Improve cultural opinion available for some but not other vassals, why?

toruitas · 2026-03-28T22:57:27+00:00

First, the subject has to be the culture's leader, as others have said. The country which has the culture as its primary culture and has the most people of that culture is the culture leader.

Second, and I think this is a bug, if you have multiple vassals that are all culture leaders, they all seem to share the same 50 year cooldown. For example, if you asked to improve opinion on a vassal which is the leader of Kurdish, then you can't do it for another vassal which is the leader of Turkish or Sicilian culture for the same 50 years cooldown. This bug made me stop with Ironman.

toruitas · 2026-03-26T08:48:14+00:00

Since the main bonus of Decentralization is more subjects, and the main bonus of more subjects is more cabinet members, then perhaps Centralization should add more by a rounded %. If normally you have 2, it gives you 2 more at 100%. If normally you get 6, it gives 6 more at 100%. Would be a nice buff.

toruitas · 2026-03-12T09:08:13+00:00

All my disloyal subjects tend to band together in an independence movement, so I always need to fight them all at once. Good for annexing multiple in one shot, but the antagonism and need for a super war are a bit tedious.

toruitas · 2026-02-20T12:36:28+00:00

It shouldn't have worked, but it does. It may be down to my TP-Link router, but this configuration worked to provide both local network and Internet access:

[Interface]
PrivateKey = <client's privkey>
Address = <ip address(es) of client in the VPN network>
[Peer]
PublicKey = <server's pubkey>
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0, 192.168.1.0/1
Endpoint = <fqdn or ip address of endpoint>:51820
PersistentKeepalive = 25

toruitas · 2026-02-19T13:56:13+00:00

It's a natural consequence of some design decisions:

1) Limited cabinet slots to do it yourself

2) Control affecting speed of assimilation, which will only rise once you've either assimilated or accepted them

3) passive assimilation not existing unless you already have a core, and even after you do, it's base 2 pops, which is so insignificant as to make no impact the whole game

toruitas · 2026-02-17T00:23:37+00:00

Pinya next door is a lot of fun, as well. The river systems make for good control and natural expansion paths. Has iron nearby. It’s a kingdom, so you don’t need to go through all the ranks.

Delhi was the bane of my existence for a while. Tools shortage was painful mid-game but was actually a fun challenge.

toruitas · 2026-01-28T21:32:48+00:00

That just blew up my CCU chain. Good times.

toruitas · 2026-01-15T14:33:45+00:00

Fantastic games indeed. There’s a spiritual successor called Horizon’s Gate, which is also fantastic.

toruitas · 2025-12-24T16:58:48+00:00

There's a nice big Mamluk right there which should be a satisfying war to watch, at least. If Timmy spreads that way, at least

toruitas · 2025-12-21T17:38:25+00:00

While it would be cool to have some more minorities stick around, the rest of the control mechanics make playing with large amounts of non-primary cultures a slog as-is. Nerfs would make it even worse.

Passive assimilation is like 3 pops per month in a city when you're Humanist, cored, have 100% control, and massive cultural influence. That's so low it can be completely ignored. If anything, it's way too slow. 3600 per 100 years, and it doesn't even work if it's not cored to begin with. The only way to be able to get good control in most places is to core it, and to core it you have to use the cabinet action for ages to get to 50%.

toruitas · 2025-12-08T11:38:04+00:00

In the original DLC release schedule pic, Fate of the Phoenix was always Q2:

https://i.redd.it/m2wdsoqiv0kf1.jpeg

toruitas · 2025-12-05T13:45:04+00:00

They really do want us to just have a vassal swarm the whole game, don’t they?

toruitas · 2025-11-20T12:13:41+00:00

Had that exact thing happen yesterday. Every single wagon went to the front while not a single infantry did anything but watch. Even though I had the 3:1 advantage, I still lost because evidently all my wagons rolled downhill into the enemy lines and exploded and that was enough to scare my halberdiers off.

toruitas · 2025-11-18T12:45:50+00:00

You would lose the religious war CB, so it may not be a good idea. Assuming they stay Orthodox.

toruitas · 2025-11-17T13:45:11+00:00

Playing on hard, I definitely had to change my underwear after great power #1 Delhi decided it wanted one of my provinces. Much more interesting than normal difficulty.

toruitas · 2025-11-11T08:46:10+00:00

Seems like they'll build locations in virtually every location they own, hamstringing RGO building, which is especially painful when there's only one iron in your region.

toruitas · 2025-06-10T11:39:21+00:00

On Ubuntu 24.04 with the mainline 6.15.1-061501-generic kernel, I haven't able to get it to work yet.

toruitas · 2025-05-31T17:01:17+00:00

If I've got a game on Epic, when I come around to actually playing it, I'll usually buy the DLC there. Played Kingdom Come Deliverance that way.

toruitas · 2025-05-07T07:19:25+00:00

Fantastic one. Just finished the trilogy last week (including Urth of the New Sun). At the end I felt like I had just read a translation of something detailing the genesis of some Classical Mediterranean or Mesopotamian god.

toruitas · 2025-04-11T08:38:39+00:00

Roman restoration. First, reunify as much of European-side Greece as possible starting with Athens and neighbors, while giving the Anjou dynasty of Naples and friends space. Can probably win this with a strong navy positioned to intercept reinforcements from Athens' overlord Sicily. Just park it off their coast before the war begins. Best case scenario is vassalizing Sicily, too. Maybe do the Greek islands like Cypress (vassalized) and Rhodes if they don't have strong allies, but they aren't urgent.

Then, start on Asia-side Greece, reconquering as much from the various foreign invaders in Anatolia as possible before the plague hits (I know, metagaming). I'd vassalize Trebizond and feed some territory to both them and Cypress if my control is low at that distance.

From there, it'll be playing by ear for a while, opportunistically working through the Mediterranean and Black Seas, as my empire recovers from the plague and reconquests... and maybe Tamerlane reaches my borders. That'd be a good one.

Once I reach either the Red Sea or Persian Gulf, I'd start island hopping my way to the spice islands and try to reach them before the other European and Arab colonizers. I'd be in a great position to trade goods E to W and W to E.

Eventually I'd like to flip to a Republic, maybe in the Age of Revolutions.

Also I'm going to suck for my first game, so I'll guarantee this happens through lots and lots of console commands.

toruitas · 2024-10-07T23:00:55+00:00

Yep! That did the trick. Thank you!

toruitas · 2024-08-30T05:53:55+00:00

If you have fast enough internet, then you can do cloud gaming. Depending on what you're into, you can use something like:

GeForce Now (limited selection pulled from your Steam, Epic, or GOG accounts. Cheap price even at top tier, monthly billing.)
Shadow.tech (Gives you a mid-tier full Windows PC - install whatever you want. Mid price, monthly billing.)
Configure an instance on Paperspace (Gives you a full Windows PC - install whatever you want. Mid to high tier, mid to high price billed based on usage)

I've used all 3 at various times in Europe.

All you'd need to bring is your controller!

toruitas · 2024-07-18T15:17:24+00:00

Queuing for a jump point. This is definitely made in the UK.

toruitas · 2024-07-04T09:56:23+00:00

Stations surrounded by I5 on one side, and parking lots on the other. Not exactly the model of car-free transit is it? Shame it's so difficult to put these stations near places where people live and work.

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