No more banishing to get free titles? Damn. That'll suckw hen this comes out, buuut I don't use it all that often anyway.
Just to get rid of uppity claimants who I landed so I can get that kingdom they've been petitioning me to grab
I like it. The GoT mod already does that, and it's one of the (many) things I like better than vanilla about that mod.
I feel like it's only a matter of time before they add China and/or SE Asia to the game. Which would be awesome. You have the Tang Dynasty in China, the early cultural contact between China and Japan, and the An Lushan Rebellion.
Since I know you know a lot about China, how do you feel about the "the CK2 engine can't adequately depict Imperial China" argument?
I feel like it's only a matter of time before they add China and/or SE Asia to the game. Which would be awesome. You have the Tang Dynasty in China, the early cultural contact between China and Japan, and the An Lushan Rebellion.
Groogy, one of the lead devs, has stated that he and Doomdark (another lead dev) want to do China once they are done optimizing the engine. So it really is just a matter of time. Apparently the main source of lag is not India, but the Middle East with the Byzantine and Caliphates being the main offenders. I'm guessing it is due to the huge armies and loads of characters.
I'm worried this will mean we won't get any actual speed improvements after an eventual China DLC, but that it'll go back to being as bad as it currently is (or worse). Then again, I don't really buy the "it isn't the thousands of new characters and dozens of provinces we just added, it's just bad coding for characters in old areas" argument. Of course, I do also acknowledge that I don't know how the code actually look.
China would kind of have made sense with this DLC - you can't complete the Mongol conquests without it, eh? Although, I kinda want to start with an European horde and conquer my way east... maybe the Magyars in Old Gods start. Screw settling down in Pannonia, I'm becoming Emperor of Cathay!
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