Hi, so I'm not sure if anyone suggested this, though someone probably has, but it would be awesome if Gavelkind could be a more player-driven succession law. Meaning that once your character dies, you enter a screen mode where you have to click on the titles/provinces you wish to pass on to a specific heir. I know this could make Gavelkind potentially overpowered, but this could be somewhat mitigated by putting in a weighted system, where your choices are evaluated and judged fair or unfair. If it's unfair it could either be impossible to do, or receive maluses of some kind (like granting the other heirs primary claims on your title, or having an "unjust succession" modifier for every vassal of yours, or even causing a succession crisis where your vassals pick their favourite heir to displace the primary one)
Sometimes the NPC assignment is just ... suboptimal. In my current game as emperor of the HRE (having united it as Charlemagne and actually kept it together properly), my primary heir gets exactly two things: a province (one I'd swear I didn't even own) and the empire. My second heir gets an entire kingdom with everything in it (same for any other heir after that). Considering that rulers usually drew up plans of how to divide their realms BEFORE their death, it would seem somewhat unlogical to me that they'd divide it this...absurdly.
Just a suggestion though, since I can deal with the current system (though I wish I didn't have to). It just requires a lot of killing the second heir, so the primary heir actually gets a functioning demesne.
Edit:
Okay, I just saw a thread where basically the same thing was advocated by a user named ranbir, making this thread somewhat superfluous. Sorry about that.
Sometimes the NPC assignment is just ... suboptimal. In my current game as emperor of the HRE (having united it as Charlemagne and actually kept it together properly), my primary heir gets exactly two things: a province (one I'd swear I didn't even own) and the empire. My second heir gets an entire kingdom with everything in it (same for any other heir after that). Considering that rulers usually drew up plans of how to divide their realms BEFORE their death, it would seem somewhat unlogical to me that they'd divide it this...absurdly.
Just a suggestion though, since I can deal with the current system (though I wish I didn't have to). It just requires a lot of killing the second heir, so the primary heir actually gets a functioning demesne.
Edit:
Okay, I just saw a thread where basically the same thing was advocated by a user named ranbir, making this thread somewhat superfluous. Sorry about that.
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