Republic wealth inheritance?

[svanheeswyk]

I am playing as the Merchant Republic of Eire on Ironman. My current goal is to get the Merchant Prince steam achievement (20000 wealth) and as Serene Doge I have managed to scrape together 6000 so far.
But my current character is likely to drop dead any moment. I have many living dynasty members (landed and unlanded) and my designated heir is grand mayor of Gwynedd.

So my question, will my heir inherit all of my wealth, even if he is not elected as Serene Doge or will it be spread around all my close relatives?
I know that in usual Feudal games, you're heir inherits all. But im quite new to Republic mechanics.
And quite frankly, if it is going to get spread around my dynasty members, i would sooner spend it on building up my holdings before my current character pops his clogs

 

[shiro the bushi]

yes, you get all of the previous dynastic heads gold (though it was some time i last played as a Merchant prince) but you will see a noticeable slow in your income

 

[Zsrai]

Inheritance works the same way, so your heir gets all of your gold. Republics just spread around the gold to any male relatives in your court, but if you don't break the chain of succession by using the Designate Heir option (or if they only have daughters...), then you get it all back once those characters take the "throne".

 

[MichaelStakely]

There's a longstanding bug with Republics where income might be recalculated after succession in such a way that your treasury takes a massive hit (I recently had a character lose eighty percent of their wealth in one day as a result of this) before returning to the normal income the next month. I think it does something like spike family dues and/or retinue costs by several thousand percent.

So watch out for that.

 

[svanheeswyk]

Thanks for all the responses. I will go ahead and save up all my wealth for my heir and hope it carries over bug free

 

[LumberKing]

How did you become a Merchant Republic of Ireland?

 

[josefrees]

How did you become a Merchant Republic of Ireland?

Same way you become merchant republic with any other tribal government...

The nice thing about ireland s you usually get real dynasties for the most part as your rival houses instead of randomly generated ones

 

[LumberKing]

Same way you become merchant republic with any other tribal government...

The nice thing about ireland s you usually get real dynasties for the most part as your rival houses instead of randomly generated ones

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about that. For some reason thought he started in 1066.