Peasant revolt bug. Or bad dev decision.

[SKull]

Either or.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1572586183

Everything was fine. Old ruler, popular and had just conquered England. Then I got three Catholic uprisings consecutively in the same place and an adventurer invasion. No problem, but I had to get vassal troops out to beat it.
The three uprisings happened while I was off raiding to get some cash. How dare I!?! So one peasant rebellion started, but I left it alone because it was in the middle of nowhere in the east and I assumed that my Finnish vassal king would deal with it. Then a week later, three peasant revolts simultaneously. Then the following week five more. And then it just snowballed from there, complete with reinforcements for each revolt. I have one in England at 12K that I can't possibly get to with my troops in Norway surrounded by peasants, about 45K in Sweden and misc elsewhere. Out of the blue and for no obvious reason at all this happened. For every peasant army I defeat, five more appear. Not just reinforcements but new revolts. Three to five at a time. And the spam is just unbelievable, and now I have quit.

Who is the target audience for this crap if it isn't an unintended bug? It obviously isn't me. Time for another looooong break from CKII until some of this stuff gets looked at. And yes, I know what I'm doing. And no, this has never happened to me before so much as one time. And it shouldn't have happened now.

[Alioth]

Let me guess, you are forging benevolent bloodline? xD

[SKull]

Yes indeed. Still no excuse. And even if it was an excuse, the game should warn you that there will be endless, unbeatable peasant revolts resulting from choosing an option. I play iron man games and don't need these hilarious surprises. But it doesn't matter now. Three games in a row wrecked by bugs and assorted nonsense and I'm done for a long time. Video games are intrinsically a waste of time. But CKII is on another level of time wasting right now.

[Shot]

No its the way the RNG plays out especially with how the revolts occur; seems like (Don't know for sure this is just IMO) but once is happens there seems to be a seperate game roll that see if more will be called because of the one that has happened.

You have to watch out for revolts in high population centers for obvious reasons.

Your pagan or reformed pagan so you will always have revolt chance at about 5% for different religion places.

I dunno, they make sense to me and I understand hating them when they seem to all occur at once, but I don't think it is a bug.


Here is my advice on playing pagans:

As a pagan your going to want to find 3-4 titles that will stick with your main heir and pump pump pump money into your barony I.E castles till they have max castle towns then pump into your levy sizes. Ideally you want just enough to be able to raise your personal levies and go raid and not be in the red.


You want your retinue to be maxed. Have your spymaster stealing tech from whoever but get your ships/heavy infantry/military organization military tech up and your Castle and Keep constructions up in the Economic Tech up. For Culture tech... meh legalism will help somewhat.

A good way to play is declare war for land, raise your armies; smash their castles and troops; then once the war is over in your new territory, switch to raiders and clean out whatever is left from their decimated lands to help pay for everything.

[Alioth]

Originally posted by SKull:

Yes indeed. Still no excuse. And even if it was an excuse, the game should warn you that there will be endless, unbeatable peasant revolts resulting from choosing an option. I play iron man games and don't need these hilarious surprises. But it doesn't matter now. Three games in a row wrecked by bugs and assorted nonsense and I'm done for a long time. Video games are intrinsically a waste of time. But CKII is on another level of time wasting right now.

Wait for HIP or CK2+, too much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in vanilla for more or less serous game. As for these revolt its a bug in modifier that slaps on you while forging benevolent bloodline, there are far more idiotic things in the game right now - like dead catholic religious authority (due to raiding and idiotic AI that spawn anti-popes) that cause catholic world to degrade in heretics and heretical rebelions, pagan AI are way to wiling to convert and there is no pagans left in 100-200 yr in the game, OP nomads that destroys Eastern Europe and Byzantium, AI that taking 30-50 yr old wives and so on... Basicly there is no unavoidable game breaking bugs now but yet the game is unplayable.

[SKull]

Originally posted by Shot:

You have to watch out for revolts in high population centers for obvious reasons.

I really don't. I will not play CKII in this deplorable state and will henceforth stop recommending it to anybody until it has been repaired. In fact I will advise anyone who asks to not buy it. Talk about bugs that are aggressively hostile to beginners. I thought my two first sabotaged games with one-click conversion event (sorry I didn't read popup nr 2257 closely enough) and bugged Aztecs in the 800s. But this peasant garbage just took the flipping cake.

NO MORE! FIX BUGS!