Has getting your preferred candidate for elective monarchy become more difficult recently?

[Sunspawn]

I too have noticed difficulties with elective since I started playing again a couple of week ago (after a 6 month break). However, after a Zunist run I have really come to like ultimo. Primo forces you to "do something " about older undesirable heirs in ultimo you just have more kids, once your happy, divorce your wife, marry a granny and your golden. You also get the added bonus that you get longer lived rulers.

And the malus is that you can easily get stuck with a 0-years old baby as king and a long regency.

 

[Dahoota]

While elective has been balanced somewhat, as long as my candidate is same culture, religion as my vassals and is an adult I usually get my preferred choice - sometimes a different dynasty member wins. If they are a landed elector that helps too.

That being said, the margin of victory is usually smaller than in the past and a number of times I've had to sweat on it a bit as the result is often close. Gone are the days when your vassals just followed your vote.

It feels pretty well balanced atm.

 

[Matthias_Wlkp]

I do have a kind of de facto tanistry going on in my realm at the moment: it's literally impossible for me to *lose* an election outright, since every landed feudal character in my realm is my own dynasty.

I tried that and it felt really stupid that you get opinion penalty with all of your dynasty members for running elective...

 

[Aries666]

And the malus is that you can easily get stuck with a 0-years old baby as king and a long regency.

This is true but at least when you take the throne you wont have a short reign penalty

 

[Iron Chariots]

I tried that and it felt really stupid that you get opinion penalty with all of your dynasty members for running elective...

Honestly it's not that big a deal, all things considered. It's a minor annoyance compared to some of the disadvantages of other succession laws.

 

[RelVleDy]

I don't think this has been patched yet, but it's worth discussing one broken flaw with elective that Paradox has mentioned is a bug: If you reload a save game with elective succession, it resets the votes for everyone. Is this still an issue? If so, it's a double-edged sword, because it cost you the heir you want, but could also help you in regards to resetting those questionable head-scratching votes that some AI vassals will do.

Having said that, I still heavily prefer Elective Monarchy over any other.

 

[Dahoota]

I don't think this has been patched yet, but it's worth discussing one broken flaw with elective that Paradox has mentioned is a bug: If you reload a save game with elective succession, it resets the votes for everyone. Is this still an issue? If so, it's a double-edged sword, because it cost you the heir you want, but could also help you in regards to resetting those questionable head-scratching votes that some AI vassals will do.

Having said that, I still heavily prefer Elective Monarchy over any other.

Yeah that's still a thing - it can be a real pain in MP games in particular. You work to set it up and get the electors to like you, then you need to rehost and they vote for totally different candidates leaving you pretty screwed if the current character is old.

One solution is to change your own vote for a while. The votes seem to be at least partially reset when the current holder changes their vote.