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Vajk
06-30-2005, 08:07
Ok so I have been playing the game for a month and learning the tricks of the game slowly, but one thing I haven't been able to figure out is the curse that has plagued me twice - my King's inability to produce an heir!!

Is this a totally random act? I assume so. Is there a strategy for ensuring the continuation of my family - cheat or other?

The absolute worst thing was when my game ended as my empire was dissolved without an heir....
edyzmedieval
06-30-2005, 08:16
Yeah...There is...

.unfreeze. - it gives you a heir.... But you still have to wait 16 years for him to mature......
professorspatula
06-30-2005, 13:30
I find my kings often have no heirs until they're old and grey, and then suddenly they get a burst of energy and mate like rabbits and have lots of young heirs just before they die out. But at least the next King is often young when he takes control of the empire and stuffs it up and loses everything.
Philippus Flavius Homovallumus
06-30-2005, 23:06
I've only had this happen once, I went through five brothers and they all had daughters.

Bad genes.
Roark
07-01-2005, 01:13
If you don't like cheating, just try and start a civil war / rebellion.
Sensei Warrior
07-01-2005, 05:58
the unfreeze thing is the only cheat I approve of. I hate that. All that careful breeding, and marrying and stuff and your nice 30 year old king decides not to boink his carefully chosen, genetically mixed, 18 year old hottie you just procured for him. I swear there is a hidden vice that never even comes up on the screen. It is: "In the closet".

Oh and whats worse is the I'm gonna wait til i'm 50 before I pop out 1 measley heir, but don't worry i'm gonna die the year before he comes of age.
Wingman
07-01-2005, 06:12
I swear there is a hidden vice that never even comes up on the screen. It is: "In the closet".

There is. It's called "Secret Perversion." Though this closet only appears to be big enough for little boys, not the bigger ones. This never prevented my kings form having kids.
Sensei Warrior
07-01-2005, 06:21
naw i know about that one. I have had kings that had secret perversion and still managed to pump out heirs. I'm telling you, its a secret hidden one that you can't see, and I was just kidding. sigh don't worry most of my humour falls to the ground and dies.
antisocialmunky
07-01-2005, 22:36
Play Germany, they elect their Emperors if they die heirless.