Quote Originally Posted by Jarardo
I haven't played a whole Roman campaign yet, but as I understand it, its all adoption based. Maybe you should be more discriminating when accepting members into the family? I'm pretty sure the game will start to throw a lot of adoption canidates if you have a small family member-to empire size ratio.

But I could be wrong, in which case...oh hell, who are we kidding, when have I ever been wrong?
Yeah, that's good advice. If the game is trying to give you a sorry adoptee, and you can live without him, you can wait a turn or two and you'll probably get another offer. It's based on a ratio that the game tries to maintain: about 1 general for every 2 provinces.