So I'm playing as Ulster right now, and trying my best to control all of Ireland. However there's a Papal army just chilling in my capital. The Pope and I are on good terms, so nothing bad's coming of it, but there's still 200 random soldiers from Rome just sorta vacationing in Ulster. Anyone know what they might be doing? o.O;;
What's up with the ambitions? The only ambition my leader currently has is to kill his own wife. His father shared a similar sole ambition. But I'm on good terms with my wife, and she's got fantastic stats and is our spymaster with the highest intrigue skill in the realm! Wtf would I want to kill her for? Must I kill her or simply have no ambition in life? T_T;;;
Random question also: No one has ever declined a marriage proposal, ever. I feel like I'm marrying my kids off wayyyy out of my league. My son just married the daughter of the Emperor. Some poor princess of the HRE himself moved all the way out to a little 4-county duchy in Ireland to live out the rest of her days married to my utterly incompetent son. I also married a few daughters into the Castile family, and so now I'm on fantastic terms with them.
Why are the top families in all of Europe marrying into my pathetic little family?
Also, since my son is completely incompetent and has like 5 negative traits, what can I do to be rid of him? He seemed like a fine boy when he was young, and I was delighted when he became my heir and married into the goddamn Empire. But then he gained like every negative trait in the game and looks like he's going to make a terrible ruler and most of my vassals and everyone else in Ireland hate the guy. What to do?
On February 17 2012 23:08 Haemonculus wrote: So I'm playing as Ulster right now, and trying my best to control all of Ireland. However there's a Papal army just chilling in my capital. The Pope and I are on good terms, so nothing bad's coming of it, but there's still 200 random soldiers from Rome just sorta vacationing in Ulster. Anyone know what they might be doing? o.O;;
What's up with the ambitions? The only ambition my leader currently has is to kill his own wife. His father shared a similar sole ambition. But I'm on good terms with my wife, and she's got fantastic stats and is our spymaster with the highest intrigue skill in the realm! Wtf would I want to kill her for? Must I kill her or simply have no ambition in life? T_T;;;
Random question also: No one has ever declined a marriage proposal, ever. I feel like I'm marrying my kids off wayyyy out of my league. My son just married the daughter of the Emperor. Some poor princess of the HRE himself moved all the way out to a little 4-county duchy in Ireland to live out the rest of her days married to my utterly incompetent son. I also married a few daughters into the Castile family, and so now I'm on fantastic terms with them.
Why are the top families in all of Europe marrying into my pathetic little family?
Also, since my son is completely incompetent and has like 5 negative traits, what can I do to be rid of him? He seemed like a fine boy when he was young, and I was delighted when he became my heir and married into the goddamn Empire. But then he gained like every negative trait in the game and looks like he's going to make a terrible ruler and most of my vassals and everyone else in Ireland hate the guy. What to do?
It would be quite a eh...shame...if an "accident" were to afflict your son.
We spent 9 months waiting for Professor Harrison to meet an unfortunately accident, until Leslie here made it clear it was an accident WE were supposed to make happen!
aka, how do I do that? Just assassinate him and hope it works?
Yep, get the best intrigue spymaster you possibly can, stick him on build spy network duty in whatever province your son is, and let slip the assassins.
I really hope they completely rehaul Europa for EU4 since CK does a better job of simulating up until 1480ish and Vicky 2 would be a better simulator for 1700 onwards than Europa.
On February 17 2012 23:08 Haemonculus wrote: So I'm playing as Ulster right now, and trying my best to control all of Ireland. However there's a Papal army just chilling in my capital. The Pope and I are on good terms, so nothing bad's coming of it, but there's still 200 random soldiers from Rome just sorta vacationing in Ulster. Anyone know what they might be doing? o.O;;
What's up with the ambitions? The only ambition my leader currently has is to kill his own wife. His father shared a similar sole ambition. But I'm on good terms with my wife, and she's got fantastic stats and is our spymaster with the highest intrigue skill in the realm! Wtf would I want to kill her for? Must I kill her or simply have no ambition in life? T_T;;;
Random question also: No one has ever declined a marriage proposal, ever. I feel like I'm marrying my kids off wayyyy out of my league. My son just married the daughter of the Emperor. Some poor princess of the HRE himself moved all the way out to a little 4-county duchy in Ireland to live out the rest of her days married to my utterly incompetent son. I also married a few daughters into the Castile family, and so now I'm on fantastic terms with them.
Why are the top families in all of Europe marrying into my pathetic little family?
Also, since my son is completely incompetent and has like 5 negative traits, what can I do to be rid of him? He seemed like a fine boy when he was young, and I was delighted when he became my heir and married into the goddamn Empire. But then he gained like every negative trait in the game and looks like he's going to make a terrible ruler and most of my vassals and everyone else in Ireland hate the guy. What to do?
no1 ever declines your offer because you usually cannot offer a marriage proposal if they're not interested anyway also if you have no mabition beside killing your wife it's usually not worth it I mean it's worth it if she's an old hag and shas shitty stats, and you want to tumble with some 16 year old then yea go for it, otherwise it's better if you have no ambitions, since I guess it could lower your relations with your wife if she found out
So I got the game, started the tutorials and got my first game going- 10 Minutes later I was back at EU3- This game seems like a huge historical The Sims to me. Now obviously I haven't really experienced the game, but the vast amount of "characters" with all their functions and likes/dislikes just turned me off hard.
On February 18 2012 04:38 Monsen wrote: So I got the game, started the tutorials and got my first game going- 10 Minutes later I was back at EU3- This game seems like a huge historical The Sims to me. Now obviously I haven't really experienced the game, but the vast amount of "characters" with all their functions and likes/dislikes just turned me off hard.
Standard Paradox overwhelming complexity I guess.
I had the same for EU3 at first. Especially with the EU3 tutorial, I was totally clueless what the game was about. Fortunately I found the wiki and the thread on teamliquid. Still, it took me quite a while before I started understanding what I was doing. Heck, every EU3 game I play I learn things every at maximum 25 years, and that is not an overstatement.
CK2 put me off for the same reasons, but once I started understanding what I was doing better (remember that I learn every 25 years in EU3? It's more like 25 days for CK2 now) it became more fun. I still hate some parts of the interface, but most of my initial annoyances were simply because I did not know where the information was, rather than it's not there.
Talking about that, one of my main annoyances is that I can't find a complete list of characters in the game. I just want to see how my XXX compares to the best XXX, is it above average, below average etc.
I'd say just give the game another try and keep doing that, 'tis what I had to do for all paradox games so far.
Note: playing castille is so easy if you get lucky. You are the heir to the two countries to your immediate left, assasinate tje leaders of Leon and Galicia ASAP and you'll end up with the biggest empire in the area, but you need luck to get the assasinations to hit. I got them on my first try. Still seeing how the game develops after this, but holy war will allow me to take the rest of the Iberian peninsula easily, and then I'll see how France will be then. I really play this the eu3 way, conquering constantly. Got to say, getting unlucky with all my marriages (the wife dieing before they give birth) and the one kid became a daughter, not bad if not for the -10? relations my vassals have with me now.
On February 18 2012 04:38 Monsen wrote: So I got the game, started the tutorials and got my first game going- 10 Minutes later I was back at EU3- This game seems like a huge historical The Sims to me. Now obviously I haven't really experienced the game, but the vast amount of "characters" with all their functions and likes/dislikes just turned me off hard.
Standard Paradox overwhelming complexity I guess.
Talking about that, one of my main annoyances is that I can't find a complete list of characters in the game. I just want to see how my XXX compares to the best XXX, is it above average, below average etc.
The last tab is a character tab that allows you to browse all the characters in the game, or filter them out based on various preferences.
On February 18 2012 04:38 Monsen wrote: So I got the game, started the tutorials and got my first game going- 10 Minutes later I was back at EU3- This game seems like a huge historical The Sims to me. Now obviously I haven't really experienced the game, but the vast amount of "characters" with all their functions and likes/dislikes just turned me off hard.
Standard Paradox overwhelming complexity I guess.
Talking about that, one of my main annoyances is that I can't find a complete list of characters in the game. I just want to see how my XXX compares to the best XXX, is it above average, below average etc.
The last tab is a character tab that allows you to browse all the characters in the game, or filter them out based on various preferences.
It will not show all the characters for me, there will always be characters not in there no matter my options. Could be that I'm doing something wrong, but I've got no clue what that might be.
EDIT: I'm stupid. Didn't realise the left buttons were on 'search realm'. Once again, annoyance just because of my own mistake.
Got the game today on Steam and have to say I'm really liking it. I love the fact that revolts are based on actual dynasty infighting instead of seemingly random events like in EU3. For example, I just had a civil war where my two sons united against me trying to change the laws to Gavelkind so they could get inheritance when I die instead of everything going to my brother. Now I just have to decide how I want to manage things now that I've revoked their titles, but they're still in line for succession...
Cathar, Lollard or Fracticelli all over the place.... Is this just me being unlucky or does this happen to the rest of you ?
Might be that they need to do something about it
Good lord man what have you done, YOU HAVE BROKEN EUROPE. Meanwhile I have just finished uniting Ireland in under 35 years. I shall make Galway the finest city in the world. Loving this game so far but as it's been said, the lack of ambitions is a little disappointing.
Oh and another question, there was a window somewhere which showed me how the laws and opinions affected exactly how much Levy I could raise from my vassals, but I cannot for the life of me find that information now, Anyone have any ideas?
I mean the window which shows how your laws and opinions combine (using math) to create final levy %.
On February 18 2012 11:34 Myles wrote: Got the game today on Steam and have to say I'm really liking it. I love the fact that revolts are based on actual dynasty infighting instead of seemingly random events like in EU3. For example, I just had a civil war where my two sons united against me trying to change the laws to Gavelkind so they could get inheritance when I die instead of everything going to my brother. Now I just have to decide how I want to manage things now that I've revoked their titles, but they're still in line for succession...
the easiest way to get Children or other family members out of the line of succession is to give them a Bishop title
actually even just nominating them as the next successor to a Bishoptitle will make them lose their claim on the throne. You will need free investitur for this.
On February 18 2012 08:20 Ramong wrote:
Look at this!
Cathar, Lollard or Fracticelli all over the place.... Is this just me being unlucky or does this happen to the rest of you ?
Might be that they need to do something about it
I have no idea how you did this ^^. In my games heretics always land in prison and even the AI is very meticulous about killing them
So I'm playing with Isle of Man and here's the thing - way back at the beginning of game, I could have sworn I found an option somewhere to create a new holding in my current territory (yeah, the one poor island). I didn't think much of it then and closed it because I never thought I could afford it or something.
But now that I'm feeling kind of rich and have a lot of perspective nobles, I can't find the damn button anywhere. And I've looked everywhere to the point I started doubting myself as to whether I ever really saw it in the first place or just imagined it for some weird reason, and Googling doesn't help. So I'd appreciate it if anyone here could drop a knowledge bomb on me.
On February 18 2012 20:08 Talin wrote: So I'm playing with Isle of Man and here's the thing - way back at the beginning of game, I could have sworn I found an option somewhere to create a new holding in my current territory (yeah, the one poor island). I didn't think much of it then and closed it because I never thought I could afford it or something.
But now that I'm feeling kind of rich and have a lot of perspective nobles, I can't find the damn button anywhere. And I've looked everywhere to the point I started doubting myself as to whether I ever really saw it in the first place or just imagined it for some weird reason, and Googling doesn't help. So I'd appreciate it if anyone here could drop a knowledge bomb on me.
click on the province you want to build a new hold in. Then in the bottom left should be your province with the current holdings and if you got enough space in that province there should be empty rectangles next to the other holdings. Just click one of those rectangles and you get a new window showing you your building options for new holdings
i love paradox and ck2 doesn't disappoint playing as the count of Roussillon it's going terrible because of the duke of Barcelona is so dumb he keeps attacking Muslims in north Africa instead of the ones right next to him and then getting himself dog piled by Muslims next to him. i have to keep bailing him out with mercs getting annoying
On February 18 2012 20:08 Talin wrote: So I'm playing with Isle of Man and here's the thing - way back at the beginning of game, I could have sworn I found an option somewhere to create a new holding in my current territory (yeah, the one poor island). I didn't think much of it then and closed it because I never thought I could afford it or something.
But now that I'm feeling kind of rich and have a lot of perspective nobles, I can't find the damn button anywhere. And I've looked everywhere to the point I started doubting myself as to whether I ever really saw it in the first place or just imagined it for some weird reason, and Googling doesn't help. So I'd appreciate it if anyone here could drop a knowledge bomb on me.
click on the province you want to build a new hold in. Then in the bottom left should be your province with the current holdings and if you got enough space in that province there should be empty rectangles next to the other holdings. Just click one of those rectangles and you get a new window showing you your building options for new holdings
Hmm, they're not there. I guess I can't build any here then, which is weird as I don't remember starting any other CK2 games and I still knew about it somehow. ;o
Oh well, thanks anyway. At least I know where it is now.
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