Venice is Broken in the new start date, can fix with console

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Cause: Succession law for county of venezia is wrong and screws up merchant republic.

Observation: Playing as the son of the founder of Venice sounded awesome, so I started a game as Teodato Orseolo, a patrician of Venice and vassal to the current doge. Current doge dies, and my character inherits the republic (the duchy title), but not the county title. Instant game over because I have a duke-level title with no counties.
The reason for this is the county of venezia is set to agnatic succession, not elective like it should be.

Fix: Upon inheriting, the game pauses to inform you that you're the new doge. Used the console to force-give myself the county-level title, and that ended up also fixing the succession law. No more problems.

 

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Whoops, never mind, it's still broken. My guy died from a lobotomy and his son lost the election. Game over for some reason.
"You have become ruler of a republic and are therefore no longer allowed to continue"

I did notice that when my guy took power, three of the patrician houses disappeared and were replaced a day later by random-spawned houses. RIP Participazzos.

 

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Succession law for Amalfi is also wrong. It's set to seniority. If you start as the Doge, your dynasty will never lose the title!