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[Dutchling]

Empires are 80%, not 51%. There are often cultural or religious conditions, and small ones (<3 kingdoms) tend to need more (specific) kingdom titles to be held than just the de jure ones.

[loose nut]

man... this game is DETAILED. Damn. I am completely and utterly lost. Even after the tutorial. How do I game?!

I kept bouncing off of this game for almost a year until I finally sat myself down and watched some Let's Plays on youtube. The tutorial is insufficient and I've found that going through the wiki, as effective as that is for picking up DF, doesn't really do the job with Paradox strategy games.

[Dutchling]

The trick is to realize you don't need most of the game to actually play it and semi-survive.

[forsaken1111]

Empires are 80%, not 51%. There are often cultural or religious conditions, and small ones (<3 kingdoms) tend to need more (specific) kingdom titles to be held than just the de jure ones.

Is there a wiki or something which spells out the requirements for the empires? I am russian culture but I'd like to know which titles are required.

[CognitiveDissonance]

The trick is to realize you don't need most of the game to actually play it and semi-survive.

BUT THERE ARE BUTTONS! I WANT TO PRESS THEM!!!

[Dutchling]

You can check it in game. Just hover your mouse of the 'create' button.

[forsaken1111]

You can check it in game. Just hover your mouse of the 'create' button.

Nevermind, I just formed Russia on 15 September 948. I was wrong about the year before.

[Tarran]

The trick is to realize you don't need most of the game to actually play it and semi-survive.

BUT THERE ARE BUTTONS! I WANT TO PRESS THEM!!!

THERE IS A SAVE FUNCTION, YOU CAN PRESS THEM AS MUCH AS YOU WANT!!!

[Rince Wind]

I bought CK2 in the sale as well (all DLC apart from Old Gods).
I have no clue what to do, but I am King of Ireland now, and have only very little time left to somehow convince my lords to choose my son as the heir (I introduced Tanistry or whatever the name is), because the King is almost 80 now. Still making new babies though.

Are weak claims any good? Because you only support someone elses claim, if I see that correctly. I have yet to understand how to grow my empire by marriage (well, my son did marry the princess of Sweden, but she was murdered  had an accident less than a year after the marriage, so he came back home. And she was the heir.)

[Cthulhu]

Weak claims can only be pressed against female rulers (if the claimant is male), a regency, or a realm experiencing a succession crisis.  Aside from that, they're the same as strong aside from who gets them.  They're for people low in the line of succession and have limited inheritance to keep your grandpa's second wife's great nephew from supplanting your entire dynasty.

[Felius]

Finally trying my hand at a republic, I'm now at 1198 from first 1066 start (yes, England is Norway's now. Except the city of London. That's mine. ), playing the republic of gotland, I gotta say, DAMN I make I lot of money. I keep around 50 gold per month, after paying my heavy family dues (oh the cost of having 23 trading posts... ). I'm pretty sure if were not the death blobs around I'd be the premier power around. I can certainly beat my previous liege, Sweden, around like a ragdoll, and most likely can do the same with Norway (although I'm slightly less certain given they can grab troops from the England as well), and that's even before considering the ridiculous amounts of mercenaries I can hire if I get some time to prepare (and/or arrange the death of some older and richer dynasty members ).

Hell, my next plans are either conquering Denmark or Conquering Sweden, I just can't decide which.

On a sidenote: Just to confirm: The "designated heir" title is exclusive to republics right? I can't suddenly use it to make it ridiculously easier to pick a heir in a feudal kingdom, or can I?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

The Byzantines have an equivalent, but apart from them, no.

[krisslanza]

I always felt the weakest part to Republics was the lack of an actual economy system. Also in that trade port spam, as only one trade port can be built in each area for... some reason...

[scriver]

I always felt the weakest part to Republics was the lack of an actual economy system. Also in that trade port spam, as only one trade port can be built in each area for... some reason...

Totally. For me it's the weakest part of the game, really. I get they didn't want to focus on the economic side of things, but yeah. Still.

[Dutchling]

New Patch Notes:

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INTERFACE:
- Removed the erroneous warning text about disinheriting a dynasty member when granting him a temple holding, for non-Christians
- West Africans now use the Mongol on-map shields
- Diplo View: Crusades/Jihads/Great Holy Wars are now listed before they can be used (with a tooltip why you can't use them)
- Added some more random Coat of Arms elements (more work to come)
- Fixed an issue where the wrong temple icon could be shown in the province view
- Fixed an issue with the displaying of strong claims for pagans and Zoroastrians

GAMEPLAY:
- Fixed bug where Arsenal building could be deleted on succession
- The decision for creating Hungary now takes away the Ukrainian part of their realm
- Zoroastrians can now properly use their Crusade CB
- 1066: Rebalanced William's, Harold's and Harald's starting forces
- Fixed a bug where Crown Laws would not carry over into created kingdoms and empires
- Fixed some bugs with True Cognatic succession
- You no longer get messages about adventurers who are not actually declaring war
- You must now be in the West African culture group to recruit the Ghanan Band
- Slashed some unnecessary memory usage for living characters
- Fixed bug where you sometimes raised two runestones in honor of your father
- The event where a female courtier initiates romance with her liege now properly checks their opinion of each other
- Expanded the Justanid dynasty of Gilan
- Fixes and additions to several Norwegian dynasties
- The Imperial Reconquest CB now also applies to the Kingdom of Asturias
- Fixed a bug where the order of holdings in provinces did not remain consistent when stepping back and forth in history
- Varangians will now only come back Orthodox if it's the Byzantine ruler's religion
- Diseases now actually trigger before 1066
- Fixed a rare crash issue with invalid coat of arms for Muslim held titles
- Some slight memory and speed optimizations
- Lund is now a temple holding
- Marshals can no longer interfere with their own efforts to train troops in a province
- Court Chaplains no longer claim characters are heretics if they are already branded as such
- The opinion modifiers given by events 3243 and 4148 no longer instantly disappear
- Added the Dál gCais dynasty
- Expanded the Morgannwg dynasty
- Fixes to Gwerthrynion dynasty members
- 867: Corrected the character Hrolf, the first duke of Normandy
- 1066: Corrected an issue with Gurgan and Dailam not being part of the Seljuk empire
- Loosened up the culture requirements for the formation of the kingdoms of Rus and Finland
- Follow-up events should now trigger properly when your wife is impregnated by a lover
- Added the three winning submissions from the Event Contest
- Piety from buildings is now given to both the owner and his/her liege
- Moved the duchy of Hayya from Abyssinia to Nubia
- Fixed a bug where the liege would always inherit a courtier's gold
- Improved the gold inheritance check to look for siblings and grandchildren if necessary
- No longer possible to invite a concubine to your court
- The Blot and Nerge decisions are now high priority, giving players a heads up when they are available
- Landless Popes can now call crusades
- Titles with free duchy revocation (the ERE) can now also revoke the de jure capital county freely

AI:
- Will no longer declare war on its current "player heir", or vice versa
- Will not flip culture to Swedish, Danish or Norwegian culture if in a huge Norse empire
- Will now execute claimants whose claim is currently pressed in a war against it
- Doges and patricians are now more likely to build in their cities
- Pagans now willing to accept cross-religion marriages with other pagans if it likes you enough
- Will now accept marriage offers for courtiers of the right religion, even if the ruler is of a hostile religion
- Female rulers or heirs less likely to marry non-matrilineally, unless they really like you
- More likely to revoke its de jure capital title

MODDING:
- Added Enatic and Enatic-Cognatic Succession code support (laws not available without slight modding)
- Added 'can_hold_temples' to religions (like Muslims can hold temple holdings)
- The history command 'raise_troops' now raises them with full morale
- Added 'merge' field to the 'spawn_unit' effect
- Added 'can_use_gui' to CB types
- Added liege_prestige, allowing buildings to give prestige to its owner and his/her liege

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