Imperial heirs

[TheAzureLiger]

It would be nice if I could make heirs governors or something or if we could see their future agendas and plan around them. It just seems like kind of a waste to have that part of your government to be so static.



What are the benefits for an Imperial government? The only one I see so far is the noble elite civic, which already confuses me on why dictators can't have access to it. Why can't an elective monarchy be one that elects it's ruler from the nobility? That's already the rationale behind the noble republics of oligarchies, why is it no longer possible if the elected ruler is for life?

 

[Badesumofu]

I’d say the benefits are having Nobles and a happy authoritarian faction.

It would be cool if you could use an heir as a governor, or an admiral for that matter. It would also be cool to have the family name of the monarch be weighted extra high when rolling leaders for the pool.

 

[TheAzureLiger]

I’d say the benefits are having Nobles and a happy authoritarian faction.

It would be cool if you could use an heir as a governor, or an admiral for that matter. It would also be cool to have the family name of the monarch be weighted extra high when rolling leaders for the pool.

The family name thing would be pretty cool, although we can rename them it would be nice for that to by dynamic.

It seems like there's so many minor things that could go a long way to adding flavor to imperial government.

Regarding authoritarians, are they happier with imperial rather than dictatorial?

 

[Surimi]

I suspect at some point we will get a "Stellar Kings" expansion which fleshes out the leader system and makes playing a monarchy a bit more involving. For now though, the main benefit is that new rulers are generated automatically, meaning you don't need to give up a skilled scientist or governor every election and don't need to pay the cost of replacing them. The downside is having less control over what kind of ruler they are.