Update 1.16.2.1 Changelog

Game Content

• Added a game rule to add Tibet as a Nomadic Region.[list]
• Due to the ruler setup of the area, many nomadic rulers will start with Bodpa culture but a Tuyuhun Nomadic Capital

• The philosophy behind these changes is to try and compensate for what the AI can't or shouldn’t be able to do as efficiently as a player. For example: the AI doesn’t change Vassal Contracts very often, intentionally use Abductions to win wars/gain loads of money, use Marriages to pull realms into losing wars en masse, or mass construct economic buildings before hiring MaA, to name a few. We’ve tried to keep most of these changes as invisible as possible, instead of showing ‘Very Hard’ as a modifier in various tooltips (although it happens in some places out of necessity).
• Added the Hard difficulty which boosts AIs and changes some systemic behavior for players, aimed at providing a more challenging yet still balanced experience

• While AI realms are buffed, generally the game should progress similarly to the Normal game
• Changes for the AI:
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• Buying and maintaining MaA is significantly easier
• Stress management is improved
• Constructing buildings and holdings is somewhat easier (not too much, or the player would be able to abuse it for their own gain!)
• Levies reinforce faster
• Improving opinion is faster
• Tyranny gain is reduced
• Mercenary use is cheaper
• Factions are slightly more lenient
• Revoking titles and retracting vassals is easier
• Activity costs are reduced
• Court Position management is significantly cheaper
• Agents are slightly more willing to join schemes vs. players
• Recruiting guests is significantly cheaper
• Amenities are significantly cheaper
• CB prestige costs are cheaper, especially vs. players

• Regular Mercenaries are more expensive
• Factions are somewhat less lenient (depending on vassal opinion)
• Revoking titles and retracting vassals is harder
• More vassals are inclined to join tyranny wars started by players, primarily guided by opinion
• Much less likely to randomly become a Conqueror
• Heavier penalties to arranging marriages based on number of existing alliances, lesser bonuses from desires alliance, etc.
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• The player should be able to have one significant alliance, and one minor alliance. Gaining alliances at war will be almost impossible.

• AI realms are going to be significantly more strong and stable, making the game progress differently
• Changes for the AI
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• Everything from hard, but the bonuses are greater
• AI Rulers gain extra advantage when leading their own armies

• Everything from hard, but the penalties are greater
• Hostile Scheme success chance starts at a much lower level
• Knight efficiency is reduced

• This allows you to add -1, -2, or -3 domain limit to players only, making it a good compliment to the regular difficulty game rule

Game Balance

• High and Extortionate tax obligations are now valued higher; you will have to offer more concessions to increase taxes without inducing tyranny
• Council Rights and Religious Protection is now scored extremely high; you will have to offer three concessions to get them
• You can now propose 4 vassal contract changes at once (up from 3).
• You are now allowed to propose a contract that is better for the Vassal than you as the Liege (necessary with the changes to Contract Option values)
• AI lieges now desire higher taxes over higher levy contributions
• AI vassals now dislike Scutage (you'll have to offer a concession)
• AI vassals now desire March status, Castellan Status, and Palatinate status
• Player Mongol Empires now get the Successor Khanate split during a Chaotic Succession.
• Made it significantly harder to abduct rulers or their subjects if you're at war with them.
• Similarly as with realm priests, you will no longer get gold when banishing byzantine bookkeepers.
• Reduced the damage per prowess that knights get to 50, down from 100.
• The automated armies companion now raises armies more aggressively.

Bugfixes

• Fixed Adventurers only getting Criminal & Travel contracts in the Steppe
• Made it possible for adventurers with the Take The Custom Where It Comes perk to recruit cultural Nomadic MaAs.
• When the foreign merchant invited by the Summon Wealthy Visitors decision dies you will now get a toast.
• Players and non-obedient vassals will now get turned into tributaries when their liege migrates.
• Made the Life on the Saddle internal camp building upgrade accessible if you have a regiment of horse archers or heavy horse archers.
• Fixed an issue where you could click on buildings through the side panels in the Domicile window.
• Fixed out-of-sync on hotjoin due to outdated Domicile cache.
• Players can no longer close the travel planning window when planning their next travel during the Fight Corruption adventurer contract.
• Province graphics now refresh on game start even if just reloading a save.
• Fixed a bug where Steppe counties wouldn't show which season they were in within the county view.
• Fixed out-of-sync related to incorrect tax collector aptitude data when loading a save or starting a new game.
• Fixed an issue where the UI for obediency would show if the person in question was loyal to someone at all - and not just the player.
• Fixed an issue where the siege window would show the wrong holding in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where the hostage window wouldn’t have a filter window available.
• Fixed an issue where the initial character selection list wouldn’t sort until a new sort option was chosen.
• Fixed a bug where the player could get soft-locked when committing suicide.
• Fixed an issue where some mods uploaded to https://mods.paradoxplaza.com/ would not load correctly.

Interface

• Tweaks and fixes for the Nomadic UI skin.
• The Decision view has been optimized and should no longer slow down the game when open.
• The Golden Lineage trait icon has been updated.

Animation

• Reduced memory usage of map animals