Comments on: Crusader Kings: Deus Vult http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/07/31/crusader-kings-deus-vult/ The Best Strategy Game Blog in My House Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:15:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Troy http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/07/31/crusader-kings-deus-vult/comment-page-1/#comment-101710 Troy Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:40:21 +0000 http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/07/31/crusader-kings-deus-vult/#comment-101710 I think that if a game has characters in competition with each other, anything that makes this competition clear and meaningful is a "do". Though I'm not sure how your system has evolved since we last "spoke", even something as simple as opposing traits could work, like it does in Civ 4. Similar traits give a bonus, opposites a malus, events could increase or decrease things, etc. I think that if a game has characters in competition with each other, anything that makes this competition clear and meaningful is a “do”. Though I’m not sure how your system has evolved since we last “spoke”, even something as simple as opposing traits could work, like it does in Civ 4. Similar traits give a bonus, opposites a malus, events could increase or decrease things, etc.

]]> By: Michael A. http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/07/31/crusader-kings-deus-vult/comment-page-1/#comment-101647 Michael A. Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:23:50 +0000 http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/07/31/crusader-kings-deus-vult/#comment-101647 I look forward to any further thoughts you might have. I won't get around to this any time soon myself, so its always interesting to read what others think and add to one's list of "dos" and "donts". I look forward to any further thoughts you might have. I won’t get around to this any time soon myself, so its always interesting to read what others think and add to one’s list of “dos” and “donts”.

]]> By: Troy http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/07/31/crusader-kings-deus-vult/comment-page-1/#comment-100815 Troy Sun, 07 Oct 2007 22:38:48 +0000 http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/07/31/crusader-kings-deus-vult/#comment-100815 I'll have a more complete evaluation once I've put some campaigns through the works. But here's a thumbnail sketch. I mostly like the friends/rivals thing. It works fairly well in helping you focus your attention on specific individuals who could cause you trouble, and, as a vassal, friendship and rivalry give you some additional calculations to consider. (If I revolt against England will my friend Essex support me?) Events are set up to let you choose between expanding the friendship to form a circle of mutual support or turning the rivalry into armed camps. It doesn't, however, work to keep the larger AI controlled domains united. They still collapse very quickly, even if the King has a legion of admirers. And there are a lot of events tied to the friend/rival mechanic that are needlessly repetitive. There are a lot of little things in DV that, added together, make CK even better, though there are some new stability issues that have forced me to go to earlier autosaves a few times. I’ll have a more complete evaluation once I’ve put some campaigns through the works. But here’s a thumbnail sketch.

I mostly like the friends/rivals thing. It works fairly well in helping you focus your attention on specific individuals who could cause you trouble, and, as a vassal, friendship and rivalry give you some additional calculations to consider. (If I revolt against England will my friend Essex support me?) Events are set up to let you choose between expanding the friendship to form a circle of mutual support or turning the rivalry into armed camps.

It doesn’t, however, work to keep the larger AI controlled domains united. They still collapse very quickly, even if the King has a legion of admirers. And there are a lot of events tied to the friend/rival mechanic that are needlessly repetitive.

There are a lot of little things in DV that, added together, make CK even better, though there are some new stability issues that have forced me to go to earlier autosaves a few times.

]]> By: Michael A. http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/07/31/crusader-kings-deus-vult/comment-page-1/#comment-100801 Michael A. Sun, 07 Oct 2007 21:07:23 +0000 http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2007/07/31/crusader-kings-deus-vult/#comment-100801 So how is it. Will you elaborate on this here? I'm particularly interested in how the friend/rival thing works, as this is a mechanism that I have in Imperium, and at least superficially identical. So how is it. Will you elaborate on this here? I’m particularly interested in how the friend/rival thing works, as this is a mechanism that I have in Imperium, and at least superficially identical.

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