Best Family Tree?

[HRE_HeinrichV]

So, are you guys saying it's a good idea to decline all the adoptions? how can you prevent man of the hour events as well? wouldn't you run pretty thin on family members?

[Frederick_I_Barbarossa]

Generally I decline ALL adoptions, unless I have a princess around to instantly marry them to. Man of the Hours are ALWAYS accepted on my part, and when the next available princess comes along, I marry her to him. Long story short, they all eventually find their way into my family tree.

[Frederick_I_Barbarossa]

Would also like to point out that the more you inbreed the family tree, the less likely it is that they will have children. Also, in the more extreme cases it causes hits to Command, Tax Income, and Authority:

1. A Bit Odd = Decreases chance of having children
2. Of Dubious Lineage = Decreases chance of having children
3. Woefully Inbred = -1 command, -2% Tax, decreases chance of having children
4. Spawn of Incest = -2 Command, -2 Authority, -10% Tax, decreases chance of having children
5. Betrothed to Mother = -3 Command, -3 Authority, -15% tax, named "The Idiot"

[Durallan]

I decline all adoptions too, and normally decline man of the hours unless I have a beatiful but lonely princess or I need some more generals around to protect my land. I think the quality of Man of the Hour is generally better than adoptions (along with the age ) but sometimes they aren't worth it. You can decline man of the hour events, and you will never run out of family members, try your hardest to do so. You will always get adoption offers or man of the hour stuff if you are really running low. I just wish I could marry the females in the family tree that don't become movable princesses, without adoptions so I could marry them to family members and such.

Hehehehehe, I haven't gone to inbreeding in the extreme so fortunately haven't gotten those traits yet, I do wonder what the triggers for those traits are though.