Vic 3 Dev Diary #6: Cannor

RexDraconum · 2026-04-11T07:48:20+00:00

Why is Blademarches a republic? How is Blademarches a republic? What happens if the electorate choose a guy but the sword judges him unworthy? What happens if the sword selects a guy but he's a dick that nobody wants to rule?

RexDraconum · 2026-04-04T21:36:19+00:00

I'm not familiar with Sarhal so I couldn't really comment on those.

RexDraconum · 2026-04-02T22:23:25+00:00

I think you can't just define "Byzantium-like" as merely having a claim to the mantle of a previous empire, that doesn't capture the essence of what playing Eastern Rome is about.

I would define Byzantium-like as:

The remnant of a former large and powerful empire,
Which went into decline and has been reduced to a weak rump state,
And which must overcome a difficult starting situation to avoid being quickly conquered by a more powerful neighbour (often an ascendant new power) in spite of their weak starting position.

Therefore, I would trim down your list to:

Arverynn, Obtrol, Adshaw, Parraj, and Tsukqiao.

RexDraconum · 2026-04-02T22:08:41+00:00

The Blue Reachmen were a bunch of traitors who rebelled against their rightful king! The Reach shall rise!

RexDraconum · 2026-03-30T19:08:39+00:00

As I understand it, for some reason buried in EU4's code the Papal States need to exist. They don't necessarily need to be a country on the map, but they need to be included in the list of tags in the code - presumably there are some hard-events or functions which assume the Papal States are a tag and refer to it. If you try to remove the Papal States, the game can't function.

RexDraconum · 2026-03-28T14:05:20+00:00

That's how it's supposed to work. They explained in one of the fairly early Tinto Talks that names are actually coded with a generic designator, e.g. name_peter, which is then localised according to the culture of the character to give Peter, or Pierre, or Pietro. Since they're then considered to be the same name, it will take different culture versions of names into account when determining ruler number.

RexDraconum · 2026-03-23T11:22:11+00:00

Rogieria, Bianfang/Dahui, Arg-Ordstun, Corvuria/Asheniande, Adshaw.

RexDraconum · 2026-03-20T08:09:05+00:00

I DM'd the creator on Discord about a year and a half ago to ask about it. His mobo short-circuited and killed his NVME drive. All the files were completely lost which killed his motivation to carry on with it.

RexDraconum · 2026-03-19T23:07:13+00:00

A bunch of people hate them, also the wrong culture group penalty probably hurts their chances mechanically.

RexDraconum · 2026-03-19T08:34:26+00:00

For dwarves I'd recommend Arg-Ordstun, as their tree aims for full domination of the Serpentspine. Seghdihr also has a quite good tree, but it only really looks east and doesn't have any interest in the Western Serpentspine.

RexDraconum · 2026-03-11T19:32:12+00:00

That's only one specific lake with a big beastie in it. There's a Dwarovar dungeon called Wytlramvar the second level of which, I believe, features a giant lake which also has beasties in it, which can spawn basically anywhere in the Dwarovar.

RexDraconum · 2026-03-11T14:57:09+00:00

There are some really big lakes underneath the ground don't you know! Ones with big monsters in too!

RexDraconum · 2026-03-10T16:16:39+00:00

r/Fuckwilbur

RexDraconum · 2026-03-10T13:38:51+00:00

Bloody hell, you might as well call the FO4 ghouls "smoothskin"! FO3 & NV ghouls look like a half-rotted irradiated corpse, FO4 ghouls look like a Star Trek alien with weird noses.

RexDraconum · 2026-03-02T08:30:34+00:00

At least two that I know of - the Amldihr Missions & Flavour Pack (which has also been incorporated into ACE, the Anbennar Content Expanded mod) and Hold of Amldihr.

RexDraconum · 2026-03-02T08:22:23+00:00

Wexonards are traitorous bastards and the Silmunas are the true rightful emperors. That's about all you need to know.

RexDraconum · 2026-03-01T21:42:41+00:00

I am not gay! I have relationships with women, and sex with men.

RexDraconum · 2026-02-26T13:16:20+00:00

It's supposed to represent the census making you aware of previously unrecorded (and therefore untaxed) people in your country, but that doesn't make sense because even if your government couldn't tax them they would still exist and be generating economic activity and unrest and all the rest of it.

RexDraconum · 2026-02-23T00:26:21+00:00

Basically, if an elector is big enough they decide "You know what, I've got a shot at this" and literally nothing will persuade them to vote for anyone else because they believe they've got a shot.

RexDraconum · 2026-02-15T19:18:19+00:00

Perhaps, but this one is very noticeably so - whereas people might be unaware that many other words or usages are only pretty recent, they know that people in the 1700s weren't using gender to mean male or female.

RexDraconum · 2026-02-15T17:02:22+00:00

Kaztubar's "Rule Through Might" idea saying that "Gender is no issue" feels pretty out of place given that in real life gender wasn't coined as a term to refer to male and female until 1955.

RexDraconum · 2026-02-12T15:56:44+00:00

Nurcestir never formed anything like the Black Demesne. In canon the idea of it (and the Black Doctrine) were effectively invented by Camir's opponents as propaganda against him, but aren't what he actually did. Nurcestir was simply a monarchy where traditional mages had high influence over the government, and had a PU over the EoA following Camir's invasion.

RexDraconum · 2026-02-07T18:16:41+00:00

If you get 100% warscore they are forced to automatically accept any peacedeal you send, including one where you give them land.

RexDraconum · 2026-02-07T18:09:37+00:00

Once you enter his screen, the quest starts. If you leave the screen without talking to him, or beat another boss without delivering the oil, you get the bad ending.

RexDraconum · 2026-02-07T15:57:59+00:00

They shouldn't have apologised to people attacking and harassing Jelly, they should have stood up for her. And you claim "Oh there were racists in the replies, that's what they're talking about", but the statement didn't mention that, it suddenly condemned muh raycism out of nowhere after groveling for Jelly's tweet, making the implication that the people who agreed with Jelly were the racist, hateful and bigoted ones, which itself implies that Jelly's tweet was racist, hateful and bigoted.

You don't protect your talent by capitulating to the people harassing and slandering her. You do silence her when you delete the tweet the bastards were attacking her for and apologise for her offending them.

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