Quote Originally Posted by Catalyst View Post
Hello guys,

I have created one kingdom and an empire. Their colors at map are a shitty default color. How can I change it? Do we have that information? For example Britain is Red, French light Blue, Golden Horde Gold, Byzantium morello... etc etc etc

Regards, George
There is no way to do it in-game, you'll have to mod it. For that... I don't really have a lot of experience. With any luck, Monk will drop by soon to the rescue.

There is one thing you can do if you have more than one kingdom - you can change your primary title by clicking on the kingdom title you want to change it to. This will change both the color and the name of your country to the selected kingdom. You can't customize the color in-game, though.

Quote Originally Posted by Double A View Post
It's my first game. I started as Ulster. My guy reined for 10 years, nothing really happened. Then my second guy formed the Kingdom of Ireland after quite a bit of struggle. His firstborn kind of died, but fortunately, he had a bastard. That was when he was around 55-65. I got him married just to see if I could get one more kid, just to be on the safe side. I thought he would die soon, as his father and son both died from being incapable and in comas.

It turns out that he would live to be 81, and had several more children. Now I'm his bastard, who went on to fight a duke who conquered two other freakin vassals and then to form the Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Third Crusade, which I finished about 10 minutes ago. I love this game.

Also, in my 2 days of straight gaming, I've noticed that smart people tend to die around 35 and if you form a matrilineal between a courtier and one of your relatives, there are never any freakin kids.
I haven't experienced the whole "smart people dying young" thing.

But there is a reason for your princesses and courtiers dying without kids. Members of your court who do not own land have a two-children limit (this includes unlanded children) and reduced fertility. Additionally, if your court has more than 30 members, nobody can have children. Best strategy for this is to marry off all your unwanted courtiers to foreign courts, and release/ransom any prisoners you don't need to hold on to.

I find it's trickier for your heir. If you give him a piece of land, you lose all control over what he does with his kids, so you better hope your king dies soon. If you keep him in the court, you can control him but he only has two kids max, and if your king lives a long time than chances are that's all he'll ever get. But killing off your king usually just gets you rebellious vassals. So it's a tricky situation that I haven't really found a good solution for yet.