Not read much been keeping dark but you can still murder your kids and wife in space right?
Not read much been keeping dark but you can still murder your kids and wife in space right?
You can purge and enslave your population, so kinda.
I'm excited for the game, but not as hyped as I was a few weeks ago.
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I'm excited for the game, but not as hyped as I was a few weeks ago.
What's wrong with me![]()
Unlike CKII the emphasis is on your empire and it's population, not in following particular dynasties. So while leaders can be elected, or assigned, rule for a few years or for life, etc, you're never relaly concerned with their families and getting them married, etc.
You can purge and enslave your population, so kinda.
I'm excited for the game, but not as hyped as I was a few weeks ago.
What's wrong with me![]()
Best place to start CKII for beginners is Ireland, aka Tutorial Island. It is known. You get decent exposure to most or all of the mechanics without it being overwhelming, and managing your domain is easy because it's tiny. Figuring out the marriage, warfare, and economic systems from there is very straightforward.
Or, you can do what I did and jump straight into playing Jewish Ethiopia.
EU4 is trickier, but if you want to ease into things playing as either Castille or some minor power in a distant corner of the world isn't a bad idea. I've gotten a lot of fun playing the Iroquois.
Watched the Scott Manley videos and the interface for this seems to be the most user friendly UI they've done which is excellent.
Can't wait.
Yeah it's also evident in their new Hearts of Iron game which is out in June which I'm very excited for. Stellaris and HoI4 AFAIK are running on the latest iteration of their Clausewitz engine, which if I remember correctly also had a lot of new UI implementations that designers can use.Watched the Scott Manley videos and the interface for this seems to be the most user friendly UI they've done which is excellent.
Can't wait.
Damn.
Not even space can stop the BBB.
Also, I want the fallen empires to help out against the invaders...
Anyone find any particularly interesting Lets Plays going up? I'll watch Quill and Marbozir, but wouldn't mind others if they have a particularly cool theme going or run into neat events.
I started watching Pinstar a little over an hour ago. Pretty cool so far. He goes over all of the different portraits during his empire creation bit, including some we haven't seen before
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I think I'm in love.
Anyone find any particularly interesting Lets Plays going up? I'll watch Quill and Marbozir, but wouldn't mind others if they have a particularly cool theme going or run into neat events.
It's a bit old, but this instructional LP of CK2 is a really good starting point for newcomers:
http://lparchive.org/Crusader-Kings-2/
There isn't one for EU4 yet I think, but there's one for EU3 that's also pretty good.
I started watching Pinstar a little over an hour ago. Pretty cool so far. He goes over all of the different portraits during his empire creation bit, including some we haven't seen before
I think I'm in love.
Watching Shen's stream, I wonder if that fallen empire would ever declare war on him as he keeps enslaving other species.
I think so, but they have a positive opinion of him. They got a big opinion boost with him for their xenophile trait, and that seemed to easily cancel out all the negatives, even before he sent an embassy to them.Is it a fanatical xenophile? I believe that type would attempt to liberate nearby slave populations after you piss them off enough.
The asymmetrical starts and real world grounding are the biggest appeals of the older series tbh. I don't think Pdox is big enough to work on CK, EU, Vic, HoI, Stellaris and also add new historical 4x games to the mix while supporting them, and I'd rather they didn't try personally. After Stellaris, Victoria 3 is a no brainer.
I started watching Pinstar a little over an hour ago. Pretty cool so far. He goes over all of the different portraits during his empire creation bit, including some we haven't seen before
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I think I'm in love.
Watching Shen's stream, I wonder if that fallen empire would ever declare war on him as he keeps enslaving other species.
So we can all agree this is a Shadow from Babylon 5 right? ;-)
They seemed fairly aggressive during the multiplayer stream, when one fallen empire went out of its way to protect a holy world. I thought the xenophiles would work in a similar way.I believe Fallen Empires are 100% passive, even with stuff like slavery. If he colonizes next to them and infringes on their territory, they might get pissy and also liberate enslaved species, but as long as he stays outta their business, they generally don't give an airborne intercourse.
They seemed fairly aggressive during the multiplayer stream, when one fallen empire went out of its way to protect a holy world. I thought the xenophiles would work in a similar way.
I believe Fallen Empires are 100% passive, even with stuff like slavery. If he colonizes next to them and infringes on their territory, they might get pissy and also liberate enslaved species, but as long as he stays outta their business, they generally don't give an airborne intercourse.
do you have to create your race every time?
They each have different behaviors (from the wiki):
That's half the fun!
There are predefined races to choose from if you want though, in case you just want to push into a game. I believe humans are part of that roster.
You can always save your own creations though and replay as them in future games (you can also download races as mods - the Blorg, for exmaple will be available as a mod), or even play against them. You cna choose whether a race in the roster has a chance of spawning in a game as another civ, will definitley spawn as a civ, or won't ever spawn as a civ in a game.
It's not too complex. Take a peek at the fan created race maker and look if something strikes your taste.I think I will just ahve fun seeing what people come up with.
So we can all agree this is a Shadow from Babylon 5 right? ;-)
You can save your race template and just use it for a new game if you want. The races you make can also be used by the AI if you set it so and you are not using that one yourself.do you have to create your race every time?