It worked, thanks.
As for the Legacy of Rome... Yikes!
Blinding, afaik, was used to get rid of pretenders since apparently you had to be able to see to be emperor.
Paradox just announced the next expansion, which will be focusing on the ERE and the Orthodox states in general. Looks nice so far:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...r-Kings-II-Legacy-of-Rome-Expansion-Announced!
While that seems nice, it doesn't really look like it solves either of the two largest complaints with the way that Paradox handles the Greeks.Paradox just announced the next expansion, which will be focusing on the ERE and the Orthodox states in general. Looks nice so far:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...r-Kings-II-Legacy-of-Rome-Expansion-Announced!
While that seems nice, it doesn't really look like it solves either of the two largest complaints with the way that Paradox handles the Greeks.
Complaint 1 is that the Byzantine state had effectively zero tendency towards regionalization. "Vassal revolts" should be all-or-nothing wars for control of the diadem, not Western European-style breakaway efforts. This changed, albeit very slightly, after the Frangokratia, but it was still not really a thing.
Complaint 2 is that they're still pigeonholing the Byzantines into their ugly generic mishmash vaguely Franco-Imperial "feudal" social/political/military system when it was nothing of the sort. Even "Byzantine feudalism" - i.e. post-Alexios I - did not look anything like that. The Emperors' control of the state rested on his authority from God and his position as the most recent in a long line of autocrats stretching back for a millennium, not from the consent of his "vassals". Byzantine politics were fundamentally different, and while this "faction" system might go some way towards changing that, it doesn't seem like it will (plus, it might be some ahistorical ludicrousness like the factions the Chinese empires got in EU3).
I'm really not interested in Byzantine attention per se because I, too, believe that the disproportionate amount of fangirls that that country has over in the dank depths of Paradox Plaza makes them overdone and tiresome, but if you are going to give attention to them at all, you could at least make sure what you're doing bears some vague resemblance to reality.
To prevent this post from being an unadulterated whine, because salty mud will piss and moan at me if I do that, are there any mod projects, either finished, ongoing, or scheduled, to fix this sort of trash so I can get interested in playing?
There is a intresting bug. Basically if I hold a tourament sometimes the event continues after the winners are declared, with maiming and deaths occuring. My previous emperor, Robin, lost his life while at war due to the event. He was in his mid 30s. Now his son Matthieu is ruler, aged 14 at the time I was last on the game.
While that seems nice, it doesn't really look like it solves either of the two largest complaints with the way that Paradox handles the Greeks.
Complaint 1 is that the Byzantine state had effectively zero tendency towards regionalization. "Vassal revolts" should be all-or-nothing wars for control of the diadem, not Western European-style breakaway efforts. This changed, albeit very slightly, after the Frangokratia, but it was still not really a thing.
Complaint 2 is that they're still pigeonholing the Byzantines into their ugly generic mishmash vaguely Franco-Imperial "feudal" social/political/military system when it was nothing of the sort. Even "Byzantine feudalism" - i.e. post-Alexios I - did not look anything like that. The Emperors' control of the state rested on his authority from God and his position as the most recent in a long line of autocrats stretching back for a millennium, not from the consent of his "vassals". Byzantine politics were fundamentally different, and while this "faction" system might go some way towards changing that, it doesn't seem like it will (plus, it might be some ahistorical ludicrousness like the factions the Chinese empires got in EU3).
I'm really not interested in Byzantine attention per se because I, too, believe that the disproportionate amount of fangirls that that country has over in the dank depths of Paradox Plaza makes them overdone and tiresome, but if you are going to give attention to them at all, you could at least make sure what you're doing bears some vague resemblance to reality.
To prevent this post from being an unadulterated whine, because salty mud will piss and moan at me if I do that, are there any mod projects, either finished, ongoing, or scheduled, to fix this sort of trash so I can get interested in playing?
the tournament drained the Holy Roman Empire dry!
Inb4 Dachs and his "tournaments never actually lasted 100 years guise!" drivel.