Black Death Question

[TheNJDevils30]

Is it intended that no matter what start date you use, when you start your game, the Black Death hits you nearly immediately? I have been playing with the plagues set to normal, minor diseases to default, and I've been tinkering with the black death both to occur only once or to occur multiple times and both historical spread and random spread. It seems no matter the options set in the game rules, it without fail hits 1-2 years into any playthrough and nukes the entirety of the map's development to zero. If it is set to occur more than once, I feel like it returns every 5 years nonstop and always comes for the first time a year in.

It would be nice if there were settings that made it so that it could appear anywhere in a playthrough, like it never randomly pops up 2-3 characters into a run or 50-60 years after the start. It also doesn't appear like you can have it occur multiple times but be a once a century or once per 50 years event, it is just absolutely non-stop.

I always like to play with ironman on and settings to make achievements available.

Is there something that I am missing? No mods, all DLCs.

[armyissue69]

Originally posted by TheNJDevils30:

I do still get the event to spend money for rebuilding efforts and it works as intended as far as I am aware. And yes the smaller disease outbreaks definitely hit the coasts harder and sometimes don't spread inland.

It is so weird you mention Siberia. Funny enough, I noticed this black death issue while playing as the Count of Kazym in Siberia, an Ostyak Culture, with the intention to make a Siberian "uber-forest" culture and religion. I restarted about 6-8 times since, being that the black death spawned every single time 1 year in, that I may as well try to get the achievement where you contract and then recover from the bubonic plague. Needless to say I got the achievement, but Kazym is covered every time by the black death plague. Going from 1 development to 0 is no big deal, but every tile on the map basically goes to 0 also and the major cities that are the highest development come down into the single digits. I formed all all taiga Empire as I was trying to do, but the black death hits immediately each time I restart.

Ya know...the Norse/Dane/Norwegian make an good Hybrid with Ostyak since the tradition that grants the troops also has forest and taiga bonuses. Also the Lithuanian area cultures that have all the forestry stuff. I started mine by hybrid with Kipchak or Kirgiz .. cant remember but then did another hybrid, down the road since original hybrid was too spread out, with a danish just cause I didn't like the naming practices from the 1st set. I boxed in the Mongol Empire that was just starting to spin up, and I spun them right back down ;)

Devs should take a closer look at the taiga stuff....if you go on a pilgrimage, it looks like a western church you're going to.

[Karsh]

so question for the settings of the black death.

i have doomsday plagues and unlimited black deaths and organic

i'm almost 300 years in the game xD , and haven't seen one

is the random setting still like every 5 years ? (if i remember they nerfed plagues a bit in a patch)

i kinda want roughly every 100 / 150 years a big plague . but the settings i play one i haven't seen a black death once T.T

[Lera]

Originally posted by Moose_knuckle:

This has been happening to me too. It's set to appear at a random date but it always happens within a few years of the start date,

Same here. Started 867 and not even five years later Black Death is all over the map lol