Quote Originally Posted by Servius1234
I believe that if your City to Heir ratio is high (more cities than heirs) the game actually accelerates the speed at which heirs come of age (by fudging their age). Quite often I have taken a city, and the very next year, what would you know but a male heir has come of age. It seems to happens too often to simply be coincidence.
Have you investigated/documented this ie. one year a boy is 13, the next he is 16? Do you have some savegames showing this? If this is true, it should be turned off in a patch - it is clearly cheating.

BTW - I love the family system just the way it is. Why do you want a governor in every city? You can just allow mangement of every city or do as I do, and have one family member travel between several nearby cities. It adds an extra challenge in a not too challenging game.