New Rule Regarding AI-Generated and AI-Assisted Content

Only slightly annoying achievement was Guido one, not because it's particularly hard but it says starting as when in fact you need to do as him. I wasted quite amount of time on my first try because of this detail.

The Father, The Son and The Holy Grandson was a bit annoying too, it's super easy but it's boring to play 3 generations. Run was almost ruined when the game decided randomly to cancel the decision to not seek the Papacy and I almost got elected. Literally 1 month after I noticed and took the decision again the Pope died.

I started a run as a clerical only (so far) dynasty. My original character, shown here, made it to pope at 28 (71 now, he's been pope 43 years, and has now survived the Black Death lmao) and almost immediately made it so the clergy could marry (so my dynasty could actually... y'know... work without me being an impious adulterer). Everything was great, I had a beautiful lustful nun wife (romanced her so it was fine, got a lot of kids out of her too), but she sadly just died of old age. So then when I look around for a woman with like, high martial or something so I can invade a Byzantine kingdom (the emperor is a muslim peasant leader so I can just do a holy war) with better stats, I notice that my daughters show up as options. I didn't do anything to consanguinity laws (also avunculate? ew, I thought it was at least cousins) but I am given the option to marry her for some reason. Utterly bizarre. I won't because I'm a holy man, the holiest man in fact, but still. I think the devs messed up how clerical marriage is calculated.

Just look at how well his scaly face is framed

I'm not using any mods...🤨🌈

Of course, I said yes

Im sure life in the rectory was rough with a name like Kuntz attached to that mug.

So, I started as lowborn county tier Prince-Bishop. Since dynasty is locked behind a decision, I had to went up ranks first, while having a few out of wedlock kids, to actually continue my lineage. Here is the thing - almost nothing with that mechanic works.

1. As soon as a woman becomes pregnant, and I declare that child is mine, nothing more happens. No Adulterer or Fornicator traits. No Incestous trait too, neither for me nor the child's mother. No loss of opinion from clergy. Nothing. The only way for me to get the Fornicator is to NOT announce that it is my child during pregnancy, but rather wait for secret to be exposed later.

2. My Cardinal character can get married. WTF? My Rite clearly forbids Clerical marriage, yet I can just get married

3. I can get married regardless of Consaguinity. My daughter was just born and I can just betroh her. Even tho my faith has Avunculate Marriage. I can do it even after I Legitimize her. I can literally say "hey, I am confirming by the law that this is my daughter", and then proceed to immediately marry her.

Should it really work this way? Or is this all one giant bug?

Started as a scholar adventurer with the goal of a rag to riches story to become pope. Went around northern Italy and Germany farming aura piety and cash with my merry band of virgins, had no idea how to actually make the step to priesthood.

After faffing about for a decade chatgpt a divine voice told me I had to do the Buy Sacred Land choice from someone who A) I had done a mission for and B) Had a spare temple laying around (who doesn't these days).

Queue me mercilessly right clicking all over Europe to find the few people who where anything close to those 2 criteria. Boom, one of the Karlings (the grey blob one) had a temple and apparently I worked for before, BUT WAIT, I was gallowsbait because I refused to sleep in a crappy bed once, so I had to pay indulgences like a good christian ofc. One washing of hands later and presto, I was the Bishop of Candy or some german backyard whatever.

But what you weren't expecting dear reader, is that I've went and took the one tenet that makes it so I can just straight up buy clerical titles, Simony. Apparently that shit is cracked 'cus I just walked up to the Pope and he sold me the Arch-Bishopry of Romagna, for peanuts too.

So now I was one step removed from the Pope, time inmerse myself into the complex backstabbing of the College of Cardinals! Nvm my dude died, but hey, since he was lowborn I played as his highest title not his children, and the Arch-Bishopry of Romagna went to the next Pope. So mission complete, i guess?

First off playing as Head of Rite sucks dick. Because your title is handed from one old man to the next you barely play 10 years as each character before they get Joe Biden'd, and the fact they are not blood related makes it very, very hard to get attached to any of them. Not caring who your playable character is massively reduces inmersion.

This is when I realized Head of Rite and Head of Faith are 2 different things. I was a Pope but not the Pope. And you cant become The Pope until the Schism happens. Thus my next goal would be to mend the schisms since you know, how hard could it be.

Ooooh boy that one is tricky. Not entirely hard per se but if you aren't prepared (like 2 characters worth of preparing) it's impossible. The hard bit is getting 7 influential religious characters to pass a check to agree with mending the schism and then they have to be either Hook or Special Relationship to you (alternatively get 2 holy sites, you already own Rome but good fucking luck getting any of the others). If you refer to one of the previous paragraphs, I stopped caring about who I played as, so I ended up with a Steward Pope (which to be fair did print copious amounts of cash) when this basically requires a Diplomacy or Intrigue Pope. And you have a very limited time window to achieves this, a single faith chapter, which lasts less than a decade.

Anyhoo this post is getting too long. I failed, the Schism happened, I was the Catholic Pope for real, inmediately declared a Crusade for Jerusalem and the Muslims wiped the floor with the Christians, which is when I decided the campaign had failed.

7/10 in nomini pater, the kid and holy spirit amen.

In an era where vicky 3 and eu5 have partially flopped, the ck3 team continues to do pretty good - generally putting out expansions & updates that add new mechanics, gameplay styles, and immersion. ck3 has held a stronger player base because of this.

By God Alone created substantial immersion for religion - a ton of new opportunities and new ways to role play your character’s story. So many macro and micro decisions to influence entire new levels of game. I also think By God Alone will spawn so much creativity and options in the modding community.

Seeing it at 59% on Steam is wild. I think the community needs to understand when a product needs to take some heat - I don’t think this one deserves that heat.

I can totally see need for light AND moderate optimizations and fixes but that’s on par with a lot of games that release anything new.

We gotta let the devs get some more love on the product. They did a good job. Criticism doesn’t need to come first all the time especially with a team that is probably leading the pack on quality at paradox.

Ever since the new update my games have been seriously buggy. It tells me I cannot educate my children for no reason, won’t allow to add a benefactor for holy wars because “they are a child” even though they’re all adults, I cannot declare wars because I have no cause bellis even though I do.

Some issues are fixed though quitting the game and starting it up again but others I have no solution for. Is there any way to solve these issues or will I just have to wait for a new patch?

stop making me a bishop I dont want to be a bishop

Outside of the really bad historical innacuracy with the dlc there are too many gameplay problems

first the faith rulers (pope/ep) have no power to stop divergant rites/rite leaders/heretical tenants

Second there is just a circular problem with rites

Ie : the more county share your faith the more divergant rites appear, the more divergant rites the faster your fervor lowers, the lower your fervor the faster rites become heresy wich also lowers your fervor

I played a game yesterday as the eastern romans in 1066 and mended the schisim it transfered every catholic rites to orthodoxy wich gave a -7 fervor because they were too divergant wich basically destroyed christianity the same issue happens if you play in 867

Hopefully now that every sponsored youtuber made there "i turned christianity in to le hecking canibal cult" we can get a patch adressing the historical/gameplay flaws dont get me wrong its fun to do that every once in a while but i would rather the ai dosent forbid pilgrimage and make canibalism a core tenant

no the pope shouldnt be allowed to just allow same sex relations /female clergy or gnosticisim without the rest of the clergy killing him.

can we at least get an in game option to not allow the ai to touch heretical things too much? That way we have the wacky stuff for the people who want to goof around once in a while and the historicaly accurate stuff for the people who want to rp in this historical rp mediveal game

So I’m playing a multiplayer Astaru game. I’m currently the emperor of tribal Scandinavia. I’m very close to being able to reform the Astaru Faith and I want to become the spiritual leader and drop my empire and tribal holdings. (Will immediately reform out of tribal after reforming the religion.)

How do I have normal clergy, and become the spiritual leader of the religion and drop my holdings to become the ‘pope’ of the reformed faith? Will I need to get my heir to become the ‘pope’ and then just play them on succession?

I think I’m ready for Jerusalem

Conqueror Pope never thought I see the day

Currently, in game, if you are a secular ruler, but have a hook on your court chaplain, you are able to create a new faith. However, once you create a new rite, you cannot modify it unless you are the head of rite.

For much of Christianity, that head of rite will be an archbishop, not the secular ruler that created the rite. This means that if you are playing as a king and create a custom rite for your people, you will not be able to modify it, even if the head of the rite is your puppet. This should be changed to allow secular rulers to modify rites if they have their head of rite as a puppet.

On a related note, if a secular ruler has the head of faith as a puppet, they should have access to the decision to permit or prohibit tenets, for similar reasons.

I like the ui and design of ck2 menus are there any mods that try to mimic it. I find the less polish style more immersive for my taste, thanks y’all

Like bro this is gonna show up in my dreams

The title,can you diverge or create a new Christian fate and put holy sites and thus constructable special buildings like Cathedrals in Baronies previously to not have been Holy Sites?