Ever have a game where something didn't quite seem right? Perhaps the Orcs have inherited Morrowind or the Khajit declared themselves supreme ruler of Skyrim? If so share your experiences here!
Most absurd thing you have seen in Elder Kings?
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Once I started as a count level argonian, but my liege and his decendant turned out to be the greatest and most successfull rulers of all times. I don't know if it was deliberate or random, but my AI liege did everything to keep me as a 1 county count and I was unable to do anything for 500 years. Eventually I managed to get strong enough to have any kind of relevance, but by that time my my liege had taken most of Khajiit lands and was pushing towards Imperial city.
Back in the good old days I would often find large stretches of Cyrodiil had converted to some random Akaviri religion.
Not exactly groundbreaking but it always made me laugh.
Not exactly groundbreaking but it always made me laugh.
In my last Skyrim game, all the Imperials were ruled by Vampires. Vampires everywhere.
edit: and I had nothing to do with it.
edit: and I had nothing to do with it.
Oddly enough in my latest game as Emperor of Tamriel I've been inviting people with the Strange trait that denotes vampires, marrying them into my family, seducing some of them, appointing them to my council, etc. Ended up with a vampire ruler who was turned at the age of 80. Not an ideal situation.
In my current test game, the orcs managed to grab the islands in the Chain, and are actually quite effective at piracy.
Now, as for most absurd... my previous test, which fixed a bunch of major bugs, by the time the test ended in 4400 no less than 75% of the world was ruled by varying shades of Mer. Akavir was completely owned by Chimer, Cyrodiil had Maormer, Bosmer, and Dunmer. Skyrim had a couple of Dunmer kings. Even Elsweyr had a single Maormer count. Only Argonia, Elsweyr, and High Rock escaped the mer onslaught.
Of course, why were mer taking over the world?
Law of unintended consequences. In 1.4b, Mer aging is broken. When we fixed it, it enormously altered the game balance. Mixed human-mer pairings tend to almost universally favor mer in succession.
These are the kind of bugs that we fix during beta testing.
Another bug was a 400 year old Werewolf Vampire.
Of course, why were mer taking over the world?
Law of unintended consequences. In 1.4b, Mer aging is broken. When we fixed it, it enormously altered the game balance. Mixed human-mer pairings tend to almost universally favor mer in succession.
These are the kind of bugs that we fix during beta testing.
Another bug was a 400 year old Werewolf Vampire.
As the Imperial High King of Elsweyr/Emperor of Cyrodiil trying to keep Khajit in control of their lands without appointing a Khajit High King, all of their lords marry imperial women, thus resulting in no children ever and me having to reappoint lords every few years. Luckily, this means rare revolutions from the South!
PS, having the same problems in Black Marsh every now and again. The Bosmer in Valenwood seem to be doing okay...but only because they CAN breed with humans.
PS, having the same problems in Black Marsh every now and again. The Bosmer in Valenwood seem to be doing okay...but only because they CAN breed with humans.
I actually fixed this in 1.5... Races whom marry non-compatable races will get auto-divorced. Although I may add an addition to that script where it also marries the AI to a generated courtier, incase the AI is stubborn about having to marry an incompatable race.
Oh that's super helpful, actually. I mean, politically it'll suck for me, but gameplay wise, that's awesome!
You mean like the sight people have seen in the Middle Earth project, where some people get 30-40 dead orc wives because the AI keeps on trying?
Will it be possible to circumvent this? One of my preferred methods of dynastic population-control was getting my children whom I didn't want to inherit/procreate to marry a different race. It was a subtle way to make them stop asking to get married, and to land sons without them creating their own annoying branch of children.
Fortunately our solution is a lot more elegant.
Only human rulers are exempted. For AI rulers it is not possible to circumvent it at all.
A secret Vampire lead skyrim who was able to export Vampirism to the world (all except Yokuda) in a matter of 25 years. But this was nothing strange at the time
Would it be possible to disable it by finding and removing whatever event that might fire? If so, I'd love to know which one does it.