For Xbox CK3, is there a Way to play without paying $20/month for online?

Anyone interested in playing modded stellaris with me. I'm CST timezone but I'm pretty much available whenever since I'm homeschooled. Would love to find some people to play with.

Tl;DR: paradox launcher will not work. It consistently crashes.

Hey there! I am wondering if anyone has ran into any similar problems and if there exists a solution. I got CK3 on the sale this past week and I have been trying to run it on my lap top that runs windows 11. When I download the game from steam and try to run it, paradox launcher will automatically start to download, and then crash during the installation with a "critical failure" error

When I delete the game files, and steam, then go to down load the paradox launcher it actually works no problem. Then I go to Steam, down load that as well as the game files, it will boot up to the start menu. I press play and it gives another error.

I do want to use mods, but i haven't subscribed to any of them yet, as I know those can cause problems on the first pass through. Any help is appreciated!

Hello all, wanted to share my feelings with you on how the AI perceives the player. In CK2 even if you were of different faith and culture if you were a big kingdom knocking on your neighbouring duke that somehow decided to get independence from his liege it was pretty straightforward he is close to accepting as his strength is 900 and yours 9000 you send a gift he accepts, maybe you have to sway him a while ok sure but in CK2 small dukes and counts are suicidally ignorant of their position

I play a Greco Roman Italian cause I wanted to do a Rome fanboy thing, all goes semi well, as well as one can go being a heathen in Italy but eventually after almost 100 years I have all of Italy and pope is gone my kingdom has 10k+ soldiers. Time to take on the Byzantines for the prestigious title etc. on I go. Somehow without realising the catholics pull a fourth crusade in 1040 and break the empire. I was happy instead of pain stacking duchy by duchy, pause to find landless courtiers to inherit repeat I can start demanding vassalizations from the 40 dukes that just appeared.

Character 18 diplomacy, diplomacy focus, decent traits, just, diligent. Coffers full. Due to fun raid time while a vassal. I begin with the one next to me Nope (minus 270) what? This is absurd ! I look through the negatives and its culture and the faith. That was never a problem before, the game was at least able to calculate that 10k vs 400 not good now they just say no. I learned Greek, send them gifts (have thoughtful) swayed them out of curiosity . Still absurdly far from even single digit negative. So here I go holy warring duchy by duchy. Wth ? Is there something I am missing or did they made stuff like that impossible From a historical/ political standpoint no tiny duke would do that nor from an rpg perspective. Every AI check screams accept. It’s so annoying

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It seems like the developers are more focused on the rpg side of the game. Do you think we will see improvements on the game systems like trade and economics in the future?

New players here. I just had my 1st game as Castile. Things were fine at the beginning. Inherited Portugal and took down Aragon. But things went downhill once I did not honor the Call of Arm from France. Relationship went bad and France became my rival. Once the war broke out, I was just curbstomped by France. Morocco and even Persia declared war on me sometime later and I just decided to quit the game.

Is it more recommended to bow down to France and focus more on the colonization ?

i don’t want to have to go into the console every time, and not ever have an ironman save

If so, what draws you to it?

I’m talking specifically about a few people who do those guides, you know they have silly facial hair or maybe wear shit headgear for no apparent reason and speak with what I call the “paradox gamer” voice which can be just irritating or barely understandable whether they are originally English or not. Normal guys who stream and just play the game aren’t like this and it’s putting me off.

Hello, I’m a complete beginner in Europa Universalis IV. I’m playing as the Ottomans, and all the Internal Power Struggle modifiers have been triggered. Is reloading the game the only solution?

I'm thinking about starting a paradox strategy game but I want to start with something that is already at 100%. Likely I would like to play the latest that fit the requirement but I'm open to play any older one. Please give me some options

Ive seen them on the steam workshop and i heard that they are easy to make but every tutorial i find dont work if anyone knows and could help me i would be very greatful

Finally arrived! Stocked to see Kaiser and Conq later.

I will not buy game and DLC again. I wont be buying any of your games anymore.

The new Gotterdamurung DLC has brought some cool new things. It finally fleshed out nuclear bombs to be a more involved process, it brought some fun super weapons onto the table, and it fleshed out one of the biggest players in World War II.

And that last part is the problem. I will preempt by saying this, I do not usually like playing Germany so my experience playing them is limited even after this DLC came out. However, this problem has been a thing since Hoi4’s inception, and this DLC bring wacky fun alt history things has exasperated this problem to its final extreme.

Himmler has his own focus tree path. Himmler, for some background, is the architect of the Holocaust and is the second most evil person to have ever existed behind Hitler himself. Before the DLC if Hitler was assassinated Himmler was the guy who took his place, that’s how important he was to the Nazi government.

You may notice his crowning achievement, the Holocaust. There is no mention of it in the game, despite being one of the defining events of World War II. Before the DLC this was already egregious, but now that we can play as Himmler it’s borderline Neo-Nazi propaganda. It has gotten to the point where the lack of ANY mention of it is extremely insensitive.

Meanwhile there’s all these fun little focus trees and wacky special projects like the super heavy railway guns and super heavy tanks yippee! While ignoring the fact that many of the things within the focus tree represent was toward the goal of genocide and ethnic cleansing of all non Aryan peoples. The Nazis were the BAD GUYS, and this game does not properly encapsulate why they were the bad guys.

This has been a problem for the entirety of Hoi4. In fact, this level of strange non-acknowledgement of horrific ideologies has already happened. When Man the Guns came out, you could play as the Confederate States of America as the fascist path. The first thing that came to my mind was “Why the hell would I want to do that?”. There’s a reason almost no YouTubers have videos of Fascist US, beyond the fact that civil wars are unfun. Why the hell would they want to play as the bad guys, ESPECIALLY bad guys that have proven to still be relevant today in US politics?

However, at least for the US it is treated as an almost comically evil choice. There’s a focus in this path that involves restricting voting rights for example. Whilst Paradox didn’t explicitly state “this is the evil path where all the evil things happen” the way the focuses are worded you could only not get that impression if you were already a Confederate sympathizer.

You do not get this same treatment with Germany, and that’s because the Holocaust is not mentioned. I understand Paradox’s unwillingness to bring it into their game, but we are at the point where not doing so speaks more volumes than otherwise. The Holocaust had a massive effect on Germany’s strategies and capabilities in WWII, and ultimately was one of the reasons they lost the war because they spent so much industrial effort murdering tens of millions of people.

We are at a breaking point. Paradox can no longer ignore the elephant in the room unless they inevitably want their audience to become further inundated and eventually overrun with Holocaust denying Neo-Nazis. Their business model and general viewpoint regarding issues like these is no longer applicable. Something’s gotta give. They either have to implement the Holocaust in some way or they have to completely rewrite the entire German focus tree to better reflect the Nazi ideology and evil with it.

If you've seen or played any grand campaign before you'll notice the lack of any culture/tag that's based on migration. The main nation missing from every GC is of course Hungary.

Are there any CK2 or CK3 mods that force these migrations?

Clearly a classic Grand Campaign would involve Imperator Rome (or EU: Rome if you're a masochist)->Crusader Kings (preferably with a modified WtWSMS mod)->Europa Universalis->Victoria->Hearts of Iron, but would there be any other games that you could potentially integrate as side stories to setup alternate starts in other sections of the world (especially during the conversion to Europa Universalis)?

Some that specifically come to mind are:
Sengoku with the Monumenta Iaponiae Historica mod or CKII with the Nova Monumenta Iaponiae Historica mod to create an alternate starting position for Japan

Tlatoani: Aztec Cities. Still in early access, but depending on how it turns out could work as an alternate start for Central America

Games covering the Three Kingdoms period are a little early, but if there were any modifications covering the 16 Kingdoms period those could work for establishing the state of China if you're using CKII with Jade Dragon DLCs

Any other thoughts people have? Anything that might touch on North or South America, deep sub-Saharan Africa, or South-East Asia?

how can I find the photo of the new main menu backround photo?

Any paradox games from Impertor Rome, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Victoria or Hearts of iron and any mods of these games that I can follow. Preferably the player was Roleplaying not necessarily trying to always make the best decisions or win. thanks you.

Is that the start date now pretty much completely coincides with the fall of Cahokia. I wonder how this will be modeled in the game and if Cahokia will be playable and have content relating to its fall or if it won't be playable and will be considered fully collapsed by the start date. If it is playable it might be an interesting region to play in, especially given how much the plains changed with the arrival of Europeans further south for a while before ever actually meeting Europeans themselves.

Edit: if anyone's not familiar Cahokia was a Mississippian city which at it's height had a population of up to 20 000 people and built massive pyramid mounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia