Crusader Kings II

Crusader Kings II is the second installment in Paradox Interactive's series of incest simulators medieval grand strategy games. Changes from its predecessor include a newer engine, better graphics, and a whopping $253 of DLC.

Conquer your neighbors! Steal their wives! Restore the glory of Rome! Lose everything you worked so hard for to a massive Aztec invasion from across the Atlantic! Anything is possible!

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Prototype Info Unused Text and Code

Nudge#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: When was the mapmode crash introduced? It's apparently present in v3.10 but definitely absent in v1.111.

A dev tool can be accessed by entering Documents\Paradox Interactive\Crusader Kings II\settings.txt and changing nudge_allowed=no to nudge_allowed=yes. This will add a new button to the main menu:

Clicking it will take you to the game's map, where a menu will allow you to move certain things around. These things include a province's town, its port and the exact locations characters (e.g. armies and councilors) will stand on it. Saving changes will commit the changes made to steamapps\common\Crusader Kings II\map\positions.txt or its equivalent.

This editor cannot be exited without closing the game.

The mapmode button works in earlier versions, but will crash the game in later versions.

Unused Graphics#

An early character portrait that can be seen in some of the game's prerelease footage, present in both the main game's western_female character graphics folder and the Celtic Portraits DLC's celtic_female folder.

A rather generic placeholder event image.

An unused duplicate of a used event image (plague_spreading.dds), only differentiated by the typo in its filename.

This "placeholder" interface graphic is actually also a duplicate of a used event image (pagan_reformation.dds).

An older version of the background graphic for the Laws interface (laws_bg.dds).

Icons for two unused achievements; no text or code for the achievements these would have corresponded to exists. The second one was later used by the Monarch's Journey feature as an icon for one of the Challenges in the Louis II the Stammerer start.

Various unused composite images of graphics for special holding types. Bizarrely, in the case of holdings, the graphics with "placeholder" in their filenames are actually the used ones...

Stored with China-related interface graphics are these unused composites of the event pictures corresponding to China's current policy and status.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left" ! Image ! Filename ! Notes |- | | placeholder_trait.dds | |- | | burning_offence.dds | Image is a duplicate of the icon for the used Winter Soldier trait. |- | | church_loyalist.dds | |- | | crusader_king_queen.dds | Image is a duplicate of the icons for the used Crusader King and Crusader Queen traits. |- | | old_kinslayer.dds | Referenced by a commented-out section of traits.gfx that assigns it the same name (GFX_trait_kinslayer) as is used for the final game's Kinslayer icon (kinslayer.dds). |}

Icons for various unused character traits, including an obvious placeholder.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left;" ! Image ! Filename ! Source Image |- | | feature_image.dds | Siege.dds |- | | religion_feature_disorganized.dds | irminsul_burning_cm.dds |- | | religion_feature_primitive.dds | tribal_lands_cm.dds |- | | religion_feature_shamanic.dds | performing_experiments.dds |- | | religion_feature_uncertain.dds | Pagan_dolmen.dds |}

Icons for various unused traits for the pagan reformation system introduced in Holy Fury, as well as an apparent placeholder icon, all based on existing event images.

These two graphics are stored in a subfolder of the folder for Great Work interface graphics labeled "unused". They appear to be an early version of the "Build a Great Work" ambition's icon and an alternate graphic for the progress bar on in-construction Great Works, respectively.

These graphics are stored in a subfolder simply labeled "test".

This icon was previously used to represent the Age of the Mongols bookmark on the Choose Your Starting Era screen that appears when configuring a new game, but in version 3.2.0 it was removed from that screen to make room for the new The Iron Century bookmark. It's still present in the current version's files despite no longer appearing anywhere.

Unused Flags#

The hardcoded flag graphics used for landed titles' Coats of Arms include some corresponding to titles that are never used.

Image	ID	Name	Rank
	d_abbasid	Abbasid	Duchy
	k_al-murabitids	Al-Murabitids	Kingdom
	k_almohad	Almohad	Kingdom
	d_arabia_felix	Arabia Felix	Duchy
	d_arabs	Arabs	Duchy
	d_assassin	Assassin	Duchy
	d_balearic	Balearic	Duchy
	k_beni_helal	Beni Helal	Kingdom
	d_bergen	Bergen	Duchy
	d_bordeaux	Bordeaux	Duchy
	d_braganza	Braganza	Duchy
	d_butrinto	Butrinto	Duchy
	d_campania	Campania	Duchy
	d_catalonia	Catalonia	Duchy
	d_chaldea	Chaldea	Duchy
	d_cumberland	Cumberland	Duchy
	d_curonian	Curonians	Duchy
	d_danes	Danmark	Duchy
	d_don	Don	Duchy
	d_dorostotum	Dorostotum	Duchy
	d_dregovichi	Dregovichi	Duchy
	d_el_rif	El Rif	Duchy
	d_el-arish	El-Arish	Duchy
	d_estonia	Estonians	Duchy
	k_fatimids	Fatimids	Kingdom
	d_galatia	Galatia	Duchy
	d_geats	Gauthiod	Duchy
	d_georgia	Georgia	Duchy
	d_glomacze	Glomacze	Duchy
	d_hamadan	Hamadan	Duchy
	k_hammadid	Hammadid	Kingdom
	d_hellas	Hellas	Duchy
	d_ikonion	Ikonion	Duchy
	d_ilmenians	Ilmenians	Duchy
	d_ingers	Ingrians	Duchy
	k_kafsid	Kafsid	Kingdom
	d_kexholm	Käkisalmians	Duchy
	d_kappadokia	Kappadokia	Duchy
	d_karnten	Karnten	Duchy
	d_khazars	Khazars	Duchy
	d_kirkuk	Kirkuk	Duchy
	d_krakow	Krakow	Duchy
	d_kryvians	Kryvians	Duchy
	d_kajaneborg	Kvens	Duchy
	d_laodikeia	Laodikeia	Duchy
	d_lendians	Lendians	Duchy
	d_lettigalians	Lettigallians	Duchy
	d_luristan	Luristan	Duchy
	d_lut	Lut	Duchy
	d_luxembourg	Luxembourg	Duchy
	d_lykia	Lykia	Duchy
	d_mar	Mar	Duchy
	k_marinid	Marinid	Kingdom
	d_meryas	Meryas	Duchy
	d_meshcheras	Meshcheras	Duchy
	d_milano	Milano	Duchy
	d_muromians	Muromians	Duchy
	d_nikomedeia	Nikomedeia	Duchy
	d_obotrites	Obotrites	Duchy
	d_oxford	Oxford	Duchy
	d_pechenegs	Pecheneg	Duchy
	e_pirates	Pirates	Empire
	d_pressburg	Pressburg	Duchy
	d_pruthenians	Pruthenians	Duchy
	d_qom	Qom	Duchy
	d_radimichi	Radimichi	Duchy
	d_romagna	Romagna	Duchy
	d_sames	Saamod	Duchy
	d_sami	Sami	Duchy
	d_severians	Severians	Duchy
	d_shiraz	Shiraz	Duchy
	d_sinope	Sinope	Duchy
	d_sorbs	Sorbs	Duchy
	d_sweden	Svithjod	Duchy
	d_tavasts	Tavastians	Duchy
	d_varna	Varna	Duchy
	d_veps	Veps	Duchy
	d_vlachs	Vlachs	Duchy
	d_volga	Volga	Duchy
	d_votes	Votes	Duchy
	d_vyatichi	Vyatichi	Duchy
	d_wielkopolska	Wielkopolska	Duchy
	d_zara	Zara	Duchy
	k_zenata	Zenata	Kingdom
	k_zirid	Zirid	Kingdom
	k_ziyanids	Ziyanids	Kingdom

Unused Events#

Moneylender Bankruptcy Event#

Bankruptcy was used in Crusader Kings II, but at least one of the associated events was commented out in version 2.0.0. Event 38000 pertains to moneylenders, where you can borrow 200 ducats, and repay 250 within 5 years. If you miss the payment (or have poor stewardship), the debt is 300 and you lose prestige each time you miss the payment. Certain characters also have the option of mutilating the moneylenders to escape the debt, at the cost of damaging the economy.

The system was replaced by the Jewish moneylender events in the Sons of Abraham DLC (released alongside version 2.0.0).

From bankruptcy_events.txt:

# Ruler is in the red. Go to the moneylenders.
#character_event = {
#   id = 38000
#   desc = EVTDESC38000
#   picture = GFX_evt_council
#   
#   only_playable = yes
#   
#   trigger = {
#       NOT = { wealth = -50 }
#       NOT = { has_character_flag = loan_taken }
#       OR = {
#           NOT = { has_character_flag = loan_refused }
#           had_character_flag = { flag = loan_refused days = 365 }
#       }
#   }
#
#   # Patch 2.00: disabled
#   is_triggered_only = yes 
#   mean_time_to_happen = {
#       months = 1
#   }
#   
#   option = {
#       name = EVTOPTA38000 # Go to the moneylenders - Favorable terms
#       tooltip_info = stewardship
#       trigger = {
#           stewardship = 8
#       }
#       wealth = 200
#       character_event = { id = 38001 days = 1825 tooltip = EVTTOOLTIP38001 }
#       set_character_flag = loan_taken
#       clr_character_flag = loan_refused
#   }
#   option = {
#       name = EVTOPTB38000 # Go to the moneylenders - Unfavorable terms
#       trigger = {
#           NOT = { stewardship = 8 }
#       }
#       wealth = 200
#       character_event = { id = 38002 days = 1825 tooltip = EVTTOOLTIP38002 }
#       set_character_flag = loan_taken
#       clr_character_flag = loan_refused
#   }
#   option = {
#       name = EVTOPTC38000 # Do not go to the moneylenders
#       set_character_flag = loan_refused
#   }
#}

# Follow-up to favorable loan terms
#character_event = {
#   id = 38001
#   desc = EVTDESC38001
#   picture = GFX_evt_council
#   
#   is_triggered_only = yes
#   
#   option = {
#       name = EVTOPTA38001 # Return the money
#       trigger = {
#           wealth = 250
#       }
#       wealth = -250
#       clr_character_flag = loan_taken
#   }
#   option = {
#       name = EVTOPTB38001 # Cannot afford it
#       trigger = {
#           NOT = { wealth = 250 }
#       }
#       character_event = { id = 38002 days = 365 tooltip = EVTTOOLTIP38002B }
#   }
#   
#}

# Follow-up to unfavorable loan terms
character_event = {
    id = 38002
    desc = EVTDESC38002
    picture = GFX_evt_council
    
    is_triggered_only = yes
    
    option = {
        name = EVTOPTA38002 # Return the money
        trigger = {
            wealth = 300
        }
        wealth = -300
        clr_character_flag = loan_taken
    }
    option = {
        name = EVTOPTB38002 # Cannot afford it
        trigger = {
            NOT = { wealth = 300 }
        }
        prestige = -25
        character_event = { id = 38002 days = 365 tooltip = EVTTOOLTIP38002B }
    }
    option = { 
        name = EVTOPTC38002 # Get rid of them!
        #tooltip_info = 
        trigger = {
            OR = {
                trait = wroth
                trait = lunatic
                trait = possessed
            }
        }
        add_character_modifier = {
            name = offended_moneylenders
            duration = 1825
        }
        clr_character_flag = loan_taken
    }
}

Childhood Events#

Two events that have not much context beyond the comment describing the event. First simply performs a minor prestige hit, while the second gives a choice between banishment and having a major prestige hit.

From childhood_personality_traits_events.txt:

#Nobody believes me! - removed, no text and no event that triggers this
#character_event = {
#   id = 30013
#   desc = "EVTDESC30013"
#   picture = GFX_evt_child_bully
#
#   is_triggered_only = yes
#   
#   option = {
#       name = "EVTOPTA30013"
#       prestige = -50
#   }
#}
    
#Spouse is kicked out and the heir takes over - removed, no text and no event that triggers this
#character_event = {
#   id = 30014
#   desc = "EVTDESC30014"
#   picture = GFX_evt_scandal
#
#   is_triggered_only = yes
#   
#   option = {
#       name = "EVTOPTA30014"
#       banish = yes
#   }
#
#   option = {
#       name = "EVTOPTB30014"
#       prestige = -1000
#   }
#}

Friend/Rival Events#

The event (id 100500) where a fierce rival has also become a follower of the new way of Christ is used, but contains a commented out section. This would have caused a conflict between having it a triggered-only event and having it randomly occur about 1-in-25 years.

#   mean_time_to_happen = {
#       months = 300
#       
#       modifier = {
#           factor = 0.5
#           trait = zealous
#       }
#       modifier = {
#           factor = 0.5
#           piety = 500
#       }
#       
#       modifier = {
#           factor = 2
#           trait = deceitful
#       }
#   }

Horse Lords#

The Horse Lords DLC has some minor unused content.

Event HL.100 is a used event that has an ambitious character with no inheritance begin to plan an adventure for a foreign title. It has some prerequisites commented out, including being after year 867 and having minimum stats (diplomacy 7, martial 9, health 4). Also commented out is having said event activate three times as often if the top liege is an emperor.

Debug Console#

The debug console is opened by pressing § or ` on the keyboard. Alternatively, it may be opened by using the Alt+21 or Alt+0167 method to input by character code for Windows systems, or Opt+6 for Mac OS systems.

For a list of commands, type "help" in the console.