Getting Imperator vibes from this one
I think original Imperator was much more of a problem from the userbase, but ironically Imperator 2.0 is much better than Vicky3. Sadly crucial is that Imperator 2.0 is still a typical barebones Paradox release so it didn't get good enough to bring people back even if it would have kept users on launch.
CK3's sim isn't detailed enough to have really meaningful child gameplay sadly. Imagine a particular super successful ruler who is a bit sociopathic and so his kid really hates him. Not really possible to have neglect or misunderstanding based intergeneration conflict. Also most children exist merely as a canvas on which a very small number of mostly random events are painted. All the things that make kids fun are impossible in the Paradox engine, and they probably wouldn't be smart enough to make engaging child gameplay even if they could.
His patch review thread was gold, the guy knows how to write. Very cutting, but witty enough to get away with it where others wouldn't.
The Victoria 3 line ends on those Steam charts sometime in early Jan because that's when it permanently dropped below 10k users. Not looking good indeed, but as always with Pdox, the first few DLC sales will tell whether they keep investing in it or not. Imperator got 3 IIRC before they gave up.
I'm banned from there but to be fair it is better for my happiness. I just can't brown nose hard enough to avoid bans if something really lets me down. I could go a few threads with jokes but I would lose the war eventually.
to be fair to the Moon Landing programme Paradox DLCs can raise more cash than the US Government
Mostly Mechanical Mods is putting out a ton of mods to fill mechanical holes in the game. Of course they don't have a ton of AI integration I don't think, but still. Better characters interactions, friendships, kid stuff, marriage stuff, etc. Luckily the CK3 audience is dumb and shallow as fuck and won't actually notice the AI not doing anything with this stuff.
I dunno man, I tried the Elder Kings mod since I had quite a bit of fun with it in CK2, but here it just failed to salvage the thing. I mean, adding progress bars to conversions rather than leaving it to RNG means that shit gets religion and culture converted super fast everywhere, muh custom religions mean that nothing seems to have proper flavour, the UI is ass and an endless frustration, and there just seems to be nothing fun to do at all.
Yeah,that is the just of all the paradox games. Mechanically they are the same garbo you get bored after a few games. Flavour is what gives reason to play the games,playing as china should feel different than playing with england for example. Now they have stream lined everything and feels boring. At this point everything they do is add a button that give you a bonus to a number. It is cookie clicker.
So mods have pretty granular control of the UI in CK3. What part of the AI is really off putting? The theme/flavor? The controls? The annoying large 3D model images shoved everywhere?
Now.
Nothing seems to have the same devs. I recall someone was asking why message settings (ways to prevent the million annoying popups that constitute gameplay to some) were not in CK3 when they'd been in 2. The answer was it's a different dev team and there are no company wide policies/best practices on anything.
