Don't try to learn from youtube videos. Uninstalled CK3 because all the fun was taken out.

[Coffee]

I wanted to recreate the surreal video experience. But the fun was completely taken away. I bought CK3 ages ago, but had it removed on my account for some reason for whatever dumb reason I had, but I got it back noticed couldn't buy CK3 cause already owned it. Anyway...

So I was going to learn from Surreal, recreate the west roman empire. But this is a great lesson on why not to learn from youtube video. I got his mod list, I set it up...but there is no command to move to rome, no command to place character to rome, looked on wiki, looked everywhere...closest is move_to and move_to_at, but those just come up as not existing for me. So after 10+ hours of trying to start the game and follow his lets play to learn CK3....

I uninstalled because all the fun was taken out :(

I guess you gotta edit your save or something, but dunno how to do that. I know how to unpack a save, but dunno how to pack it back up.

[The Former]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you couldn't you just create a character literally anywhere in Italy and then systematically conquer the land necessary to form the Western Empire from there?

[Coffee]

I have no idea how to play, so was going to follow his let's play like a "guide" kinda thing, and it looked super fun. But just to start it is too complicated and ruined the fun.

Nothing against surreal or the video, just ruined the fun trying to learn CK3.

[EpirusWarriorμολὼνλαβέ]

Most of mods in general are broken is not just those in surreal list, there are many that i play and need to be updated, because the latest update 1.9.0.4 -1.9.0.3 and especially dlcs conflict with them, wait until a month or so.

[Coffee]

well everything in his mod collection he put up works. Guess what I was supposed to do is "give_title c_roma" and find a random character to give starting barony to.

I'm sure by time I'm done, the 10 hours I spent just TRYING to start, I could already have learned most of this...

[Coffee]

Well I installed it again and gonna try again...at this point commited to learning CK3 :(

[SDxEair]

Should probably learn the basics of the game before you start doing more advanced stuff. Like using cheats to set up a scenario. Or whatever it is you were trying to do.

[FINAL_Bₒₛₛ]

Play the tutorial first and the basics.

[Johnny 5]

Surely if you are just trying to use a cheat to give yourself Rome you aren't enjoying the game, you aren't even playing it. You are simply entering a console command. Not sure why you are trying to play a game

[Siamese55]

They patched out save edits a few updates back, so that isn't a you thing. (I admit I haven't tried it again since the latest version of Lance, but I'd be shocked if it was suddenly patched back.)

As for learning the game, like the others said, play the tutorial. It's pretty good and whatever isn't covered you can learn slowly while playing (because a lot of your focuses are based on your own preference). The recommended rulers are also decent stepping stones because they let you know how difficult the start is and generally suggest a goal.

I've watched videos, but something with a huge mod list and a lot of setup doesn't sound much like a tutorial video. Perhaps much more entertaining, but as an example I taught a friend to play (who skipped the tutorial) and the single thing that stumped her was sending out soldiers. It was so ridiculous that I downloaded her save and checked if it was bugged (and it absolutely was not). Technical things like that are best instructed directly or talked through, and focuses felt out through gameplay.

Personally, I'd look for someone doing vanilla on Lance if you are still looking for videos. There will be people doing beginner's guides at random intervals as well, since CK3 technically is several years old.

[SDxEair]

Originally posted by Siamese55:

They patched out save edits a few updates back, so that isn't a you thing.

Save editing is still very possible and I don't recall it ever not being possible.

[Siamese55]

Originally posted by SDxEair:

Originally posted by Siamese55:

They patched out save edits a few updates back, so that isn't a you thing.

Save editing is still very possible and I don't recall it ever not being possible.

I used to do it all the time. Unzip, make edits, rename .ck3 to change the file type, load. Worked up until it didn't and I started digging for a reason. Even the CK3 modding wiki says it was patched.

How do you still do it?

[SDxEair]

Originally posted by Siamese55:

Originally posted by SDxEair:

Save editing is still very possible and I don't recall it ever not being possible.

I used to do it all the time. Unzip, make edits, rename .ck3 to change the file type, load. Worked up until it didn't and I started digging for a reason. Even the CK3 modding wiki says it was patched.

How do you still do it?

The last step is what you are doing wrong.
Just add the edited text file back to the archive(the .ck3 file) using a zip file tool.
Also, make sure not to rename the text file, it needs to have the correct name in the archive.

Ie. Unzip->make edits->Rezip

[The Former]

Originally posted by Artoria:

Well I installed it again and gonna try again...at this point commited to learning CK3 :(

Good luck! Take your time and learn at your own pace. Make fun out of the circumstances that occur ingame (and don't be afraid to fail and start over, as long as you learn something new each time!). Once you're comfortable enough with the game that it's starting to feel too familiar, then you can start looking into mods and novelty runs like the one in that video.

[KunterKinte]

Learning from Youtubevideos is difficult. If u know a bit about whats going on you can learn something... if u know nothing about it u can´t learn about it cause u cant tell appart if its Bullsh..

[VoiD]

Why would you try to learn how to play a game using any mods of any kind for any reason?