Since I haven't seen anyone post anything about adding family members to factions, making them married, etc. I figured I'd sign up and contribute some. :)

EDIT: This is all in desc_strat.txt


The Family Tree:

First to explain how the family tree works. All the family members must be put in order from the oldest to the youngest. Failure to do so will result in you getting kicked back to the menu when trying to start a campaign.

relative William, Matilda, Rufus, Cecilia, Robert, Henry, end

And there's the default one. William is 50, Matilda is 49, Rufus is 26, Cecilia 25, Robert 24, and Henry 12.

If you want lets say Rufus to be married to some girl. You'll need to make a second tree under the previous.

relative Rufus, Constance, end


You could put more children under them if you wish also. About now would be a good time to mention that the maximum number of children per a marriage seems to be capped at 4. Putting more then four won't cause a crash, but just won't show up.

It's also important to go back up and put:

character_record Constance, female, age 25, alive,
never_a_leader

With the rest of the "character_record"'s.

A few other things:

1. Having two children that are the same age under the same parents will result in you getting kicked back to the menu.

2. So far I haven't hit a max number of traits per character.

3. Putting a 2nd char at the same location as a city that already has another char in it, will result in the one you made sitting on top of the city. You'll have to go into the lists scroll to select him and move him out. I'm guessing it's because if you want him in the city he'll somehow have to be listed under the army of which ever char you want to be the governor of the city. I haven't tried it yet, but this will probably happen outside of cities if you put two chars in the same location.

4. I've been grabbing char names out of various text files, like the e3 campaign demo, etc. I haven't tried it out yet with names I just made up to see if the game will crash or not. I have a feeling if you make up a name and just throw it in there, it won't cause any problems.