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[Quartz_Mace]

I've created Wales(technically named "Bryhthiad" or something ) and managed to take all but one county within it. Had some really nice alliances with a couple of kingdoms (Pictland and Asturias), but they ceased with the death of my ruler (not close enough family members to keep the bonds) and it would seem I don't have very many children to marry off for alliances/inherit, so now I'm attempting to impregnate as many wenches as physically possible... Maybe I should rethink my life choices.

[EuchreJack]

I've created Wales(technically named "Bryhthiad" or something ) and managed to take all but one county within it. Had some really nice alliances with a couple of kingdoms (Pictland and Asturias), but they ceased with the death of my ruler (not close enough family members to keep the bonds) and it would seem I don't have very many children to marry off for alliances/inherit, so now I'm attempting to impregnate as many wenches as physically possible... Maybe I should rethink my life choices.

Ah, the classic "breed with anything that can breed" tactic.  Tried and true, dat, tried and true.

[Reudh]

As for coalitions, I actually like them.  Ignoring the crowd of powergamers that want to take over the world (literally), I have a game where being in a coalition is the only thing that has kept me independent.

Ah yes, god forbid I dislike a poorly implemetned mechanic that was added for "MUHTIEPLIERZ"  balance, clearly all people that hate coalitions must be powergamers.

It's in EUIV. Also it's insanely easy to roll half the world once you get a bit of impetus, it's a pretty simple method of balancing that out. Also... nations sometimes form coalitions in real life to deal with a major threat?

[Loud Whispers]

It's in EUIV. Also it's insanely easy to roll half the world once you get a bit of impetus, it's a pretty simple method of balancing that out. Also... nations sometimes form coalitions in real life to deal with a major threat?

Like the Roman and Persian Empires teaming up after centuries of conflict to combat the invading Arabs from the south, or heck - the Mongol invasions united all the enemies they invaded (for all the good it did them)

[Sartain]

Goddammit my brother, who is also my appointed heir and designated regent, is a retard.
My current Aquitaine game has conquered maybe a third of the Iberian peninsula through long, hard work. As luck would have it, the Pope just called a Crusade for Andalusia which would be a wonderful addition to the kingdom but at the same time, my king got his skull bashed in during a battle so he's incapable now. And despite the Ummayad's being weakened due to a couple of internal wars and uprisings, my brother apparently doesn't want to be the owner of both the kingdoms of Aquitaine and Andalucia.  I guess I can just hope that my ruler dies before it's too late to join the Crusade.

Edit: That was a tense couple of years. Lost of couple of counties to regent shenanigans and the Crusade warscore reached 93% before the Ummayads managed to turn it around. Luckily, my incapable ruler had the good sense to die just after I appointed his son his heir instead of the useless brother who was apparently set on turning over Andalusia to our main christian rivals on the peninsula, the Italians. As soon as he was crowned the son joined the Crusade, which was now down to 17% warscore, turned it around almost single-handedly and managed to win the rest of the Iberian peninsula, save a few stragglers and Italian provinces, in a decisive war that made him known as "the Great" at 20 years of age, in a span of 2 years.

I love this game

[EuchreJack]

Sounds like he earned the moniker "The Great".  Yeah, this game rocks!

[gimli]

My Poland game seems to be going rather well.

...meanwhile in Poland:

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[scrdest]

Realpolitik, mang. He doesn't need to eat them himself.

[gimli]

Yeah, but it's still a funny one. 

Anyway! Conclave DD #6 The 2.5.2 Patch

"....We have also acted decisively on the issue of Infamy and Coalitions. Sparing no effort, we have renamed these features to Threat and Defensive Pacts..."

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ello all, welcome to another CK2 DD. First up, please note that I am NOT Doomdark, people confuse us sometimes. With that key point covered, let’s move onto the meat of this diary: The upcoming 2.5.2 patch! We have made several changes to some key areas that we’ve gotten a lot of feedback on recently, the most important of which is of course Seduction!

Characters who have someone trying to seduce them now have the option to let the seducer know they are not interested (based on things like their traits and their opinion of their spouse) which will block all further seduction attempts for some time, both by the original seducer and anyone else.

We have also acted decisively on the issue of Infamy and Coalitions. Sparing no effort, we have renamed these features to Threat and Defensive Pacts, which we feel should resolve all known problems with them.

Oh ok, that isn’t all we did. Coalitions received such an extensive rework that we felt a new name was required. Perhaps the most important change is that Defensive Pacts are now separated by religious groups, so for example if the Byzantines act in a Threatening fashion they might a face a Christian Pact in Europe and a Muslim Pact in the Middle East, and at first the two Pacts won’t care if one attacks the other and only defend members of their own Pact. At higher levels of Threat, however, Pacts of other religious groups will band together when any one of them is attacked. At the highest levels even your co-religionists may feel the need to join forces against you.

Threat also affects both the size of Realms which can join a Pact against you, and the how far away from you they can be. Finally, AI nations will never join a Defensive Pact against a Realm whom they have equal or greater troop strength than.

As the new name might suggest, Defensive Pacts are entirely defensive in nature, members of a Pact can never call each other into an offensive war against the target (unless they are allies, as normal). These changes, we hope, will bring the Feature Formally Known As Coalition more in line with its intended purpose of countering huge, rapid growth without feeling as unfair or arbitrary.

2.5.2 also contains some other improvements and some new content and features. The patch notes will reveal full details, but a few more highlights include:

    Improvements to Shattered Retreats.
    Increased Warscore from battles slightly in general and majorly against hosts.
    Capped total possible Warscore from battles for Attackers at 75%
    Raiders who are defeated in battle will not return to raid you for some time.
    Added a Next Song button, and a setting to disable the context restrictions on music.
    Added faction to force abdication of kings and emperors.
    Added new events for skilled educators to give traits to their wards.

[Rolan7]

I never experienced the horror of coalitions, but my friend insisted they really were awful.  Either way, this seems like a good response by Paradox...

He'll be glad for those changes to shattered retreats, too.

[stabbymcstabstab]

Yeah coalitions got pretty bad, since in my current game as basically the god emperor of the fraticellas every nation in existence decided I need to stop I literally had the entirety of India against me... As a Irishman with control of western Europe.

[Cruxador]

Well, we'll have to see how it is in play but it sounds like a good system now. Still have to wonder a bit about why they didn't foresee the problems and take measures to avoid them, but at least they're not sweeping everything under a rug.

Only thing to worry about now is if the shattered retreat changes do enough.

[gimli]

Yep, (some of) their QA testers share a specific trait probably.

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..but again, as we all know, boring and repetitive jobs can pay decently, game testers do not get compensated nearly as well.

[scriver]

Being a game dev QA is nothing if not boring and repetetive.

[Cruxador]

Yep, (some of) their QA testers share a specific trait probably.

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..but again, as we all know, boring and repetitive jobs can pay decently, game testers do not get compensated nearly as well.

More likely they have a very limited QA resource pool as the gameplay QA is drawn off by Stellaris, so they were only really testing for bugs.