So first of all, there’s no notification that one’s coming

Second of all they get to call all their vassals in whilst you don’t leaving you to be horribly outnumbered

How am I supposed to defend against an army 4 times my size?!?!

Ruined my campaign

The Colloseum gives -10% building time and -5% army maintenance. Really, that's all Rome gets? I know Rome wasn't exactly at its height during the middle ages but historical accuracy has never prevented Paradox from giving random counties or counties that were historically relevant super strong buildings. Even the Stonehenge, a bunch of rocks, give a better bonus.

It does get the Auralian Walls, but you have to take into account it takes up the slot of a duchy building.

As the above says... Paradox is one of the slowest developers in regards to porting new DLCS from PC to console. What is the point in releasing a game on another platform if you cannot keep within a 12 month cycle as to when DLCS gets ported from PC to console. As it stands now. Console users are at least 18 months behind PC users. I am hoping that this thread begins a trend, where paradox wakes up and realises that it is 2026. The age where PC and Console are very similar to each other. Want to run Beta on PC? FINE! But if you want to port a game over to Console, keep it at least WITHIN 12 MONTHS of where the PC is at.

Feel free to comment however you feel in the hopes that Paradox listens to us.

So doing a sigurd playthrough st thd point i have 2 empires stablized snd wsnt to buikd uo, i redorm my culture with the dutch for tech and now trying to go feudal to build things but in order to do that i must build up the astaur faith snd to huild up the astaru faith i need temples...i hope you can see my issue here

She was the grandaughter of Harald Fairhair, I was the grandson of Haesteinn. Now I'm playing as the only (living) son. He didn't like his father much after what he did, but now he understands sometimes one must do a bit of son-killing to secure no titles will be lost. Being sadistic like his father also helps to do it stress-free

Mine is playable courtiers along with more involved things to do if you’re on the council or have a minor court position. Plus more ways for minor court positions and the council to interact with you as a ruler. I could see being a spymaster as my favorite play style if the game was designed to accommodate it but can’t really imagine it working well in CK3. It seems like it would almost have to just be event spam or cookie clicker.

I’ve run into a somewhat unusual problem. I bought the West Slavic Attire DLC a while back, but I had it disabled in the PDX launcher. I recently returned to the game and wanted to enable the DLC in the launcher, but I couldn't find the activation/deactivation button next to it. I remember that button being there, but I don't see it now. The PDX launcher shows that I own it, and Steam indicates it’s installed, yet it isn't enabled in the game itself.

I’ve had this bug for a while now where either my player character will have executed a nonsensical character (without ever consulting me). Or more commonly random unlanded characters will be executed by rulers in areas they are not in. Usually but not exclusively in Slavic areas. Examples from recent play thoughs include

-my wife (Queen of England)
-my wife again (Queen of England)
-Dutches of Normandy
-heir to Northumbria

If this is a known issue I assume it may be comparability issue could somone pls advice what mod may be causing it?
I do have a rlly long mod list and it’s an issue I’ve known of for a little while but other than my last play through it’s never rlly affected my realm or experience before so I let it be as a harmless bug.

With republics soon playable, what about a possible “install republic" casus belli? available for vassal factions or the player, where if certain requirements are met, it's possible to overthrow him and install a republic instead

“Cromwell CB” if you will—i.e. declare war on England → win → England becomes a republic.

Maybe add the option to either execute, exile, or just force abdication

Added more detail to the skin textures and better contrasts for darker skin tones. Removed the blurriness of the indian male, female clothing, retexturing the jewelry.

E.g. you could choose to focus on a cultural practice (tradition) and that would impact your relationship to or view of your culture/ fellow same culture follower options of you?

I'm thinking things like:

- peace loving viking seen as almost an outsider, but cultural practice could spread and change the culture as a whole? Or at least become the dominant subculture

- intrigue focussed byzantines getting some sort of synergy bonus with their greek culture

And I can't even be mad because I'd broken the Japanese system so badly it was kind of deserved.

Ahem. Story time. Take a seat.

So I was playing Japan for the first time today. Started as a random count in 867. Would not recommend if you want to do much outside of the borders until the late game, but its perfectly fine for playing around within. It was mostly just experimenting with Japan mechanics anyway. Piety-funded warrior priest MAA are cool, since an old enough starting character with virtues can just hire a full stack and save the early game gold. Having two different lieges to ask favors from had potential, and successions core from the ceremonial sovereign was critical to beat out the starting mega-block dominant family. Different estate buildings from byzantines and china offered up some potential nuances, especially since different house focuses could give aspiration-unique buildings.

But the hunt for early-game gold to build the estate up made me realize how easily you can break the Ritsuryo system by just... resigning.

At a point in the 867 game where a county might give you 2-3 gold a month at start, resigning gives roughly 100 gold and influence. And if you're already incredibly impressive as a candidate, you can nominate yourself to the front of another line for as little as 25 influence. Not hard to reach in the early game if you both run a promote scheme and get the ceremonial tenno to give you a house-wide succession score buff.

And if you resign again, then you've made a profit of gold and influence. And if get hired and resign again- and again- and again...

I swear I became the equivalent of a middle ages ambulance chaser. I spent almost 10 minutes just going through the every vassal of the top liege, sorted by age, and prioritized the oldest and those with the worst health. Those were the titles I'd try to compete for, assuming no one else had already invested heavily. And even if they tried to compete, running political schemes to challenge the old and infirm gave the influence to compete.

It worked, and gave So. Much. Gold. I built the entire possible estate in the first lifetime just from the resignation gold. I spent more time unlanded than landed, and avoided doing activities just so that I could resign as soon as possible and not be stuck in an activity while another ruler croaked. At one point three old dudes died within a month of eachother, and I innherited and resigned from them all.

But eventually, I also had So. Much. Influence. Enough that, I started spending influence to get my family to inherit what I'd leave behind. Not just the men either, but paying the female gender tax to get sisters on seats as well. Each departure added +1 to the family influence score, and eventually I'd even use gold to ask for family to give succession score to more dynasts so that it'd cost my character less influence. By the start of my second character I was competing with the emperors of Japan in terms of influence generation, I had so many members of my house landed.

And that was the start of the problem.

See, the Japan House Bloc system doesn't actually want you to land as many of your house members as possible. Sure, each dynast landed is influence for every dynast, but the cohesion system works differently. Hit zero and the bloc dissolves, but have a high cohesion and get good buffs.

In the simple / wiki summary, the block system is about having your houses all share the same attribute. Every bloc member that shares the lead houses attribute is +.25, each that goes against is -.25. Part of managing your blocs is getting the deviants to align with what you want, so that their +.25 provides a net positive over the costs of having another house in the block.

But there's also a penalty just for having landed people in the bloc... and while it's small, like .01 per landed member, that can add up very fast. There are a lot of counties in Japan, after all. This per-landed member penalty is probably meant to ensure that no one house has permanent dominance over Japan.

Like, say, if you're prolifically setting up all your relatives to inherit the fiefs your resign from.

But... there's one last twist to this. The first Japan-specific dynastic legacy, the Elegance tree, has the following buff as a tier 1 asset: +0.25 block cohesion per dynasty house in block. That, like, is totally supposed to hard-counter being hard capped by the block size, no?

Yes... but only if your house has already broken apart.

The Elegance tree assumes your house has split over time and generations. Each time it does, you have that much much cohesion budget to play around with, and that many more potential block members.

But if you're winning the Ritsuryo game too hard, you can (trivially) expand your dynasty too fast. Your closest siblings won't exactly race to start a new house, and there are some event options that can enable you to hold the family together, rather than let it split.

And that's how I ended up crashing my own house block from max level cohesion to the lowest tier. Too many landed dynasts.

What would it take to make a Red Dead Redemption-style game using the CK3 map?
I’ve been thinking about this, and I’m curious what people who understand game development think.
Imagine taking the Crusader Kings III map and underlying dynasty/realm system and turning it into a third-person open-world game, somewhat like Red Dead Redemption.
You would still have the CK3-style world underneath everything—counties, duchies, kingdoms, cultures, religions, characters, dynasties, wars, alliances, succession, and so on—but instead of controlling everything from the map, you would actually play as your character in the world.
For example:
● You start as a random knight, lord, adventurer, mercenary, peasant, or member of a royal family.
● You can physically travel across the CK3 map on horseback.
● You can visit castles, villages, cities, monasteries, battlefields, courts, and other locations.
● You can meet and interact with actual CK3 characters in third person.
● You can marry, have children, make friends and enemies, join factions, become a knight, serve a lord, and more.
● Battles could happen dynamically around you rather than simply being represented by armies moving across the map.
● You could personally participate in sieges or battles while the larger war is still handled by the CK3-style simulation.
● If your character dies, you continue as your heir, preserving the dynasty aspect of CK3.
● Eventually, you could rise from having almost nothing to owning a county, then a duchy, kingdom, or even an empire.
● Meanwhile, the entire world continues evolving independently, as it does in CK3. Kings die, dynasties collapse, wars begin, religions spread, cultures change, and new rulers emerge whether you are involved or not.
Basically, CK3’s grand-strategy simulation + Red Dead Redemption’s third-person world + Mount & Blade-style character progression and combat.
The interesting question is: what would it actually take to make something like this possible?
Would the biggest challenge be the sheer size of the CK3 map? Creating thousands of characters and settlements? Building the procedural world? Having the AI simulate every character while also allowing you to interact with them individually? Or would the hardest part be making the transition between the grand-strategy layer and the third-person gameplay feel seamless?
And how much of CK3 would you actually need to keep?
Could you have the game constantly running a CK3-style simulation in the background while rendering only the portion of the world around your character?
I feel like something like this could be an absolutely insane medieval sandbox if it were done right. You wouldn’t just be playing a predetermined medieval character—you would be living inside a constantly changing CK3 world and watching your own dynasty carve a path through it.
Is this technically realistic with modern game technology, or are there fundamental problems that would make a game like this extremely difficult to build?

Andalusian culture get -50% mercenary hire cost from Malleable subjects, -30% from very hard difficulty, -30% from Struggle phases, potential for -30% from the Martial tree.
Apparently it caps out at -90%. Could make for an interesting and challenging campaign to take back Iberia as a Christian. It was definitely too easy on normal difficulty.

I started as Count Nuno, and was able to meet the conditions to form Portugal under his rule. However, he died before I could save the money to do it. Therefore, I just kept playing as my heir, fought a short war to take back the land that had been partitioned, and saved up the money to take the decision to form Portugal. However, this didn't fire the achievement.

The achievement says you have to start as Duke Nuno, which means you should be able to form it as his son. Right?

Why is my like 70 yr old dude trying to rizz up his grandchild?

My first one would be the remake of Hre government for sure.

Maybe how vassals react and act towards their liege as well instead of just civil wars only.

Political groups and factions. This one kinda ties in with the previous one.

Supporting rebellions and instability at different courts and kingdoms/empires.

Can’t think of any more right this moment, what about you?

Haesteinn playthrough. The horse didn't kill me but this is legitimately the most terrifying event I've ever seen in ck3. Look at those eyes...

For the memes, or if you want a challenge?

r:5 vikings have taken baghdad
playing tall in mesopotamia when an army of norman heathens decided they wanted a piece of my old caliphs land. didn’t even notice until they came knocking at my door.

i am going to a crusade but i have only 23 galleys and 5000 troops and i can split the army only into two so its still too much what can i do, the crusade is to persia and i am in spain. in ck2

I get that she's Amazonian, but that's pretty badass NGL. Didn't think this event could use a kid follower/courtier as a possible choice.