EB and the MTW2 heir system

[bobbin]

The ability to designate the next faction heir has been available for quite a while now and EBII uses it.

[seienchin]

The ability to designate the next faction heir has been available for quite a while now and EBII uses it.

I liked that feature... Wasnt it realisitc for many factions?

[bobbin]

I liked that feature... Wasnt it realisitc for many factions?

I don't think I'm understanding your post correctly, I said the feature will be in EBII.

[seienchin]

Sorry, I meant the feature of not beeing able to choose^^

[bobbin]

Oh ok, well you still have that, the faction heir thing is run via a scripted event, you will have the choice to reject it and let the sucession run how it does in vanilla M2TW.

[seienchin]

Oh ok, well you still have that, the faction heir thing is run via a scripted event, you will have the choice to reject it and let the sucession run how it does in vanilla M2TW.

Awesome. :)
Too good to be true^^. Nice work. I am always impressed with the EBII details I hear.

[Paltmull]

The ability to designate the next faction heir has been available for quite a while now and EBII uses it.

Just a question: Does your system allow the player to choose faction heir, or only to choose the next faction heir? In other words; will you be able to change your current heir?

[Atilius]

Does your system allow the player to choose faction heir, or only to choose the next faction heir?

The next one. There is no mechanism for changing the current heir.

[Balbor]

so when it's time to get a faction heir, instead of just being told who it is you get to choose them?

[Atilius]

so when it's time to get a faction heir, instead of just being told who it is you get to choose them?

No. We allow you to choose the character who will likely succeed the current faction heir.

[Balbor]

oh i think i get it, is it a ancillaries that you can pass on to who ever you want or a selection similar to RTW?

[Atilius]

No.

[Ludens]

oh i think i get it, is it a ancillaries that you can pass on to who ever you want or a selection similar to RTW?

I haven't seen or used the script, but as I understand it: when the faction heir dies or becomes king, the engine makes the character with the most influence the new faction heir, regardless of family and other traits. The script EB plans to include allows you to designate a "heir" to the faction heir by giving that character a trait with an enormous influence bonus (presumably with non-influence penalties to counter this bonus). Whenever a new faction heir is selected, the script pops up to ask you to designate the new faction heir's successor. So no, you cannot do this at will: only when the faction heir dies or becomes king.

[Paltmull]

The next one. There is no mechanism for changing the current heir.

Ah, that's what I thought. Too bad. Still a lot better than nothing though.