


The only one that's to blame here is you for going too far out on a limb. I can understand that it's frustrating, but the game was working as intended. (Since I see the heir is imprisoned, I'm also guessing you took a bunch of tyranny to imprison him.) So you were fighting a whole lot of maluses, but took the gamble anyway. Finally, they prefer characters that actually have some experience over children. That's an alternative to just assassinating everything in your way.Īlso, from a historical perspective, this is the middle ages, and people at the time tended to strongly prefer men for the rulership position over women, so that's an issue too. At the other end of the spectrum, you get primogeniture, where the position is guaranteed to continue in your line as long as there are eligible people, but you might get an incapable, ugly inbred drunk on the throne.Īnyway, if your electors really like you, they will tend to follow your lead more when it comes to picking your preferred candidate in elective. But the downside is that the electors might not agree with with your pick. You get the benefit of getting to choose who-ever you want for the throne - even the third cousin umpteen times removed, but who is still young, has genius and strong, and has the top level trait for diplomacy or stewardship. Click to shrink.That's actually the whole point of elective from a gaming perspective.
