I'm pretty irritated with the way education during regencies is handled. Right now the player has zero opportunity to influence the education of his own character. This doesn't come up often, but it's really not acceptable.
When you're playing an adult, you have great control over the education of your children. When you're the child, you have zero control. If anything, you ought to have more control. It's your character. You're playing this person. Why doesn't the player get to respond to event choices? Why doesn't the player get to decide how to handle education events for himself? Why don't I, the player, get to decide how I react to what happens to me? Why is this treated the same way, with the same events, as some random child, some other person, educated outside my court by someone else?
This is always ridiculously frustrating for the player. This is my king. It's me. I'm going to be playing this person for perhaps the next fifty or sixty years or more. Perhaps one eighth of the entire game. How I'm educated is pretty important to me. I'd like to have some input. Wouldn't you think?
Why is some AI entity deciding for me how I'm going to react to things that happen to me that I'm going to have to live with for fifty years of gameplay in a game that only lasts 400 years?
Maybe I don't want the AI to make my king content? Because maybe I don't want to be completely unable to plot, losing an important feature of the game, for the next fifty years of the game? Maybe I don't want to be arbitrary, because it's an awful trait for a ruler? These are things that most players would take action to remove a child from the line of succession completely, even if it meant bringing out the assassins. Yet when you're the king, there's really nothing you can do about it.
This is really just a terrible solution. I can only imagine it's this way because someone didn't want to write events for children during regencies because the stock ones wouldn't work when you're the child. This really ought to be a priority in a patch.
When you're playing an adult, you have great control over the education of your children. When you're the child, you have zero control. If anything, you ought to have more control. It's your character. You're playing this person. Why doesn't the player get to respond to event choices? Why doesn't the player get to decide how to handle education events for himself? Why don't I, the player, get to decide how I react to what happens to me? Why is this treated the same way, with the same events, as some random child, some other person, educated outside my court by someone else?
This is always ridiculously frustrating for the player. This is my king. It's me. I'm going to be playing this person for perhaps the next fifty or sixty years or more. Perhaps one eighth of the entire game. How I'm educated is pretty important to me. I'd like to have some input. Wouldn't you think?
Why is some AI entity deciding for me how I'm going to react to things that happen to me that I'm going to have to live with for fifty years of gameplay in a game that only lasts 400 years?
Maybe I don't want the AI to make my king content? Because maybe I don't want to be completely unable to plot, losing an important feature of the game, for the next fifty years of the game? Maybe I don't want to be arbitrary, because it's an awful trait for a ruler? These are things that most players would take action to remove a child from the line of succession completely, even if it meant bringing out the assassins. Yet when you're the king, there's really nothing you can do about it.
This is really just a terrible solution. I can only imagine it's this way because someone didn't want to write events for children during regencies because the stock ones wouldn't work when you're the child. This really ought to be a priority in a patch.
