Quote Originally Posted by wtfdoesitmatta
Basically I have played as the senate, and as long as I don't click senate offices or senate tab, I am good,...
I'll just reiterate that, aside from clicking on the Senate tab, the game will eventually crash if you try to play as the Senate.

Quote Originally Posted by wtfdoesitmatta
Like under descr_stat there are family members that belong to each faction, If I just cut and paste them to another family, will it work, or do I have to do something else.
You can cut and paste starting characters from one Roman faction to another, but:

All starting family members must share the same surname. (There is a way to get around this: if you want your starting characters to have different surnames, see here.) So you must change the surname of any characters you want to transfer from one Roman faction to another.

You also have to add the family member to the family tree of the faction you're moving him to and remove him from the family tree of the faction you're taking him away from. This must be done such that only the faction leader doesn't have a father. Obviously each faction can only have one faction leader, so you'll have to take away the faction leader attribute from a character if you move the faction leader of one faction into another.

There are some gotchas with ages too. Unfortunately, I can't recall what they are. I'd suggest that if you transfer any characters, you make them all sons of the existing faction leader and adjust their ages to reasonable values - at least 16 years younger than the faction leader.

Anyway, moving characters from one faction to another isn't too difficult but you need to be a bit careful. Screw-ups in Data\descr_strat.txt are usually pretty easy to track down if you use the -show_err switch to run the game.

Good luck.