Plagues

[ste]

Hire a Physician,
Set to Control Plagues.
Build Hospices in every realm.
Get spammed with plagues every 2 year.
Lose 100 legitimacy at a time
However much gold
However much development
Isolate your capital
Minor plague.
Successfully control plague decision.
Very few fatalities.
Except your whole family.
Successfully treat plague.
Still die.
Repeat until you lose all your heirs.

What a fun mechanic. Well done Paradox

[GwanGwanish]

Is there anyway to turn them off completely? Even on the rarest setting, they seem to reoccur frequently.

[ste]

I think its a bug.
Either that or terrible game design.
Its almost as if the more you go out of your way to prevent plagues, the harder and more frequent you get hit. Before I built the hospices and whatever I rarely got hit, after I did, I got constantly hit. So its either a bug where the more prevention the more susceptible you are.
Or just terrible, like embarrassingly bad game design that you are given no tools to deal with a cheaply done game mechanic, that does not add any fun whatsoever, it detracts from the fun. Which seems like a great way to sell more DLCs
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and call it a bug.

[Panthaz89]

Well plagues pop up more often in high development provinces which is extremely annoying because players typically pump their domain up really high.

[ste]

Started about level 10 dev, prone to plague, a modifier I have not seem the AI get. Start getting spammed. At level 40 you get hit so hard it goes backwards

[Lord Hawkeye]

You would think having 91 plague resistance in my capital would do something. Nope. Just got rid of a coughing plague for it to be replaced by a tunisian pox. F'ing lovely. Either paradox f'ed up and a bug exists having plagues popping way to easy or this will be my first time changing the default settings to reduce crap.

[Qoojo]

I just decided to come back to game. Playing tutorial again and noticed this plague stuff and it seems to be more dominant as time passes. I'm just trying to learn the game again.

[ste]

It gets to a point when you get to a certain size its all that happens. message after message of Plagues. One I got called Alms, I was getting every week, every day sometimes.

If this was real life we wouldnt be having this conversation, the entire planet would have been wiped out a long time ago.

[๋]

Yeah they need to fix several issues with this game, and quickly. Another issue I'm have alongside plagues is the commander prioritization when teaming up with ally armies. Got a 30+ commander? Too bad, using the allies peasant 7 commander. GG lose a winnable battle despite having higher numbers, quality, and commanders that are forcibly benched. This game is great, but combat mechanics/ai definitely bring it down.

[ste]

I think thats more to do with whoever gets there first, if the Ally army is first to the battle you use his commander

[GwanGwanish]

I downloaded the plague removal mod in the workshop. Game is much more bearable now.

[ste]

Its like every patch, they seem to test it for half an hour with 1 county,
....well it works there, I'm sure it wont be a problem when you scale up.