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DEV DIARY #147 - SOME WORDS FROM OUR GAME DIRECTOR
* Thread starter rageair
* Start date Today at 13:19
Greetings! This Dev Diary will be a mixed bag of various things - there’s a lot
going on, and therefore a lot to talk about. I want to take this opportunity to
address feedback, talk design philosophy, shine some light on how we’re working,
set some expectations for Roads to Power, tease some things coming in the
future, and show off the 1.12.5 changelog for a free update happening on May
8th. In other words, this will be a big and a little bit all-over-the-place
diary, but bear with me.
To start off, let's talk about Community Feedback!
There’s a lot of feedback coming in for the features of Legends of the Dead, and
we’re doing our best to collect it. We try to find as much feedback as we can
from as many different sources (forums, Reddit, videos, reviews, etc, etc.) as
we can - even if you feel like we’re not there, I promise that we read
everything - or we try to - and have it in the back of our minds. That said,
let's start off with Plagues.
PLAGUES
Plagues is the feature that has been the easiest to collect and action feedback
for - even if various types of feedback are sometimes conflated and need to be
untangled for us to know what we should change. Your sentiment is somewhat split
between plagues either being too easy or too hard, but uniformly they are
perceived as annoying by the sheer amount of events they can summon (especially
in larger realms).
For Plagues, we’re looking into having balance changes go out together with an
update on the 8th of May. The full changelog can be found at the end of this
post.
The vast majority of the ‘event spam’ was due to one seemingly-innocent bug in
the Alms event; it didn’t have a cooldown set. This means that regardless of our
intentions, it’d always be valid to fire, which is of course not as intended. In
fact, a lot of the events were set up to simulate negative consequences of
unchecked plagues - but as many of you have rightfully pointed out, the general
negative modifiers to development and other things are more than enough to
represent this. That said, increasing the cooldowns significantly for most of
the events that either have easy-to-happen triggers or major negative effects
should go a long way in making this feel better.
The second part of making sure the events you get are relevant for you was to
make it so they only happen if they’re near an area you care about: if you’re
the emperor of a world-spanning empire, you don’t care about the goings-on of a
distant backwater, or even if you’re just the King of France you don’t
necessarily care what’s going on in the very southernmost parts of Aquitaine -
after all, the risk of the plague reaching your lands from there isn’t that
great. It seemed that the most common feedback here was to limit the events by
distance, so that’s exactly what we did - they can now only happen if the plague
is in your domain or within a certain distance from your capital (roughly one
Ireland, it’s less than you might think).
Alongside this, we’ve reduced the overall frequency of plague events and shifted
the ratio between minor/major/apocalyptic plagues away from minor and towards
major/apocalyptic in an effort to make the content you receive more impactful -
this should mean that you get fewer plagues overall, but the ones that happen
are more significant. We’ve also removed the block on achievements when you
lower the frequency, and added an additional option where you can choose to
disable plagues (minus the black death) entirely should you wish.
Another recurring point of feedback is difficulty, or rather the lack of
challenge - it is felt like the AI is much worse at handling plagues than the
player, and this I agree with. While the AI will never be as responsive as the
player when it comes to isolating or secluding, they should all treat it as a
threat to be countered - choosing to defend themselves shouldn’t be dependent on
minor quirks of personality; only truly major ones.
Currently, larger Counties (with more Baronies) are better at defending against
plagues - and that was never our intention, as this is literally the opposite of
what happened historically - therefore we’ve shifted the plague resistance
granted by buildings from County-wide to Barony-wide. This should encourage an
alternative playstyle of having fewer-barony Counties in your domain in order to
protect development. This is also much more of a challenge for players than it
will be for the AI, evening the playing field a bit.
The full changelog for the 1.12.5 update can be found at the very end of this
Dev Diary.
LEGENDS
Legends are a completely different beast altogether, and are much harder to
collect feedback for - opinions on what to do or change differ wildly at this
point in time. Of course we’re aware of the general sentiment surrounding the
feature, which is why we’re still looking at as much feedback as we can. The
update we deployed close to the release targeted some of the widely agreed-upon
points of feedback, such as adding a Legend Library where you can see completed
legends forever, and more reactive variations in chapter texts to things your
character does (such as winning battles, having children, etc.), among other
things. For this update, we’ve mainly improved the Legends mapmode as we found
it uninspiring and not pleasant to look at due to its limited color palette (and
similar colors tended to blend together).
[Image - New legend colors]
The feedback we’re collecting now is hard to act upon. As I mentioned, opinions
vary greatly - from thinking that they are underpowered and useless, too
overpowered and way too good, or that they should be something else altogether.
Some of you are bringing up the example of CK2 Bloodlines (which is interesting
to me, seeing as I designed them back in the day.) The Bloodlines of CK2 were
designed to be more of a ‘fantasy’ feature, where great, lasting reputations
were built by people *actually doing* the great and/or implausible deeds the
reputations spoke of - this would then be literally transferred in their blood
to either a patrilineal or matrilineal lineage (with some convoluted breeding
necessary to ‘stack’ multiple lines on the same character). On the contrary,
Legends in CK3 were designed to mimic what medieval rulers actually did;
embellish otherwise mundane stories into epics of great renown - all in order to
bolster their legitimacy in the eyes of their subjects or the renown of their
dynasty. Which of the two approaches is the best can be debated, and I think
there’s merit to both. We wanted to go for the more true-to-history one for CK3
- if nothing else - because it’s something we hadn’t done before.
Truth be told though, I think the problem with Legends lies less in the feature
itself and more in how we communicated them in Dev Diaries and similar - we
weren’t clear enough what they were going to be. This is something we can act
upon. Going forward, any Dev Diary we’re making on a feature will aim to be less
open for interpretation. As with diaries of old, we’ll try to describe features
in as much detail as possible. We don’t want any misconceptions about what the
features are or how they work. You can expect the diaries for Roads to Power to
be detail-filled behemoths when they start.
BETTERING THE GAME
Next up, I’d like to share some details on how we work to make the game better
over time. No matter if we’re working on an expansion, free update, or other
type of release, we always try to improve the game by doing various initiatives
and looking at feedback.
HOW WE WORK
There are different ways we’re doing this, such as through the dedicated Balance
Days we have every three weeks - for which we keep a big sheet of ‘game balance
areas’ that we review and add to.
Currently, these days are focused on improving some of the older content we’ve
released, as well as doing balance passes on resources such as Prestige and game
components such as Cultural Traditions. The main philosophy we’re following when
reviewing old content is to balance it for fun. If a piece of content isn’t
already engaging, flavorful, interesting, or fulfilling a specific purpose, then
it needs to at least be made entertaining or useful. Right now, we’re working on
updating Court Events from Royal Court - a set of events that are regarded to be
fairly poor and inconsequential by many of you, and we do agree with that
assessment in hindsight. We’re ripping out and replacing much of the content
within that pool, hopefully for the better. As for Prestige, we’ve also taken a
look at what causes the AI to go into Prestige debt and thus be unable to
declare war - all in order to make it more challenging and not feel as inert.
Many Cultural Traditions presented very small or narrow trade-offs that players
would rarely choose, so we decided to change our philosophy to work with larger
buffs and more significant/interesting tradeoffs. Updating older content or
doing large balance passes is always on our radar, and will often arrive
together with larger updates - all of what I mentioned here, Court Events, AI
Prestige debt, and Cultural Tradition balance, will arrive alongside Roads to
Power.
[Image - One of the revised court events]
We also work with Community Reports - our community team scours the various
platforms where you have discussions, looking for trends and issues, and then
they compile reports. These reports are very useful and show us if an issue or
topic keeps being brought up. A lot of the changes we’re making to the plagues
were measured using these reports.
In addition to this, we also have Fix Weeks (every three weeks, we focus
exclusively on fixing bugs), Improvement Days (where we look at a backlog of
improvements we’ve gathered, including your wishes!), and more. Much of our time
is spent on making the game better, and we’re constantly evaluating how we’re
working to see how we can best improve the game as much as we can.
EVENT FREQUENCY
A common topic that I see discussed in many places is the frequency of events,
that they can feel ‘spammy’ - not necessarily because there’s always too many of
them at once (although that certainly happens every now and then), but because
you often see the same events often. The more insignificant or punishing a
(random) event is, the less often you want to see it happen. Having a flavorful
situation appear now-and-then is fine, but being blocked by a challenger on the
road or hearing a duck quack several times per character feels off.
Now, the method we have when creating ‘pools’ of content is to have a generous
amount of events that have easy-to-happen triggers and can happen in many
situations. This we do in order to make sure you’re always valid to see
something. While making an event that triggers for a niche situation feels
really good, the likelihood of it being seen at all drastically decreases the
more complex the situation is, making it less and less valuable to spend time
making - to the point where it might be half a percent or less of the playerbase
who sees them. This means that we aim for way more ‘general’ events as a rule of
thumb, a ratio between general and niche (which varies depending on the pool
we’re filling). Of course, a consequence of this is that you’re going to see the
events with easy-to-happen triggers way more often - sometimes with every
character you play, and sometimes multiple times per character (depending on the
event cooldown).
Reading your feedback I’m inclined to make some changes to our philosophy, and
I’d appreciate further feedback on this before we make any decisions.
What we are looking at is a combination of more significant cooldowns and a new
system to restrict certain events for some characters you play could have the
following effects:
* Pro: You would see the same events way less often
* Pro: You would have more varied ‘general’ event content between characters
* Pro: ‘Rare’ events would become somewhat more visible, due to fewer ‘general’
events being valid
* Con: Some event pools might give you less event content over time (which
might be a Pro for some of you)
I’d like to go into a bit more detail on how this would work. Generally, we use
5 or 10 years as the most common cooldown for events; they are the default go-to
values. For events with easy-to-happen triggers, what we could do is simply
increase this cooldown - this would make it so that there’s a significantly
lower chance of seeing the same event multiple times with the same character.
This wouldn’t hinder each of your successive rulers from seeing the events at
least once though, which would limit its impact as a stand-alone measure. If we
introduced a system where we could randomly make events valid or invalid for
your character, say that an event would be valid for 50% of characters, then
we’d be able to ensure that not all characters see the same events. For some we
could have lower values, for others higher - it could be a judgment call based
on what the event is, and its purpose.
Of course, these two measures would only be interesting to enable for certain
types of events, and wouldn’t work to introduce for all events (for example, you
need all lifestyle events to be valid so that you have ways of gaining XP). That
said, I believe that this could help drastically reduce the issue of excessively
frequent events. Let me know what you think.
MESSAGE SETTINGS
Another type of spam that is often (rightfully) brought up is that of messages,
notifications (the bottom-right ones) and toasts (the top center ones that fade
after a few seconds) have been accumulating for some time, and sometimes reach
critical mass when playing - especially if you’re further into a session. The
solution to this has been clear for a while, and we’ve finally found the time to
realize it. With the update releasing together with Roads to Power you will have
access to Message Settings. This means that you can disable or change any feed
or toast message stemming from a ‘systemic’ source (in other words, anything
that isn’t the result of an event outcome such as a skill duel, etc.) This
should allow you to tailor what you see and are notified with based on personal
preference.
[Image - CK3 message settings, modified by me to fit my playstyle]
As a bonus, this also allows you to automatically pause the game if something
specific happens, and you can even set messages to be delivered in the form of a
pop-up should you really want to not miss something! For example - I know that a
lot of you who used to play CK2 set hostile sieges to pause the game so you
wouldn’t miss them, now you can do the same in CK3.
[Image - Popup and pause on enemy sieges]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF FREE
When developing expansions you have to make many calls of what should be paid
and what should be free. Back in the day (I’ve worked at Paradox for 10 years
now, time truly flies), we were not very good at determining what could be paid
and what should be free. This had several unfortunate side effects; players who
didn’t have certain expansions would be alienated, us developers would have to
spend extra time supporting multiple parallel systems within the same game
(including all manner of permutations between different expansion
combinations…), and it sometimes made it harder to further develop popular
systems. As a company we develop games that can live for a very, very long time
- this implies a lot of work keeping the game healthy by updating features,
fixing issues, doing balance work, and other things that aren’t just about
making new expansions.
Over the years, we’ve started to make more and more base systems free at their
core, which is something that came from listening to you in the community. The
reason why we’re doing this is because we want your experience to be better -
for the game to be healthy, for systems to be more accessible to modders, and so
that we can update areas of the game that we feel would simply make the
experience better. This alleviates the unfortunate side effects I mentioned
above.
Speaking of modders; we love them, and we love the fact that so many people want
to mod our game. This is why we spend extra time making new systems as flexible
as possible, and why we take some of our time to do things that are pure support
for mods (one of the latest examples here.) We appreciate the work they do and
their creativity, but we don't want to rely on them to make the game for us - we
only rely on them to share their passions about the game! It's important that
the game is feature complete and enjoyable without mods.
Now, we don’t aim for a fixed ratio between free or paid - we aim to make the
game better in as many different ways as we can. We don’t want to lock systems
away if they’d make more sense being free. Sometimes this means that we’ll be
making more free features than paid ones in an update, and sometimes more paid
ones than free - it depends on what the update is about. It is important to note
that we have limited time; the time to make free and paid features come out of
the same pool. By choosing to make more paid features we’d be making fewer free
ones, and that could ultimately hurt the game.
Which is why I want to reinforce that I don’t want to change how we work. I
believe that it’s important for the game and community that certain things are
free, to avoid divides and splits, and keep the game in good shape. We, like
you, are fans of the game, and we want to make it as good as it can be - paid
features exist in order to fund continued development, they are not goals in and
of themselves. It’s together with you in the community that we decided to have
this philosophy, and I strongly believe in it.
That said, while Roads to Power is going to have plenty of free systems (more
than this Dev Diary will cover), it will definitely lean more towards having
paid features than Legends of the Dead did.
A CHALLENGING GAME
The difficulty of the game is a topic that is often brought up. The truth is
that CK3 is not a particularly hard game when you’ve mastered it - and that’s
something we’ve always been fine with, seeing as, unlike other GSGs, we’re
focusing more on stories and dynamically evolving narratives. That said, if the
game is too easy, or systems are too trivial to overcome, then that impacts the
quality of the stories. Therefore I’d like to explain my philosophy regarding
what difficulty in CK3 should be.
I am not a fan of traditional ‘Hard’ difficulties, where all AI’s are simply
given extra resources and bonuses the player cannot get - or alternatively the
player is hit with a series of nerfs and inefficiencies that feel artificial and
forced. I like when difficulty is immersive and opt-in. It shouldn’t get in the
way of you telling your stories (up to a certain degree…) by the AI only doing
objectively good things, such as stacking wars, spamming murder schemes, etc -
it should help you create stories of triumph, or stories of overcoming hardship.
The AI is there to immerse you in the game, and to provide an enjoyable
challenge. Unlike the player, the AI cannot ‘game over’, and should therefore
focus on immersion over pure survival (although it should obviously not feel
suicidal - that’s not immersive!).
As we want the AI to play in an immersive way where they don’t always take
optimal decisions, we try to be wary of changing the overarching difficulty -
making the game harder overall will always hit the AI harder than the player, as
the player can more easily adapt. There are systems that are easier to change
than others to introduce more challenges to the player without inadvertently
making the game harder for the AI. For example, the AI will almost always marry
for Alliances or Prestige - never for Genetics. This means that if we were to
make it more of a challenge to reinforce good genetic traits (which is on our
radar, but perhaps not for Roads to Power) it would barely harm the AI at all.
Of course this isn’t true for most systems, which is why we need to always be
careful. When we change things, we try to think of what implications it’ll have
for the AI so that we don’t inadvertently make the game less challenging. Many
things that relate to adding more challenges are present on the balance sheet I
mentioned earlier in this diary (the ‘How We Work’ section).
Now, difficulty comes in different flavors; one of these flavors is to optimize
your resources to overcome challenges. This is when you use your gold, prestige,
lands, vassals, etc. to outcompete your rivals and neighbors - very common in
all GSGs.
* The lack of mid-to-late game AI challengers makes this difficulty peter out
quickly after you’ve formed a decently-sized realm.
Another flavor of difficulty is to overcome specific challenges where the rules
you play by are different and not controlled by you. This is when you guide a
blind 4-year-old through a viper's nest of rivals in order to reach adulthood
and subsequently thrive - this is a more uniquely CK3 thing.
* The fact that you have a lot of control over education, inheritance, and that
you’re restricted to a direct line of inheritance makes it so you’re
challenged less often.
Both of these are connected to player fantasies that are very common to have
when playing CK3 - and both are difficulties we want to improve.
We work continually with general difficulty balance in our systems, but
sometimes we decide to do things that are a lot larger in scope, such as these:
CONQUERORS
While I don’t enjoy having all AI’s cheat, I enjoy when certain characters stand
out from the rest. When certain rulers, either because of historical reasons, or
in-game suitability, are granted special bonuses and a new way of interacting
with the world. The middle ages are full of these conquerors who forged large
empires (which often later fell) like the Ghaznavids, Ayyubids, etc. I wanted
something like this for CK - dynamic challengers, controlled in detail by game
rules, who can rival players in efficiency while being immersive and
appropriately flavorful.
[Image - Game Rules for Conquerors]
Conquerors switch over to a hyper-aggressive version of the AI, which is much
faster to declare wars, can declare multiple wars at once, and invests all of
their resources into warfare, MaA, and means in which to declare more and better
wars (such as hunt activities if they’re low on prestige and you’ve disabled
their special bonuses via game rules, or taxation tours if they’re low on gold,
etc.). They switch to the objectively best lifestyle focuses, use schemes in a
very realpolitik way, etc.
[Image - Conqueror economical Archetype]
By default, they get the ‘Conqueror’ trait which provides a host of powerful
boons, making them have an easier time fielding a large army and keeping their
realms stable. If you prefer to not give the AI any handicap, you can turn this
off in the game rules. I avoided certain types of bonuses, such as making their
troops fight better, or them having an artificially high advantage in combat,
because such bonuses can feel unfair - instead opting for areas in which the
player often has an advantage (economy, realm stability, etc.).
[Image - Conqueror trait bonuses]
Of course, if you fancy a truly unfair challenge you can set the game rule to
‘extreme’, where they’ll get an additional ‘scourge of god’ modifier. This is
masochistic and not really recommended!
[Image - Scourge of God bonuses]
With default game rules, rulers around the world have a very, very small chance
to become Conquerors. The likelihood goes up the more suitable they are based on
traits, government, available CB’s, etc. A global pacing mechanic makes sure
that there aren’t too many of these characters worldwide, and that they mostly
appear in areas where you’d expect large upheavals in the regional power
structure (but there are never any guarantees - they could appear anywhere!).
You can also control via game rules if you only want already-powerful rulers to
have the chance.
Everything good has to come to an end - if they are defeated repeatedly in wars,
lose all of their prestige, or similar, they will stop being conquerors and lose
all bonuses. On succession, being a conqueror is inherited by default - but if
an AI is Cautious (in other words; a craven coward) they will also stop being a
conqueror. This creates a dynamic ebb and flow of challenge.
[Image - Two conquerors, the Ghaznavids and the Somavamsi, splitting India
between them]
This feature will help the mid-to-late game feel less stale when you’ve forged a
grand realm, and will be coming in the update alongside Roads To Power.
CHOOSE A NEW DESTINY
Those of you who followed what we did for the Black Forge Jam know about this
feature; when you die, you now have the opportunity to switch to one of three
carefully-selected dynasty members. These picks are chosen based on an ‘interest
score’, where various subjective things are chosen to make a character more or
less interesting. Feel free to suggest things that you consider interesting,
such as various combinations of traits and/or skills. Having rare traits or
being in peculiar situations (such as being the only one in your dynasty of a
certain faith) will score a character higher, while being awfully rich will
weigh them down (as that isn’t as much fun as just trivializing the challenge.)
[Image - Updated death screen with the new Choose a New Destiny button]
The point of this feature is to give you opportunities to take on challenges -
perhaps you have an awfully interesting one-eyed albino uncle who’s a count of a
foreign faith within a distant realm? Now you will have the opportunity to
change the course of your game and experience these much rarer situations.
Situations that don’t exist when you start the game within the bookmarks. When
you feel accomplished and ‘finished’ with what you’re currently doing, you can
treat it as a ‘New Game+’ within the same session.
[Image - example characters in a Choose a New Destiny]
Currently there’s no inherent bonus associated with making this switch - and I’m
in two minds if there should be any. I’ve been considering adding a small renown
boon for choosing to switch, perhaps based on their difficulty. I welcome
feedback on this point.
ON THE ROAD TO POWER
As I’ve seen a lot of discussions about how Adventurers will play, I thought I
would give a brief overview of how we’re designing them. This will not be
exhaustive (that will come in later Dev Diaries), but I think it’s interesting
to share how we see the experience.
Playing as an average Adventurer will be a zero-to-hero experience, a completely
separate experience from how you play a landed character, where you work your
way up in the world. You will travel a lot, and accumulate resources to improve
your standing. It won’t be easy to gain land depending on the goals you set for
yourself - gaining a small plot of land will naturally not be as difficult as
doing something epic like invading a kingdom (except if you’re an Adventurer
with the special Legitimists purpose, in which case it’s intended that you can
amass a big army and lots of support quickly! This will be rare though). It will
also definitely be possible to play as a multi-generational adventurer, should
you want.
Before ending this Dev Diary, I’d like to leave you with some screenshots of
upcoming features of Roads to Power and its accompanying update. Firstly, we’ve
already hinted at this, but the free update coming alongside the expansion will
introduce a new 1178 start date, alongside two bookmarks - one focusing on the
Byzantine Empire and its surroundings, the Call of the Empire. 1178 provides a
more built-up starting situation than the 867 or 1066 starts do, and also gives
you access to a whole host of new historical characters and dynasties to play,
such as Saladin of Egypt or the Plantagenets in England - not to mention that
the centerpiece realm of Roads to Power, Byzantium, is in a challenging
situation with the Sultanate of Rum on its doorstep.
[Image - Call of the Empire bookmark in 1178]
Secondly, I’d like to show off a screenshot of the ‘Estate’ feature that Noble
families inside of Byzantium (or other administrative empires) will have access
to. As you can see, the estate has a location on the map from where it can be
accessed (in this case Athens) and a whole host of building upgrade options -
ranging from the mansion itself, external buildings (the Watchtower, Storehouse,
and Hay Barracks in the picture), and internal upgrades (like the Granaries
shown to the right), there’s even branching upgrades where you have to choose
what you want the most. The Estate is managed by the House Head, and there’s one
per family.
[Image - An estate in 1178, map location visible, with an ‘external building
slot’ upgrade tree shown]
As I mentioned earlier in this diary, we’re committing to having more detailed
Dev Diaries for Roads to Power. While there are some more teaser-like sections
in this Dev Diary, that will not be the norm going forward - there should be no
room for misinterpreting what we’re making, or how it will work!
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1.12.5 UPDATE CHANGELOG
Finally, here’s the changelog for the 1.12.5 update - mainly focusing on plague
and activity balance, alongside some other fixes and improvements.
GAME CONTENT
* Added a few historically-inspired events for Matilda di Canossa, Robert the
Fox, Yahya Dhunnunid, and Vratislav of Bohemia. Events include themes such as
Matilda's marriage to Geoffrey the Hunchback, Vratislav's rivalry with his
brother, and Robert's usage of Raiktor the Byzantine pretender-monk.
* Added a new, shorter, version of the Tutorial. The old longer tutorial is
still available.
BUGFIXES
* Added missing cooldown to physician_epidemic_events.1040 (Alms), set it to 20
years
* During the first 15 years after an epidemic has left a province, further
outbreak chances now properly follow the harsher, 50-year epidemic specific,
cooldown instead of lesser, 15 year epidemic type agnostic one.
* An empty Legitimacy Gain toast will no longer appear when winning wars
against targets you shouldn't get legitimacy for defeating
* Fixed travel completion event so it fires normally, this will allow Traveler
Trait XP to be gained again
BALANCE
* Plague events now only happen if they are present in your Domain, or within a
certain distance of your Capital (roughly the length of one Ireland). This
should drastically reduce the amount of insignificant plague events in large
realms.
* Lowered the general occurrence of plague events by roughly ~30-50%
* The AI is now significantly more likely to enter seclusion when a plague
appears in their domain, or in a county bordering their capital (unless brave
or deeply irrational)
* The AI will now exit seclusion within 6 months of every plague having left
their domain (though they will still not leave before 1 year has passed since
they secluded)
* The Secluded modifier penalties have been changed, instead of reducing all
stats, it reduces diplomacy, prestige gain, opinion with courtly/glory hound
vassals, and increases legitimacy loss
* The Isolate Capital decision now comes with a small legitimacy loss
* The AI is now significantly more willing to isolate their capital, unless
brave, greedy, or deeply irrational
* The AI will now unisolate their capital within 6 months of every plague
having left their domain
* Reduced frequency of Minor plagues by roughly 20%
* Increased frequency of Major and Apocalyptic plagues by roughly 5%
* Added a new option the the Plague Frequency Game Rule: Disabled, which
removes the spawn chance for all plagues (except the Black Death)
* The lower Plague Frequency Game Rule options no longer disable Achievements
* When a disease becomes endemic in a province, it will no longer fully
override the recent epidemics cooldown for outbreaks
* Lowered the chance of epidemic outbreaks in provinces that have recently
recovered from the specific epidemic on the 'often' and very often' game rule
frequency
* The AI will now refrain from hosting hunts, feasts, and pilgrimages for the
first three years of any new game (to give them more time to purchase
buildings, maa, etc)
* Cut the amount of hunts hosted worldwide by roughly 2/3rds, as it was vastly
more common than any other type of activity by far
* Activity guests will now refuse to come if there's an epidemic in your domain
or their capital county, rather than if one exists anywhere in your realm
* The AI will now generally avoid hosting activities if there's a plague in
their domain, rather than their sub-realm
* Reduced the Prestige rewards from Majesty Tours, both from the demand (medium
-> minor demand) and the general prestige rewards (200/600/800/1000/1200 ->
100/300/500/700/1000)
* Reduced gold gained from taxation tours by reducing the gold gained from the
various Activity Pulse Actions (Local Tax instituted, Rich Local Taxed, etc)
* Increased Intimidation Tour rewards, added dread on successful demands, and
increased faction block from 5 -> 10 and 15 -> 20 years
* Pilgrimage Piety reward values have been lowered, but the Piousness mult has
been increased to 10%/25%/75%/150%, this means that it'll be much harder to
gain a lot of piety from pilgrimages unless you take a lot of pious options
* Pilgrimage events have had their piety rewards lowered by one step (medium
piety -> minor piety, etc)
* Pilgrimage Event Pulse Action piety rewards have been significantly lowered
(they now give 10-25 piety)
* Hospices, Monasteries, and Watchtowers now provide Plague Resistance to the
Barony instead of the County, this makes it harder to stack Plague Resistance
to the point of immunity
* Boosted the tax gained from Pastures from poor to normal
* The 'Pressed my Claim' modifier is now 100 opinion (up from 50) and lasts for
50 years (up from 20)
* Reduced the frequency of the 'Pharmaceutical book' event
(physician_epidemic_events.1030)
* Increased the cooldown of epidemic_events.2001 (The Plague of War) to 30
years (from 10)
* Increased the cooldown of epidemic_events.1030 (Leeches!) to 15 years (from
5)
* Increased the cooldown of epidemic_events.1040 (Flagellants at Court) to 15
years (from 5)
* Increased the cooldown of epidemic_events.1040 (Doomsday) to 6 years (from 2)
INTERFACE
* Each Legend now gets a unique map color to make sure different legends do not
blend into each other
LOCALIZATION
* Shortened the text of the 'A Shadow Over X'-event to focus more on what's
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Looks good! I'm excited to see the Roads to Power dev diaries too! The Estate
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I like that you guys are bringing some features from other games, in this case :
the notification settings from Stellaris.
Any possibility that you will also bring the DLC Showcase feature from Stellaris
where when you click on the DLC icon in the main menu it doesn't open the steam
shop and just shows you directly in game ?
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So, new startdate is confirmed... and one with a Kingdom of Jerusalem!
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signatures are stupid and antiquated
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Conquerors should be harder to assassinate.
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Community Patch with Improved Genetics 2.0 and Other Mods
IC Fatimid Event Troops MFGA!
Pirate Traits for Tribals and Berbers
Pagan Ancestor and Sea King Bloodline Changes Makes special ancestor bloodlines
more likely to get.
Easier Sainthood and Veneration Makes a character more likely to be
sainted/venerated.
Warning: running both of these mods together can make pagan commanders OP.
Shieldmaidens Only Maimed If In Combat Shieldmaiden event only fires if the
woman is leading a flank in an army the ruler is also leading a flank in
Warrior Lodge Hunting Dog Bloodline Fix
Feudal Can Join Lodges You can join or have children join lodges w/o quest. Also
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Pyramid of Giza Active for Everyone You no longer have to be lunatic or of a
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Thanks a lot for the update, especially with regard to your reasoning on various
issues that are being hotly debated within the community. I'm glad to see the
balancing is continuing, and also happy to see Royal Court will get some love!
The upcoming content looks great! Unfortunately, it seems I've lost my bet for
the 1204 bookmark, but 1178 is close enough!
I'm also relieved the Estate screen will rely on beautiful 2D art rather than 3D
graphics. It looks gorgeous and immersive!
One remaining question regarding Legends of the Dead: The LotD DLC description
mentions "new varieties of clothing, unit models and holding designs for extra
flavor." From what I've seen, nobody so far has been able to track down the new
varieties of unit models and holding designs, so I wondered if the devs could
clarify what this refers to.
Also: Message Settings and Choose Your Destiny for the win!
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Crusader Kings 3 suggestions: Add "Force [to serve as knight]" button to the
Change Accolade Successor menu - Have Court Physician task revert to Regular
Duties after plague; add notification/reminder once plague is approaching
Victoria 3 suggestions: Reworking the Flu Pandemic mechanics - Customizable
Super List: one list for everything
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I think we can all agree that as players we find earning a legend seed more fun
than spreading it. While I understand that legends were built around the plague
model as the other side of the coin, I think we improve the reception of the DLC
significantly if it had more focus on earning legend seeds as well.
1. The legend seed tab should include decisions that award a legend seed, so
that its obvious you can become legendary via that decision.
2. The legend seed tab should have suggestions towards new seeds that are
possible for you. Hunt more for the legendary hunt. I still think attaining
filling and getting to legendary blademaster trait should award a seed.
3. Having tracker / progress bars towards potential legend seeds would help
frame becoming a legend is equally as important as spreading it. Maybe
earning points gets you so far, and then you have to run through an event
chain to prove your might in the legend.
Example, I think we can agree it was fun earning the rare duelist bloodline in
CK2 by going dueling everyone, and even travelling off to another land for a
dueling adventure.
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Cries in joy for the 1178 bookmark. This is what I was hoping for (this or a
post 1204 bookmark to piece the ERE back together). Thank you!
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The new additions mentioned in this Dev Diary (Conquerors and 'Choose your
Destiny') have been on my wishlist for a long time. This update may be the first
to make me reach 1453!
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I'm a long way from reading through the entire thing, but I want to reiterate
one thing: I'm perfectly happy to pay for a DLC that contains no features if it
means that all players get access to all DLCs, and I would hope that there are
enough passionate players out there such that this is sustainable, but I
understand of course that some paid features have to be included (I seem to
remember a bit of outrage when Vicky 3 had a DLC where only the
historical/flavour people were paid and everything else was in the free patch),
but I love the DLC model where all the important stuff is in the free patch and
I hope that it works out for you. I will support you either way.
Much love to the game and its developers!
Edit: Voice of the People was the V3 DLC I referenced
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> rageair said:
> (or other administrative empires)
> Click to expand...
what are the other administrative empires we have at the start? could they be
the abbasids caliphate?
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Thanks for the update - so happy the difficulty is being addressed! "Scourge of
the Gods" will be instantly selected. For "Choose a New Destiny" could we have a
"Random child" and/or "Random dynasty member" button?
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> Nobunaji said:
> I like that you guys are bringing some features from other games, in this case
> : the notification settings from Stellaris.
> Any possibility that you will also bring the DLC Showcase feature from
> Stellaris where when you click on the DLC icon in the main menu it doesn't
> open the steam shop and just shows you directly in game ?
> Click to expand...
No plans on it - not impossible that we'll do it eventually, but we don't find
it to be as important as other improvements we could be doing!
> junassa said:
> Conquerors should be harder to assassinate.
> Click to expand...
They are (the scheme speed modifier does it), if they have the extreme modifiers
they're essentially impossible to murder. I could boost their murder resistance
further, of course... I'll wait for internal QA feedback on the topic!
> anbeck said:
> Thanks a lot for the update, especially with regard to your reasoning on
> various issues that are being hotly debated within the community. I'm glad to
> see the balancing is continuing, and also happy to see Royal Court will get
> some love!
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> The upcoming content looks great! Unfortunately, it seems I've lost my bet for
> the 1204 bookmark, but 1178 is close enough!
> I'm also relieved the Estate screen will rely on beautiful 2D art rather than
> 3D graphics. It looks gorgeous and immersive!
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> One remaining question regarding Legends of the Dead: The LotD DLC description
> mentions "new varieties of clothing, unit models and holding designs for extra
> flavor." From what I've seen, nobody so far has been able to track down the
> new varieties of unit models and holding designs, so I wondered if the devs
> could clarify what this refers to.
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> Also: Message Settings and Choose Your Destiny for the win!
> Click to expand...
Oh yes, that's an error - it refers to Unit Animations (coughing, etc.) and
Holding Effects (birds circling above infected holdings, etc.). I'll make sure
that we change the description.
> OrokaMeron said:
> I think we can all agree that as players we find earning a legend seed more
> fun than spreading it. While I understand that legends were built around the
> plague model as the other side of the coin, I think we improve the reception
> of the DLC significantly if it had more focus on earning legend seeds as well.
>
> 1. The legend seed tab should include decisions that award a legend seed, so
> that its obvious you can become legendary via that decision.
> 2. The legend seed tab should have suggestions towards new seeds that are
> possible for you. Hunt more for the legendary hunt. I still think
> attaining filling and getting to legendary blademaster trait should award
> a seed.
> 3. Having tracker / progress bars towards potential legend seeds would help
> frame becoming a legend is equally as important as spreading it. Maybe
> earning points gets you so far, and then you have to run through an event
> chain to prove your might in the legend.
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> Example, I think we can agree it was fun earning the rare duelist bloodline in
> CK2 by going dueling everyone, and even travelling off to another land for a
> dueling adventure.
> Click to expand...
Good suggestions overall, clarifying how you gain legend seeds and directing
players to how to get them is a great idea. Will add to the improvement backlog!
> ziad5241 said:
> what are the other administrative empires we have at the start? could they be
> the abbasids caliphate?
> Click to expand...
We're still debating if the Abbasids should be Administrative or not - some say
yes, some say no. I'll let the designers battle it out! If nothing else, perhaps
we could add a game rule for it...
> y8r4G0xz3fFkXdGXyJ4V said:
> Thanks for the update - so happy the difficulty is being addressed! "Scourge
> of the Gods" will be instantly selected. For "Choose a New Destiny" could we
> have a "Random child" and/or "Random dynasty member" button?
> Click to expand...
Oh, now that's interesting. Probably not for this iteration of the feature, but
I am very much not opposed to something like this. Will put in the improvement
backlog.
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Random heir selection from eligible children can be good game rule to spice game
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@rageair
Nice diary and great to see 1178 confirmed. One related issue, if you don't
mind: I realize it's probably too late to change this for 1.12.5 if it's already
locked down for testing, but if not that then for the Roads to Power patch;
could you please replace the Aniconism tenet for Apostolic Christianity with
something else, such as Vows of Poverty or Chthonic Redoubts? This was reported
a few years ago in fact, but it's never been an Aniconist faith and Armenian
churches have always been littered with crosses, idols and murals of saints,
etc. It just doesn't make sense thematically and never has.
Thanks, and looking forward to the updates.
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CK III projects:
AltEngland (interesting alt. history 1066 starts); Arianism (adding four missing
Christian faiths); Mithraism (adding four missing Hellenic pagan faiths); Basque
Paganism (adding a missing regional pagan faith); Celtic Paganism (adding two
major pagan faiths); Germanic Paganism (adding a missing major pagan faith);
Improved Insular Christianity (historical & gameplay tweaks, new icon); TIP Vol.
II (major historical revision and gameplay content project; includes all of the
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It looks great. I hope that you will be able to implement all of the above well.
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Sounds like some really great stuff!
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Love to see message settings, even if it took 4 years.
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> rageair said:
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> BETTERING THE GAME
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> Next up, I’d like to share some details on how we work to make the game better
> over time. No matter if we’re working on an expansion, free update, or other
> type of release, we always try to improve the game by doing various
> initiatives and looking at feedback.
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> HOW WE WORK
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> There are different ways we’re doing this, such as through the dedicated
> Balance Days we have every three weeks - for which we keep a big sheet of
> ‘game balance areas’ that we review and add to.
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> Currently, these days are focused on improving some of the older content we’ve
> released, as well as doing balance passes on resources such as Prestige and
> game components such as Cultural Traditions. The main philosophy we’re
> following when reviewing old content is to balance it for fun. If a piece of
> content isn’t already engaging, flavorful, interesting, or fulfilling a
> specific purpose, then it needs to at least be made entertaining or useful.
>
> In addition to this, we also have Fix Weeks (every three weeks, we focus
> exclusively on fixing bugs), Improvement Days (where we look at a backlog of
> improvements we’ve gathered, including your wishes!), and more. Much of our
> time is spent on making the game better, and we’re constantly evaluating how
> we’re working to see how we can best improve the game as much as we can.
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> Click to expand...
Honestly I feel like you guys should keep communicating this stuff to the
community. Make short Dev Diaries to talk what was talked/done on these Balance
Days and Fix Weeks. By far the biggest problem I have with you is lack of
clarity. Many of you are active on the forum, shitpost too, but it also feels
like after you release new content you get 1/2 weeks to fix all bugs and then
completely abandon it and go hibernating. Proving steady source of information
that something is happening behind the scenes - even if it is "we fixed a bunch
of typos" - would go a long way to improving the perception of this Team.
> rageair said:
> View attachment 1126060
> [Image - Conqueror economical Archetype]
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> By default, they get the ‘Conqueror’ trait which provides a host of powerful
> boons, making them have an easier time fielding a large army and keeping their
> realms stable. If you prefer to not give the AI any handicap, you can turn
> this off in the game rules. I avoided certain types of bonuses, such as making
> their troops fight better, or them having an artificially high advantage in
> combat, because such bonuses can feel unfair - instead opting for areas in
> which the player often has an advantage (economy, realm stability, etc.).
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> View attachment 1126061
> [Image - Conqueror trait bonuses]
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> Of course, if you fancy a truly unfair challenge you can set the game rule to
> ‘extreme’, where they’ll get an additional ‘scourge of god’ modifier. This is
> masochistic and not really recommended!
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> View attachment 1126062
> [Image - Scourge of God bonuses]
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> With default game rules, rulers around the world have a very, very small
> chance to become Conquerors. The likelihood goes up the more suitable they are
> based on traits, government, available CB’s, etc. A global pacing mechanic
> makes sure that there aren’t too many of these characters worldwide, and that
> they mostly appear in areas where you’d expect large upheavals in the regional
> power structure (but there are never any guarantees - they could appear
> anywhere!). You can also control via game rules if you only want
> already-powerful rulers to have the chance.
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> Everything good has to come to an end - if they are defeated repeatedly in
> wars, lose all of their prestige, or similar, they will stop being conquerors
> and lose all bonuses. On succession, being a conqueror is inherited by default
> - but if an AI is Cautious (in other words; a craven coward) they will also
> stop being a conqueror. This creates a dynamic ebb and flow of challenge.
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> View attachment 1126063
> [Image - Two conquerors, the Ghaznavids and the Somavamsi, splitting India
> between them]
> Click to expand...
I feel like Conquerors should also get some defensive buffs against hostile
scheme chance, so they won't be assassinated as soon as they rise. Sure it was
popular way to get rid of them, so maybe give them a timed modifier like
"Hostile Scheme Resistance - +50% (for 20 years)".
> rageair said:
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> CHOOSE A NEW DESTINY
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> Those of you who followed what we did for the Black Forge Jam know about this
> feature; when you die, you now have the opportunity to switch to one of three
> carefully-selected dynasty members. These picks are chosen based on an
> ‘interest score’, where various subjective things are chosen to make a
> character more or less interesting. Feel free to suggest things that you
> consider interesting, such as various combinations of traits and/or skills.
> Having rare traits or being in peculiar situations (such as being the only one
> in your dynasty of a certain faith) will score a character higher, while being
> awfully rich will weigh them down (as that isn’t as much fun as just
> trivializing the challenge.)
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> View attachment 1126064
> [Image - Updated death screen with the new Choose a New Destiny button]
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> The point of this feature is to give you opportunities to take on challenges -
> perhaps you have an awfully interesting one-eyed albino uncle who’s a count of
> a foreign faith within a distant realm? Now you will have the opportunity to
> change the course of your game and experience these much rarer situations.
> Situations that don’t exist when you start the game within the bookmarks. When
> you feel accomplished and ‘finished’ with what you’re currently doing, you can
> treat it as a ‘New Game+’ within the same session.
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> View attachment 1126065
> [Image - example characters in a Choose a New Destiny]
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> Currently there’s no inherent bonus associated with making this switch - and
> I’m in two minds if there should be any. I’ve been considering adding a small
> renown boon for choosing to switch, perhaps based on their difficulty. I
> welcome feedback on this point.
> Click to expand...
This is the stuff I have been wanting ever since CK2. It is great to finally see
it added. But if I can suggest - give more options than 3. Maybe something like
"all eligible children" and then 3 interesting characters on top of that? This
way you could play (for example) as a not wanted sickly kid, who did not receive
much but a single county and managed to defeat his brothers to unite the kingdom
- rather than as a "uncle from the neighbouring realm".
> rageair said:
> View attachment 1126066
> [Image - Call of the Empire bookmark in 1178]
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> Secondly, I’d like to show off a screenshot of the ‘Estate’ feature that Noble
> families inside of Byzantium (or other administrative empires) will have
> access to. As you can see, the estate has a location on the map from where it
> can be accessed (in this case Athens) and a whole host of building upgrade
> options - ranging from the mansion itself, external buildings (the Watchtower,
> Storehouse, and Hay Barracks in the picture), and internal upgrades (like the
> Granaries shown to the right), there’s even branching upgrades where you have
> to choose what you want the most. The Estate is managed by the House Head, and
> there’s one per family.
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> View attachment 1126067
> [Image - An estate in 1178, map location visible, with an ‘external building
> slot’ upgrade tree shown]
> Click to expand...
Are Estates only available on "Empire" tier? Are they also available only for
cultures with Administrative Court? What about other Court Types? Will they got
something similar to it in the future? Is the Estate a physical thing that can
be raided/destroyed or is more like Family Palace from CK2 where you pay gold to
get bonuses?
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* #20
The new "conquerors" feature for the AI and the possibility to switch to other
dynasty member instead of the legal heir are really great additions to the game
mechanics, thanks for adding them
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