You will be able to arrogantly ignore the advice of your wife and councillors in whole new ways in Crusader Kings 3, thanks to a small but mighty update to the game's message settings. Players are due to be given much more granular control over what scrolls and missives appear on their troubled monarch's war table, thanks to the free update that will accompany the Roads To Power DLC. Paradox talk about this and other upcoming changes (including a new start date) in an update post on Steam. Some rulers among you will be excited by all the Byzantine bureaucracy that will headline the DLC. But real kings care about filtering information in extremely picky detail. Still don't know why this is big Crusader Kings news? Come with me, you insolent wretch.
Customisable message settings is an oft-requested feature by CKIII players. If you have ever juggled organizing a feast in the castle with a war in Andalusia and a spymaster who keeps trying to poison your favourite accountant, you will know how important it is to keep a clean feed of information flowing into your hands. You'll soon be able to do that with much more control, judging by this screenshot of the upcoming quality-of-life feature.
God, that's an exciting menu. Crusader Kings 2 and other Parastrats like Stellaris have long enjoyed a similar feature that lets you decide, in itty-bitty detail, which message types you think are important, and which you don't give two figs about. But Crusader Kings 3 still doesn't have those options. So you're forced to trust the game's own info-sorting, meaning you sometimes miss significant events, or get endlessly informed about dozens of things for which you simply don't care.
This is due to make persnickety players like myself, who want to tailor their own story, very glad. Message settings have probably been on the drawing board at Paradox for a while, given the howling cries from the masses yearning for the feature. "I hate it when I suddenly notice bits and pieces of land
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