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Good afternoon. I’m Magne “Meneth” Skjæran, programmer on CK2, and I’ve once more been let out of my cage to write a dev diary for you guys. In the past I’ve written diaries about modding, optimization, quality of life, and some filler diaries over the summer, and today I’m returning to one of those topics: quality of life. Back in 2.7, we added a number of quality of life improvements, which I had the honor of writing the dev diaries about. These changes proved hugely popular, so we thought we’d try to repeat it for 2.8. Our first step towards this was the Rally Points feature that will be included in Jade Dragon, but we decided to also add a bunch of free functionality. So without further ado, let’s get started.
If you’ve ever had multiple artifacts of the same type, you have almost certainly felt the tedium involved in replacing an equipped artifact. First you had to unequip it, and only then could you equip something else into the slot. We’ve simplified this by making “Equip” available even if a slot is filled; it’ll simply unequip whatever is in the slot first to make room. For mods that have slots that can take more items than one, it’ll unequip the first item it finds that uses that slot. Another common frustration with artifacts is that the amazing weapon you just spent a fortune on can simply randomly disappear during succession. We’ve now eliminated destruction on succession for all equipped artifacts. Only artifacts that aren’t equipped now have a chance of being destroyed. Note that this does not apply when artifacts are inherited by a character’s liege as a last resort; then even equipped artifacts can perish. One last frustration with regards to artifact is that upon succession, your heir just ignores what you had equipped, and instead what they already had equipped takes precedence. We’ve now changed this so that your heir will attempt to equip anything you had equipped, unequipping their own equipment if necessary to make room. Now let’s move onto a different topic: the character screen. I’m afraid it still looks the same, but we’ve made it slightly nicer to work with.
First of all, when you select a landed character, their realm will get glowing borders on the map, making it much easier to tell where that quarrelsome duke is actually located.
Further, we’ve long had a variety of status icons. Back in 2.7, we made the “prison” icon take you to whoever is keeping the character captive. We’ve now applied the same idea to a few other status icons:

Job action: This will now pan to where the councillor is performing the action
Guardian: This will now take you to the guardian’s character screen
Leading troops: This will now pan to the army in question, and select it if it is one of yours
The character portrait itself: If you click the character you’ve selected once more, you’ll now pan to their location

One brand-new addition to the character screen is the “Restrict Marriage” checkbox. Some of you may have already seen this on last week’s stream. For your children and grandchildren, you can now choose to disable the marriage AI so that they don’t get into marriages you don’t want. However, note that they may still marry by event, so you better not wait too long to arrange a proper marriage. To help you do that, you can now also arrange marriages on their behalf as long as “Restrict Marriage” can be enabled. Since this is an incredibly powerful tool, it does come with some restrictions. First of all, it can only be used on your children and grandchildren. Second, they have to be your vassals or below, or courtiers in your court or that of a vassal or below. Third, they cannot have been landed for more than 10 years. After being landed for such a long time they no longer accept their parent or grandparent interfering with their marriage. Overall, this removes one of the big reasons why players often refrain from landing their children, and provides the control you need to ensure the continued greatness of your dynasty.

We’ve also added the line of succession to every title screen, showing you who stands to inherit, instead of having to search for the characters based on the title’s tooltip. Note that this art is not final; it’s simply an example of my amazing programmer art.

Finally, we have one last change: The Proselytize council action has been made easier to use. It now highlights provinces of the wrong religion in blue, and puts what religion it is in the tooltip if you hover over it. Foreign rulers that you can convert are now also highlighted in red. This system can also be used by modders to define any color scheme they want based on the target province and the ruler ordering the job action. That’s all for today. If you have other ideas for quality of life improvements we would be happy to hear them, but we cannot promise that we will have the time to implement any of them in 2.8. Read the original post [quote]Useful links Official Website Crusader Kings II Wiki Crusader Kings II Development Diary Archive

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Crusader Kings II

Paradox Development Studio Developer

Paradox Interactive Publisher

2012-02-14 Release

Strategy Simulation Singleplayer Multiplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 206

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Very Positive (72233 reviews)

http://www.crusaderkings.com/

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

CKII Linux [48.38 M]

Available DLCs:

Crusader Kings II: Dynasty CoA Pack 1
Crusader Kings II: Mongol Graphics Pack
Crusader Kings II: Songs of Albion
Crusader Kings II: Songs of Faith
Crusader Kings II: Ruler Designer
Crusader Kings II: Songs of the Holy Land
Crusader Kings II: Sword of Islam
Crusader Kings II: African Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: Songs of the Caliph
Crusader Kings II: Dynasty Shields II
Crusader Kings II: Legacy of Rome
Crusader Kings II: Byzantine Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: Mediterranean Portraits
Crusader Kings II: Russian Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: Russian Portraits
Crusader Kings II: Songs of Byzantium
Crusader Kings II: Sunset Invasion
Crusader Kings II: Songs of the Rus
Crusader Kings II: Norse Portraits
Crusader Kings II: Norse Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: The Republic
Crusader Kings II: Songs of Prosperity
Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods
Crusader Kings II: Hymns to the Old Gods
Crusader Kings II: Celtic Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: Celtic Portraits
Crusader Kings II: Dynasty Shield III
Crusader Kings II: Europa Universalis IV Converter
Crusader Kings II Customization Pack DLC
Crusader Kings II: Sons of Abraham
Crusader Kings II: Military Orders Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: Warriors of Faith Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: Hymns of Abraham
Crusader Kings II: Songs of Yuletide
Crusader Kings II: Saxon Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: Finno-Ugric Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: Rajas of India
Crusader Kings II: Turkish Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: Turkish Portraits
Crusader Kings II: Songs of India
Crusader Kings II: Persian Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: Persian Portraits
Crusader Kings II: Charlemagne
Crusader Kings II: Early Western Clothing Pack
Crusader Kings II: Early Eastern Clothing Pack
Crusader Kings II: Dynasty Shields Charlemagne
Crusader Kings II: The Song of Roland Ebook
Crusader Kings II: Way of Life
Crusader Kings II: Iberian Unit Pack
Crusader Kings II: Iberian Portraits
Crusader Kings II: Tales of Treachery EBook
Crusader Kings II: Horse Lords
Crusader Kings II: Horse Lords Content Pack
Crusader Kings II: Orchestral House Lords
Crusader Kings II: Conclave
Crusader Kings II: Conclave Content Pack
Crusader Kings II: Viking Metal
Crusader Kings II: The Reaper's Due
Crusader Kings II: The Reaper's Due Content Pack
Crusader Kings II: Full Plate Metal
Crusader Kings II: Monks and Mystics
Crusader Kings II: South Indian Portraits 5 Year Anniversary Gift

The Dark Ages might be drawing to a close, but Europe is still in turmoil. Petty lords vie against beleaguered kings who struggle to assert control over their fragmented realms. The Pope calls for a Crusade to protect the Christians in the Holy Land even as he refuses to relinquish control over the investiture of bishops - and their riches. Now is the time for greatness. Expand your demesne and secure the future of your dynasty. Fill your coffers, appoint vassals, root out traitors and heretics, introduce laws and interact with hundreds of nobles, each with their own agenda.
A good lord will always need friends to support him. But beware, as loyal vassals can quickly turn to bitter rivals, and some might not be as reliable as they seem... Stand ready, and increase your prestige until the world whispers your name in awe. Do you have what it takes to become a Crusader King?
Crusader Kings II explores one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy. Medieval Europe is brought to life in this epic game of knights, schemes, and thrones...

Key features:

Start a game at any point between 1066 and 1337 and play until 1453
Pick a Christian lord and make sure his dynasty survives as you play a succession of his descendants through the ages
Gain Prestige for every successive character you play, furthering the glory of your Dynasty
Expand your feudal domain - and keep it from falling apart
Unravel the plots of your courtiers and vassals, each with their own opinions and agendas
Take up the Cross and fight the Moor, the Heathen and the Heretic.
Defend against the onslaught of the Mongol Horde
Struggle with the Pope for control of the bishops
Relive the Middle Ages with up to 32 other players in a competitive multiplayer mode

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 16.04 x64
Processor: IntelR PentiumR IV 2.4 GHz or AMD 3500+Memory: 4 GB Hard disk space: 2 Gb Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 6750 / NVIDIA GeForce 320 / NVIDIA GeForce> 9600 or higher. 1024MB graphics memory required.
Memory: 4 GB Hard disk space: 2 Gb Video Card: ATI Radeon HD 6750 / NVIDIA GeForce 320 / NVIDIA GeForce> 9600 or higher. 1024MB graphics memory required.

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