The True Royal Court sounds like it could be fun. Showing up the boss by having nicer stuff than they do would make a nice change from, say, raising a bigger army and overthrowing them.
Islam is pretty friendly towards branches within its main denomination (Sunnis like all other Sunnis, regardless of flavour). And the Eastern faiths (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jain) are fairly relaxed about one another.
So if you want to create your own faith without all of your neighbours instantly holy warring you for your heresy, the Middle East and India are probably your best bets.
Reforming Asatru was a bit of work, but it wasen't too bad. When I did it, I was powerful enough that grabbing 3 holy sites wasen't an issue. Asatru also gives piety for sacrificing prisoners, so getting 2700 piety wasen't that bad. My character was 60 when I switched to the Learning tree, so I was pretty nervous that he'd die before I could get to Prophet, that gives 50% off of the piety cost.
Now I need absolute tribal authority, so I can switch to feudal.
Reforming Asatru was a bit of work, but it wasen't too bad. When I did it, I was powerful enough that grabbing 3 holy sites wasen't an issue. Asatru also gives piety for sacrificing prisoners, so getting 2700 piety wasen't that bad. My character was 60 when I switched to the Learning tree, so I was pretty nervous that he'd die before I could get to Prophet, that gives 50% off of the piety cost.
Now I need absolute tribal authority, so I can switch to feudal.
If you can, form the north sea by decision, it's stupidly powerful and arguably easier than a traditional conversion to feudal
Reforming Asatru was a bit of work, but it wasen't too bad. When I did it, I was powerful enough that grabbing 3 holy sites wasen't an issue. Asatru also gives piety for sacrificing prisoners, so getting 2700 piety wasen't that bad. My character was 60 when I switched to the Learning tree, so I was pretty nervous that he'd die before I could get to Prophet, that gives 50% off of the piety cost.
Now I need absolute tribal authority, so I can switch to feudal.
If you can, form the north sea by decision, it's stupidly powerful and arguably easier than a traditional conversion to feudal
I'm continuing the game where I got the "Faster than the Fox" achievement, so my capital is Rome. The North Sea is a long way away - and I've already created an empire. It's a good tip though.
Patch notes are up, hopefully my kids didn't fuck with my computer before school and it'll be updated when I get home. Thinking a king within the HRE as a first play, get to try out the court system from both directions.
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yeah the Holy site requirement makes some religions very very hard to reform. I really dislike it honestly.
Worst one is the generic "Pagan" catch all since its holy sites are sparsely scattered all the fuck over the place. Each one is perfectly valid for a specific unrepresented religion but the way the game uses t, all it does is make it easier to unite all the Abrahamic religions in a single witchcraft practicing incestuous sex cult than it is to change the simplest aspect of paganism.
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I haven't read through the new features yet, but I'm guessing this CoA designer is one of the new ones? They did a good job with it.
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yeah the Holy site requirement makes some religions very very hard to reform. I really dislike it honestly.
Worst one is the generic "Pagan" catch all since its holy sites are sparsely scattered all the fuck over the place. Each one is perfectly valid for a specific unrepresented religion but the way the game uses t, all it does is make it easier to unite all the Abrahamic religions in a single witchcraft practicing incestuous sex cult than it is to change the simplest aspect of paganism.
I kinda feel like at a super high piety level you should be able to consecrate a new Holy Site or something.
So my plan for my first playthrough was to start as a Norse character in Iceland, then conquer all my way down to sub-Saharan Africa and then create some kind of North/South Norse-Akan culture hybrid.
Step 1 worked out, eventually. Had to work around diplomatic ranges a bit. But I've run into a slight snag with Step 2. In order to get a foothold in Africa I had to, y'know, invade and take their land. Weirdly, the inhabitants weren't very pleased with me just barging in and taking over by force. And cultures need to be at least a little friendly with one another before they're willing to mingle and hybridise.
So... yeah. Got a bit of a rough start there. Should probably play it cool for a bit.
This expansion is making me straight up murder my lieges' more often as i'll be planning a nice marriage takeover and go to petition them and they'll say "I don't have time to see you in court" and then it's *on* like donkey kong and they must die for the insult.
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A blind blacksmith with no burns on his hands has got to be doing something right.
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So, I received a warning that one of my vassals, my marshal, is conspiring against me, and I confronted them publicly. Unfortunately the check went against me, and the following diplomatic check also went badly for me, so I had to spend 350 prestige and pissed off my marshal which sucks
Anyway he died of old age a month later
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Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
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No I mean actually he died of old age it was terribly annoying, if I was going to kill him I'd have just done it.
Right now what I can't figure out is if there's a dread stat seperate from the natural dread on your character page that I can't see, because I've seen characters who are afraid of me because of my Dreadful Reputation but uh... near as I can tell I don't have a Dreadful reputation.
Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. - Lincoln
Aside from a weirdly specific bug causing duplicate Excaliburs to proliferate across the world the new release seems pretty solid, nothing that's just destroying games outright.
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So how is the game to get into right now? I’m always a bit hesitant to do paradox games right after a release but all this sounds really interesting.
haven't played the new release, but Crusader Kings 3 is far and away the easiest and most accessible paradox game. There's some weird inheritance bullshit, but 90% of the game feels discoverable through hover help (especially if you hover for more than 2 seconds, the hover sticks, then you can hover on things in the hover).
Aside from a weirdly specific bug causing duplicate Excaliburs to proliferate across the world the new release seems pretty solid, nothing that's just destroying games outright.
I had a single instance of a bug where an announcement window of a marriage acceptance didn't get populated with text or buttons, so it was just a blank scroll on the screen that I had no way to close. Exiting the game and loading the auto-save made on exit solved the issue and populated the window. That's one bug in 8 hours.
Aside from a weirdly specific bug causing duplicate Excaliburs to proliferate across the world the new release seems pretty solid, nothing that's just destroying games outright.
For a moment I got confused and thought this was the Warframe thread...
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I'm not sure if it's a problem with one of my mods or a bug with the new version, but I reformed my faith to have equal gender doctrine and can appoint women as martial, but I can't appoint them as commander or a knight. Unless I'm just missing something. I can appoint my blind blacksmith even though he has a martial score of 0.
Edit: Ah, I think I figured it out. There's a culture setting for martial now.
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Found while digging through the script values:
# Don't remove the below hex code thingy: not sure what black magic it's doing, but it prevents a startup error somehow.
I had a glitched event where a dude was murdering all my courtiers and I could become sadistic; join him and become his friend. Naturally i chose that option and it glitched out and he immediately became my enemy anyway since I knew he committed the murders.
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So if you want to create your own faith without all of your neighbours instantly holy warring you for your heresy, the Middle East and India are probably your best bets.
Now I need absolute tribal authority, so I can switch to feudal.
If you can, form the north sea by decision, it's stupidly powerful and arguably easier than a traditional conversion to feudal
I'm continuing the game where I got the "Faster than the Fox" achievement, so my capital is Rome. The North Sea is a long way away - and I've already created an empire. It's a good tip though.
Patch notes are up, hopefully my kids didn't fuck with my computer before school and it'll be updated when I get home. Thinking a king within the HRE as a first play, get to try out the court system from both directions.
Edit: Looks like a 1GB download.
Worst one is the generic "Pagan" catch all since its holy sites are sparsely scattered all the fuck over the place. Each one is perfectly valid for a specific unrepresented religion but the way the game uses t, all it does is make it easier to unite all the Abrahamic religions in a single witchcraft practicing incestuous sex cult than it is to change the simplest aspect of paganism.
Uhhhhh.... ok
I kinda feel like at a super high piety level you should be able to consecrate a new Holy Site or something.
Idea: Instead of a new carpet, gift murder targets armor crafted by a blind blacksmith.
problem?
Step 1 worked out, eventually. Had to work around diplomatic ranges a bit. But I've run into a slight snag with Step 2. In order to get a foothold in Africa I had to, y'know, invade and take their land. Weirdly, the inhabitants weren't very pleased with me just barging in and taking over by force. And cultures need to be at least a little friendly with one another before they're willing to mingle and hybridise.
So... yeah. Got a bit of a rough start there. Should probably play it cool for a bit.
Maybe he was blinded because of his previous excellent work.
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Anyway he died of old age a month later
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Right now what I can't figure out is if there's a dread stat seperate from the natural dread on your character page that I can't see, because I've seen characters who are afraid of me because of my Dreadful Reputation but uh... near as I can tell I don't have a Dreadful reputation.
Right, yes, certainly, of course. *finger alongside nose* That is absolutely what happened.
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I've spent more time updating mods than I have playing, but so far nothing seems too broken.
haven't played the new release, but Crusader Kings 3 is far and away the easiest and most accessible paradox game. There's some weird inheritance bullshit, but 90% of the game feels discoverable through hover help (especially if you hover for more than 2 seconds, the hover sticks, then you can hover on things in the hover).
I had a single instance of a bug where an announcement window of a marriage acceptance didn't get populated with text or buttons, so it was just a blank scroll on the screen that I had no way to close. Exiting the game and loading the auto-save made on exit solved the issue and populated the window. That's one bug in 8 hours.
For a moment I got confused and thought this was the Warframe thread...
Edit: Ah, I think I figured it out. There's a culture setting for martial now.