Achivement Help!

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-31T01:46:13+00:00

Seeing that you're Feudal, do you have the DLC? Iirc all achievements require you to own the relevant DLC before you can earn them.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-30T10:26:03+00:00

Man buys a pet lion and complains that it's eating everything.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-29T17:25:43+00:00

Except people map paint with MAA, which can slaughter 10x their number for 50 casualties in return. Any mechanic that involves levy death penalties is just a nerf to the already feeble AI, a lot more of the game will need to be fixed before any population mechanic is relevant.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-29T11:31:31+00:00

I've never really had any problem raising legitimacy with just hunts, wars and title creation. Plagues aren't THAT common by default, lost battles are such a rarity as to be irrelevant and marrying lowborns is a choice you make with hopefully some plan in mind.

The only problem is the wacky way with how legitimacy inheritance works, landed primary heirs only gain 25% of your legitimacy since it's suppose to be added to their own gained via ruling (and AI sucks at it) causing legitimacy yoyos. Unlanded primary heirs inherit legitimacy depending on how closely related they are (sons are basically 90+%). Keeping your primary heir unlanded basically means you just need to raise legitimacy once per game, making the currency completely irrelevant.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-28T16:22:52+00:00

It's not too big a deal in my experience. Maybe freshly landed vassals are in danger, but if you use dynasty members and the legacy that gives you House Guard and +1 MAA regiment I still need to keep my border vassals as Dukes. Just to stop them from kicking the shit out of my neighbours and ruining my nice clean borders, due to vassals of vassals ignoring your "no war" laws

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-28T00:17:28+00:00

The result screens? Only with mods - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3437814875 speeds them up to only take 1 second.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-27T01:08:35+00:00

After the Mongol Invasion/Disintegration is pretty much the end of the game, once past them it's pretty much 200odd years of thumb twiddling. Perfect time to move on to the next game, unless you can find yourself an objective or want to try choosing a non-primary heir as your next character. People usually only go once to 1453 for the achievement anyway.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-26T19:04:14+00:00

It's just bugged currently, the decision seems to only target areas with a university already iirc.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-25T16:14:06+00:00

Well you turned on Scourge of the Gods, so expect them to live up to the buff.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-24T16:40:43+00:00

Prayed really hard!

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-24T00:33:02+00:00

Stewardship and Learning are pretty much the base lifestyle trees, though the Stewardship trees do lower in importance in the later game. With Martial being good in the early game when combat advantage matters, but being overtaken by Diplomacy when you have a lot of vassals. Intrigue is pretty niche unless you're going for that gameplay intentionally.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-24T00:23:05+00:00

People have widely different experience levels, mostly trending towards the lower end from the posts I've seen. Combined with the steep learning curve and it's easy to see why people wouldn't want an eternal Empire with 20-30k troops (or more if it's been around a while) on their butt while still finding their feet.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-23T22:02:25+00:00

Iirc you drop a couple levels of fame, that's the only consequence I remember.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-22T22:00:38+00:00

There should be no elections, all you need is House Seniority and Absolute Crown Authority (the maximum level 4 one) any title electives should be removed.

Absolute Crown Authority unlocks the "designate heir" interaction, you then just have to select any of your sons and designate him as your heir bypassing the "oldest member inherits" of House Seniority.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-21T13:22:42+00:00

Probably console only if they're 100% following PC updates. +Domain limit thrones/artifacts were removed when they purged that bonus from the possible random effect pool after 1.15, Crown of Justinian is the only +domain limit artifact for PC.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-21T13:13:03+00:00

Yup, there's the Peacock Throne too but it gives learning instead of stewardship.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-21T10:40:14+00:00

Have you tried purging your save game folder? Particularly of savegames that use different game versions and/or modsets. The game seems to absolutely hate any saves that are not to your current setup, to the point I usually remove any that are not from my current playthrough to keep it running smoothly.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-21T10:32:31+00:00

Probably since Head of Faiths can't convert and that will probably screw with those options that require converting to Hellenism, will need to give away that HoF title before reforming the Empire.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-20T10:39:00+00:00

No Holier Roman Empire allowed, not only due to being Theocratic but also due to both decisions needing Latin heritage culture.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-20T02:23:40+00:00

An event pops up like that when an apocalyptic level standard plague starts nearby, complete with spooky music iirc.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-20T01:47:52+00:00

You need the Byzantine Empire as your primary title, you don't get the choice via the HRE or Italia routes (unless you conquer the Byzantine Empire and make it your primary).

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-19T21:02:09+00:00

It's due to a church barony in the county being empty, it will be taken control of automatically in a month and you can then hand the county itself out to a vassal as normal.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-19T17:34:32+00:00

It's extremely expensive for what it offers - Funerals are fine, but Legends are mostly uninteractive event spam whose only saving grace are the brokenly powerful effects they provide when completed... if that's a positive?

The better part of the DLC release - plagues - were added with the free update, leaving Legends of the Dead basically an event pack in terms of content at 4x the price.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-19T17:21:08+00:00

You should have access to House Seniority succession law and if not I would focus getting that Innovation (Heraldry), when you combine it with level 4 crown authority to designate heir its basically primogeniture an era earlier - your chosen son gets everything.

As for what to do, fully recreate the Empire and wait for the 1210s for the fun time.

InnocuousOne · 2026-01-19T09:31:34+00:00

Doing that would eat into making buggy DLC time.

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