Once More with Feeling - The Road to 3.0

[4zumi]

@kasier
All titles will have small effect. It is not possible, as far as I know, to reduce this effect to a specific region.
So everywhere the title holder goes, the effects will go with him.

@hellvard

Here is an excerpt of what I have done to the polish or near polish regions. I have looked after some appropriate COA and got those. But I have not put hours of research in each one. I think the crown was one I found in relation to Poland.
But if you want to support me, you are more than welcome. . And take your time, I will be busy with other ancillaries and traits... (so many, so so many)



{crown_poland}Crown of Poland (Cracow)
{crown_poland_desc}"If God is with us, then who is against us"
{crown_poland_effects_desc}+1 Authority, +10 Movement Points, +2 Morale, Improves the chances of casualties recovering from their wounds

{title_plock}Duke of Greater Poland (Plock)
{title_plock_desc}"Poland under god"
{title_plock_effects_desc}+1 Loyalty, +2 Cavalry Command, +1 Piety

{title_galicia}Prince of Galicia (Halych)
{title_galicia_desc}"Freedom in princes"
{title_galicia_effects_desc}+1 Loyalty, +1 Command, +1 to public security (improves the chances of detecting and capturing enemy agents)

{title_pomerelia}Duke of Pomerelia (Thorn)
{title_pomerelia_desc}"Strenght through order"
{title_pomerelia_effects_desc}+1 Loyalty, -1 from squalor (increases public order and population growth), +1 Morale

{title_pomerania}Prince of Pomerania (Stettin)
{title_pomerania_desc}"Furor Teutonicus"
{title_pomerania_effects_desc}+1 Loyalty, -1 from squalor (increases public order and population growth), +1 Command

{title_silesia}Duke of Silesia (Breslau)
{title_silesia_desc}"God gives"
{title_silesia_effects_desc}+1 Loyalty, +1 Farming, Fertile (More likely to have kids)

@wolf-yop
As far as I know does the battle map generate from the campaign map features (height, terrain, etc). So these maps are not premade like in later games.
So theoretically you could alter every battle map location by altering the campaign map.
But this would not be humaly possible to check each and every generateable map.
So I know these annoying maps, but take them for the fun of it. Nothing I could do about, as far as I know.

Yeah, thinking about the AI comes in the final phase of TVB 3.0.
It is highly likely, that I will not include a tweaked AI in basic TVB, rather provided as a Submod or something like this.
But I do not know if I want to do that or leave it to someone else who is willing to do the work, after I finished 3.0.

[4zumi]

Good news everyone and holy smokes,

the titles are done, and only the titles (took me roghly 3 full days of work, good thing i cought the flu...)
Roughly over 200 titles, minor titles and crowns are now in the game. Some regions sport multiple titles (catholic, muslim, other)

Her is a map of the titles.
green = crown
yellow = governor
red = title
pink = minor title

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And a few images of my last isolationist campaign as ireland.

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Party in the Americas


Party in the Levant


Party by the Canal


The Inqusition, what a show... (from an earlier Milan campaign)


The End

Next stop: More Ancillaries and Traits...

[4zumi]

I just updated the "Progress/Idea List" in the second post of this thread.
Check it out.

[4zumi]

And out of the category "fun for the weekend" this example

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[KasierStahl]

@4zumi

Hey you stole mi idea of the Irish Isolationist Campaign! D:

Btw map looks so awesome right now, and I really want to play 3.0! o3o

[4zumi]

@kasier

yeah, guilty
But it was a good way to test things out.
Thanks, but the 3.0 is still some time away. Maybe you could hold on to the next release of 2.8 or 2.9.

@all
And for everyone else:
As I got sick of doing ancillaries and traits I did a few unit specific banners.
The orders, wales and some of the outremer units now all have their own banner on the battlefield.

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[wolf-yop]

A thing you could add its officers for units like banner carriers and captains that could be for the last patch or after.

[4zumi]

@wolf-yop
I have played with this thought.
I have already (I think beginnin with v2.0) implemented them for some special units like marshalls, hochmeister, great cross, constables.
I also thought about giving them to every unit, but ultimately decided against it. For now I will keep it as it is.
But thanks for the suggestion anyways

[4zumi]

First look of the new Rebel Coat of Arms. They sport now a lighter grey overall and get some colors in their battlefield banners.

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[Vigile]

Hey 4zumi

This next uptade sounds quite promising. And the new map looks dope as hell.

Can't wait to get my hands on it. Keep up the good work

[4zumi]

hey vigile,

thanks.

I do not want to promise anything, but if I make progress like I do now, a new version could be brought by the easter bunny.

[Vigile]

Glad to hear it!

[4zumi]

"We need more color, we don't like grey!" shouted the rebels and got their wish granted...
(Impressions from the new colorized textures of the rebels)

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If I feel very greatful, they will get a bit of color on their shields too.

[4zumi]

For the romantics among us...

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Last things to implement before 2.9 will hit the floor.
-Ancillaries and Traits regarding the new buildings and some more that are unrelated
-Mongol conversion video

[Cokjan]

I have a question, dear mod developer.
What do you think about pikemen? I just tried a custom battle between scottish pikemen against Dis. feudal knights. On guard mode, both side pretty much went chill. The Knights and pikes didn't strike at each other. And if i turn off guard mode, the dumb pikes just uses their small swords. A small but quite tedious task is perhaps removing the pike's secondary weapons (the swords) But I don't know what will happens if pikemen were stationed in walls. Using pikes there is stupid, too :p

[4zumi]

hey cokjan,

the pikes are something that no one is ever satisfied with. I think the discussion about them is as old as the game.
If I remove their secondary weapon (and I have thought about that option) they are an unstoppable killing machine, because nothing will get through to them.
If i do not remove them they will end up using their swords sooner or later.

So i have to decide between not killable force that would make them too strong in terms of balance or micro intensive unit (what they are now).
I have tweaked them a little bit, giving them a tighter spacing that helps them keep formation and pikes up.
But it is never going to be perfect.

Pikemen are best used in combination with other units. I use them behind another unit like halberdiers, so the pikemen keep the enemy at bay, while the halberds do the killing.
Never use pikemen on the wall, this is not what they are meant to do. Use them in narrow streets.

You can use pikes offensively (without guard mode, i think) and let them go at the enemy. They will perform quiet well, but require babysitting (constant attack clicking, etc)

After 2.9 I will take a look at them again and see if I can tweak them a bit further for the final version.

[Cokjan]

Appreciate your answers. Some thoughts here, if indeed you will tweak the pikemen to have only a primary weapon. Perhaps, you can try reducing the attack value of the unit (reducing it to 1 would be too drastic of change but if it balances, why not lol)? Because if a pikemen used formation, they would poke at the same guy with two/three people due to the formation. But at the same time, increase the numbers or increase the defense values? I'll check it out if I can

[Vigile]

Hey 4zumi

Just letting you know that the Khasseki Infantry for the Khwarazmian Empire has missing textures when you upgrade the unit's armor

[♔atthias♔]

I especially like he new coloured rebels 4zumi +rep

[4zumi]

@cokjan
Thanks and I will see what i will do with the pikes. And thanks for the input.
This is work for the finetuning after eastern till the release of 3.0.
As always, no promises .

@vigile
Thanks, I found the culprit and they should have now the correct skin. Some lines were missing in the modeldb.

@atthias
thanks for the hilarious rep