryia is still around but you can't play any scenarios after the doom?

That would basically require us to rewrite the entire mod to fit that time by adding in hundreds of thousands of new characters into the mod. So imagine the time it took for the mod to get to this state and we would have to do that again, would be a pain especially for the history guys.

 

[Manic Eskimo]

I often don't use the bookmarks. One of my favourite houses to play is the Webber's of Coldmoat, I often play ast their first count who starts somewhere around the middle of the time line IIRC. One new start date I would like is A game of thrones. So you can start exactly where the story begins. Have a little event chain for Ned Stark revolving around the Jon Arryn murder mystery. I think that would be cool.

 

[JimThePocket]

I often don't use the bookmarks. One of my favourite houses to play is the Webber's of Coldmoat, I often play ast their first count who starts somewhere around the middle of the time line IIRC. One new start date I would like is A game of thrones. So you can start exactly where the story begins. Have a little event chain for Ned Stark revolving around the Jon Arryn murder mystery. I think that would be cool.

I think the devs have said they don't think that would be much fun for anyone but Ned.

I want it just for a Drogo event chain.

 

[blackninja9939]

I often don't use the bookmarks. One of my favourite houses to play is the Webber's of Coldmoat, I often play ast their first count who starts somewhere around the middle of the time line IIRC. One new start date I would like is A game of thrones. So you can start exactly where the story begins. Have a little event chain for Ned Stark revolving around the Jon Arryn murder mystery. I think that would be cool.

This also gets suggested every few weeks and here briefly is why we are unlikely to ever do it:

Everything revolves around Ned. If Ned makes a certain choice it can make an entire character useless to the game, most choices available are reactions to Ned's choices, there are very few interesting options for anyone except Ned. The only exception to doing everything off of Ned is Viserys but he has a linear and unchanging tale of going across the dothraki sea and hoping Drogo attacks Westeros as opposed to sitting there and killing him.

 

[JimThePocket]

This also gets suggested every few weeks and here briefly is why we are unlikely to ever do it:

Everything revolves around Ned. If Ned makes a certain choice it can make an entire character useless to the game, most choices available are reactions to Ned's choices, there are very few interesting options for anyone except Ned. The only exception to doing everything off of Ned is Viserys but he has a linear and unchanging tale of going across the dothraki sea and hoping Drogo attacks Westeros as opposed to sitting there and killing him.

Well, you could play as Drogo as well. As it stands you can start in CS and sort of simulate events by marrying him to Dany, but the last time I did that things petered out 'cos he didn't have the event ships needed to invade Westeros.

 

[TheBoozehammer]

That would basically require us to rewrite the entire mod to fit that time by adding in hundreds of thousands of new characters into the mod. So imagine the time it took for the mod to get to this state and we would have to do that again, would be a pain especially for the history guys.

Plus, it is impossible to play as Valyria as the Doom happens, which would kind of be the point, IMO.

 

[Duke of Awesome]

Well, you could play as Drogo as well. As it stands you can start in CS and sort of simulate events by marrying him to Dany, but the last time I did that things petered out 'cos he didn't have the event ships needed to invade Westeros.

The unfortunate thing I've noticed about this strategy is that Dany usually becomes Moonsinger.