How do you guys run the game with mods?

[Oofouchie]

My computer can fuck god and satan at the same time, but when I try to run CK2 and CK3 with a few mods it slows to a crawl in about 200 years. I could be doing other things at the same time and those things run fine but CK just won't. Are there any mods that improve performance in these games?

[yoyoman69]

It's mostly due to the lackadaisical attitude to fertility Paradox has in CK3 that leads to a hundred thousand (or more) characters when you play for a few centuries. CK2 has a lot of mods that don't give a crap about character bloat, can't help you there. In CK3 though, there are many things you can do, but the easiest is a combination of Even Smaller World Map (there is also a slightly bigger version from the same author, make sure it comes last in your load order) and a few changes to 00_defines.txt located in common/defines (better make your own mod with that file, but it's fine to edit the game file itself, if you don't know how to mod. Just make a copy of it in the same folder and rename the extension from "txt" to "copy" or something else so the game doesn't read it).

 

Set BASE_FERTILITY to 0.4 (0.5 by default) and NON_RULER_FERTILITY_MULTIPLIER to 0.6 (0.85 by default) RANDOM_CHARACTER_MIN_FERTILITY to 0.3 and RANDOM_CHARACTER_MAX_FERTILITY to 0.4.

 

That would limit character bloat quite heavily.

Edited September 20, 2023 by yoyoman69