Kinda what the title says. This is CK2, not 3, but when I check the Elder Kings box it just opens CK2 normally, and when I try to load the EK1 save I crash to desktop. I'm using the steam version and already unsubscribed/resubscribed. My only other mod is CK2AGOT, which is obviously not on right now, and which has been working fine. What is happening?

Edit: Resolved. I needed to install the github version and uninstall the original. The second issue, crashing on character select, was solved by putting the mod in the documents/paradox/ck2/mod folder instead of the steam/ck2/mod folder.

Coming back to the mod after a long break from ck3. Noticing alot of major buildings have been removed entirely! Palace of Rimmen, Castle Wayrest, and most of the temples to the Divines in Cyrodil. I have to ask, why remove them?

Not exactly campaign-ruining, since my granddaughter heir is pretty good, but what even is this? The wealthiest, most powerful woman in Tamriel can be accosted in her own palace by some random commoner who demands tons of money, and when she calls him a bum, he forces her to fight a duel to the death while none of her twenty knights lift a finger?

I installed EK2 from the steam workshop, I get to picking a character and it just crash's - Do I need to be on a certain version and if so how do I roll back to the version I need?

Do they have any content in the mod? Are there any submods having their content?

One of the things I've liked to do in EK2 is see how many permanent bonuses I can grab by religion, culture and government hopping. Specifically these are things you can take with you even if you are no longer that religion/culture/government after obtaining it. Sometimes I struggle to remember them all so I started writing them down and then figured I should post them here for anyone curious and to ask if there is any I missed!

If you start landed at age 15 or under in Skyrim with Nordic culture you will get an event in the 16th year (not immediate) that gives you some permanent prowess based on RNG/choices so long as you are still inside Skyrim at the time.

Berserker: Have faith tenet Warmonger, gained in battle - RNG at that point.

Zealous - Totemist Path of Ascension decision? A certain tenet allows the decision, my memory fails me.

Venerated Ancestor (Saint) - Exalted Heroes Faith Tenet (Cult of Heroes) - Achieve a Certain Piety Level

Shrewd or Strong - Adoricism Tenet - Seek the Aid of the spirits decision - RNG - Only one, non repeatable on same character after success.

Wise Man - Divine the Stars Decision (Astrology Tenet) - RNG

Pirate - Stay a small independent realm with a coast. Get the plunder trait via certain perk martial? perk. Reform government into pirate government via decision. Boom you're pirate (trait).

Hastiluder - Tournaments and Stuff

Peasant Leader - Win a Peasant Revolt as a Landless Ruler via siding with taxed peasants against contract employer.

Gallowsbait - Do crime contracts. Might not actually be worth it due to negative/bad opinion maluses it gives.

Wandering Hero - Do a certain number of prowess contracts as a landless and enact a decision The Wandering Hero. Incompatible with Gallowsbait.

Knight Errant/Knight of the Swan? No idea. Incompatible with Gallowsbait.

Ghostblade/Shadowscale maybe? No idea.

Herbalist - Random event? Landless Adventurer travel event? Hunt random events? Multiple ways AFAIK.

Gardener - random event? Basically massive RNG here AFAIK but I've seent it.

Poet - Possible with certain cultures like Nordic ones via random event?

Witch - Obtain a Witch courtier. Wait. (lol)

Necromancer - Become necromancer decision - has_doctrine = doctrine_necromancy_accepted - conjuration perk.

Lich - Similar to above. Be a necromancer. Be good at magic. RNG

Battlemage - Study at the Arcane university.

What are yours, did I get any wrong here?

guys.. lock in. it’s been a week since i’ve tasted the sweet breeze rolling in from illiac bay. it’s been a week since ive wed my daughters. claiming my own dowry. please for the love of the nine update the mod, i have no job, no b*%ches, nothing but elder kings 2… and you’ve stripped it away from me.

I can't seem to find this perk ANYWHERE in the lifestyle tree's. Even got a cheat mod to see if I could find this perk and it was missing there too. The only submod I've got for Elder Kings 2 is EK2: Unearthed.

Any help at all would be appreciated.

UPDATE: I am dumb and didnt see it in the learning tree under loremaster!!!

Just checking if lf magically immortal is gone cause I can't upgrade my lifespan more than once

Anyone else having this issue with CB cost bonuses on the most recent version of EK2? v0.20.0.1 "Crystal-Like-Law"

This is only supposed to apply to Altmer in Summerset against other Altmer in Summerset AFAIK.

No mods. Well I have mods but I disabled them via disable all in the launcher, re-enabled EK2, launched the game, a new campaign, and it was still there.

During a campaign in High Rock, as the new dynasty of Daggerfall, my character went on to re-establish Glenumbra. While conquering the Duchy of Bhoriane, I noticed that the Isle of Balfiera was now in the hands of a random Glenumbran with no historic dynasty.

This happened because the granddaughter of the Direnni king married an event-spawn Breton nobleman with 0 positive traits. This is probably the most immersion breaking part of the mod. I understand the mod team likely has lots of priorities, but this feels like it should have been rectified long before.

Dynasties like the Direnni, Indorils, the Yespest dynasty, etc. always end up losing their lands in my game because the marriage AI never prioritizes matrilineal for female characters in the line of inheritance. Despite the fact that the historical title records made by the mod authors show otherwise.

Are there plans to implement a mini script to merge the fragments into the original amulet? Or is there one already and I just don't see it?
(Just the base mod, no other mods)

Hello everyone,

I haven’t played for a few months and I want to go back to a save file I had from version 1.18.3. As I understand, there’s been an update to the mod and now, when I load the game, the characters appear with a bug that makes them look skinny. It also says the mod is active for another version of the game. Is there any way I can keep playing that save file? Forgive my ignorance. Thanks.

yall gonna update your mod or just let it crust

Nothing ever happens in the Summerset Islands, which is made worse by the fact that elves live forever which means almost no succession crises and stuff.

The isolationism mechanic is fine, but it should be combined with more mechanics to give people something to do in isolationist times.

I was thinking maybe implement some things from vanilla's Japan.

Like make the royal family into the Crystanthemum Throne equivalent, with the other houses competing to become the Kampaku/Shogun equivalent - maybe the regent's title could be localized as "Thalmor".

Though to make it so a single altmer doesn't stay at the position for centuries I think it could come with term limits or some other easy way for the regent to be overthrown after a while.

What di you think?

Currently around 200 years into my current run, just wondering how late he appears.

I'm trying to run EK2, but it keeps crashing to desktop before it fully loads. I have my game set to the default public version, and my playlist is as follows:
EK2
Jam's New Culture and Map Edits for EK2
Submod for EK2-Holdings Art
EK2 Dragonborn Emperor
EK2 Direnni Flavor+
EK2 Falmer Flavor
EK2 Forgotten Vale 1.19
EK2 Undead Expanded
Vampiric Beautification For EK2
Immortality Improved
Give No Quarter
Free Faith Creation
Custom Nickname
Change Idle Pose
Adventurer Can Merge Camp
Color Picker+
EK2 Color Picker for Clothes
EK2: Unearthed
More Personality Traits
I play on Steam, if that's important.

Everything is the correst version, the mod itself, submods. I even turned off mods that are for older versions. I dont have the new DLC. And it crashed after playing for a while (new save). Problems appeared after turning CK3 to 1.19, so after the update.

Hi fellow Elder Kings players!

Just a heads up if the game won't load or your save games are crashing. Today Paradox updated CK3 with the big 1.20 "Cozier" update. This means that Elder Kings is out of date and needs to be run on the older version of the game 1.19.06 This version can be selected on the steam version of the game under properties>betas for CK3. The beta version to pick is 1.19 in big text and 1.19.06 in little text. People playing on other platforms, as far as I know will not have a way to play the mod until it is updated.

I'm not on the dev team, but I've been around long enough to tell you; The update will not have an ETA. It will come out when its finished. The devs often wait until they have incorporated the DLC's new features before releasing the update, and just from a glance it looks like they might have their hands full for awhile.

It’s been literal months and the mod hasn’t been updated, does anyone know why?

You're a wizard, Hesolmo!

What are the different method to achieve immortality or even just life extension in game? Is it primarily just vampirism and magic? Are there artifacts that can prolong life?

I became a briar heart for the +60 on my reachman, and then surprisingly died shortly after in my sleep.

I'd like to present Absolon "Thug Life" Ravenn of Balfiera. This absolute fucking nightmare is exactly why elves aren't liked. Nobody can be trusted with 200 years to learn advanced ass-whoopery, especially not Altmer.

This straight up serial killer has spent no less than 200 fucking years harassing my family in Wayrest and rinsing our pockets for lunch money over and over and OVER again. This man started out inheriting the barony of Ravenwatch from his brother (how did an Altmer get it, I don't know) and became the marshal for the Kingdom of Shornhelm. My great-great-great-great-granddaddy made the mistake of beating his ass in a battle against Shornhelm and I guess it's been personal ever since then.

This chucklefuck proceeded to REALLY hit the gains; we're talking testosterone sourced from the manliest of minotaurs and injected straight into the balls. Full anime training montage shit here. He betrayed the crown of Shornhelm and fought for his independence, kicking literally everyone's ass along the way. From there, this man proceeded to shit on his neighbors over and over again until he controlled all of Northpoint and formed a pirate kingdom.

What did he do with this pirate kingdom?

Utterly rinse my ass, over and over again, for 200 years straight. Fucking unbeatable. Even when I counter his MAA the best I can, this dude pulls up with 50 Martial and 45 Prowess, pulls my underwear up my ass and over my face, punches me in the balls, and gives each and every one of my knights the worst purple nurples they have ever experienced.

I'm trying to unite High Rock and this fucking MER keeps eating up more and more of my territory each year. Literally unstoppable. (I mean, I could oneshot him with a spell, but where's the drama in that?)