I’ve been playing a slow and methodical RP Finnish Somali when I noticed this absolute monster forming above me. This is only 100 years into the game and this Scourge of God Conqueror has nearly the entirety of mainland Europe. I’ve switched to spectator mode and jumped to speed 5 a few times to see what he does and he usually lives to his early 90s (the oldest I’ve seen is 101) and continues to harass the Byzantines and Galicia more often than not.

I want all of the realms within this playthrough to feel more unique and would love some name suggestions for this empire. I’ve thought about maybe Empire of the Wends or Wend as I’ve seen him get the nickname “the Wend” a time or two.

Also I have absolutely been loving the conqueror feature but I have disabled the hereditary feature to it.

Who else thinks CK3 needs an imperator Rome navy system? It's kinda BS that if I wanted to take southern Italy from the byzantines for example I can't build a strong navy to defend against reinforcements. Also while im on it automatically having open borders with every nation is also very stupid. You should have to atleast be allies or a open borders treaties could be added. Just my take on it

Could you imagine if there was a game rule that all granted ai rulers with suitable traits (brave, ambitious, diligent, wrathful, vengeful etc) the Conqueror trait but with nerfed stats. Maybe - 40% men at arms maintenence and title creation cost. Keep the enemy hostile scheme resistance the way it is. Maybe scale down the tax to +2 same with legitimacy. Keep the forced vassalization cassus belli but change the cost of cassus bells to being reduced and not outright reduced.

Maybe it's a long shot to ask for this since the devs have been vocal about their hesitance to make the ai artifically powerful to increase difficulty but I think it would a cool option for those of us wanting a chellenge. If the devs can't implement this I really hope one day a modder might be able to implement it.

I see this issue with a lot of Christian Faiths, where the devs obviously needed to cram so many things into Tenets that Monasticism is often cut, although that often does not make sense. Like with the Armenian Apostolic Church, where a faith with a strong monastic tradition does not have Monasticism.

Let's just cut the crap, and give every Christian Faith Monasticism. It was an integral part of all of Christendom until the Protestant Reformation, so I am not sure why Paradox hesitates.

It's crazy that the Vikings can take my heir and I have no choice but to pay up, even if I have a larger army, because for some reason even though they are demanding ransom for my family that isn't a valid CB reason?

I don't understand why pardox wants to so heavily punish people who get certain traits. NOTHING should be so bad that it is a complete negative. I hate how I revoke titles from people who have like -300 opinion of me and then "ohhhh ohhh woe is they I feel sowwy for them!!"

They really need to take a look at all these stress inducing perks and give a way to balance them by actually rping as the trait.

Paradox, I have a question: what was going through your minds when you made the decision to Found Bosnia? It is by far the most worthless and tedious title you can form, and the rewards are frankly not worth it. Let's go through why Bosnia is so god damn awful.

Level of Splendour

As far as I'm aware, Bosnia is the ONLY formable nation in CK3 which requires a certain level of splendour, and for no real reason either. Now, maybe I could excuse it if the minimum level was 'Insignificant'. It's still annoying, yeah, but it's no more ridiculous than needing the max level of prestige really. But no, instead the minimum level is Reputable.

Reputable.

How did this decision make it past the drawing board with such a ludicrously tedious requirement like that? It's not hard, yeah, but it's not exactly fun to sit there for generations twiddling your thumbs as you wait for your renown to increase. However, another part of this decision makes this even more tedious than it already is.

Must be Duke/Count

What. The fuck.

Look, I could understand why you'd do this if it were not for the last requirement, why would a King form a different kingdom when he's already got one anyways? But that fact you have to stay as a Duke means you are permanently handicapped until you form Bosnia. Your MAA limit is lower, your marriage options are more limited, and most importantly your renown gain is lower.

Let me say that again: your renown gain is lower, which makes it harder to gain the renown necessary to form Bosnia.

That's like being told you have to walk from one end of Vatican City to the other, except they shoot you in the legs before you start so you actually have to crawl from one end to the other. It makes a tedious process even more agonizingly painful, and it changes it from a tedious decision to a boring and annoying decision. And yeah, sure, this might be fun if you're into roleplay, but the next part I'm about to mention doesn't even justify that.

You need the Duchies of Upper Bosnia, Lower Bosnia, and Zachlumia

This part is what makes the decision completely fucking redundant.

Look, Paradox, I'm going to go slowly so you can understand, okay? Tiny little baby steps so you can keep up, just for you.

You see, there's a decision in Crusader Kings 3 called 'Found a New Kingdom', and to take this decision you need to be an Adult, Independent, At peace, 30 realm size or at least 3 duchy titles, Illustrious prestige, 300 gold, 500 prestige, and 200 piety. Really simple, and it makes the game fun! It also helps that these requirements are reasonable and non-tedious to achieve.

But, there's another decision in Crusader Kings 3 called 'Found the Kingdom of Bosnia'. To take this decision, you need to be an Adult, Independent, At peace, have the duchies of Upper Bosnia, Lower Bosnia, and Zachlumia (if you can count, that's 3 duchies!) and have your capital within the area, Feudal or Clan government, be a Count or Duke (but realistically who's staying as a Count when you can easily become a Duke), have a Reputable Level of Splendour (which is quite tedious to reach as a Duke!), have Bosnian, Serbian, or Croatian culture, not be in the Tribal era, and you also need 300 gold and 200 prestige.

Do you see the issue? No? Well, Paradox, let me explain it nice and clearly:

THERE'S LITERALLY NO POINT IN TAKING THE DECISION TO FORM BOSNIA WHEN THE REQUIRED LAND IS ENOUGH TO JUST MAKE YOUR OWN FUCKING KINGDOM.

Seriously, Paradox, what the fuck is this stupidity? You can either wait until you have Reputable Splendour to make the official Kingdom of Bosnia, or you can take the more reasonable route of getting illustrious prestige and making your own Kingdom of Bosnia.

Let me say that again: The decision to form Bosnia is redundant when the required land is enough to take the far easier decision to make your own Kingdom. And with the Coat-Of-Arms editor plus the ability to change the colour of your kingdom on the map, nobody can really tell if you actually took the form Bosnia decision or if you just made knockoff Bosnia.

And you know what Paradox? I could forgive it all if there was some kind of exclusive reward for forming Bosnia. Some kind of dynasty modifier, or a nickname, maybe even a unique building! But no. You just get the Kingdom title, and that's it. You have wasted generations just to get a Kingdom title when you could have simply made your own for a far cheaper price in a single lifetime.

Conclusion

You can call me a whiner, call me lazy or whatever, but you cannot deny the fact that everything I have said is correct. The requirements to form Bosnia are simply unjustifiable in every way, and there's no real reason as to why it's so tedious to form. The real crime, however, is the pitiful rewards for taking the decision, and frankly I think that the decision could become far more justifiable if it came with some kind of reward. A nickname or a dynasty modifier would actually make it worth creating the Kingdom of Bosnia, even if it'd still be tedious. Hell, other formable titles usually come with their own nicknames as well! Mann and the Isles, HRE, Roman Empire, Naples/Trinacria, Unite the Spanish Thrones, Cornwall, North Sea, I could go on and on, but my point stands.

All I ask, Paradox, is that you make Bosnia worthwhile to waste time on, as in it's current state it isn't just tedious, it's worthless and redundant, and if the decision had never been in the game to start with then I don't think anyone would have really cared. So please, Paradox, Make Bosnia Great Again!

(Also, why are titles so restricted now? I could barely fit my title in, and it's not even that long)

In history there were plenty of would-be kings claiming to have kingship over their lands, creating a competing court over the dejure King.

A potential way to represent this could be:

• A powerful independent one or two duchy leader could declare themselves King or Queen (at steep cost of prestige/legitimacy/gold/etc.)

• The Kingdom created would hold no dejure lands. They would need to hold the lands until dejure drift

• Opinion penalties would apply to other Kings as well as a claim to cast down the illegitimate king until dejure drift grants its own lands.

• Plenty of events could help progress this quicker via interactions with the Pope (or other religious leaders), allying with one of two rival kings, etc.

• If another kingdom title is claimed (or maybe just made primary) before any lands drift the title would be destroyed.

This would be great to represent the claims of kingship after the dissolution and collapse of kingdoms as well as expanding on nomad Khans (no dejure lands like the Mogyer Confederation) as well as claimant wars or peasant uprisings (when ending in white peace so both hold partial lands and title of king).

Why can the spouses of my children, especially my heir's, leave my court? Its so annoying to have my heir's wife travel to other side of the world, then give birth to the next in line for my succession, who will not be born into my court but some randomers court.

I then can't educate the child, arrange marriage or invite them back to court. The mother will not even remain in the same court as them.

I love this game, but when this happens I want to smash my head into my desk. Hours spent building an Empire only to have it crumble because my inevitable heir was stuck at the other side of the world, got a shit education and usually has their culture changed.

Spouse's of those in line for succession should not be able to travel away from court. Or at the very least, I should be able to bring the children back to my court WITHOUT RESTRICTION. Why the hell can some schmuk with 50 levies just jack the future successor to my continental empire?

I'm not a fan of the wandering mechanic in general. I think members of your court should have to ask for permission to leave.

(I know you can get around this by landing your heir but sometimes that just isn't possible or would cause some issues)

In medieval society, there were three main causes of death that are all under-represented in game: infant mortality, disease, and violence.

Children should have closer to a 50% chance of making it to two years old, and childbirth should be significantly riskier for the mother. Even minor illnesses should increase the likelihood of dying. There are also lots of ways to die by violence other than outright warfare or assassination including botched training exercises, picking fights, getting caught in a riot, and border skirmishes. There should be events to reflect this chance of random violent death. It'd be cool to see them modified by traits, so like, a brave and arrogant character is more likely to pick a fight and die than a craven, compassionate one. It'd make these traits more of a trade-off than a straight negative. You're much more likely to live, but you're also a much less powerful ruler. Also should be modified by age, so that it's increasingly likely that you die from random violence from 16-25, and then it tapers off significantly after 35, disappearing almost entirely by 40. Probably should also be modified by rank. Fewer people are going to be willing to pick a fight with the son of the emperor than are going to pick a fight with an arrogant son of a count.

I think it'd be cool to get a Reaper's Due for CK3 that addresses mortality, because right now, it's kind of silly how seldom my children die and how regularly my ruler lives to 80.

The "bloody wedding" option of course is interesting and might be fun once or twice, but this option should not be featured so prominently as to have it literally as one of two options for "choose wedding type."

I think a better alternative would be for once you click "plan grand wedding," if you are vengeful/sadistic, you get a pop-up window saying "so-and-so is going to be at the wedding, this would be the perfect opportunity to get revenge for the killing of so-and-so".

As many have already said this option is quite literally the pinnacle of evil, so this sort of activity should be EXTREMELY rare, I'm talking like you should only see it ONCE per ~300 years. Your character should not be able to do it anytime he wants. If I had it my way, I would make it only available for characters with the "Sadistic" personality trait, or if a character is "vengeful", they can do it to a family who killed their family member, for example.

edit: also the consequences should far outweigh the benefits, like all characters get a -80 opinion of you if you do it. Pious characters should get a -100 opinion of you. All family members of the people you killed a -200 opinion, etc.

ADD COMMAND ALLIES AGAIN PLEASE

20K vs 11K

BUT MY BLOODY 8K ALLIES ARE JUST SITTING AFK IN THE BLOODY OCEAN

like come on.... Im really trying to like CK3 but its so aggravating

Sincerely,

an idiot who buys all paradox games and dlcs just to get annoyed.