Crusader Kings III News

• Added Golden Lineage trait for the Greatest of Khans and their descendants, replacing the GoK house modifier
  
• Added Ask to Join Confederation interaction, so players can hop into existing confederation on their own initiative
  
• Added a Confederation Member guest pool to activities, so the members of your Confederation will be invited to activities
  
• Added an important action to join your Tributaries’ wars
  
• Dominating a Title now bypasses existing truces
  
• Tribal era innovations now provide some Nomad specific bonuses
  
• Added a Reindeer internal yurt building that provides county fertility bonuses in Forest and Taiga terrain
  
• External yurt levels now have unique names
  
• Gives Mogyer Confederation the Confederation Elective succession law, and gives Almos Arpad the First King of the Confederation modifier
  
• Adds horse animations to the Warhorse story cycle, and diversifies background art
  
• Steppe-culture castle and city holdings will now use art associated with their geographical region, and the steppe will use MENA holding art
  
• Audits character window and event backgrounds for some general improvements, as well as specific steppe and tribal updates
  
• Steppe-culture non-nomads (feudal, clan etc.) use backgrounds appropriate to their geographical region, ex. Western backgrounds in France, Indian backgrounds in India
  
• Steppe-culture non-nomads use MENA backgrounds everywhere in the steppe if their location’s religion is Muslim, and otherwise: MENA backgrounds everywhere but the western steppe or Siberia (where they use Western backgrounds)
  
• Steppe-culture tribals and landless adventurers use nomadic backgrounds in most cases
  
• Tribals will use appropriate tribal-looking fallback backgrounds in more cases, rather than generic western feudal fallbacks
  
• Improves Mongol invasion events with some updated loc, music, animations, backgrounds
  

• Government type and vassal stance filters no longer resets whenever a subject contract gets modified
  
• Fixed an issue where no courtiers were generated for landed characters because of a faulty check on filled council positions
  
• You can no longer mug herders
  
• Cumania will no longer be named Khazaria in 1066 and 1178 start dates
  
• Lowered the frequency of AIs asking for Paizas
  
• Recently Sacked modifier now has a mixed martial icon
  
• Added a 10-year cooldown to A Servant of WitchGodName event
  
• Greatest of Khans Domicile will no longer bypass locked domicile slots
  
• Iron Cavalry and Wolves of the Deep Steppe are not shown as potential to every culture in the game anymore
  
• Bring Under Tribute CB has correct info about which Tributary Contracts will be established
  
• Fixed tooltip for Herders County Fertility effects from the Seasons
  
• Adopt Feudal Ways decision - the check for Tribes of the North culture is no longer visible for everyone
  
• Organize Court task for Yeke Jarquchi Court Position now correctly increases Aptitude of other Court Positions
  
• The Skull Collection internal upgrade for the Court Yurt now properly affects the agent joining chance for Schemes.
  
• Schemes are no longer sometimes incorrectly invalidated when loading a save
  
• The Impose Obedience intent is no longer visible if you don't own Tours & Tournaments
  
• The Byzantine throne room will no longer appear in unrelated Steppe cultures
  
• Both Heavy Horse Archers and Horse Archers now count towards the Horse Breeders cultural tradition discount
  
• The Tribes of the North cultural tradition only requires the Khans of the Steppe DLC now
  
• The Steppe by Steppe achievement now takes into account the expanded areas of the Steppe through the Expand the Steppe decision
  
• The Peace of the Great Khan decision no longer turns your government into a Republic
  
• Opinion now properly affects the migration acceptance
  
• The Vassals Cannot Migrate current situation tooltip is now more clear
  
• Reactive advice for razing holdings as a nomad now takes the cooldown into consideration
  
• Added a new trigger for checking if a holding could be razed by a nomad to improve the reactive advice for razing holdings
  
• The Pleasure Dome building is always enabled after building it, even if your culture no longer has the Turkic or Mongolic heritage
  
• The tooltip for the stargazer now correctly states you need to not be a kurultai member, rather than just "is not a councilor"
  
• Added new defines for determining how many commanders are generated for mercenary and holy order titles
  
• Landless rulers no longer have a max dread of zero
  
• Fixed values displayed for contributed herd from herder tributaries in the realm subjects window
  
• Fixed a bug where co-monarchs' would show up as "co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-co-[title]" when they were becoming an independent ruler
  
• Fixed information about culture heads determined by herd in the culture window
  
• Fixed a softlock when the travel planning window was open
  
• Fixed nomads being charged gold for reducing maa size and receiving double herd back in some cases
  
• Made the game rule for nomadic situations unique so they are findable by type
  
• Fixed crash when trying to update a null province's domicile location cache
  
• Fixed white screen soft lock when canceling from iron man save interface
  
• Claims now use the base name of a title
  
• Added cost icon to men-at-arms that are creatable because of a tributary contract
  
• Vassals being targeted by the migration interaction now defer to their liege as the interaction recipient
  
• Prevented men_at_arms_limit modifier to drop the max size of men-at-arms regiments below 0
  
• Improved levy contribution tooltip when inspecting vassal and tributary levy contributions in the realm window
  
• Vassals of tributaries now contribute levies to the tributary's suzerain
  
• Made levies income row visible for nomads since they can get levies from feudal tributaries and vassals
  
• Fixed calculation for adjusted county fertility decline
  
• Fixed noble family rating growing from house members outside realm
  
• Fixed many court positions randomly invalidating for nomads during migration or when the holders got wounded/ill/old
  
• Fixed a bug causing parts of some subject contracts to be reset when loading a save
  
• Fixed bookmark characters not always wearing what their bookmark showed them wearing
  
• Fixed the Cuman war mask not being selectable in the barbershop
  
• Made the confederation_member script list work properly
  
• Made visit settlement for adventurers work as it should in herder and nomad holdings
  
• Explicitly cancels a character's tributary contract once they become a vassal
  
• Cancels truces both ways when a tributary contract is cancelled
  
• A suzerain and a tributary are no longer referred to as 'liege' and 'vassal' in the subject contract window
  
• Improved the tooltips for the court position tasks 'blend cultures' and 'accommodate tributaries', so they describe in detail how much they will increase cultural acceptance
  
• Fixed issue in army window where there was a lot of lag opening the screen when you had a lot of special troops
  
• Suzerains who join defensive wars should not be listed as allies when starting offensive wars. Also properly excluded defensive-only allies when calculating military strength with clear attacker-defender relation
  
• Reduces incidents of peasant characters wearing rags while married to noble characters
  
• AI will now use Herd to ransom themselves
  
• Prevents priest characters in nomad flavor events from being deleted or moved to the pool after being hired
  

• Limits Blood Brotherhood to same-gender characters, unless both are rulers or gender law is Equal
  
• Rebalanced Temujin’s conqueror event to give smaller immediate rewards, but recurring bonuses over the next few years
  
• Temujin’s conqueror event won’t give the Mongol Empire title, but clears the cooldown for Dominate Title
  
• Made it likely Temujin’s conqueror event will happen earlier, while he is ~30-40 years old
  
• Adds Herd effects to random conqueror events and their modifiers, making them more suitable for nomads
  
• Balanced MaA ai quality so that nomads will hire more diverse MaA types, and be less obsessed with Steppe Raiders
  
• Reduced the number of Confederations being formed and reduced the acceptance chance once they have 3 members.
  
• Low Prowess and Low Dominance decreases marriage acceptance for Nomads
  
• Player characters starting in regions that have Extra Nomads game rule turned on will always have Nomadic government (unless playing as a historically tribal culture in their area, such as Ethiopian in the Horn of Africa region)
  
• Readjusted the inspection tree for nomadic rulers, removing some settled elements and giving them access to more elements from the Adventurer variant of the tree instead
  
• Made levels 1 and 2 of the Herd Barter internal upgrade allow you to sell 10% of herd for a 10:1 exchange ratio, Levels 3 and 4 15% for 8:1, Levels 5 and 6 20% for 6:1
  
• Removed the option to sell more and earn more from the event you get after taking the Summoning Wealthy Visitors: Local Offers decision
  
• Non-nomadic characters targeted by the migration interaction are now much less willing to peaceably give up their lands
  
• Reduced herder fertility growth bonus from pastoralists and the communal ethos from 2 to 0.35 (roughly the same as one single province with steppe terrain)
  
• Reduced sources of knight effectiveness % from nomad yurt buildings
  
• Reduced duration of First King of the Confederation modifier and added title creation cost malus
  
• Potential GoK’s tributaries (and rulers below them) are prevented from joining the Great War of Defiance, reducing difficulty for the potential GoK in most circumstances
  
• AI are more likely to take the Become GoK decision when they are valid for it
  
• Adds vassal herd modifier to Disciplinarian Accolade
  

• Added domicile building icon for reindeer yurt
  
• Added Golden Lineage trait icon
  

• Added a fix to the traits possibly pushing buttons out of the list widget
  
• Made trait overspill hide under button or bottom right box in character lists
  
• Fixes for culture names pushing interface
  
• Toast messages fired during succession are now properly animated and no longer half transparent
  
• Improved the Migration window when playing nomadic situations other than The Great Steppe such as the Sápmi
  
• Fixed issue causing subject opinion changes not to show in tooltips when modifying subject contracts for tributaries
  
• Separated barony and character modifiers in the UI for domicile buildings
  
• Updated the Dominance level indicators on the Nomad widget
  

• Added information about the change of Obedience acceptance in Legitimacy tooltips
  
• Improved display of edge case fail conditions for Negotiate Obedience interaction
  
• Lowered Eyelid options are now properly localized
  
• Updated the Domicile game concept to reflect their current succession behavior
  
• Improved the description of Sovereignty CB
  
• Fixed the localization for the disband_confederation effect
  
• Changed mention of vassal in tax tooltips to subject
  
• Fixed loc of Situation game concept
  

• Renamed black horde to red horde which would be more suitable with cardinal direction color assignment
  

• Added a new neighboring_top_overlords_connected_by_land ai_recipients list that targets overlords of neighbors that are connected to them by land (including through tributaries)
  
• Added define to control the maximum size of horde riders independent of maa modifiers that a character might have
  

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• Fixed Veils not being removable in the Barbershop
  
• Fixed the Stand and Fight tradition giving too much Heavy Cavalry toughness %
  
• Made sure that players always start with a minimum of 7 Courtiers (unless they're adventurers)
  
• Made it possible to launch the special Hungarian migration via Decision even if you're nomadic
  
• Fixed most instances of getting Chaotic Succession kurultai events because someone else in your family died
  
• Fixed a crash that could happen if a domicile is spawned without a valid location
  
• Fixed a crash that could happen if you manage to switch to an unplayable character
  
• Fixed the conditions for the MENA throne room to appear, that caused some Steppe cultures to use the Byzantine throne room instead
  
• Fixed the effects of the Peace of the Great Khan decision that caused some steppe counties to be turned into republics
  

• Lowered efficiency of reinforcing MaA with Herd from 0.75 to 0.4 (1 MaA is now 2,5 Herd, up from 1,3)
  
• Lowered efficiency of reinforcing MaA with Gold for Nomads from 4 to 1.5 (1 MaA is now 0.66 Gold, up from 0.25)
  
• If suffering from a Chaotic Succession, it's now a 3/4 chance of receiving the Major consequences if you qualify for them (up from 1/4), and a 2/3 chance to suffer from medium consequences if you qualify for them
  
• Made the 'Realm Split' outcomes of Chaotic Succession more common
  
• Made non-nomads care about fewer positive Tributization modifiers, and made them less likely to want to willingly submit to nomads in general (tribals are slightly more likely than feudals)
  
• Added a -25 County Control penalty to Counties gained via the Demand Pastureland interaction
  
• Added Growth penalties to Herders and Settled Rulers during a Severe Drought (-0.5), White Zud (-2) and Cold Zud (-1) to make it harder to keep high fertility by releasing/demanding pasture land
  
• Increased the Fertility Decline from White Zud (40% to 80%) and Cold Zud (30% to 40%) for Nomadic rulers
  
• Reduced the Fertility Growth percentage during a White Zud (-40% to -80%) for Herders and Settled Rulers
  
• Added an immediate Fertility reduction for Herders when a bad season starts (-50 during a White Zud, -25 during a Cold Zud, -10 during a Severe Drought)
  
• Added County Control reduction when a bad season takes over for Nomadic rulers in all held counties: -25 for a White Zud and Havsarsan Zud, -10 for Cold Zud
  
• Added Herd loss during a White Zud for Nomadic rulers: 10% of their current herd during a White Zud, 20% during a Havsarsan Zud
  
• Increased the Herd Gain penalty for Nomadic rulers during a Severe Drought (-5% to -10%), White Zud (-10% to -40%) and Havsarsan Zud (-30% to -80%)
  
• Added Prestige loss to the failure outcome of the Steal Herd scheme
  
• Reduced the initial max success chance of the Steal Herd scheme (from 40 to 30)
  
• Reduced base acceptance for the Negotiate Obedience character interaction (from -50 to -95) and added a medium Prestige cost scaling with Dominance level
  
• Removed White Zud from the possible initial seasons on game starts, and rebalanced the chances for the others (40% Abundant Grazing, 20% Severe Drought, 20% Cold Zud, 20% Everlasting Summer)
  
• Reduced the base Prestige gain from a Great Nerge from 300 to 250
  
• Reduced the base Prestige gain from an Excellent Nerge from 400 to 350, and the Gold from 350 to 250
  
• Halved the values of all Herd gained through the Raid Intents and fixed the tooltips to reflect this: from 400% to 200% for Pillage, from 200% to 100% for Capture, from 600% to 300% for Plunder and from 400% to 200% for Adventure
  
• Reduced the base reluctance of the recipient for the Pledge Tribute character interaction (from -100 to -50)
  
• Added new Cultural Traditions to the Hunnic culture: Pastoralists, Horse Breeders and Recognition of Talent
  
• Lowered the exchange ratio obtained through the Summon Wealthy Visitors decision if the Herd Barter domicile building is constructed: from 6:1 to 10:1 in levels 1 and 2, from 4:1 to 8:1 for levels 3 and 4 and from 2:1 to 6:1 for levels 5 and 6
  

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