Quote Originally Posted by AntiDamascus View Post
I wish the household cards were the family tree.

I should click on my family tree and have a tree (or several) of members. These members should have bonuses like the household cards. They should have ages so they die eventually. If I need to recruit a general or an admiral they should come from this group and have about the same stats or something similar when they are recruited. This does a few things...

* A household actually looks more like a household. It gives a better idea of where these people are coming from.

*It makes it easier to assign household members to fleets/armies. Instead of clicking a fleet and having a huge set of cards pop up where I need to hover over every one to see which is best, I just click from the household window or tree and assign it to one of my way fewer in number generals or admirals

*It could allow a better training of the household members. Never use a naval household guy like shipwright? Well that lineage dies out or shames themselves into something else. make it so you can't just pick the best military traits of your house. You need to cultivate a good farming line too for when it's needed (see what I did there?)

*Having us pick our generals and admirals from these guys makes us make tougher choices. Do I leave that awesome bonused guy in my fleet so I can win faster or do I leave him in town to be an admiral soon because my current ones are bad or getting old? If I pick a land based guy to be an admiral he's going to suck and vice versa.

*Let us assign household members to regions to help us shape the towns a little more. They aren't generals but maybe like mini governors who gave give (very small) bonuses to regions.


I don't know if any of this is possible or even desired by other members but one of my favorite things was always seeing the household grow and expand. I personally liked Rome I where you had family members who were obviously governors. I don't mind the politics section as it is but it needs fleshing out. My family at a glance consists of one or two guys. We already have this large number of household guys, "just" give them faces names and ages. However complex that would be I don't know but I would probably adore it.
+1 to this post, I agree with its intent 100%. I believe these objectives could be met with a family tree. My one comment is minor: I think the "Household" slot for an individual general is meant to refer to servants, retainers, and/or entourage types of folks, rather than actual family members.