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[Digital Hellhound]

I semi-accidentally discovered a fun thing with Shattered Worlds. I'd left a Shattered World running in observer mode and forgot all about it... until late in the next day, when I noticed CK2 was still running and that the in-game year was 1912. The amount of rulers and history was incredible. So much had changed in the world, but some early realms were still there and recognizable. The border gore was probably the worst I've ever seen, though. I'm trying this again with exclave independence rules much harsher, which will hopefully lead to a more sane world. I'm also sticking with regular religions and cultures, just shifted around, plus default titles for a more recognizable-yet-different kind of world. I'm going to convert it to EUIV when I'm done. This is a cool way of making new, different starts for EUIV and also just seeing how the world shapes up so many centuries, much like DF's Legends mode.

Things are already shaping up nicely. My money is on the Alan Slavic kingdoms in Italy. I hope to see them dominate the continent by the end. The Cathars of the Middle East and the Finns of England are also favorites. Oddly enough, India ended up populated mostly by Indian cultures anyway (they're all Zunist, though).

[Loud Whispers]

Finngland sounds like a great idea for a megacampaign

[Wiles]

The new great works patch came out yesterday. Good excuse to start another game!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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# Free Features
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- Added Great Works Feature allowing independent rulers to take on massive construction projects.

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# Balance
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- Added some secret stuff.
- Disabled event 6080.
- Reduced the strength of the vassalized mercenary companies.
- Architect trait now has a Great Work cost modifier.
- Construction technology now has a Great Work cost modifier.
- Order Government can now hold temples.
- Prosperity events now take Great Works into its calculation.

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# Interface
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- The societies view will now show the player's current society when opened, if they have one.
- Added a description of what the colors indicate in the map mode for China.

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# User modding
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- Unlocked all DLC event pictures!
- Added unit_graphical_culture, unit_graphical_cultures override for unit models in culture database.
- The following values can now be exported to variables: num_of_subrealm_temples, num_of_subrealm_tribes, num_of_subrealm_empty_provinces, num_of_demesne_castles, num_of_demesne_cities, num_of_demesne_temples, num_of_demesne_tribes, num_of_demesne_empty_provinces, and total_years_played.
- Added set_dynasty_name effect, sets the name of the scoped character's dynasty to the right hand side string/localisation key.
- Added propagate_bloodline_from effect.
- All scope types should now be saved as global event targets.
- Added support for custom_modifier_text in modifier fields.
- Improved debug tooltip (charinfo console command) for a number of objects that utilize scripted flags and variables. (Characters, Societies, Artifacts, Provinces, Dynasties, Great Works)
- Modders should now get an error if they add history commands that marry characters that have not been born yet.

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# Database
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- Renamed a title to Empire of Rus to strengthen the intended connection to the historical Kievan Rus.
- Added decision to form the Russian Tsardom early.
- Differentiated the Coat of Arms for Kingdom of Kiev and Empire of Rus.
- Cleaned up Anatolian province culture/religion in some of the later start dates.
- Fixed a broken dynasty in Bolzano.
- Fixed a broken dynasty in Saarbrücken.

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# Bug Fixes
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- Fixed children generated for historical rulers without scripted families having 0 in all attributes and getting no childhood traits. Also applies to all children generated through "create_character".
- Blocked Holy orders from spontaneously building Tribal holdings.
- Fixed missing effects and tooltips for receiving news of the Aztec Invasion - if you have certain Vision modifiers (from the Hermetic's Scrying Power) it will now properly update your Seer modifier, while also explaining what happens.
- Fixed the crucible steel event chain sometimes breaking just before its final outcome.
- Having a Non-aggression Pact with the target of a Crusade will now lead to it automatically breaking once the Crusade is launched, allowing you to join the war.
- Made Songs of Byzantium work for Roman culture as well as the Byzantine group.
- Fixed issue were the continue playthrough buttons would load the wrong save if your latest save is a cloud save and you have a local save with the same name.
- Fixed the Saintly Pilgrimage chain sometimes breaking after the weird village encounter.
- Fixed the Ritual Hunt chain for Warrior Lodge members sometimes leaving you stuck as "busy", if you chose to simply return home at the end of the chain.
- In the events surrounding a loved one's death, you will no longer be expected to grief and bond together with characters who are in prison.
- Made conditions to gain the Peaceful Child Forged Bloodline somewhat more lenient so that it can actually be achieved.
- Fixed several Bloodline-related events and actions not properly checking that a Bloodline is active on the character in question.
- Fixed holes in the reconquered Roman Imperial Provinces events.
- Slaying an enemy ruler in a battle will no longer display them as your "acquaintance" in messages.
- Ships will no longer cut straight through Kanin/c_kanin when coming into port from the North Atlantic.
- Adjusted positions of some units and on map shields in Russia.
- Blocking players from doing decisions to which switches over to a religion which requires an unowned or disabled DLC, leading to an instant game over.
- England no longer end up as the tributary of Gwynedd in the 12th century.
- Kievan Rus no longer loses it's name if it is held by someone with a North Germanic culture.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when the Siberian Wastelands was brought into the camera's view for the first time.
- Fixed game start feature window displaying incorrect religion and/or culture information if any of these were changed from the ruler designer.
- Fixed crusade wars starting immediately instead of after the preparation phase, in multiplayer games.
- Fixed not being able to rename tribal settlements.
- Fixed it being possible to back out of baptism name change window, after first accepting the name change from an event.
- Fixed the credits screen not closing when the credits were over.
- Fixed a bug affecting duel results calculation for Pagan characters.
- Fixed an issue where a child born with a dead father would wrongfully get the mothers dynasty.
- Fixed a bug where in elective succession law it was not possible to nominate the own sons.
- Fixed a bug where the designated regent would not always work if you were not independent.
- Fixed a rare bug that caused a crash when setting the liege upon character death.
- Fixed a crash when setting the religion on a dead character from script.
- Historical characters will no longer attempt to marry characters that have not yet been born.
- The AI is now allowed to pass out vice royalties even when they're a vassal.
- Saving rules on a shattered or random world should no longer result in game rules breaking and achievements being disabled.
- Fixed incorrect achievement indicator when loading a save where achievements are possible.
- Fixed a bug affecting religious conversion speed.
- Fixed an inheritance problem of matrilineal bloodlines combined with male consorts.
- Blocked some battle events describing gruesome death, but not running the actual death-effect, from firing.

[ZeroGravitas]

waiting for wikis to update with what the various parts of the great works do, too lazy to read the text files myself

[martinuzz]

How often are DLCs on sale (steam)?
I had to wait until today to be able to buy some steam cash, and now the 50% sale is over.
I still lack Conclave and Charlemagne, but 2 x 14.99 is outside of my budget limits

[Mini]

Judging by Steamdb, it's every couple of months on average. They were on sale in mid may both last year and the year before, so that is most likely the next one.

[Persus13]

Also keep an eye on Paradox's website. Sometimes the sales there are better than the ones on Steam.

[MaximumZero]

Dumb question time. I made a little personal religion mod, and now the game CTDs on clicking on the religion tab. I have 5 holy sites. From what I gather on  paradox's forums, it's a 3.1 problem with incompatibility with mods featuring religions. Nothing changed from my last update (worked on 3.0, 2.9, et al.) Game runs fine otherwise.

Is this something I have to wait out, or does anybody have any ideas?

[Teneb]

Dumb question time. I made a little personal religion mod, and now the game CTDs on clicking on the religion tab. I have 5 holy sites. From what I gather on  paradox's forums, it's a 3.1 problem with incompatibility with mods featuring religions. Nothing changed from my last update (worked on 3.0, 2.9, et al.) Game runs fine otherwise.

Is this something I have to wait out, or does anybody have any ideas?

Try comparing it to other religions, check out the error log (in the logs folder) or post it here.

[MaximumZero]

I got it working. Basically, I screwed up the mod format. It's my first time building a mod for stuff like this (I usually just edit the live files straight up, like DF raws), so I forgot to use the "replace path" command in my .mod file. Now I just need to work on localization and I'll be satisfied with it.

[Teneb]

New Bookmark announced. It'll be in 936 and will be free.

[notquitethere]

I hadn't played in over a year and I've been enjoying some of the new (to me) features. Been playing as a merchant of Genoa. My family had lost an election and had been out of power for two generations when there was a crusade which we successfully got moved to targeting Africa. After the crusade was won, I took it up on the chance of being a count in Africa, which is a great feature. (I had chosen a female relative as my crusade recipient, as a merchant family needs its sons for running trading posts.)

I worked over two generations to begin to take over the kingdom from the inside, becoming a duke with a huge demense. The son of the first crusader joined a secret Sunni society (which I'd never seen before) and worked his way almost to the highest rank before keeling over dead in 50s from being too fat. Then there was a jihad (there always is) and even though I managed to assasinate the man prosecuting the jihad, the war continued under his good-for-nothing son who won. And so my character control reverted back to Genoa... where my cousin and new primary character had become the new Doge.

The adventures in Africa were a great little side-plot within the game, giving me something fun to do rather than being stuck out of power for ages in Genoa.

[Cruxador]

Wait, you successfully switched back and forth between republic and feudal? How long has that worked for?

[Teneb]

Wait, you successfully switched back and forth between republic and feudal? How long has that worked for?

I imagine since the update that made Government Types an actual thing.

[scriver]

Ivar "the Boneless" challenged me to a homgång.

Spoiler: I fitted him to his byname (click to show/hide)