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fectin · Post by **fectin** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 1:54 pm

99 red balloons / 99 Luftballons

RobbyPants · Post by **RobbyPants** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:19 pm

erik wrote:Song? Splainyoself!

fectin wrote:99 red balloons / 99 Luftballons

Yeah. The German version.

The second verse has a bunch of Captain Kirk-like fighter pilots shooting up a field of balloons for fun, and inadvertently triggering World War 3.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 4:10 pm

Blicero wrote:That's part of the reason that I find Crusader Kings II so interesting compared to, say, GalCiv II or Civ4 or a Total War game. Most strategy games of this ilk follow a basic pattern: You start out really weak, and you are forced to struggle against a bunch of different people.

But, eventually, because you have quicksave and a brain, you survive while everyone else dies. And then it's just you and like two other AIs, all of whom are really powerful. And then the game just becomes a slogfest. Rome: Total War had a pretty novel twist: Around the time the game gets bloated, your fellow Romans turn on you in an allout civilwar. And that was cool.

But Crusader Kings II never even tries to make victory a viable option. Sure, you can end up as the King of France or whatever, but the most fun in the game is going to be had playing as a baron or a duke and scheming against your peers while dealing with the weird random events and quirks of genetic drift.

I'm not asking to be able to win super easy, but it would be nice if it would take less than 30 years to fabricate one claim on one province.

In a while, when people figure out the editing for me, I'm going to change the fabricate claims percent to a base of 50% for a Diplo 20 Chancellor.

mean_liar · Post by **mean_liar** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:22 pm

Yeah, if I wasn't editing the save games the game's one day per 0.1s rate would be glacially slow.

Blicero · Post by **Blicero** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:04 pm

Kaelik wrote: I'm not asking to be able to win super easy, but it would be nice if it would take less than 30 years to fabricate one claim on one province.

In a while, when people figure out the editing for me, I'm going to change the fabricate claims percent to a base of 50% for a Diplo 20 Chancellor.

That is a very valid point. I think the first fullish length game of CK2 I played, my diplomacy dude was trying to fabricate a claim for something like 3/4 of the game's entire length.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:07 am

mean_liar wrote:Yeah, if I wasn't editing the save games the game's one day per 0.1s rate would be glacially slow.

How do you edit the save games to create claims?

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:24 am

OH shit! I usually hate cards for any holiday or occasion, but I think this might see some use come December.

Images courtesy of http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117 ... endangered

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:24 pm

totallytrustworthy.jpg

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:41 pm

I've been meaning to say it for a while. I like a lot of the pics in your photobucket there. =-)

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 9:24 pm

Its been accumulating for a while. I started the account when I was running a forum game and wanted to provide visual aids, and since then I've developed a habit of sticking images in there whenever I think I've got something worth sharing.

Glad you like it.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:37 pm

mean_liar · Post by **mean_liar** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:09 pm

Kaelik wrote:
mean_liar wrote:Yeah, if I wasn't editing the save games the game's one day per 0.1s rate would be glacially slow.

How do you edit the save games to create claims?

There are a few ways.

First, the save games are usually in My Docs/Paradox/save or somesuch, and they're basically really massive text files, despite the .ck2 suffix. I think they might be too large for Notepad to open... but I used Notepad++ for English-language simple text editing and it handles it fine.

One method is to create a Trait in the Common/Traits file at the end (so as not to screw up the ordering of the traits) and write in, Diplomacy = 100 or somesuch, then assign Trait 102 (as there are 101 base traits, your new trait at the end is therefore #102) to whoever you want. You can actually add all kinds of stuff in there:

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cheating = &#123;
	
	stewardship = 300
	diplomacy = 100
	fertility = 5
	tech_growth_modifier_military = 50
	tech_growth_modifier_economy = 50
	tech_growth_modifier_culture = 50

&#125;

That massive stewardship allows an equally massive personal demense, and you'll have a shitload of gold from it as well, so... invite people to court or something. And never run out of money. Anyway.

Another method is to go to your character in the savegame file.

The characters are noted by numbers; your personal character's number is listed in the first few lines of the save file. It'll say something like:

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player=
&#123;
	id=652
	type=45
&#125;

That ID is your character's ID number. The ck2 files are set up with dynastic information in the first hunk, and after that is the character section. You can just search for your ID number and eventually you'll find something like this:

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	652=
	&#123;
		birth_name="Sviatopolk"
		nickname="nick_the_wise"
		historical=yes
		birth_date="1050.11.8"
...

That's your actual character. You can actually search for any character if you know their name and base location (as there's usually a ton of people with the same first name).

There's an area there for Traits, listing numbers. There's also a characteristics section. For the attributes, just change the numbers arbitrarily. Give yourself 100s in everything. Whatever. For Traits, there's a list of numbers. Adding in 102 to that list will incorporate the custom trait you created in the Traits file to your character, just like any other Trait. There won't be an icon for it though.

In your character's info, just before "wealth = XXX" there's an area for your Claims. They look like this:

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		claim=
		&#123;
			title="c_zemigalians"
			pressed=yes
		&#125;

All it takes to have a claim on anything is to just drop in the right info there. "Pressed" means that it's been pressed in war and therefore is transferrable to your children. The c_XXXX title has to be correct or the game crashes, so to get that, you look back in the save file. Do a search for the name of the province on the map - in this case, I would be seeking out "Zemgale", and get to the province info, which looks like this:

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374=
&#123;
	name="Zemgale"
	culture=lettigallish
	religion=baltic_pagan
...

At the bottom of that, just before the Technology data, will be "title="c_zemigalians" ". That's the name you use for your claim.

You can do that with duchies and kingships too, if you wanted, but finding out the precise name takes some more searching - you seek out a subject province, then search more, and find this:

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c_zemigalians=
&#123;
	liege="d_courland"
...

That gives you the liege name. If you seek out d_courland, you'd then get whoever that area's liege is.

The CK2 files are pretty easy to modify, once you know what you're doing. For example, in the province information you can just immediately upgrade any extant castle/city/temple to its fully kitted-out version by dropping in the construction information:

Russian castle, kitted-out

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		ca_barracks_1=yes
		ca_barracks_2=yes
		ca_barracks_3=yes
		ca_barracks_4=yes
		ca_barracks_5=yes
		ca_barracks_6=yes
		ca_keep_1=yes
		ca_keep_2=yes
		ca_keep_3=yes
		ca_keep_4=yes
		ca_keep_5=yes
		ca_keep_6=yes
		ca_militia_barracks_1=yes
		ca_militia_barracks_2=yes
		ca_militia_barracks_3=yes
		ca_stable_1=yes
		ca_stable_2=yes
		ca_stable_3=yes
		ca_stable_4=yes
		ca_stable_5=yes
		ca_town_1=yes
		ca_town_2=yes
		ca_town_3=yes
		ca_town_4=yes
		ca_town_5=yes
		ca_training_grounds_1=yes
		ca_training_grounds_2=yes
		ca_wall_1=yes
		ca_wall_2=yes
		ca_wall_3=yes
		ca_wall_4=yes
		ca_wall_5=yes
		ca_wall_q_1=yes
		ca_wall_q_2=yes
		ca_wall_q_3=yes
		ca_wall_q_4=yes
		ca_wall_q_5=yes
		ca_culture_russian_1=yes
		ca_culture_russian_2=yes
		ca_culture_russian_3=yes
		ca_culture_russian_4=yes
		levy=
		&#123;
			light_infantry=
			&#123;
				893 893 
			&#125;
			heavy_infantry=
			&#123;
				3807 3807 
			&#125;
			pikemen=
			&#123;
				611 611 
			&#125;
			light_cavalry=
			&#123;
				752 752 
			&#125;
			archers=
			&#123;
				1034 1034 
			&#125;

(Any incorrect calcs for individual troops - notably, the presence or absence of galleys, but it holds for everything - are recalculated daily, so there's no worries there)

...or give any province you want this:

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	technology=
	&#123;
		level=
		&#123;
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 		&#125;

You want to save before modifying in case you screw anything up, but there you go. Plus make sure your brackets get closed off.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:49 pm

So wait, when your chancellor presses a claim, it uses your diplomacy + his? Or are you saying give the +100 Diplo trait to the chancellor?

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 2:55 pm

I know that in 1 your court members actually give a bonus equal to their relevant trait to your ruler and then his modified stats are used for everything global, but I have no idea if that carried over to 2.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:04 pm

If you are going to have a discussion more than a couple paragraphs long in an image macro thread, you may want to consider spoiler tags.
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This was a proposed sprite swap for a powerup in a Cave Story mod:

mean_liar · Post by **mean_liar** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:06 pm

Kaelik wrote:So wait, when your chancellor presses a claim, it uses your diplomacy + his? Or are you saying give the +100 Diplo trait to the chancellor?

Either works, but it is based on the sum of your stats.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:17 pm

John Carter of Mars

erik · Post by **erik** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:45 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:
John Carter of Mars

Not so bad I guess.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:26 pm

Prak_Anima wrote:
John Carter of Mars

Hunger Games.

Um, shit.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 1:44 am

Ultramarine . . FML . .

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 2:18 am

Stahlseele wrote:Ultramarine . . FML . .

Kung Fu Hustle.

Depends on whose part I play, I guess.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 3:05 am

I guess I'm an amnesiac. But at least an amnesiac that posts image macros, hey!

From the SA forums.

Juton · Post by **Juton** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 3:05 am

Prak_Anima wrote:
John Carter of Mars

Does porn count?

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 6:45 am

The Nichijou movie. So, like going into high school again except completely fucking awesome on every level. I am okay with this.

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Sun Mar 25, 2012 7:00 am

Limitless. Which was terrible.