Out of Character thread

**flyd** · 01-13-2007, 22:06

I have bad news. I will not be able to take an active part in this PBM at this time due to a hardware issue. I hope to have it resolved within a period of one hardware item delivery. I may read the forums from time to time, but will certainly be unable to fire up the game. Feel free to skip over me when assigning avatars.

**Lucjan** · 01-13-2007, 23:31

Wow, is everybody's hardware all crashing at once? We hope you can get it resolved quick Flydude.

**pevergreen** · 01-14-2007, 01:56

Yeah, we dont want everyone not being able to play at once.

**GeneralHankerchief** · 01-14-2007, 18:55

We have a new avatar available:

As Prinz Henry is the benefactor of this adoption, the House of Swabia will get another avatar. I believe Warluster is next in line, correct?

**Lucjan** · 01-14-2007, 19:34

See, we'll start accrueing new avatar's quickly enough.

He's a promising one, though I don't know if I myself would want the "fabio-ish" hair.

Good luck to whichever Swabian Elector gets him.

On another note. Econ, if you wouldn't mind opening up an RP Stories thread, I've got one ready to post.

**OverKnight** · 01-14-2007, 20:28

One thing I've noticed about M2 is that'll throw a lot of adoptees at you. It's like some pushy social services agency. I think the game tries to maintain a certain ratio of faction members to territories, and offering adoptions is one way to do that.

I've also noticed (and this is by no means scientific) that most of the adopted folks end up in the faction heir's family tree. If we see this pattern in this game we might have to reconsider house assignments along family lines at some point.

You might not like the haircut but due to the wonky inheritance AI this Kid could be Kaiser at some point.

**Braden** · 01-14-2007, 22:24

Yeah, in my limited play testing I've noticed that - as HRE I got approx 5 in 20 turns! Haven't noticed the family tree link though.

BTW - I plan to keep my own campaign to a minimum now so I can concentrate on this one, need to still install the Mod we've decided upon but I hope to get that done tomorrow night.

Any save files openly available for the current game yet? (or rather, when may they be made open?)

**econ21** · 01-14-2007, 22:40

Originally Posted by GeneralHankerchief

We have a new avatar available:

As Prinz Henry is the benefactor of this adoption, the House of Swabia will get another avatar.

I'll assign this avatar to Ignoramus - he contributed a lot to Will of the Senate. I hope Warluster will understand.

I've come to realise the potential problem with Swabia getting a disproportionate share of the avatars. There's a limit to what we can do about it at this stage. Certainly, the Chancellor should reject Swabian adoptees or marriage candidates if they look unpromising or even just so-so. And, after Warluster and Kagemusha have avatars, he could reject them fullstop until the other Houses are fully staffed.

As a mild balancing factor, Swabia will be losing Prinz Henry at some point. And when we reach the point where we have more avatars than players, it should not matter much. (Only players vote, not playerless avatars).