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You at least let yourself lose. I just use the console and give myself gold all the time. I really want to play CK2 "normally" but I never can. Just find it dull unless I cheat so I can constantly build all my holdings and expand...

Man people talk about all this dosh Patricians make, and I think I haven't gotten over +10 a month without just getting bored, cheating up a bunch of money, and just building trade ports everywhere. I got to like, 5 or something legit...

Huh, I just realized I'd been marrying my designated heirs to princessess to help their election chances, but gold is actually 5 times more effective at boosting respect when spent directly on the election. I suppose the added prestige has some other benefits, but I guess I need to reconsider my strategy.

Definitely still going to continue marrying my daughters and sisters to the highest ranking single noble.

It seems gold coins are more valuable then your daughters and sisters... 

I think so. I do know that if you as, say Venice, create a duchy level republic on the coast, it will just be a regular one.

The Republic AI seems to be wy better at playing CKii than the feudal one. Genoa is busy getting Iberia, Pisa is on it's way to annex North Africa, and Venice is losing war after war under my great leadership.

I would think the Republic AI does better because it gets so much money and can hire mercs, instead of having to rely on upgrading castles and towns and such to get bigger and bigger levies. Mercs are just way, way, WAY better for a long time.

I'd love more activities too. I mean chosing between a Feast, a festival, and a hunt? and of those there is very little that will pop up? (I've actually seen all the events in those already)

I've had more exciting things happen in a Legend of the Three Kingdoms games. In that I had a white tiger pop out and I had to fight it!

A lot of those events have a chance at little other events to trigger during them. However, they are still a bit lacking I will admit. Especially if you have a female ruler, in which case all you can do is the Fair and Feast. You'll never see the other options for some arbitrary reason Paradox decides female rulers can't host tournaments or go on hunts, or anything else.

To be fair it is entirely possible to play a character that never fights and you'd gain levels from all your Life actions.

Slowly, of course. But possible.

D'oh... I was told that at level 30 I was going to lose half my bank and I read somewhere I had to put all my items in the RIGHT half, and I did.

So, now all my bank items are locked.

Seriously, that's a very dickish way to get people to pay.

Ouch. The VIP stuff is so really good though! Although, yeah it does take people by surprise like that, which kind of sucks.

Quote from: Criptfeind on December 30, 2012, 02:42:36 am

Quote from: krisslanza on December 30, 2012, 02:38:13 am

I kind of miss just getting to attack someone because you can.

Yeah. I miss this as well, does anyone know why the system is how it is now? I think the first CK was much better in this way. I mean, you still needed reasons I think, but it was way more flexible. I wonder why they changed it.

CK2 would be even more ridiculously easy if you could just attack anyone.

CK2's difficulty isn't really in CB, it's mostly just in the tedium. And random luck. Really, my biggest gripe with the game is everything is based on chance.

I want that territory, but it's all a random check to see if I can forge the claim. I want my tech to level up, but it's all a random check to see which tech gets a level up. I want to assassinate that person, but it's all a random check...

Really, that's probably one of my larger concerns with the game. Almost everything in it boils down to a lot of %'s and luck. It might be kind of realistic, but I wish I could just send my Chancellor somewhere, wait a few months, and automatically get the claim instead of waiting for months, or years for the RNG to be kind on me. Also I want a friggin' tech tree, it's not realistic or historical I know, but argh. That tech system just drives me batty.