CKII is released.

I'm just waiting for them to update the update so CK2 won't have the divide by zero AI pathfinding crash anymore so I can resume Gnacht now that I managed to hammer it to work with RD.

Though HIP for RD...

 

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/09/12/crusader-kings-2-random-map-mod/

 

Hoooo boy, I have a feeling "doesn't seem to be entirely stable" is a massive understatement.

 

Sounds like the stability issue is with the generator itself (crashing?), not the mod it generates having problems.

 

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/foru...dev-diary-23-more-rules-less-lunatics.968680/

 

Sounds cool. Wonder if unrestricted supernatural stuff means we'll have spawn of Lucifer and immortals everywhere. They are rare events but when you have a few thousand rulers checking the random event pool every day its gonna come up constantly.

 

Gonna try out the generator when I get home.

 

Generator is pretty cool honestly. It looks like it'll result in bland games though, but it's a really nice concept. Didn't crash on me once.

 

Good to see yet more rule variations. As the choices expand, I hope they will also make it possible to set your rules as the default. It's annoying having to check the rules every time you start a new game.

 

I'm a bit disappointed the immortals duel does not end with a decapitation. Its a matter of form.

I've never actually had any of the supernatural events happen to me, unless Gates of Hell counts.

 

Looks like the wife is taking the news particularly hard.

 

Must be very careful about keeping an up-to-date will.

"If I should die between the days of March 10th and March 20th, be sure to notify those on the guest list that the event will need to be cancelled. You have permission to do so in my own name. Be sure to do so in a cheerful and upbeat manner."

 

I guess he was the cool Uncle, huh?

 

This last dlc is the first good one in a long time. With the custom rules the game is actually enjoyable again.

You guys know of any mod that makes tributary status not cease after the death of the ruler? Or does anyone know how to mod that in? This bullshit is very ahistorical, historically tributary status could last for centuries(i.e: russians and the mongols; kingdom of jerusalem and county of tripoli)

 

IIRC CK2+ had an event chain on ruler death where tributaries would decide whether to continue paying tribute (which weaker nations always did). It was either that or HIP (both?), don't remember exactly.

 

Humm, interesting. I actually use a custom mod, I will see if I can add just that bit.

 

There is a new patch and a new version of the A Game of Thrones mod. It's pretty sweet, although not all the rule changes seem to work out very well in the mod. Interfaith marriage is supposedly restricted, yet AIs constantly offer and accept it, so that Cersei always ends up marrying Khal Jhaqo and becoming Khaleesi Cersei.

 

Meanwhile, Gnacht has a dev diary for Dwarfs features next patch:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/dev-diary-dwarfs.974169/

Grudgingly grudging stuff. Looks awesome.

 

Which dlcs for this ?

 

Conclave and Way of Life both make pretty good improvements/additions to the game, and Reaper's Due is pretty cool. Some of the dlcs aren't really worth it unless you want to play as certain nations, Old Gods for pagans, Sword of Islam for Muslims, etc. Legacy of Rome adds retinues (small standing army that doesn't need to be raised).

 

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By the grace of God, I am finally back and able to pen another development diary, though my hands are still unsteady from the shocking things I saw while in hiding. I think it best to simply recount my harrowing experiences of the last few weeks. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, there is much to be learned from my travails.

For many months, I had felt that something strange was going on at the office. In hindsight, the signs were all there; colleagues naming their daughters “Sophia”, hushed talk of “secret knowledge” and Dan “podcat” Lind suddenly breaking off his presentation of the next Hearts of Iron IV expansion in order to explain how the Creator is just an “evil emanation of the original Monad”. But it wasn’t until Björn “Metal King” Iversen took me aside to listen to the subliminal messages in various Judas Priest tracks that I finally realized the truth: the company had been infiltrated by Sethian Gnostics! I recognized some of the messages from the Second Treatise of the Great Seth and the Gospel of Judas...

I suddenly did not want to help Björn record any more death sounds. Who knows how many souls he has helped “liberate” from this earthly prison in his infernal studio? He eyed me with suspicion when I assured him that I had already achieved Gnosis. Beating a hasty retreat, I was forced to skulk in various unused meeting rooms for a full week until I could finally make my escape. While in hiding, I witnessed many disturbing sights; people wearing inverted pentagrams and muttering to themselves, a secret follower of Mahomet performing an odd prayer ritual, various outlandish and no doubt fraternal handshakes, and worst of all; a vile heathen festival in the lunchroom involving spiderwebs, skulls and a bloody brew spewing smoke.

The rot runs deep. There are worse things afoot than mere Gnostic heretics... I fear there are several other corrupt sects burrowing like ticks within our ranks. How could this happen? What malign stars have aligned in the skies above our afflicted nation? Dark heresiarchs are at work in the Realm, pulling strings from the shadows and inducting naïve game developers into their subversive cabals. Who can feel safe in these dark times?

I have written the Holy See with a plea for aid. My sole hope lies in the Holy Father, Pope Francis, though I wonder if he is made of stern enough stuff to unleash the Hounds of God, for I fear only the Dominicans can save us now, as they did in the times of Cardinal Torquemada, bless his soul...

May God send us a light, for the darkness surrounds us!

 

So it looks like heresies are probably getting an overhaul from that Dev Diary. Depending on how they do it, it could make for a worthwhile little DLC. Most of the current heresies are pretty dull, and they have at least a few of them that they could make something interesting out of. Namely expanding the Cathars & Manichaeism as well as and adding the Qarmatians (The extremist Shia sect that sacked Mecca and at times had fire worshipers, preached vegetarianism, and a ban on eating garlic). Sethian Gnosticism is a bit early for the CK2 period though, still we'll see what they do.

 

Finally. Now that gives some hope we'll someday get the same in the form of a theology dlc. Cathedrals and relics and saints and so on. The stuff they actually teased/wrote about way back at release.

Frankly though, it seems that the team they gave the development of CK2 has got the right idea. No more retarded map expansions but a return to deepening the core gameplay aspects. Nice.