Some quick fixes to make game more enjoyable

[Metz]

1) When choosing focus for a child, have the focus that is most recommended say "recommended" below.. This is based on the traits acquired as a child. It will help the player from having to read what traits the teenage accumulated as a child and read which focus is most convenient.

2) Auto-select council. Whenever a councillor dies, you have to select the next one. Sometime several die in quick succession. It would be nice if we had an option that auto-selects the most qualified member automatically.

3) Maintain Councillor activity. When a councillor dies or is swapped..You have to reselect their job and assign them to a province. We should have a button where the activity they are doing is maintained regardless if the person dies and a new one is selected or if you replace them with someone else.

4) It would also be nice if we could see who is your family more in depth, like having Grandfather's cousin or cousin's nephew, etc.

5) Lovers should be angry at you as well if you have a child with another lover or get caught with an additional lover.

 

[Venom Crusader]

>Auto-select council. Whenever a councillor dies, you have to select the next one. Sometime several die in quick succession. It would be nice if we had an option that auto-selects the most qualified member automatically.



Yes, this, please. Maybe add a queue system where you set in stone the future councilors in return of an opinion boost and less micro-managing.

 

[Metz]

Also shouldn't Court Chaplain be renamed Court Rabbi for Jewish courts?

 

[RagingJaws]

1) When choosing focus for a child, have the focus that is most recommended say "recommended" below.. This is based on the traits acquired as a child. It will help the player from having to read what traits the teenage accumulated as a child and read which focus is most convenient.

Simple enough, I suppose, though a bit unneeded. I've got most of the half-memorized by now and I don't really min-max educations, so I'll often throw my kids into educations that aren't "ideal". They don't always turn out terrible.

2) Auto-select council. Whenever a councillor dies, you have to select the next one. Sometime several die in quick succession. It would be nice if we had an option that auto-selects the most qualified member automatically.

No. The council is an extremely important part of vassal management. They have strong plot power, so auto-selecting the best possible spymaster who happens to hate your guts and has title claims isn't really a great idea. Additionally, having to constantly swap out auto-selected council members who refuse to be reasonable to law changes, war declarations, executions, or w/e is even more tedious than selecting every time a spot opens up in the first place.

3) Maintain Councillor activity. When a councillor dies or is swapped..You have to reselect their job and assign them to a province. We should have a button where the activity they are doing is maintained regardless if the person dies and a new one is selected or if you replace them with someone else.

Like with #1, it'd be simple enough but do you always want to send your Councillor back to the same job each time? If my loving genius wife is my spymaster, who happens to also be giving me a very important NAP, and I don't have any kids yet, I'm against sending her to Constantinople to get blinded. At least, until I have several kids.

4) It would also be nice if we could see who is your family more in depth, like having Grandfather's cousin or cousin's nephew, etc.

My first cousin twice removed? Degrees of relation can be very messy, non-existant, or overlapping with just a few generations of interbreeding. I can imagine hilarious bugs with this, not needed in the game at all though.

5) Lovers should be angry at you as well if you have a child with another lover or get caught with an additional lover.

This I agree with. I could have sworn that the few times I've had lovers, they've become unhappy with legitimatizing/recognizing children. I may have simply misread the event. I think there should be a degree of separation between concubines and lovers. The former should not care, the latter should care but not get involved to the level of say...Muslim wives.