Quote Originally Posted by Hooahguy View Post
I mean I have no clue who my heir is so basic information like that would be nice.
It's the next guy in line. The family characters are listed in Summary. Faction leader is at top, so the guy right underneath will be next faction leader.

That said...I've been pretty much ignoring "faction leader" in Pontus campaign, I just make up my own family tree as I go along. And I can't say I've noticed that it makes much difference.

I understand what the dev is saying about getting away from a family tree because not all government systems were based on such, and emphasizing politics more. Conceptually, I don't have a problem with this. The problem is that they took away something that people liked and identified with, and replaced it with an incomplete system that just doesn't "pop". I infer from the comments above that, while CA does not intend to go back to the tree in R2, they do recognize that politics has whiffed. Hopefully they will continue to work this during patches.

Frankly, even if we did have a family tree, the 1tpy-driven short life spans would remain...I'm not sure it would really drive us to care that much more about the individual characters.