CK2Plus-1.00 changelog

CK2Plus for Crusader Kings 2
Author: Martin "Wiz" Anward
Contact: m(dot)anward(at)live(dot)se
Credits: Zaldax (An Offer You Can't Refuse), Velho e Bom Joe (Culturally Different Cities), Icecream Jones (flags, new countries), Strudel Man (many tweaks and additions), NoNotTheMindProbe (russian kingdoms), pothkan (CK2 heraldy mod), Keanon (Patrum Scuta), The_Chancellor (Council Reshuffling mod), avee (Better Rebels mod, Death Causes mod), Sniper4625 (misc graphics), Van Diemen (HRE Revised Mod), riso (Treaty of Nymphaeum scenario), Six Gun South (PMM)

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* Installation *
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1) If you have an older version of the mod installed, go into the Crusader Kings II mod folder and delete the 'CK2Plus' folder and .mod file.
2) Unzip to your Crusader Kings II folder. IMPORTANT: The mod files should go into your GAME INSTALLATION folder, NOT your My Documents/Paradox Interactive folder.
3) Start the CK2 launcher and check 'CK2Plus (MAIN)' in the list of mods.
4) Check any optional modules you want to use along with CK2Plus.
5) Hit play.

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* Disclaimer *
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CK2Plus is a collaborative effort. While most of the work is done by me personally, it also includes parts of many other mods (see credits for full list). You are free to use any part of this mod in your own mods as long as you give due credit to the creator of said part.

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* Features *
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- More provinces and sea zones.
- Civil wars are more dangerous and any vassal that wins an independence war will also achieve victory for any other independence wars in progress.
- Holy Wars cost piety to fight, so that the general rate of expansion in Iberia and the Middle East is slowed. Overseas Holy Wars cost a large amount of piety, and the AI will largely avoid fighting them. Crusades/Jihads are not affected.
- Balanced Anti-Popes that are not simply endless money machines.
- More lethal diseases and battles, making medieval life the violent and uncertain existance it should be.
- Many more Empires and Kingdoms to create.
- More mercenaries and holy orders.
- More cultures.
- It is now more difficult but also more rewarding to raise your crown authority.
- Tweaked succession laws to make it possible for non-Basques to use Absolute Cognatic. Authority requirements for other succession laws have also been eased.
- Rebalanced levies and laws that reduce the military capabilities of large kingdoms with weak authority (like France or the HRE).
- More ambitions.
- Women of your dynasty can hold some council positions under Cognatic or Agnatic-Cognatic laws.
- Many minor and major balancing tweaks for a more challenging and enjoyable experience.

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* Future Plans *
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- More nuanced way of handling prisoners: A count should not be able to execute the child of a king and expect to get away with it scot free.
- More dynamic civil wars: Vassals without high loyalty that demand titles or favors to stay loyal, while loyalist vassals give you additional support.
- Vassals with whom you have marriage alliances become more loyal. Marry your way into a stable realm.
- Rebalance province values to better match history.
- Balanced heresies.
- Many more ambitions and plots.
- More character events, especially everyday life events.

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* Optional Modules *
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- 'CK2 Heraldry' is pothkan's heraldry mod that adds many new dynasty and title CoAs.
- 'No Time Limit' allows for play up to the year 100000.
- 'No New Empires' disables creation of all of the new Empire-level titles. Note that they will still show up on empire mapmode but cannot possibly be held by a character with this mode on.

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* Known Problems *
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- None!

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* Changelog *
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1.01:
- Reduced the number of Knights from Germanic/Frankish cultural buildings.

1.00:
- It is now possible to sail between the Nile Delta and the Gulf of Suez. This is necessary because otherwise the AI has issues with getting its troops stuck waiting for ships on the other side.
- Added decisions to form special titular Kingdoms for Muslims in Iberia.
- Reduced piety gain from handing titles to church, so that it is not possible to wage perpetual Holy War simply by handing out the temples you gain.
- A white peace in an independence war will no longer result in independence.
- Winning an independence war will now result in all other independence wars against the same target being automatically won. Ideally I would have liked to make independence war a war where you can call in other vassals who also become independent if you win, but this does not seem to be possible to do.
- Winning a war to replace your liege (by any of the various CBs) will now end any wars with the same general goal inconclusively.
- Winning a Religious Defense war will now end any offensive Crusade or Religious Wars the enemy is fighting against your religion. Any other Religious Defense wars your faith is waging against the same target will also end inconclusively.
- It is now possible to wage Holy War against distant enemies. Such a war is distinguished by a different name: Religious Invasion. A Religious Invasion costs 250 piety and cannot be declared if your piety is below 0.
- It now costs 100 piety to wage a Holy War on a neighbouring enemy. You cannot declare a Holy War if your piety is below 0. This is meant to represent Church/Temple approval of your war, and also to slow down the general pace of expansion.
- Changed the way invasions work. Instead of taking all occupied titles, you now get all titles the target character was holding which fall under the Kingdom you were invading. So if William wins the Norman Invasion, he takes the Kingdom of England and all English Counties, Duchies and Baronies Harold was holding.
- Pagans can now wage Holy Wars.
- Made the AI more reluctant to expand into Ethiopia.
- Axum is once again independent at game start.
- Added preferred terrain types for different unit/tactics. For instance, Pikemen will perform better in hills and mountains but poorly in forests, while light cavalry will do well in forests and deserts but poorly in mountains.
- Changed all battle tactic stats into standardized formulas.
- Linked battle morale break point with generals martial stat (flanks with no general will break at 50% morale, decreasing in increments to 25% break point at 20+ martial skill).
- Added mild defensive bonuses to most terrain types.
- Added the Have Fifteen Children and Have Twenty Children ambitions. Completing the Have Twenty Children ambition will give you a special nickname.
- Orthodox Priests can now marry.
- AI Barons will now get married instead of letting their dynasties die out.
- Feasts, Grand Hunts and Summer Fairs now cost a fixed amount of money depending on your title rank. Many of the events related to them have also been given fixed gold costs.
- Titular titles can no longer have Elective succession (as they have no valid electors).
- You now have a small chance of fabricating claims on a Duchy, even if your Chancellor has < 15 skill.
- Your chance of successfully fabricating a claim is now increased by having high prestige.
- Increased the prestige cost of fabricating claims to 200/500 for County/Duchy.
- Increased the wrong holding type penalty to -66%.
- Reduced the effects of ambitious and content to -30/+30 respectively.
- Added a decision to automatically arrange marriages for all eligible bachelors in your court. The characters will primarily marry women in your court, but if there is not enough women then random spouses will be generated for them. This decision is meant for people like me who like to have a large court but don't want to go through the tedious micromanagement of finding spouses for every male courtier. Close relatives of yours will not be affected by this decision, so you won't accidentally marry your son or daughter to a courtier.
- Switching out of Elective now requires High Crown Authority.
- Localisation should no longer be a mess in non-default language settings, though all the text from the mod will be in English.
- Tweaked province names, laws and borders in Poland.
- Integrated the 'Offer You Can't Refuse' mod that adds Sicilian cultural melting pots.
- Characters now have a 5% chance of gaining the culture of their province shortly after birth.
- Rulers can now 'go native', converting them and any children of theirs below the age of 16 to the culture of their capital province. Kings and Emperors are much less likely to go native. The chance to go native goes down with age. The player gets an option to avoid it happening to their character.
- Removed Warrior Cults. Instead, Pagans start with more regular troop buildings.
- East Africa, Sicily and Christian Iberia now start with more troop buildings.
- Removed the direct warscore bonus for holding contested settlements.
- Doubled the yearly warscore bonus for holding contested settlements.
- Tweaked it so that Barons can't convert the culture of a province. This should slow down rate of culture conversion.
- Reduced truce time for Ducal Claim wars to 6 years.
- Reduced truce time for County Claim wars to 3 years.
- The ruler of Mallorca in 1066 is now much more historical.
- Religious Head and Holy Order titles will now automatically convert characters holding them to their religion.
- Rebalanced province values in Russia and Scandinavia. Overall development potential of provinces was reduced.
- You will no longer have vassals declare independence wars without warning. Instead, vassal revolt risk and effects of regencies/civil wars were tweaked so that revolt chain reactions should happen on their own (see below).
- Added a decision to become King of Wends if you are Wend Pagan ruler that holds the Duchies of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Pommerania or Pomeralia either directly or through vassals.
- The AI will now make proper use of demesne laws.
- Tax laws are now tied to crown authority in the same way as Levy laws. Default tax laws are None for Feudal vassals and Minimum for Church and City vassals. This should put large Duchies at more of a disadvantage to proper Kingdoms.
- Added the county of Teate in Benevento to make the borders between Sicily and Lombardy more historical.
- Fixed some bugs related to heresies.
- You will no longer get tyranny from characters dying in your prison unless they died as a result of illnesses contracted from being in prison.
- Sick or injured prisoners will now ask for better accomondations, even if they were previously denied them. This is meant to give the player a second chance to avoid a tyranny hit if a prisoner falls ill.
- The dungeon and the oubliette no longer give direct health maluses, instead they make it much more likely to catch an illness.
- Rebalanced the Mongols to have fewer but larger stacks.
- Reduced the effects of dynastic prestige on marriages and newly born characters (having babies born with 500 prestige was getting silly).
- Winning a Holy War or Crusade will now result in taking the Duchy title the war was for, if the enemy is holding it. You still get all the holdings in the Duchy.
- Created an event will make the AI much smarter about handing out newly created Duchy titles, preferring to give them to Counts with their capital in the right area, or alternatively granting them along with a County to a Courtier, only granting a Duke title to an existing Duke if there are no better alternatives. This will only sometimes work on revoked/usurped titles, as the AI is sometimes too fast for my handout event to take effect.
- The Duchy of Tyrol is no longer divided by impassable mountains.
- Tweaked some weirdly shaped provinces.
- Tweaked Duchy borders in Algiers, and added the Duchy of Atlas.
- Added Ibiza as a County in the Duchy of Mallorca.
- Added the Kingdom of Azerbaijan as a de jure part of the Empire of Persia, composed of the Duchies of Tabriz, Azerbaijan and Derbent.
- Pommerania is now de jure a part of Germany.
- Salzburg is now a de jure part of Austria.
- Grisons is now a de jure part of Tyrol.
- Viviers is now a de jure part of Auvergne.
- Anhalt is now a de jure part of Brandenburg.
- Treviso is now a de jure part of Venice.
- Fejer is now a de jure part of Esztergom.
- Vendome is now a de jure part of Anjou.
- Damman and Basra are now de jure parts of Arabia.
- Jacwiez and Yatvagi are now de jure part of Lithuania.
- Rebellions will now rarely result in a large rebel army rising up. If the rebels take control of a province, the chance of bad rebel events (like burned buildings or killed province lords) increases, and the province may defect.
- Integrated 'culturally different cities' mod which gives different culture groups their own distinct city graphics.
- Rebalanced culture buildings so that different culture groups are roughly on part with each other.
- Cost of tech growth buildings is now consistent at 200 gold per 10% growth speed the building confers.
- Khazars now start with 2 provinces, and Itil was split into the Duchies of Itil and Saray so that nobody will have a ducal claim on them. This should give them a chance of surviving past the first five minutes of the game.
- Reduced the relations penalty for title claimaints.
- Stressed and Depressed are now mutually exclusive.
- When a character with the dishonorable trait dies, their heir will now get a 'dynastic stain' trait that confers diplomatic penalties equal to their predecessor's level of dishonorable, but which does not qualify you for excommunication or other ill effects of being dishonorable. If a character with dynastic stain is caught assassinating, the dynastic stain turns into a regular dishonorable trait at one level above what their dynastic stain level was at. Assuming you keep dynastic stain from being turned into dishonorable, it will not be transferred over to your heir. This change is meant to  add additional risk to inheritance-by-assassination, as you can now not simply wash away the consequenses by dying.

0.32:
- Fixed a bug that was causing characters not to be set as your vassals when fighting a war for their claim, even when they met the conditions for becoming your vassal.
- Byzantium now starts with Open succession to try and simulate the devastating wars for the throne that destabilized them during the CK2 era.
- Fixed a bug that was making it impossible to usurp Empire level titles.
- Jewish characters can now hire mercenaries.
- Fixed a bug that was causing crown authority to not be set correctly when forming an Empire.
- Moved Cornish to Celtic culture group.
- Crusades are now more likely to target Jerusalem.
- Crusades and Jihads are now less likely to occur after 1250.
- Rebalanced the effects of councillor job assignments.
- Sending your steward to oversee construction will now slightly lower build cost.
- To fabricate a claim, you must now have the prestige on hand: 100 for a county or 250 for a duchy. If you do not have the prestige, the event to get the claim will not fire.
- Male characters can now plot to kill heirs of titles their children are pretenders to.
- AI characters will now abort plots that are going nowhere after a few years.

0.31:
- Recently introduced debutantes are now far more likely to get into a love affair with their liege.
- Corrected some issues with the AI and the new imprisonment rules. The AI didn't understand the new rules and would rack up huge amounts of tyranny, so they were granted an exception to getting tyranny from prisoners dying.

0.30:
- Fixed a major bug that was causing characters to get Not Dejure Liege when they shouldn't be.

0.29:
- Pressing a claim on behalf of a character in your realm will now make that character independent if the claim is a higher title than the one they currently hold, UNLESS the new title is your de jure vassal or they are a member of your dynasty. This means you can't just grant a character a barony in order to abuse their claim on a duchy you have no actual rights to.
- Fixed some localisation issues.
- The Khazars are now Jewish at game start.
- Added Jewish religion.
- Renamed Qazan to Volga.
- Renamed Khazaria to Ural.
- Fixed an issue that was making the Mongols' special CB unavailable to them.
- Added proper sea zones for the Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.
- Socotra is now a province instead of being part of Busaso.
- Removed the African Levies. Instead, the Ethiopian provinces were upgraded once again and Axum is now a vassal of Abyssinia.
- Barcelona now starts as a vassal of Aragon in 1066. While this is ahistorical, I feel that Aragon being unable to ever grow beyond one province without being usurped by Barcelona is just as ahistorical.
- Increased the duration of many character modifiers from events.
- Having your capital in a province that follows a different faith will now give you a tax malus. This is to discourage players from moving their capital to Muslim provinces for the tech advantages without at least putting in the effort of converting them first.
- After creating a character via decision (Invite Marshal, Present Debutante etc) you must now wait six months before you can create another.
- Reworked lifestyle traits. Instead of weird and arbitrary event chains, lifestyle traits can now be given at any time if you have appropriate traits or have done things that relate to the lifestyle trait. For example, being Brave or going on a Grand Hunt both qualify you for Hunter. The chances of getting a lifestyle trait goes up the more appropriate traits/actions you have.
- Shiite and Sunni characters that hold either an Empire or three Kingdoms can now recreate the appropriate Caliph title if there is no current Caliph. Doing so requires 1000 gold and 1000 piety.
- Holy Wars will now slightly adjust the moral authority of both winner and loser, as long as they do not end in a white peace.
- Split the Duchy of Savoie into the Duchy of Savoie in the Kingdom of Burgundy and the Duche of Piedmont in the Kingdom of Lombardy.
- Players must now obey the same rules as the AI for plotting assassinations, meaning that you can't just plot to assassinate your wife without cause.
- Holy Orders now start the game at 1000 men each. In 1250, an event will fire that upgrades all of them to 2000 men each to make them more relevant in the late game.
- The Hashashin and Devotees of the True Prophet are no longer enabled at game start, but become enabled at the same time as the Knights of St. John.
- Added two new holy orders for Sunnis and Shiites.
- Prisoners now always have a chance to escape, with the chance being lowered for being in the dungeon and lowered even further for being in the oubliette.
- Increased the relation bonus for being released from prison to +75 (for the character being released only).
- Whenever a character of your religion dies in your prison, you will now get a tyranny hit with your vassals just as if you executed them. This is meant to encourage the player to deal with their prisoners instead of having half their realm in their dungeon. Dying while under house arrest does not count.
- When dealing with a failed escape attempt, you now have the option to execute the prisoner.
- Eased up on requirements for the HRE to get coronated.
- There is now a time limit of ten years for getting excommunicated or suffering mental ill effects from gaining the dishonorable trait. The time limit resets if you get caught with another assassination.
- You can no longer get excommunicated for murder unless you are Catholic or Orthodox.
- Reduced levy reinforce rates.

0.28:
- Tall trait is now actually in the mod.

0.27:
- Reworked the Tribal Invasion CB. Upon arriving on the map, the Mongols get one war where they simply take all land they occupy, then they get access to a Tribal Invasion CB that works like Holy War (conquering one duchy at a time) but which only has a truce time of 1 year. This should lead to less insane situations like the Golden Horde vassalizing France because France happened to hold a duchy in Russia, and should make the Mongols less prone to instant collapse from all those wrong religion/culture vassals. Additionally, this special CB goes away once they switch out of the Pagan religion group making them into a more normal tag after the initial period of expansion.
- Reduced bonus troops from being on a Crusade.
- You can once again declare war while already leading a war, but the player will not get the Defensive War or Crusade bonus if they are the attacker in any non-Crusade war.
- Increased cost of assassinations.
- Reduced effectiveness of build spy network in improving assassination chances.
- Added three new smaller merc tansport fleets.
- Added eight "mega" mercenary bands of 8000 troops.
- Rebalanced merc sizes so they range from 500-8000.
- Reduced days of damage taking during a retreat to 3 from 5 to buff smaller armies.
- Increased chances of melee initiation tactics in combat (skirmish phase was lasting too long).
- Reduced maintenance of galleys.
- Fixed a problem in my death causes integration that was making some causes not show up.
- Added a hereditary 'tall' trait that improves vassal opinion and sex appeal. It is the opposite of dwarf.

0.26:
- Compatible with 1.04b (so was 0.25 really).
- Integrated avee's death causes mod that uses traits to show you how a character died.
- Reduced the likelyhood of having affairs with close relatives.
- Reduced frequency of childbirth deaths.
- Reduced health effects of illnesses since 1.04 made low health more lethal.
- Swapped the portraits of William and Harold, as was done in vanilla.
- Increased Gavelkind demesne bonus to 33%.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the Mongols from conquering land.
- You can no longer appoint your spouse to the council. This is nearly always a terrible idea because you lose the spouse bonus to that particular stat, so this saves players from making appointments they think will increase their stats but which actually lower it.
- Fixed some duplicate event ID issues that were causing crashes.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing independence war escalation from working.
- Increased the effects of Quick, Genius, Slow and Imbecile to match vanilla values.
- When the AI wins a holy war or crusade, they will now get a very temporary (1 month) +1000 vassal relation boost to give them time to hand out titles.
- Newly formed Empires will now always start with at least Low crown authority.

0.25:
- Slightly increased the cost of building holdings.
- Characters that have the dishonorable trait can now suffer mental ill effects from being known as a murderer, especially if they have a kind disposition.
- Increased the prestige penalties to the primary heir for being ousted in an excommunication war.
- Fixed some localisation problems.
- You will no longer get excommunicated more than once for being a murderer, unless you commit additional (discovered) murders after the first excommunication.
- Female rulers will no longer get child birth events unless something goes wrong (it's handled invisibly by the newborn kid instead).
- Fixed some duplicate event ID problems.
- If a woman dies during childbirth, there is now a 50% chance the child will die as well.
- Removed the special Empire requirements for raising crown authority as it was making it nigh impossible for the AI. The HRE must still be crowned to raise authority..
- Reduced max demesne size, as currently there is little reason to have count-level vassals for Dukes considering the very generous cap. Reduced demesne requirements on raising crown authority accordingly.
- Fixed some bugs in council request events.
- Integrated new mercenaries, new holy orders and combat tweaks from PMM.
- Fixed an issue that was preventing the 'No New Empires' module from working..
- The AI should now be smarter about when to execute plots against their liege.
- Added an optional time limit remover.
- Catholic latin culture group rulers who hold the Kingdom of Thessalonica can now form the Latin Empire.

0.24:
- Fixed several major bugs with mercenaries.

0.23:
- Fixed a bug in the buildings file that was making city ports not provide any galleys.
- Reduced the size of initial Mongol stacks, to better match the smaller levies in this mod.

0.22:
- Now compatible with 1.04. Certain mechanics like the Anti-Pope relation hit with other bishops were removed as the patch made them obsolete.
- All religions are now playable.
- Vassals with land will now ask to be appointed to your council if they are better than the current councillor.
- Added an option to not be bothered with petitions about replacing characters on the council. This option lasts until your current ruler dies.
- Rulers in a civil war will now suffer a opinion hit with all characters, to offset the extra troops granted by being in a defensive war.
- Fixed a bug with forming empires where they would lose the ability to set demesne laws.
- Kings and Emperors will now get vassal troop bonuses at lower levels of crown authority if they are the defender in any war (ie war leader of the defending side) or the attacker in a war using the Crusade CB. Being attacked in a war of religious defense does NOT count as fighting a defensive war.
- Dukes and Counts will now get vassal troop bonuses at lower levels of crown authority, to represent better local control.
- Newly created Kingdoms will now start with Low Crown Authority to make the levy difference less jarring.
- Men above the age of 50 will now have reduced fertility.
- Characters above the age of 50 will now progressively lose some of their martial stats, but gain learning.
- Increased temple levy sizes, both base amount and from buildings.
- All CBs are now disabled when you are the war leader of a war, meaning you can't declare war if you have already declared war or been declared on. This was done to prevent abuse of the defensive/crusade war troop bonuses.
- The Pope will now demand the County of Rome from any Catholic character that holds it, unless that character has an Anti-Pope as their religious head or the Pope's opinion of that character is extremely high. Failing to comply will result in excommunication.
- Warrior Cults and Republican Levies are once again spread out across the entire realm as there is no way to give them to just the capital barony.
- Greatly reduced the number of bonus troops the Pope receives.
- Holy Orders now get bonus troops in provinces they hold.
- Added a weaker version of warrior cults for east african culture rulers. These can only be built in east african culture provinces inside the De Jure Empire of Ethiopia.
- Revamped grand hunt events to be less arbitrary and more focused on prestige instead of meaningless modifiers.
- The ruler's personal learning score is now the primary determinant for speed of culture spread, and plays a major role in determining the chance of your Chaplain converting provinces. This should help make religious education traits less useless for rulers.
- Slowed cultural spread down significantly.
- Many personality traits now have additional opposites. For instance, you can no longer be a chaste hedonist, greedy and content, or charitable and cruel.
- Fixed graphical issues with a couple of ambitions.
- The AI will now refrain from creating inappropriate titles (no Sultanate of Portugal for instance). Players are still free to create any title regardless of religion.
- The chance of a character being captured in battle is now dependent on rank - you'll capture less Barons and courtiers, but have an increased chance of capturing Dukes and Kings. Overall, you'll get less total prisoners but more valuable ones.
- Reworked troop bonuses for Pagans, Republics and the Pope to be spread out across the realm the way it works in vanilla. This is because I can't find a way to give the bonuses only to their capital holding if they have several holdings in their capital province.
- Kingdom crown authority is no longer tied to its parent empire unless the kingdom is a vassal or held title of the emperor in question.
- Revised the Kingdom titles a bit. Gardariki and Ruthenia were rolled back into Rus and Aquitainia and France were rolled back into France. While I think ahistorical Kingdoms/Empires are fun for the player to form, it's a bit more blatantly ahistorical when the AI always does it.
- Reduced warscore gain from occupating settlements.
- Increased warscore multiplier on occupying capital settlements.
- Increased warscore multiplier on occupying contested settlements.
- Increased warscore from battles.
- The HRE can no longer increase his crown authority unless he has been crowned by the Pope.
- Added an optional module that disables the formation of the non-vanilla Empires (they will still show up in Empire mapmode, but cannot be created and thus have no effect on gameplay).
- Requirements for increasing crown authority are now significantly higher for Emperors.
- Reduced the size of the bonus levies for the Pope.
- Provinces will no longer change culture unless your culture is the same as your top liege.
- Restored 10 years of occupation penalties for conquering wrong-religion provinces.
- Provinces will no longer convert to your culture unless they are already your religion.
- Fixed a bug that was making the Order of Santiago and Livonian Order available from game start.
- Increased lethality of battles slightly.
- Any culture can now create the Kingdom of Finland.

0.21:
- Mod renamed to CK2Plus to represent the growing collaborative effort that it is turning into.
- Heraldry mod is now bundled as a separate mod folder, and must be checked alongside CK2Plus if you want to use it. This allows users who had graphical issues with it to opt out of using it.
- Independent Dukes/Counts who are not affected by Crown Authority will now get a special bonus to the levies they can call on (equivalent to Medium Crown Authority), but get a malus to taxes and are especially badly affected by regencies due to the lack of 'customary' rulership.
- Tweaked levies once again. Crown Authority is now the single most important factor in determining levy size and laws controlling minimum levy size have Crown Authority requirements.
- If the Seljuks win the 1st Seljuk-Byzantine war, they will now take all the provinces they historically gained from it.
- Increased the value of Persian provinces to the point where the Seljuk Turks should now actually be able to win the war they historically won.
- Removed the various claims on England at game start, so that if the Norman and Norwegian invasions fail there won't be a second round. While this is not historical, it's absolutely necessary to achieve anything close to historical results (as otherwise England keeps bouncing between Denmark, Normandy and Norway and ends up a dissolute mess).
- A vassal's entire range of opinion (-100 to 100) now matters for how many troops they will raise for you. At 0 opinion you will get half of the maximum amount of troops.
- Integrated the PMM combat tweaks that reduce the lethality of battles and flesh out combat tactics to make martial score more important.
- Added two new religious orders, the Livonian Order and the Order of Santiago.
- The Teutonic Order will no longer ask for land once granted a county. This should prevent them from owning a mess of Pagan exclaves.
- Reduced the size of holy orders to 1000 men each.
- Added the Kingdom of Algiers in well, Algiers.
- Disabled the demesne restriction on waging holy wars on Pagans, as I felt it was a rather inelegant solution. I will try to figure out a different way of preventing the immediate conquest of the Wends.
- You no longer get any special occupation penalties for conquering provinces of the wrong religion/culture, instead there is merely the normal five-year occupation penalty. Hopefully this should make it possible for Crusades to actually take land without immediately losing it (and make it possible for William the Conqueror to hold on to England...) This change is very experimental, so let me know how it works out.
- Fixed a problem with the Take the Cross ambition.
- Fixed a problem that was preventing landless Mongols from declaring war.
- Reduced landless son prestige penalties.
- Kings and Emperors who do not have control of their entire de jure realm can now get an event where a claimaint to one of their de jure (but not de facto) vassals asks to move to their court.
- You can now always declare Holy Wars on heretics, even if you do not border them.
- Significantly revamped East Africa. The area is now divided into eight duchies and three kingdoms (Nubia, Abyssinia and Ajuuraan) with three cultures (Nubian, Ethiopian and Somali). Province values were raised to give the Nubians and Ethiopians a fighting chance.
- Added Ethiopia as an Empire level title for East Africa.
- Added Nubian and Ethiopian mercenaries.
- Independent republics now get bonus troops in their capital through a special building.
- The Pope now gets bonus troops to discourage other rulers from seizing Rome.
- Tweaked the better rebels events a bit to cut down on repeated revolt spam. There is now only a single revolt modifier and another revolt cannot take place while one is already in action. Revolts are more serious but revolt risk in general is lowered.
- Implemented the Coronation mod from the HRE Revised mod.
- Increasing crown authority in an Elective monarchy now carries a greater opinion penalty, to offset the opinion boost from the succession law.
- Changing out of Elective succession now requires Medium Crown Authority, to represent opposition from the Electors to giving up their power.

0.20:
- Rebalanced the Stamford Bridge scenario to be more historical. William should now win most of the time, with a Saxon victory being the second most likely and a Norwegian victory the most unlikely.
- Taking over a title in an invasion will now give a temporary +100 opinion boost with that title's vassals to prevent immediate civil war.
- The crown authority of a kingdom is now tied to its De Jure Empire if that empire exists. If for instance the crown authority of the HRE is Low, the crown authorities of Germany, Lotharingia and Bohemia will also be Low and cannot be changed on their own.
- You can now employ a spymaster via decision.
- Employing councillors via decision now costs a fixed amount of gold.
- Integrated the latest version of the Better Rebels mod that fixes a bug with rebels murdering rulers far too often.
- Increased loyalty bonus from being of the same dynasty.
- Increased the damage from flanking units (to hopefully make all-in-the-center a less effective tactic).

0.19:
- Fixed a bug with holy wars against Pagans that made them impossible unless your demesne bordered them, even if you had Medium or higher crown authority.
- Tribal invasions are now only possible against neighbouring states or states that share provinces in the same De Jure Kingdom, same as Holy Wars. This should keep the Mongols from creating a weird realm of exclaves.
- Integrated the Better Rebels mod, which replaces the whack-a-mole rebels with province modifiers. Please let me know how you think it works out.
- Fixed some problems with the 'Take the Cross' ambition.
- You will now always get Holy War on Mongols if they border your realm and are not of your religion group.
- Character with the 'dishonorable' trait (from discovered assassinations) now have a chance of being excommunicated by their head of religion. The chance increases with the number of discovered assassinations.
- Removed the 'wary' modifier as it wasn't working right. Instead, if you are caught assassinating you will gain a permanent trait that lowers general opinion and diplomacy. For each discovered assassination this permanent penalty increases.
- Provinces can no longer convert to your culture unless there is a neighbouring province with that culture.
- Reduced speed of culture conversion.
- It is now more difficult to fabricate claims.

0.18:
- Removed a part of the CK2 Heraldry mod that was causing slowdown issues.
- Novgorod should no longer appear as a fake republic when selecting your character (so you can actually play as them now).
- A portion of your of Crown Authority will now 'port over' when creating an Empire-level title. The max Crown Authority you can start with as an Empire is Medium.
- The 'War of Independence' decision is no longer visible to players.

0.17:
- Reduced frequency of vassal plots.
- Fixed a bug that was making wars of independence occur when they should not be occuring.
- Fixed a bug that was making Bohemia not recognize the HRE as De Jure Liege.

0.16:
- Councillors who are fired from the council and then reappointed to it will now suffer only a lesser opinion penalty.
- Fixed a bug that was causing the Not De Jure Liege penalty to apply to courtiers.
- Broke the family bonds between the Russian Dukes to prevent the game from generating claims and thus prevent Russia from unifying in the first decade of the game.
- Women can longer be Chancellors, but can be Stewards instead (under Cognatic succession only).

0.15:
- Savoy now starts the game with all its De Jure vassals as actual vassals to prevent an instant civil war.
- Being called into an ally's civil war will no longer count as being in a civil war (so vassals will not have an increased chance to plot against you or break away).
- Vassals are now less likely to plot against a liege who is the defender in a war that is NOT a civil war.
- Vassals whose liege is not their De Jure Liege are now more likely to try and break away during a civil war.
- Vassals will no longer declare a war of independence against their De Jure liege unless have a legitimate revolt cause OR crown authority is at minimum OR there is already a civil war going on. Only vassals with a very low opinion will declare a war of independence against their De Jure liege, even if crown authority is minimum.
- Vassals whose De Jure liege is in a civil war are now more likely to plot against them.
- Vassals will now have a lower opinion of a liege that is not their De Jure liege. This should make it so it is never a good idea to refrain from creating a title simply because some vassals might desire it.
- Vassals can once again NOT wage private wars under Medium Crown Authority on account of the increased difficulty getting to it.
- Reduced the chance for children to inherit genetic traits, so that all of Europe does not end up as dwarves.
- Cognatic succession is now required for women of your dynasty to be Chancellors. They can still be Spymasters under Agnatic-Cognatic.
- Relatives who ask you for a fief to govern will now wait up to six years for you to fulfill your promise (enough time to build a barony).
- Changed the way warrior cults work. Instead of a getting bonus troops in every province, each independent Pagan realm will only get a single warrior cult in the ruler's capital, but this warrior cult provides troops equivalent to three of the old warrior cult buildings. This should make large Pagan realms more balanced without making small tribes too weak.
- Reduced starting tech levels across the board but increased tech speed, as I felt tech distribution was rather off. Muslims and Byzantines will start at tech level 1-2 in 1066, while everyone else starts at 0.
- You can no longer wage holy wars on Pagans unless your demesne borders them OR you have Medium or higher crown authority.
- Fixed a bug that was making it impossible to usurp Emperor level titles.
- Fixed a bug that was causing culture conversion to occur far too quickly.
- Integrated the CK2 Heraldy mod by pothkan.

0.14:
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the changing of laws due to a bad war check.
- Changed the min/max opinion thresholds for levies to 0 for min troops and 50 for max troops.
- Your capital is now much more likely to convert to your culture.
- Decreased likelyhood of children converting to the culture of their tutor unless the tutor is the same culture group.
- Children will no longer convert to the culture of their tutor unless the tutor's culture matches the culture of the province they're in.
- Added new ambitions: Increase Size of Demesne, Take the Cross, Have Five Children and Become a Duke.
- To want to be a councillor, a character must now have at least 10 in the relevant attribute (Diplomacy for Chancellor and so on).
- Each type of ambition can now only be achieved once per character.
- Added a bookmark for the Treaty of Nymphaeum (the end of the Fourth Crusade).
- Removed the vassal loyalty bonus for Free Investiture (it's a superior enough law as it is).
- Increased the negative opinion effect for the Pope towards Free Investure.
- Rebalanced many traits so that they have more of a mix of good and bad effects.
- Guests complaining over food at a feast will now result in mutual dislike between them and the host.
- You no longer become just for buying the silence of the servants after a murder (seriously, what the hell Paradox?).
- There will now be fewer murders of servants at feasts.
- All guests at a feast now get a small positive opinion boost to the host lasting two years (just long enough to be a constant bonus if you hold feasts as often as possible).
- Guests at feasts are now more likely to approve of lavish food and to disapprove of sparse food unless they are temperate.
- Less chance of becoming drunkard or insulting host at a feast.
- Temporary opinion effects now last longer, to make event choices that influence them more meaningful.
- AI vassals will no longer plot against a liege they have a positive opinion of.
- The duchies of Poitou and Bourbon are now in France.
- Burgundy is now in Franconia to make it harder to form.
- Brittany no longer starts out as a Kingdom (but can still form one).
- France now starts out holding the title to Aquitaine as well.
- A councillor's opinion of you now affects how well they do their job. A councillor that likes his liege is more likely to get good events and successfully carry out missions, while a councillor who despises his liege is more likely to foul up.
- Crown authority now increases minimum levies as well as maximum.
- The AI will no longer increase crown authority if it believes doing so will spark a civil war.
- Increasing crown authority now requires you to have a demesne above a certain size. The requirements are 6/8/10/12 for Low, Medium, High and Absolute respectively.
- Removed the penalties for child rulers. Instead, whenever you have a regency, your feudal vassals will get an opinion penalty depending on the level of crown authority. Highly centralized realms will suffer great strife during regencies, while realms with autonomous vassals will not be affected at all.

0.13:
- Strengthened the Duchy of Apulia and Sultanate of Seljuk Turks on game start.
- Restored vanilla supply limits until the AI learns how to assault provinces or why not to siege one province with their entire stack.
- Rebalanced levies. Vassals will now provide a base max amount of 30% of their levies, which is increased by higher levels of crown authority. Levy laws increase the minimum amount they must provide regardless of their opinion of you. Vassals with -25 or less opinion will provide the minimum amount required by law, while vassals with 25 or more will provide the maximum. In general, opinion is now less of a factor and rulers must rely more on their demesne to provide troops.
- Removed the Russian Dukes' claims on each other. Hopefully this should prevent Russia from always unifying in the first five years of the game.
- Fixed some bugs with ambitions.
- A failed assassination will now result in the target getting a temporary boost to intrigue, making them harder to assassinate. Each successive failed attempt increases the bonus.
- Medium Crown Authority is now required to appoint commanders.
- Vassals can now wage private wars under Medium Crown Authority. High Crown Authority is required for the King's Peace.
- Restored revolt risk but removed tax/levy penalties for wrong religion provinces.
- Increased warscore from battles and holding provinces to make it easier for the AI to achieve decisive conclusions to wars.
- You will now get some piety for winning Holy Wars.
- Fixed a bug that was causing some characters to get the Anti-Pope Controller modifier when they should not be.

0.12:
- Restored many of the title-specific laws that Paradox had commented out in the history files to give countries more historical flavor.
- Instead of revolt risk, provinces with heresies, different cultures and different religions now have reduced taxes and levies.
- Recently conquered provinces now have increased revolt risk.
- Disabled the mod user directory as it does not seem to save message settings properly. This may cause conflicts with other mods installed in the same CK2 folder.
- Fixed a bug that was making some rulers start off with opinion penalties from Increased Crown Authority.
- Added the possibility for women to die in childbirth. The base chance is roughly 5% and varies depending on the woman's health.
- Increased the health decrease from illness and pneumonia to make them more lethal.
- Increased the likelyhood of becoming ill from a wound.
- Increased the likelyhood of children falling ill. Toddlers are at especially high risk.
- Added decisions to employ Chancellors and Marshals. Have not yet found a way to generate a random Spymaster.
- Re-enabled Anti-Pope creation. It now costs 1000 prestige and gives you a monthly piety penalty as long as you continue to control the Anti-Pope. The Anti-Pope will get a opinion penalty with all other bishops to make them less likely to send him money.

0.11:
- Fixed a bug that was preventing the restriction on Holy Wars from working.
- Increased the prestige cost and cooldown time of usurping titles.
- Building new holdings is now cheaper but takes 5 years instead of 2.
- Slightly decreased opinion penalty for increasing crown authority.
- Opinion boost for reducing crown authority now lasts 10 years.
- Ruler martial score now increases land morale.
- Increased the likelyhood of battle events.
- Dishonorable (was revealed carrying out an assassination) now carries a much higher opinion penalty.
- Reduced the crown authority of the Iberian emirs to give the Christians there more of a fighting chance.
- Western Emperors are now called High Kings with the sole exception of the HRE.
- Made Brittany into a Kingdom at game start to make forming Franconia harder.
- Fixed a bug that was making Danubia formable without holding all its King titles.
- Added more kingdoms in Russia.
- Fixed a bug where the requirement for female councillors was inverted.
- Integrated some fixes from the latest version of Strudel Man's fix pack.
- Fixed a bug that was making the Find a Lover ambition unavailable if married.

0.10:
- Fixed a problem in empire forming decisions that was causing severe game slowdown.
- Holy Wars are now only possible against neighbours, to prevent silly things like France gobbling up the southern half of Iberia. Neighbours is defined as realms that either border physically or which both hold provinces in at least one de jure kingdom (so Apulia can invade Malta because they both have provinces in Sicily). Crusades/Jihads are NOT affected.
- Fixed a bug where each character could only buy indulgences once. It is now every 5 years as it should be.
- Decreased the size of mercenary bands and holy order regiments.
- Greatly increased cost of mercenaries, both for recruiting and maintenance.
- Added a flag for Danubia.
- Flanders is now a part of France instead of Lotharingia.
- Alsace and Upper/Lower Lorraine are now parts of Lotharingia instead of Germany.
- Tweaked councillors to be better at their jobs.

0.09:
- Added the Empire of Danubia (Hungary, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria).
- High councillor attributes will no longer increase the likelyhood of bad job events occuring (in most cases).

0.08:
- All titles should now have flags.
- You can now only buy indulengences every 5 years (to make piety less tied to gold).
- Reduced Kingdom creation piety cost to 100.
- Added the Kingdoms of Thessalonica and Nicaea.
- Added the Empire of Poland-Lithuania.
- Renamed Netherlands to Lotharingia and made the Duchies of Luxembourg and Cologne a part of it.
- To form an Empire, you will need to execute a special decision to enable it (this is done to get around an engine problem with title requirements).
- Instead of 500 piety, forming an Empire now requires 200 piety and holding all its King titles (ie England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland for Britannia).
- Agnatic succession will now improve the opinion of male dynasty members.
- Cognatic succession will now improve the opinion of female dynasty members.
- True Cognatic succession is now just called Cognatic succession.
- Agnatic succession will now exclude women from holding jobs.

0.07:
- Fixed another startup crash.

0.06:
- Fixed startup crash.
- It should no longer be necessary to create empty folders the first time you start up the mod.
- Added a new objective to become independent.
- Councillor attributes now affect their job actions all the way up to 25. Each individual point also matters for chance, instead of only certain threshold.
- Opinion boosts for granting titles now last a lifetime.
- Female characters that are either your spouse, in your dynasty or a ruler in your realm can now hold the titles of Chancellor and Spymaster.
- Greatly increased the positive opinion for being released from prison, to prevent chain-revolts.

0.05:
- A teenage ruler will now cause less vassal opinion penalties than a young child.
- Reduced the chance of less powerful vassals making a bid for independence unless there is already an independence war in progress.
- A victory in a bid for independence will now result in the liege not gaining claims on the revolter.
- A white peace in a bid for independence will now result in the revolter becoming independent.
- Disabled the creation of anti-popes until I can figure out a way to make them less unbalanced (as it is now they are basically massive amounts of free money forever).
- Increased the speed of sieges.

0.04:
- Fixed some bugs with flags and laws.

0.03:
- You now need 500 piety to create an Empire.
- All countries will now start with a feudal levy appropriate to their level of Crown Authority.
- Raised the Crown Authority of many smaller Kingdoms to Low on game start.
- Added a number of additional Empires so that most Kingdoms are part of a De Jure Empire.
- Integrated JonesMod which adds several new Kingdoms and Empires.

0.02:
- Reduced wrong demesne type penalty to -50%.
- Increased warscore for taking the enemy capital.
- Reduced the penalty for female ruler/heir.
- Added a vassal loyalty penalty for having a child ruler.
- Increased penalties of bankruptcy.
- Reduced stewardship effect on max demesne size.
- Added a new ambition to get a lover.
- Vassals will not declare wars of independence unless their liege is the top-level liege of the realm.

0.01:
- Revamped crown authority. Higher crown authority no longer lowers loyalty but also does not grant any levy benefits. Increasing crown authority requires a large amount of prestige and will very sharply reduce relations with your vassals.
- Feudal taxation and levy laws now have crown authority requirements attached to them, so that you cannot raise your vassal's entire levy with a low crown authority. You can still freely set city and temple laws.
- Tied minimum levy numbers to city/castle/temple laws.
- Vassals with an opinion of 0 or lower will now only provide the minimum number of troops.
- Vassals are now more likely to plot to reduce crown authority, especially during a regency.
- Reduced the crown authority requirements for succession laws. It is now Low for Seniority and Medium for Primogeniture.
- Increasing negative opinions for murdering relatives and spouses.
- Removed positive opinion boost from releasing prisoners since it's silly that your vassals love you for releasing a random muslim general you captured.
- If a vassal is fighting a war of independence, other vassals with negative opinions of their liege are likely to join in.