How do you change your faction heir?

[bret]

Someone did it...it involved a lot of random clicking.

I am not sure on the percentage of sucess.

Random clicking... same thing happened to me.

I know the faq, google, every single post in the forums here says you can't change your faction heir,
but yesterday while I was playing a campaign as Spain somehow I managed to change my heir.

I was on the family tree scroll clicking on different generals trying to figure out where they were on the map, and I clicked a general and the faction heir crown changed to him, and the previous faction heir got the 'disinherited' trait (-3 loyalty, i think).

I actually didn't want to change my heir though, and I was able to immediately 're-inherit' my previous heir -just by randomly clicking on his picture.

Today I'm playing a campaign as England, and I'm at a point where I'd like to change my heir, but I can't seem to repeat what did yesterday.

I think in my Spanish campaign I had switched the heir between brothers, but I finished the game and deleted the saves so I can't check.

[bret]

Well, I tried for a while but I couldn't get it to happen again.

Thinking back over my Spanish campaign:

If I remember right the two generals had the exact same name.

It was something like this-

Alfonso 1 [king]
--Rodrigo (son of Alfonso I) [heir]
----Alfonso 2 (son of Rodrigo)
--Alfonso 3 (son of Alfonso I)

Alfonso 1 died, and Rodrigo became king, Alfonso 2 became heir.

Then in the random clicking I swapped heir back and forth between Alfonso 2 & 3.

Anyway I'm disappointed that I couldn't repeat it, I didn't want to believe that it was a bug, but I guess it was.

[Frederick_I_Barbarossa]

This and what I call the "phantom family tree" bug, where princesses "convert" foreign generals and then disappear are the two MAJOR family tree issues IMHO. I personally was hoping both these issues would be addressed in the upcoming patch

[JCoyote]

It would be ok, if we could assassinate our own like the old MTW. That was a nice and historical touch... which had the same result, selecting heirs.