Elective vs. dynastic inheritance and other silly questions

[SavvyPlayer]

Silly questions from someone who is still waiting for the game:

1. Does choosing an elective inheritance law result in game over for your dynasty? If not, it seems this would be the best form of inheritance -- always pick 'Elective' at the beginning of the game when playing a count or minor duchy.

2. Is there any reason not to take Finland at the beginning of the game (besides the resultant CTD reported by MegaPIMP)? Does 1.01 MP always begin with a race for Finland?

 

[Spruce]

elective is good but it can lead to bad things, first of all the elective winner needs to be of your dynasty - otherwise it's game over,

so you install a good heir to your throne, suppose he get's sick - or mad - or in my last game only likes to fool around with courtisanes (he had 3 bastard sons - but no real heirs) - so I killed his wife (was she not fruitfull?) but he didn't want to marry again,

so you can still give another one more land, you think? Yes you can - but in times of trouble your nation might be falling apart, and when your "best" vassal is the most disloyal one, he still will dow you (perhaps a bug in game terms if he's the heir),

there's another issue here - it happened to me once, most often you don't give land to children - but when you die young and your nice bread of stewards misses the boat because some sad vassal takes over, :rofl:

 

[DukeWilleo1630]

If your a king lets say, and you have elective election of the king. Does your son losing the election mean game over? or you just become a duke?

 

[unmerged(6607)]

Game continues as long as a male member of your dynasty (with your last name) has land.

 

[Orm]

Edit: woops, double post.

 

[Orm]

Silly questions from someone who is still waiting for the game:

1. Does choosing an elective inheritance law result in game over for your dynasty? If not, it seems this would be the best form of inheritance -- always pick 'Elective' at the beginning of the game when playing a count or minor duchy.

2. Is there any reason not to take Finland at the beginning of the game (besides the resultant CTD reported by MegaPIMP)? Does 1.01 MP always begin with a race for Finland?

1) Elective law has it's merits, but Spruce's points are the most valid issues with it. IMHO Salic Consanguinity is the way to go.

2) Don't know about MP, but there is a valid reason not to take Finland immediately in SP... you'll need the pagan provinces for crusading later in the game.

 

[Varyar]

I'm a sucker for elective law myself, it allows you to always choose the most suitable inheritor of your throne. Salic Consanguinity is similar, but has the restriction that you can only pick one of your kids. With elective law, you may pick what you like from the whole dynasty(which can get quite big). I suppose it depends a lot on which kingdom you're playing though, elective law is perhaps not as appealing if you're playing Byzantium, HRE or the Rus...

 

[DukeWilleo1630]

Aren't Byz and Hre electives historically? Man, all these wierd works like salic and consigualrywhatever. I wish i had the game