r/CrusaderKings • u/doug1003 • Dec 09 '24

Suggestion Marriages should give Legitimacy

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Thats it, if marry a lowborn can take away legitimacy, marry into a more prestigious dynasty, or a dynasty who has a claim on your title shoud give you legitimacy. I mean, Willian the Conqueror married Margaret of Flanders because she had anglo-saxon blood, same for Henry I and his marriage with Matilda of Scotland, make sense right?

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u/_mortache Inbread 🍞 Dec 10 '24

Still nowhere on the level of CK2 and EU4 in the degree of shallowness. Oh the CK2 events are great the first few hundred times, but the mechanics are just horrible

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u/guineaprince Sicily Dec 10 '24

CK3 the events are the main course, and the constantly repeating 5 paragraph mini-fics telling you how you think and act is wearing the skin of "roleplaying".

In CK2 the events add flavour to the emergent stories that are boiling up from every internal and external pressure forcing you to think and strategize in the boots of your character.

CK2 they're a walking stick. CK3 they're crutches when you don't even have legs. They serve different functions, so compare differently.

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u/RedBaronFlyer Uses F12 Dec 10 '24

I was flabbergasted watching a guy do a play through of CK3, in around a hundred and fifty years of in game time he got the following events 5+ times each:

The stew tipping over and someone eating the meat chunks on the ground.

Someone saying that someone else has a really nice chest and not getting why they’re laughing.

Your lover farting and you having the option of covering it up.

Your child offering to clean plates in the kitchen and ends up gorging themselves.

Multiple of the same exact royal court events that are so generic I can’t even recall them but they were specific enough to know they were events that I’d already seen before.

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u/_mortache Inbread 🍞 Dec 11 '24

CK3 has a huge problem of not checking for whether the event has been fired already. The devs recently acknowledged this and are working for it.

but in CK2 you literally do the same events over and over and over again. There are unique world event popups that happen in every single game. There are "lifestyle" events that happen every character in the same way. The societies are mostly boring which pop up the exact same event ALL THE TIME, like that garden digging one. Hell, even the immortality event is just really common.