Creating a new republic as a king - bug?

SBolshevik said:

It isn't a bug. It's supposed to be that way.

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Would you care to elaborate? I can't see why it's supposed to be that way.

Aardvark Bellay said:

No Bug. WAD.

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Working as designed, and it's designed badly. It can be corrected, right? It's unreasonable that I see one of my successors disappearing simply because I create a new republic with new families in it. It would make sense if my child was a designated successor to the republic, but it was never the case.

No guys, you misunderstand what I said. My child is the successor to the throne of the kingdom that created the republic. The republic I create has nothing to do with this succession. Supposedly, the new republic will have its own families (unrelated to my dynasty, since they are freshly created AI characters with a dynasty on their own). I simply promote a mayor to ruler of the county and then I assign the duchy title to him. No relation to my family. Is that clear now?

I just did

I already found a way to avoid the problem, but thank you for the suggestion. I just want to understand if that's a bug or not and if there is a permanent solution to it, rather that arranging a technical exploit.

To be more precise.

I am playing as the King of Greece. I successfully declared independence from the Byzantine empire and I stripped it of all its Greek territories. I am going to take over 80% of the empire's territories and I will usurp the Title.
I was able to choose the Elective Monarchy succession law, since it's my favorite, and I chose the second of my four children to succeed me. God blessed my dynasty with four males and the second was born with the genius trait due to his lovable and smart mother.

I decided I needed more gold to hire more mercenaries, so I am going to convert the just conquered Isle of Crete to a republic. I create the mayor of the main city, I promoted him to rule over the county, then I assigned him the tile of Duke of Krete. That turns him into a Doge and gives him dominion over the whole island.

As soon as I turned my mayor into a Doge, the game warns me that I still have to select a successor. What happened? I go to the screen with the intention to select again my beloved little genius prince, but I can't find him in the list. I though, perhaps he's dead and I didn't notice XD. No he was there, at my court, healthy and smiling awaiting to find a proper bride.

I returned to the screen and I tried again, but nothing to do. So I said to myself, WTF? I reloaded the last saving, I appointed as successor my most annoying vassal, the Duke of Aegean Islands (I would kill him right away, but he's my father in law and I don't want to upset my beautiful wife), hoping that the bug takes him out of the way from the succession list. I create the republic but he's still there as a successor. My son, however, can be elected.

Ok, I thought, I want to see if I change a few conditions, that happens again. I reloaded the save game before the creation of the Cretan republic, I kept my son as successor but I married him, and I made him Duke of Nikaea. I created the republic. He vanishes again form the list.

I, again, reloaded changed again the successor to someone else and I created the damn republic. After that I re-elected my son as a successor and I kept playing.

Is that accurate enough now?

Aardvark Bellay said:

Yup.

Weird though as long as your chosen successor son was unlanded in your court. No idea, especially as i did just play a feudal game where i created several republics under me and this didnt happen.
Do you play on the last patch and oh..did you buy it from GG ? The latter is slightly OT though and rather of rethorical nature.

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Yes... and yes . I will register the game as soon as I don't feel too lazy to fill a form.