I've seen people comment how playing in China as the emperor is tiresome, but I enjoy micromanaging schemes and a trillion billion children from concubines. The interest won't last forever, obviously, but gradually improving the economy and securing political advantages is fun, even if grindy. I've started as Ostyaks in northern permafrost, became nomadic, and then, after several decades, took the Mandate of Heaven when China exploded. Converted to local culture and Taoism, initially wanted to hybridize with Han, but realised I'm only really interested in Chinese traditions, so I just went native.

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I don't understand why the AI are so damn forgiving in this game, they should be executing or revoking titles en masse if they won a war against their own vassals or claimants, not ransom them off or release them for nothing at all. pic related
>war of the nine pennyking
>iron throne won
>releases maely for some reason
>few years later
>nigga launched another rebellion
>whocould'veseenthiscoming.jpg
I don't think I have ever had this issue in CK2 at all, the AI was much more cruel and bloodthirsty.

>>2460104
Maybe his personality affects his actions? Check the king's personality traits and character archetype under his name. idk I play the game episodically and didn't really pay attention to rebellions before. Maybe I'll watch them more closely next campaign.

>>2458764
I have over 2,000 hours in CK2, but only a couple hundred in CK3.
I could never really immerse myself in it in the same way. The only positive change I can note is it's interesting seeing characters grow old.
But it's really apparent this is just sims medieval for roleplay girlies. Every single event is a novel about farting or other hyper-personalized character issues. I miss the straight and to the point nature of CK2 events, it seems they really lost sight of the fact that less is more. I had more fun headcanoning the personal relationship of my characters than actually being told that mittens had gotten into the supplies and I can either throw the cat out the castle (+25 stress!) or give her another turkey leg (-25 stress, gain "feline induced anorexia modifier)

Also, CK2's simple and rudimentary sound effects and music are just better. CK3's jaunty design-by-committee "medievalcore" sounds and songs just don't cut it. I'm very aware I'm playing a game listening to them.

>>2458766
wish the emperor got a palace domicile with extremely expensive upgrades

I forgot that I downloaded the base CK2 at some point, never have played a strategy game before so is it worth playing as-is or should I seek out a way to get the DLC?

>>2460483
you should buy every dlc for money
remember to pay for the games you play

>>2460483
you can cream the dlc for easy, it's just acquiring the dlc files and the updated api

>>2460483
Get the DLC. They are basically mandatory for Paradox games. I'd recommend creaming them like the other anon said. If you want to support the developer, buy them later.
>never have played a strategy game before
DLC are usually not 100% necessary for strategy games. It's just this developer that pumps them out one after another and puts essential game features into them.

>>2460309
I like CK3 more at this point because there's just more tools at your disposal and if you know what you want, you have a clear path to getting it. Skill trees with clear-cut bonuses, the fabricate county claim being guaranteed and not "3.5% chance per year", things like that. There also were some features in CK2 that pissed me off. The most prominent was the guaranteed stressed or depressed trait from stewardship and business focuses which made them useless. Stressed also often turned into lunatic, which I fucking hated as a trait, probably more than anything in the game, and there was no way to remove it that was under your control besides praying to get a dog with the hunting focus or carousing, both of which, AGAIN, were tied to random chance.

Also I'm not generally a roleplaying type of person, I play these as strategy games first and foremost. I'm not a minmaxer as in studying gigatables of men at arms to determine the best percentage bonuses or something, but I do play fairly optimally. I DO a little roleplaying, for example if I catch sight of some knight who turns out memorable for one reason or another, I might give him a fief when I conquer new lands. Also the general direction of the campaign, as in what goals I set for myself, has a degree of roleplay, like I've tried a Vandalic kingdom recreation with a Swabian adventurer recently. But other than that, I don't really even read the events. So all that's left are these pet peeves, of which CK3 has less. Also I turn off music and just put some rain sounds or pen writing asmr in the background so idk about that. Sound effects sound fine.

>>2460309
>>2460530
CK3 has been better overall since around AUH. It was already comparable and impressive enough by RtP. No other game quite fulfills the hybrid niche of character roleplaying, grand strategy and intergenerational storylines like it.