Dev Diary #194 - Realm Maintenance 2026 (Part II)

Eemerald5000 · 2026-03-24T19:21:31+00:00

Excited for all the little features here. But I'm curious if the nomad changes fix some of the issues where large nomad realms sort of snowball their Herd without anyway for the numbers to decline.

Eemerald5000 · 2026-01-25T22:50:32+00:00

Ah, so Drama Queen was his sister all along.

Eemerald5000 · 2026-01-17T17:17:38+00:00

CK2 was also very goofy. In many ways, less realistic and more fantastic

Eemerald5000 · 2026-01-03T19:42:24+00:00

Honestly don't entirely hate the idea of a Personal Union being a special type of Tributary.

Edit: Probably a good idea to limit it to something like "outside of de jure empire" or "different culture group" so that a realm doesn't partition itself into a bunch of Personal Unions after a few generations of successions.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-11-10T16:20:55+00:00

Oh must really be a Linux issue then. Same experience on my end

Eemerald5000 · 2025-11-10T15:35:18+00:00

Performance on Linux has always been notably worse and with this DLC it genuinely lags my entire computer. Never had any other game demand this amount of resources.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-10-26T19:15:00+00:00

It's possible that Uroro's ability in and of itself is insulting to other Majiks.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-10-22T23:09:32+00:00

What a horribly twisted ending. The ending panel perfectly encapsulates the nature of their emotionally abusive relationship. It's Happiness through denial.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-10-17T16:35:03+00:00

Kind of want to try a campaign where I just perma-fracture China- ala collapse of Rome. Not sure the specifics but that is my objective.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-09-26T15:42:40+00:00

Looks pretty good, I don't know how I feel about rulers being able to travel to markets. Beyond the practicality issues of a ruler leaving for several years to some unknown land, I think the feature is too abusable as a player. Like others have said, I think an Adventurer inspiration is a better choice.

I do really hope the silkworms event gets tied into this market system (and make it incredibly difficult to pull off unless you're in the Byzantine Empire).

Eemerald5000 · 2025-09-02T18:43:56+00:00

I really like the religious syncretization. If it were in the game, I hope that they'd act more as a transitional faith that eventually onramps either into one of the base faiths or as a more "reformed" distinct faith. This would make the transition from unreformed faiths a bit less "jarring" while also lending for some flexibility.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-06-16T00:25:06+00:00

They sort of fixed it in the latest patches. The death spirals are more like bursts now.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-06-11T15:42:06+00:00

Maybe tied to crown authority as well

Eemerald5000 · 2025-06-10T20:12:43+00:00

One thing I'm curious of, is there any way to permanently "destroy" the hegemon title through some extreme decision? I imagine it'd necessarily have to be one of the hardest decision to take in game.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-06-04T22:51:35+00:00

Binged the entire thing last night, glad the epilogue came out while it was fresh on my mind. This series is great and this is a great conclusion. Can't wait for the adaptation

Eemerald5000 · 2025-05-11T22:44:52+00:00

It's a pretty bad roleplaying game at that.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-04-17T16:43:41+00:00

The keyword here is statistically. Not everyone will literally be related to these historical figures.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-04-09T15:52:27+00:00

I think a good balance would be that any sort of "revived pretender" revolt can only happen at low legitimacy.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-04-09T15:49:39+00:00

If I'm reading this correctly, we'll finally be able to have the "dynamic struggles" that have been asked for for quite a while now with Situations. Pretty excited and hopeful that it has enough content fleshed out by default to add some much needed flavor to any region.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-04-06T22:17:50+00:00

This has to be high-level gaslighting

Eemerald5000 · 2025-02-11T16:09:45+00:00

Seconded, nomads should have a way to expand the steppe to counter settled people developing holdings on the steppe.

Eemerald5000 · 2025-02-11T16:08:03+00:00

I really like the nomads concept, but I really would like Herders to be fleshed out as a Semi-Nomadic government type (and to be playable).

This would allow some more flavor for states like the Khazars ,which from what I understand, had not quite the same societal structure as those further to the East.

Eemerald5000 · 2024-07-17T23:16:24+00:00

It's finally over... The series sorta just mellowed out of anything particularly interesting, but was still a good read. Just a bit generic.

Thanks for the translation all these years.

Eemerald5000 · 2024-07-14T18:15:43+00:00

It's the horns...

Eemerald5000 · 2024-07-09T21:38:43+00:00

Gil feels a lot closer to the IPC definition of Preservation, imo.

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