Campaign questions

[ShadowMagnet]

Intersting thing you can do is marry your princesses to the best generals you have. Better yet - choose absolutely the best one there and marry him to the youngest princess in royal family. When your king dies (provided you haven't been exporting your princesses abroad to marry into any foreign faction and there are no royal heirs available) the general in question has a major chance of controlling more valuable lands and better units in the oncoming civil war. Gives the campaign wicked flavour and makes it more real-life.

One thing that really gets me is reappearance of eliminated factions. On the whole I don't mind but several times the English and HRE reappeared with their king being 58 and the youngest heir about 50!! Not one of them a married man. I let them die out slowly, and yet, even after ALL the heirs have passed away aged over 60, some twenty years later they have enough cheek to respawn again!

Heir stats only come into play when your sons are mature. The moment they turn 16 they are given their first v&vs. Any vices or virtues are only given to the generals visible on the map.

Influence does help forging alliances but there are some other things that affect your chances.

a) faction profile (expansionist, defensive, merchant etc.)
b) emissary valour - the higher the better
c) your current position on the map.

All these statements come from personal experience and have no scientific background so feel free to correct me. Certain mechanisms seem to be fairly constant and after a good year and a half of playing the game (I will never stop having fun with it) I repeatedly get similar results.

Never encounterd any bugs in the since installing VI. No crashes, nothing.
It might be your system, mate. Try and free up as much memory as you can spare, close down any applications you don't need and see how it runs.
Good luck.

[Yoyoma1910]

Yes, a problem with a king that has too many sons is that the next heir may not be able to fit his into the line of succession. Only 6 male heirs to the throne at once. This Includes the brothers. So how do you fix it? well, thin the herd of course. If your king has a large amount of brothers, rid yourself of the less attractive ones so that some new blood can be on the table.
It will also keep the unkingly royals from being king...

[mfberg]

Check out the Apothecary for CTD problems, some of the newer NVidia Drivers may make things worse, I use an older one, when I updated I got constant CTD's. Save your games at the beginning of the turn, and have at least two saves in case one gets corrupted.

mfberg

[Diehard_TH]

Thanks guys.

Now i think on it i have had problems with some display settings so it's probably the driver. I'll try using Ctrl+s in future.

As for the heirs, i think i did have 6 at one point but 'accidently' got the dross killed off and still didn't get any more for many years.

Impressed some of you get kings up to over 80 years old, all mine (admittedly not many) have died before 70.