They've said the UI is very customizable for what you see, so you can play it in a flat political mode and remove portraits.
I'm fucking everyone else's wives btw
Could just make a an alt steam account with no relation to your true one, get ck2, have the host use creamAPI to unlock the dlc so it unlocks it for everyone, and play
Yeah, I realized that and figured that may be why this isnt tried here. I have no good idea on how to work around that; if everyone has to dl DLL free copies and run through a private server or what.
True, that said I'm not sure if the DLCs will be enabled for everyone else. I tried hosting some CK2 once and I have all the regular expansions on Steam, but all the unit packs and face packs I just drag'n'dropped and while they appeared on my end just firm, they weren't there for the other people, not even the ruler designer. Maybe someone with a DLL-free copy hosts and everybody else joins using Steam alts.Could just make a an alt steam account with no relation to your true one, get ck2, have the host use creamAPI to unlock the dlc so it unlocks it for everyone, and play
I haven't kept up much with it, but the only reason it was created was because the creator wasn't allowed to be in charge of OpenVic and it's not meant to be a faithful recreation. It was a rushed project made by troons and had stupid changes such as pops only assimilated to what the majority in the province was no matter the primary culture of the owner. Meanwhile the OpenVic guys are putting in the work to reverse engineer the entire game and make it backwards compatible with all mods.
God why do trannies always insist on fucking ruining everything?
The fact that OpenVic isn't dead after the hype around it dying out long ago is a pleasant surprise. The GitHub still receives updates almost every day. This is what one of their devs said a month ago about the project's progress:
This actually isn't bad in theory, Christianity in Asia often did involve syncretizing things like ancestor worship or people claiming to be physical manifestations of gods with traditional Christian beliefs. I've read a lot about Japanese Christianity and the missionaries really had to associate some Christian stuff with traditional Japanese religion to get a lot of people to accept it and there were major sticking points between the missionaries and Japanese culture even after conversion, like seppuku. And since I assume only southeast Asian cultures will be allowed to do this it likely won't affect Europe much. Really my issue is more that stuff like this should be part of a full on general mechanic when converting populations rather than them just magically converting to your religion with no issues whatsoever. After all, we have plenty of examples in real history of cultures retaining flavors of their old religion in one they just converted to. A push and pull where a newly converted population (especially populations who are in sparse, isolated areas and/or are far away from the traditional centers of your religion eg Japan being so far from Rome) keeps too MANY old beliefs, especially ones that conflict heavily with the major traditional doctrines of your religion, and the Pope sends you a strongly worded letter to do something about it or a local population's traditional beliefs exert so much influence the larger religion implements some of those beliefs into the tenets of the religion would be awesome and was something I always wanted in CK2.Ok this is retarded even by CK3 standards.
Tldr: Pajeets and other south/south-east Asians can get goverment that allows them to proclaim themselves to be incarnation of deity. Which is fine, but there is tiny problem. It is not religion locked so you can convert to Christianity and declare yourself to be incarnation of The God.
Worst part is this:
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I like your overall point but I feel the need to history-sperg about this. Very, very early into the mission Xavier did try to incorporate some Buddhist terminology into his preaching, partly because he believed it would be good for conveying ideas and partly because for a short time he believed Japan had a lost community of Christians*. However when it became apparent that the Japanese thought he was preaching another form of Buddhism he completely 180'd and his successors took pains to be distinct from the bonzes. They did compromise on some cultural practices like allowing kneeling to receive communion or giving up eating beef and pork, but the Jesuits never got anywhere near the level of syncretism they tolerated during their later period in China that led to the rites controversy. The syncretism the Kirishitans had was a product of isolation from the broader church and needing to adapt to just survive.
This is a big one. The implication has always been that there are religious minorities in your lands (you can have Jews in your court for instance) but in terms of actual function your land is simply just one religion or another with the occasional check behind the scenes to see if a region is still secretly practicing their old religion after converting them. In reality, a major reality in the medieval period was that obviously not every part of Europe or the Middle East (what the game considers provinces) was completely one thing or another. How do you play out the Muslim/Christian split in Sicily? The very sizable Christian minority in what is now modern day Syria/Lebanon that predates even the arrival of Islam in the region? The holdout Norse pagans even as northern Europe was Christianizing? The Jewish populations in cities? Filling a magic bar to convert a region should not be the end of it, there should still be holdouts, religious conflict between the now split population, decisions about how to treat those who simply won't convert (deciding between being pious and kicking them out vs deciding the practical reality of how much money they contribute is worth tolerating them), etc. Crusader Kings also just gives a flat relations debuff if you have a vassal who isn't of your religion but how bad that debuff is should heavily depend on how you treat religious minorities in your lands because each ruler did things differently depending on the situation and that should matter nearly just as much as how much those two religions hate each other in an abstract sense.
I made, a few years ago, a design doc for my own dream GSG, in part to get a handle on what made CK3 fall flat, and one of the most important elements I came up with was the Values system. Both religions and cultures would have Values on practically everything, and these could often conflict, as they did irl, where even long term Christian populations like the French and German nobilities would chafer under the Church, especially with regards to warfare and whatnot. These Values alongside pressures like the state religion, and particular pressures per pop type like religious prestige for nobles, would incline a pop or character to convert, and you could change values over time, culture would be if you controlled the culture, and religion if you had sufficient influence, though would be harder (for example Catholic doctrine for celibate priests was later than a lot of people think).
