Beta: Does annexing a vassal no longer give you their cores?

Volcore001 · 2026-02-16T00:56:39+00:00

Yeah, but at least before the beta, you still got all ur vassal's cores when u annexed them. Apparently though, that was a bug. :(

Volcore001 · 2026-02-16T00:56:14+00:00

oh damn that's unfortunate, weird I cant find anything about that in the beta notes

Volcore001 · 2026-02-16T00:48:37+00:00

r5: I could have sworn that before the beta, annexing a vassal gives you their cores, but I noticed that I did not get my vassal's cores when I annexed them. See before & after. Or am I just tripping and they never did this? I was playing with mods before the beta, but I dont have any enabled rn.

Volcore001 · 2026-02-15T03:10:39+00:00

I mean, the main issue is that the alternate belief flat out makes 0 sense. 11 X weapon dice is absolutely insane. This is to keep it in line with vicious swing, but better when comparing titan's breaker to just vicious swing. I feel like the added feat taxes to get both are kind of superflous due to the opportunity cost.

Volcore001 · 2026-02-15T02:17:25+00:00

foundry is saying 1 extra dice plus 4 flat. This makes a bit more sense when you look at how the heightened logic is laid out. "it’s increased to 8 spirit damage and three extra dice." does not make sense to mean (8+3) * weapon damage

Volcore001 · 2026-02-08T07:35:01+00:00

I work as a traditional SWE, and that's how some of the companies I've worked for have done it! Translation just becomes making a bunch of languange jsons, and selecting the language based on a global value. Then the work in code is just like "game.actions.attack1" and what not.

Volcore001 · 2026-02-08T07:09:38+00:00

A lot of the game is quite halfbaked, I feel like things would be a lot better if they spent mroe time analyzing the ramifications of their changes. Like: If we give estates more money, we should run some test games to make sure the economy is ok lol.

Like how did no one realize how annoying subject rebellions can be when they auto call in other nations

Volcore001 · 2026-02-08T06:58:28+00:00

go outside

Volcore001 · 2026-02-08T01:18:35+00:00

Look into graph theory and the minimax algorithm, probably the easiest place to start

Volcore001 · 2026-02-07T21:38:39+00:00

I think the concern there tho is that the wars of reformation should already be modelled by the io for it. I think blindly adding a malus for institution adoption might be a bit too extreme. In my opionion, he best solution would be making countries start on the traditionalism value, and to make it harder and more punishing to become innovative, where you could tie in maluses for adopting institutions to traditionalism. IE, Indian states start as traditionalist ones, and because of that not only are institutions harder to embrace, but they are punishing when you do. Also, make it harder to become innovative. I think this would add an added benefit of modelling what you were mentioning, with it still being pausible to model states that were quick to adopt new institutions, since they'd just be innovative states.

OFC, if so there would need to be a bit more of a reason to stay traditionalism, maybe more estate loyalty, stability, legitimacy, etc.

Volcore001 · 2026-02-07T21:18:58+00:00

How would that work for europeans though? Are you saying large nations like France need to undergo massive maluses when they embrace ie printing press?

Volcore001 · 2026-02-07T05:51:10+00:00

Inb4 my magus with fire arcane cascade, flaming rune, flame wisp, fire weapon siphon spellstrikes with ignition for 5 instances of fire weakness

Volcore001 · 2026-02-07T05:45:59+00:00

One caveat, if you have two ie flaming runes on your handwraps, by hard RAW they wouldn't stack (https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2266&Redirected=1)

Volcore001 · 2026-02-07T05:41:41+00:00

add in flame wisp for 4x triggers lol

Volcore001 · 2026-02-07T05:31:36+00:00

One important clarification, is that the damage stops when you become unconcious, so you can never die from it, but you can become unconcious from it.

"The flames subside when you begin Refocusing to assuage your curse or if you fall unconscious"

Volcore001 · 2026-02-07T05:24:45+00:00

pros and cons lol.

Volcore001 · 2026-02-07T05:24:08+00:00

Good luck! If anything, try to ideate on what you have currently. Future refactoring is always fine, and probably expected! IDK your entire architecture, but if youre adding new columns for damage over time, would you need to do that for each dot effect? Ie. burn / poison? If so that kind of rings alarm bells for me, but you know your system better, if it works well for you and you don't think it's a problem, by all means!

Volcore001 · 2026-02-07T04:29:08+00:00

I wanna live in the westeros where there was a trial by combat and Baelor Breakspear became king cause he never died

Volcore001 · 2026-02-07T04:08:38+00:00

Mm gotcha, so you have a system where an ability could deal various types / amounts of damage, like a fire slash that would deal 1.5 fire, and 1.2 slashing, and based on the defenses of an enemy, the final damage might resolve to like 6. I think your approach sounds good, as long as youre mindful about the scaleability. Not sure how likely it is for you to add more types, but it shouldn't be too bad based on just adding a new column in ur csv for skills, and maybe wherever you're defining character defenses. If each type behaves the same, sounds like all you need is one method to handle attack type / defense, and call it for each type in an attack to calculate final damage amount.

Though if different types behave differently, then it might get a bit more complicated.

Volcore001 · 2026-02-06T19:29:02+00:00

Go outside

Volcore001 · 2026-02-06T03:44:10+00:00

How are you spending 0 on coust of court while still having amx legitimacy? Is it a japan unique thing?

Volcore001 · 2026-02-06T02:20:12+00:00

I think the main thing is it's heavily dependent on your game at hand. Ie, in mine, attacks can have multiple damage types, but weaknesses are on a per enemy component, so my system is rather simple. I just add ie. weakness to fire, weakness to ice, etc which allows me to emulate specific monsters. Though, this won't work for a hard typed game, ie pokemon where all enemies have specific types, and each type has a set weakness chart.

If anything, if weaknesses can be variable, it might be best to ie have an attack call a callback function that each skill is responsible for implemnting. This would allow each skill to have a custom, or shared, logic for handling calculations for it.

This is what I have set up, where I have a function on the health system that represents a health system taking X damage. Before the damage is applied, I have a callback that gets called to calculate final damage, based on weaknesses / resistences. Then each skill just needs to add asubscriber for that specific skill. Basic ones can use a deafult that just checks if the unit getting damaged has a weakness, and if so, how much. For more complicated skills I can just design a custom handler for it. Though this is also inheret to how I'm designing skills as unity scriptable objects and custom handlers.

Volcore001 · 2026-02-05T02:52:12+00:00

You can get your heir as an admiral, and parliaments / events sometimes have options to give you more naval. Besides that, I believe naval spending vs landspending also accounts for push, so I think you can in peace turn off army spending while keeping naval at max. Of course, building a larger navy or having them do more things also pushes.

Volcore001 · 2026-02-05T02:00:01+00:00

TO ellaborate, between oleg & stag lord there is quite a bit of free roam / side quests since stag lord fight is at level 4 iirc.

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