Gameplay downtime...

[RetailPale]

I am not sure if maybe I am missing something, owned this game for a few months and I really like it but there seems to be so much down time.

Meaning just a bunch of time with nothing to do, but sleep with other peoples wives or start a pointless war. Its not even like im not doing anything, in boredom I take over nearly half the map, the game is quite easy as it is.

Do you players find yourselves always busy or is this normal to feel like there really isnt anything else to do ? (Without DLC that is.)

[armyissue69]

Well, what you do, how you go about doing it...is entirely up to you but...this is a dynasty simulator and, starting with your first character...your job is to make it to the end. Really, that's it.

I used to be a guy who'd make a custom character like the King Arthur dynasty or some lost roman legion somewhere...I revived the Merovingian dynasty once...

Now I am on the weird feel of wanting to hybrid weird stuff...Greeks w/maghrebi and then butr for a culture with +2 Heavy Infantry, +2 Heavy Cavalry, decreased maintenance costs, katphracts, mubarizum, and desert ribats ( a good desert light cav unit there too)...Empire of Magreb is a nice niche empire.

You could try for an all cavalry set up, horse archers, heavy, light cav, camels, and if you're really special....elephants.

There are a ton of things to do, you might just be a bit bored and need to play some AC: Odyssey for an actiony play through ;)

[Johnny 5]

This is the problem. It's really difficult NOT to become a kind in a lifetime. There is so little challenge all the mechanics are just like ok if i actually use these I will take the globe in 3 generations

[Razorblade]

That's why I hunt achievements.

Conquering half the world is easy enough, but try raising 100 Runestones in 200 years, or taking over all the backwater islands in the world while economically supported by only those backwaters, and you're starting to get into some real challenges, especially if you string multiple together in one playthrough. You may not get a full 600 year playthrough out of it every time, but you can get some high intensity play out of it regardless.

Switching to new characters on death frequently can also be good fun; it's all of the joy of a fresh start, but you've set up a world state that may give you more trouble than any of the initial ones.

(DLC also help)

[ItachiDeltaForce]

iv kind of hit this wall too now...i started as an adventurer and set a goal to get landed as a ruler....which i accomplished then its just the usual ck3 strategy affair ....iv stabilzed my dynasty with good income per month for each resource gold, prestige and so on ..but yeah i never seem to have enough gold or man power to do anything and other houses have made some disgustingly big alliances

so basically what im saying is im just watching numbers go up with the odd event popping up here & there with little to no interaction

pretty boring

absolute snooze-fest so far...... zzzzzZZZZZzzzzzz

[RetailPale]

Originally posted by ItachiDeltaForce:

iv kind of hit this wall too now...i started as an adventurer and set a goal to get landed as a ruler....which i accomplished then its just the usual ck3 strategy affair ....iv stabilzed my dynasty with good income per month for each resource gold, prestige and so on ..but yeah i never seem to have enough gold or man power to do anything and other houses have made some disgustingly big alliances

so basically what im saying is im just watching numbers go up with the odd event popping up here & there with little to no interaction

pretty boring

absolute snooze-fest so far...... zzzzzZZZZZzzzzzz

Well it sound slike you had more content then me, I take over half the country, Im like the richest ruler in the world with like 14k up and the next richest person having maybe 100 coins

[ShepherdOfCats]

On your next playthrough, I'd recommend the following rule changes:

Domain penalty: -3 (not as bad as it sounds, forces you to have to actually interact with vassals instead of just personally owning everything, also affects AI characters)
Realm stability: Lowest (also affects AI characters, which can be good or bad)
Religion and culture to slowest speed of conversion. (You can't just flip counties you conquer to love you within 5-10 years)
Enclave independence: Whichever one causes separated realms counties to become independent on succession (whichever is hardest), it means you have to grow gradually and can't just skip over territory and take the ones for yourself that are most appealing (gold mines, high development, etc)

I hardly have any 'downtime' because I'm constantly trying to set up marriages and keep my realm held together. You still have those times when you have rulers who are so loved that you really can't mess things up unless you're deliberately trying, but in your case, I'd say it's time to make it a bit more challenging.

[AmesNFire]

CK3 isn't designed to be anything but something people can stream.
It's jarringly lacking still compared to CK2 and not in a "look at how many DLC there is!" but in the game being both challenging and fun. Other character's in CK2 act and react far better according to their traits; every CK3 character is exactly the same bowl of white race with a bit of garnish thrown on top.

[RetailPale]

Originally posted by AmesNFire:

CK3 isn't designed to be anything but something people can stream.
It's jarringly lacking still compared to CK2 and not in a "look at how many DLC there is!" but in the game being both challenging and fun. Other character's in CK2 act and react far better according to their traits; every CK3 character is exactly the same bowl of white race with a bit of garnish thrown on top.

Ironically enough my interest in this game never would have came to be if it werent for a youtuber a bit back that made a video on making his characters ugly and then sleeping with his friends wives.

[Katiekooleyes]

Personally I enjoy becoming a social butterfly by hosting feasts, tournaments etx. Or attending them when invited. Then I play my ruler to their character traits and see which friends/rivals I obtain. Then play things as they come