Family member starting location

**Goofball** · 01-19-2007, 00:00

When a family member comes of age, what determines their starting location? I had never really paid much attention to this before, and it always seemed to be that they pooped up in whatever city their father was currently in, or if their father was out of a city, the last city that their father had been in.

But in my current Scottish campaign, that isn't the case.

I sent a crusade to Antioch and since my plans are to expand rapidly once I have a foothold in the middle east, I sent two young generals on the crusade so that I would have a couple of "breeders" in place to create more generals to aid my expansion. Both generals had two sons that had not yet come of age when they left Scotland. I have now taken Antioch, and have since had one of the general's sons come of age. He turned up in Scotland.

So it looks like all of the other three will also turn up in Scotland. Both generals have had more children born since they arrived in Antioch. Does anybody know if they will also somehow come of age in Scotland, or will they come of age in Antioch?

**sapi** · 01-19-2007, 00:22

I think they come of age in the capital (though my first thought was the same as yours)

**Goofball** · 01-19-2007, 00:35

Originally Posted by sapi

I think they come of age in the capital (though my first thought was the same as yours)

No, I know that's not correct. I control all of the British isles right now, and have had family members come of age in several of the different cities.

**Lusted** · 01-19-2007, 00:37

They come of age in the same city as their parent i believe.

**Goofball** · 01-19-2007, 00:40

Originally Posted by Lusted

They come of age in the same city as their parent i believe.

You mean the same city their parent came of age in, or the same city that their parent is currently located in?

**Lusted** · 01-19-2007, 00:42

I think in the city their parent was in when they were born, or their parents current city.

**hrvojej** · 01-19-2007, 02:15

Originally Posted by Goofball

You mean the same city their parent came of age in, or the same city that their parent is currently located in?

In my experience:
The same city that the parent, father-in-law, or adopter is in, or is closest to if he is out in the field. Only if the father is dead they pop up in the capital, and I believe this is also the case for son-in-laws whose father-in-law is dead. Perhaps the crusade messes up things though (edit:or perhaps not if you hadn't taken Antioch before he came of age - then Scotland could be the closest).