Grand Strategy Crusader Kings III

[Smoker]

Too bad you can't cash in prestige for reknown got my last ruler to living legend 14k prestige with no titles left to create.

Also still can't understand if a march contract to your vassal is good or not.

 

[Fedora Master]

Anyone else thinks that the UI in this game just feels oversized for it's function?

The way popups work is an absolute pain.
Or trying to find - actually, just SEE where a title/county is on the map when you're marrying for alliances.

 

[vonAchdorf]

What's a good prestige dump? currently sitting on 9k.

Changing the inheritance laws for specific titles costs a lot of prestige. If it's prestige well spent is up to you.

 

[RK47]

I don't like this incarnation.
Wars are a pain to micromanage too.

 

[Zero Credibility]

Regardless you are always going to be weaker because tribes can get up to 100% levies and 50% taxes from their vassals while feudal lords get 25%/10%. And this gets even worse with vassals of vassals, because your vassals can potentially get 100% levies/50% taxes from their vassals to give to you 100%/50% while feudal empires are hit with their -75%/-90% penalties twice. Tribes are just massively, massively OP.

Yes, that does explain what I'm seeing. I thought I had only lost 1/3 of my army strength, but it looks like there's a problem with the interface number not updating properly. It was probably closer to 2/3, and even now, 30 years later and after fully conquering the islands I can only field about half of what I could before pressing the button. Tribals are crazy OP, making the fall to the bottom of feudal pecking order that much more painful. At least my income has more than recovered.

 

[Fedora Master]

I tried the mod I posted (Less whoring around) and it works wonderfully. Now seeing a character with the fornicator trait means something.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Did you already create titles? You can also spend it on dynasty, if you're the dynasty head.

Changing the inheritance laws for specific titles costs a lot of prestige. If it's prestige well spent is up to you.

Aye, my 3 kingdoms and duchy titles are all feudal elective. Orthodox Christian though so I'm limited to male inheritance. (That's a solid 500 to change iirc).

I could form empire but I'm currently setting up my dynasty to spunk a load of my space marine primarchs all over the key families in the byzzy empire. Might just say fuck it to the emperor and take over constantinople directly.

Piety for cash is crazy OP, I'm currently set up to get 500 gold from the patriarch for every 250 piety... That's a new holding right there. So a similar dump for prestige would be too much I think.

Right now I'm just waiting for the mongols and black death to arrive, but thats not for another 150 years or so though.

 

[Zero Credibility]

So, about the genetics game(ing). It's way too easy, it would be a lot better if chance of passing on traits was lowered to half or so. In CK2 even when both parents had a trait you still had less than 50-50 chance of a child inheriting it. Here, it's far higher, or guarantied when legacies are included. After only 4 generations the number of people with good traits in the world has skyrocketed, except 90% of them all related to me because the AI simply does not play that part of the game. Here's the latest result of my Kwisatz Haderach breeding program:

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I do like the attention to some little details, like pose of a character depending on their traits. And the description "This is you" is changed to "This is you, and you are magnificent" for arrogant characters.

 

[Hace El Oso]

Right now I'm just waiting for the mongols and black death to arrive, but thats not for another 150 years or so though.

Has anyone actually played until the Mongol invasion? What’s it like?

 

[Average Manatee]

Inheritance when both parents have the congenital trait is 100%

The +30% chance to inherit good traits legacy presumably means that if one parent has a good trait the chance goes from 50% to 80% chance to inherit. So yes it is actually entirely trivial to eventually get genius/herculean/beautiful/pure blooded/fecund and then have 100% of your children with all these traits. Maybe Giant too, not sure if its considered a penalty trait that is reduced by the legacy.

Herculean Giant knights would be pretty insane with all that prowess. Imagine a child coming out of the womb with the statistical capabilities of around 20 cataphracts.

 

[Average Manatee]

Right now I'm just waiting for the mongols and black death to arrive, but thats not for another 150 years or so though.

Has anyone actually played until the Mongol invasion? What’s it like?

Spoiler

Really spoiler

Spoiler

He does fucking nothing. Not even in the sense of "he was big but I beat him", he didn't get near europe at all and the dynasty died out shortly later.

 

[Mortmal]

Right now I'm just waiting for the mongols and black death to arrive, but thats not for another 150 years or so though.

Has anyone actually played until the Mongol invasion? What’s it like?

Spoiler

Really spoiler

Spoiler

He does fucking nothing. Not even in the sense of "he was big but I beat him", he didn't get near europe at all and the dynasty died out shortly later.

it's not only me, then , noticed exactly the same thing in several playthrough.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Fuck... I was looking to that. They really have sold us half a game again.

 

[Xamenos]

They really have sold us half a game again.

You expected anything else from current Paradox? How naive.

 

[fantadomat]

current Paradox?

Was paradox ever different?

 

[Theodora]

I did fiddle with it. It mostly seemed to affect text and icon sizes while the UI elements themselves keep taking absurd amount of screenspace.

I don't think there's anything wrong with complaining about this, but it's funny to keep seeing it given one of the more popular CK2 mods made use of more of the screen real estate.

I can't imagine how insecure you gotta be to actually mod a game to lower the chance of being virtually cheated upon, when the religious fervor is fucked, the vikings conquest' lack of restriction is fucked and the partitioning for all but the greeks is fucked.

It seems it's impossible to underestimate g*mers.

 

[IDtenT]

So, about the genetics game(ing). It's way too easy, it would be a lot better if chance of passing on traits was lowered to half or so. In CK2 even when both parents had a trait you still had less than 50-50 chance of a child inheriting it. Here, it's far higher, or guarantied when legacies are included. After only 4 generations the number of people with good traits in the world has skyrocketed, except 90% of them all related to me because the AI simply does not play that part of the game. Here's the latest result of my Kwisatz Haderach breeding program:

Spoiler

I do like the attention to some little details, like pose of a character depending on their traits. And the description "This is you" is changed to "This is you, and you are magnificent" for arrogant characters.

Insular is OP for breeding programs.

 

[mondblut]

Spoiler

Dat border clusterfuck, my sides. I get Sweden, but what's up with Pomerania, are they Inland Vikings?*

* free conquest CB on any NON-coastal province.

 

[Wilian]

I did fiddle with it. It mostly seemed to affect text and icon sizes while the UI elements themselves keep taking absurd amount of screenspace.

I don't think there's anything wrong with complaining about this, but it's funny to keep seeing it given one of the more popular CK2 mods made use of more of the screen real estate.

I'd say the difference is that with CK2 the original windows were small and offered little information. With mods the windows were larger and offered vastly more information. With CK3 UI scale the windows stay roughly the same scale, text gets smaller but you are shown the same amount of information just with smaller font

 

[Tigranes]

Spoiler

Dat border clusterfuck, my sides. I get Sweden, but what's up with Pomerania, are they Inland Vikings?*

* free conquest CB on any NON-coastal province.

Have people played around with Excalve game rules? It seems like you can use it to cut down on a lot of the border gore. I'm now trying Limited (IIRC?) for both human and AI and I haven't seen anything this fucked.

 

[sser]

Played a Yemeni.

Instantly cucked by some roving 45 year old carousing lowborn shithead.

4/4 on getting cucked. England. Tripoli. Croatia. Yemen.

 

[vonAchdorf]

They went overboard with the thottery. Their idea was probably to fee the secrets/hooks system, but currently it's a bit too much and the laws (I assume) don't influence the behavior.

 

[Mortmal]

It's me or some character specific achievements are bugged ? Trying " Mother of us all :Starting as Daurama Daura, have your line reform an African faith, and convert all of Africa to it" it doesnt even appear in the list .

 

[IDtenT]

I formed Poland. Do I get a Codex badge?

So much for all the no votes; loving my Poland run. This is what makes CK so fun.

I generally enjoy the early challenge the most. Small dynasty, small realms around. But later in the game when you're stuck in the middle of everything trying to survive your own family and everyone else... It's why I loved playing Georgia so much in CKII.

I've also learned that being shy is really bad for stress, but lots of torture is good.

 

[Xamenos]

current Paradox?

Was paradox ever different?

It's only been post-CK2 Paradox that shits out half-finished games and then bloats them with DLC. Their previous games were perfectly fine on release and only made better with expansions.

 

[Theodora]

Have people played around with Excalve game rules? It seems like you can use it to cut down on a lot of the border gore. I'm now trying Limited (IIRC?) for both human and AI and I haven't seen anything this fucked.

I can't imagine playing the game without that rule now. Easily one of the best changes that came with 3.0 / Holy fury.

Though the exact setting that's ideal probably depends where you're playing.

 

[IDtenT]

Have people played around with Excalve game rules? It seems like you can use it to cut down on a lot of the border gore. I'm now trying Limited (IIRC?) for both human and AI and I haven't seen anything this fucked.

I can't imagine playing the game without that rule now. Easily one of the best changes that came with 3.0 / Holy fury.

Though the exact setting that's ideal probably depends where you're playing.

Excessive border gore just isn't realistic (that is, direct control). Apart from all the relics of the empires, the only modern one I can think of is Kaliningrad (yeah, yeah, Russia wish it was an Empire / Rome / Soviet Union etc. etc.).