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Anonymous09/29/25, 15:15No.2157692
>lets make a government type that is capable of rapid outward expansion
>And then make it immune to independence war or any form of internal collapse
>And then give them the richest, most developed lands on the map
>And then give them an overpowered succession type
CK3 is so shit. Just complete fantasy and uninteresting gameplay.
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Anon09/29/25, 16:28No.2157768
byzanbozos are the worst fucking kind of medievalists
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Anon09/29/25, 17:41No.2157854
Opis, wrong pic, sorry
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Anon09/29/25, 23:20No.2158217
Yea byzantines are op. They never collapse. CK3 devs have no concept of balance
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Anon09/29/25, 23:59No.2158236
Every game I play, Byzantines get dunked on by the Khazars and/or gradually eaten away by the Abbasids.Khazars are the real problem. IRL steppe nomads tended to have their realms fragment over time (the way Paradox portrays everyone else just because the French did it even though it's not accurate for most of medieval Europe at all) but in CK3 they actually don't fragment, ever. And because herds don't take seasonal attrition and the only way to deplete them is by spending them, they always have tens of thousands of horse mana to pull horse archers straight out of their arses.
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Anon09/30/25, 00:12No.2158246
>paradox DLCs are just cheats
How new to paradox games?
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Anon09/30/25, 06:05No.2158420
I think the depiction of the Byzantines in the game is good. It's just everybody around them is basically inept compared to them. It's just a matter of the fact the game is designed so that all small powers get crushed if any larger one has a causus belli which is the entire Balkans and until the Seljuks there is no real power in the Middle East after the Abbasids go. Turkic migrations into the region and Anatolia need to be far more dangerous for it to work
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Anon09/30/25, 06:20No.2158441
You could fix at least half the problems in all Paradox games by introducing a "distance from capital" penalty.
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Anon09/30/25, 11:00No.2158556
In case you want to balance it out a bit, there are mods who correct this to an extent i.e reenabling dissolution and independence wars and prohibiting governors from engaging in expansionist wars.
The system itself is OP as fuck, but Paradox doesn't want to balance it themselves because they are afraid of upsetting players power fantasies.
Since the East Asia expansion will make most governments there an offshoot of administrative, they announced some indirect balancing mechanisms, like the liege not immediatly being called in a war if a vassal/governor is attacked. Will be interesting to see if this will have any effect.
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Anon09/30/25, 12:09No.2158620
You also described both Clans and Tribal (if you have a brain and roll with tanistry or such)
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Anon10/01/25, 17:06No.2159813
CK3 is so shit but I still find myself getting the urge to play it once every 6 months
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Anon10/02/25, 14:24No.2160636
>And then make it immune to independence war or any form of internal collapse
Didn’t they change that and then are changing it more as well? Parts on the edgeswill be able to break off or something like that.
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Anon10/02/25, 23:32No.2161087
tbqh stress feels like it should be split into two separate mechanics/meters because stress is kind of used to penalize the player from acting out of character, but also used when bad things happen, so it has to have ways of decreasing it (so that the bad thing RNG doesn't just end your game) and that means players can use the "decrease consequences of bad thing" stuff to get around the "acting out of character" limitationslike there'd be a "stress" stat which goes up when bad stuff happens (like friends dying, plots failing, etc) that you relieve by doing activities and suchand then there'd be some kind of "character break" meter that you can only burn X amount per lifetime on out-of-character actions and once you've used it up you can no longer take any action which is out of character for your current dude, so generally you'd have to behave as your character would, but there's a finite number of times where if you REALLY need to get something done that your character wouldn't do, you can break character and do it
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Anon10/03/25, 19:45No.2161745
The triggers for a realm starting with high partition succession law is fucking broken. It requires you to have the heraldry innovation (from the high medieval era) WITHOUT having the hereditary rule innovation (from the early medieval era). This means that for the 1178 startdate, EVERYONE has confederate partition unless otherwise defined.
Who has confederate partition in 1178? Why, the king of England, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the king of Poland, the king of Sicily, the king of Denmark, the king of Sweden, the king of Jerusalem, you get the picture, EVERYONE, kings and dukes alike.
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Anon10/05/25, 17:25No.2163533
Crusader kings as a genre is just terrible at balancing things, the state CK2 was left in means that if you start playing after 1066 you got a 99% of the whole middle east turning catholic because none can survive all of christendom joining a war to take their shit.
I think the genre tries to be a very open RPG which gives you increasingly OP perks as you level up but unlike Skyrim every single NPC can and will use the insane abilities the player has access to.
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Anon10/07/25, 13:00No.2165161
I mean, historically, their lands were stupid rich.
However, they had to spend like 80% of their resources on fortifying their Arab border.
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Anon10/13/25, 19:28No.2171187
been out for a while, have there been any good mods for landless stuff?
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Anon10/16/25, 15:21No.2173818
>Content pack for region X makes region X OP
... so how new to PDX games are you, exactly?
I thought people already learned this 10 years ago with CK2
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Anon10/16/25, 16:20No.2173881
Stems from vassals being braindead and internal political system being made for china and japan exclusivelyIf only vassals actively tried to compete with the player or each other and there has been a political party/league system.....4 more years worth of DLCs and MAYBE we will see that
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Anon10/18/25, 21:44No.2176742
Influence/Merit are both just Prestige.
Provisions/Herd/Treasury are all just Gold.
Frankly, I'm amazed that Mandala governments just use regular ass Piety instead of some new Karma or Sanctity resource.
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Anon10/20/25, 06:05No.2178462
this is probably player's blob you took from reddit
never seen it in my game
what i'd like to know is how to destroy the ahistorical khazarian blob as quickly as possible