You have some neat mod demos for certain games, my friend.
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Yeah…I found this game a bit too hard/confusing to play to enjoy this kinda mod for.
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Would recommend playing as a count in france or something similar for a mod like this. (Any ruler that is ruled by someone else.) That way you can focus on playing the character and not have to worry to much about getting war declare on you or managing alliances.
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If you really want to turn off your brain I would recommend Venice if you have the republic DLC. Since its is on an island without a strait crossing and is its own one county kingdom your pretty much safe from everything besides the black death, unless something strange happens like the Aztecs getting all the way to you or you decide the appoint an antipope and you get deposed. Even if you lose the election you’ll still be in control of your estates. It helps that they are pretty rich.
If you dont have any DLC (and I highly recommend that you do get at least some of them) and you dont intend on expanding or doing anything risky then a count in the HRE in 1066 is probably your best bet. While trying to actually become the emperor and keep it to yourself is a nightmare it is very stable otherwise. The only people you really have to look out for is people trying to rule over your duchy and the occasional wild card.
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One thing that’s really bugged me (including ingame) is that about a year ago, a major community bugfixing mod was released (CleanSlate) that is really damn cool, but breaks mod compatibility. If this mod ever gets looked at again, getting it to work with it would be very much appreciated.
I don’t understand what’s wrong. I downloaded the mod archive, extracted it to the mod folder, found it in the mod panel, and enabled it. But once I started up the game, I reach the “Loading Graphics” portion of the startup, it sits there for a minute, then the game freezes and CTDs. It does this repeatedly, I’m at a loss on what to do.
Have you run the game without the mod? What other mods are you using, if any? Have you verified the integrity of the game files?
Yeah, I’ve run the game without this mod, when the mod is disabled is when I don’t experience these crashes. It’ll probably do to verify file integrity again. I actually use quite a number of mods and have all the DLCs. If it helps to identify the problem, here’s my list of active mods as displayed in descending order as written in the Mods Tab with some personal notes:
- 99 More Book Slots
- Always Dedicate Temple
- Artifact Acquisition Only
- Artifact Search
- Baptize Grandchildren
- Better AI: Roleplaying AI Character Focus
- Better Coptic Graphics
- Better Forts
- Bibliophile
- CIsubmod Before the Schism
- Cadet Dynasty Tool
- Castrate and Blind
- China Boon - Western Protectorate
- Christian immersion mod
- Claim All De Jure Titles
- Collect Mercenary Gold
- Disable Chess With Death (Because F*CK that event chain!)
- Even More Raiding Cultures
- Everything Playable! China Edition!
- Faster Claims
- Fewer homosexual events
- Fixed WOL
- Formable Vinlandic Culture (Sons of Vinland submod)
- Forts not Consumed
- Four Religious Doctrines
- Gold For Favors
- Gold Fylkir Crown
- Great Work features. (You can build all features for a Great Work with this, but not for preexisting Great Works, this mod also causes the Hagia Sophia to disappear.)
- Heirs of Rome - Roman Expansion
- Knights and Squires Mod (Beta)
- Kurushimi’s Extended Cheats
- Lost Content
- MTA - New Artifacts
- MTA - No Court Pruning (Doesn’t seem to work, unlanded courtiers still get the boot upon succession.)
- MTA - Specific Punishments
- Medieval Music Complete
- Medieval Music by Arany Zoltan
- Medieval Trade Routes (Vanilla) (This mod seems to break the trade nodes on the Vinland Trade Routes… also the mod author is a huge jerk.)
- Minor Title Improvements
- More Wards
- More Wives & Concubines (Doesn’t work anymore, might delete this.)
- Mythic Artifacts
- Native American Units Submod (Sons of Vinland submod)
- Natives Use Egyptian Faces Submod (Sons of Vinland submod)
- No AI Secret Religious Cults
- No Artifact Losing (You no longer lose random artifacts upon succession)
- No Decision Scaling (Supposed to stop Decision costs from scaling, doesn’t work anymore, I should delete this.)
- No Great Work Construction Penalties
- No Holding Type Penalties
- No Vassal Levy Opinion Penalties
- Playable (Dynastic) Theocracies
- Rebalanced Societies updated
- Replace Vomit Sounds With Wilhelm Scream (lol)
- Roman Diadem
- Roman Music Mod
- Send to the Varangian Guard (For Scandinavian Rulers)
- Sketchy Cheat Menu
- Sons of Vinland
- Sons of Vinland CK2 - EU4 Converter
- Sons of Vinland Portrait Mod
- Sturdier Shieldmaidens
- Title Manager
- Tuniq Units (Sons of Vinland submod)
- Warlock’s Vinland Trade Routes (Sons of Vinland submod)
- remove artifacts limit (This removes the age, regligous and cultural restrictions on all vanilla artifacts. (Is this the mod that’s causing some weapons and armor to have their Personal Combat Skill modifier nerfed?))
Whoa, that some mod list, reminds me of Skyrim and Stellaris that I modded extensively.
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On the looks of things, it looks like one of these mods inst compatible with this. My guess is that it has to do with incompatibility due to traits or religion but
- No one has ever tried to see what mods are incompatible with fatocracy systemically.
- It could be something entirely different.
So the only way to see for sure is to deactivate mods with fatocracy active until you find the culprit. I know for a fact that artifact search, better fonts and cheat mods in general work fine. Now sure why you have two cheat mods though.
It’s not that hard to debug compatibility, look at which of those mods patch the same files as fatocracy and test them individually. You shouldn’t have to deactivate ALL your load order to do this. I’ve since moved on but my personal issues with mod compatibility all stemmed from either low-level mods like CleanSlate that force all mods to be patched, or mods that mess with some combo of portraits, traits and genetics.
As someone who’s never modded before, I unfortunately have no idea how to do even that. I know how to install mods, but I have no idea how to find out what makes them tick.
I’ve never had fatocracy crash during launch, nor can I see anything in that mod list that might conflict with it. Have you made sure there’s both the Fatocracy folder and the fatocracy.mod file in your mod folder? The Fatocracy folder should be unzipped too, at least that’s how I have it and it works fine.
Does the Fatocracy folder appear as a zipped folder named Fatocracy.zip for you? If so, it appears as a regular folder icon just named Fatocracy for me. And, it appears at the very top of the mod folder instead of in alphabetical order, but the Fatocracy.mod file is. However, it doesn’t have .mod in the file name twice like all my other mods do.
Okay, after finally getting the patience to find the culprit the suggested way, I have discovered which mod from my is causing my game to CTD on startup when it reaches the ‘Loading Graphics’. I did it a bit differently than suggested, but it still worked. However…
HOLY CRAP, was it possibly the most unlikely suspect, as I couldn’t POSSIBLY have EVER seen this coming! It was the CK2 - EU4 Converter submod for Sons of Vinland! Mind you, I already own the CK2 - EU4 Save Converter DLC.
Edit: Aaaaand, my ongoing game as Harald Hardrada got zapped… great.
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I have a problem. Every time when I start a new game, right after choosing the meal and exercise plan, I get an empty window, which when I try to move, creates another one, and another, and another… And it goes and goes to no end. I tried launching the game with and without any DLCs (only with the custom ruler one) and without any other mods, but it still happens.
try opening up the command console with ` and using the debug_mode command and see what event it is.
I can’t do that. It says, that this command doesn’t exist. I googled the problem, but couldn’t find any answer, other than others who couldn’t solve it.
strange, I wish I could help, but I can’t replicate it
I love this so far. But, I hope full flavor comes in soon, because there is just way too much, because there is just way too much placeholder text.
There also needs to be event screens for showing you your partner’s progress. And, as a personal preference, I’d also like to see some stuff that make reference to stomach noises.
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