Knute
Recruit
I was thinking on how to graduate to genuine nobility. I don't know if there is a programming problem with this but I'm thinking about game logic now.
1. Your chancellor might offer to research your lineage. Then after a little time and a lot of money he might be able to 'acquire' letters of nobility.
Other leaders might be persuaded or made to accept these letters - and then you'd be noble.
2. Again the chancellor - Your Majesty, <Faction> is bankrupt and beyond hope. Would you care to seek their titles?
This would be really expensive.
- Pay vanquished debts.
- Assume all their bad honour
- Settle feuds among the remaining lords
- Accept refugees and pay off the widows and victims of the previous regime.
- Answer charges against your 'family'.
I'd like to see this be a sliding expense with an equal chance of success. If you paid enough everyone important would accept anything you told them. "Long Lost Relative", Saviour of Title, Redeemer of family Honour - might all be titles rather than blood relative.
3. The old fashioned way - marriage. Perhaps you can offer land and or money to marry into the family. The old King might become an expensive dependent.
I sort of like the absence of religion from the game but being anointed "God's Chosen" or given the mandate of heaven might also work.
Anyway, those are just ideas.
Knute
1. Your chancellor might offer to research your lineage. Then after a little time and a lot of money he might be able to 'acquire' letters of nobility.
Other leaders might be persuaded or made to accept these letters - and then you'd be noble.
2. Again the chancellor - Your Majesty, <Faction> is bankrupt and beyond hope. Would you care to seek their titles?
This would be really expensive.
- Pay vanquished debts.
- Assume all their bad honour
- Settle feuds among the remaining lords
- Accept refugees and pay off the widows and victims of the previous regime.
- Answer charges against your 'family'.
I'd like to see this be a sliding expense with an equal chance of success. If you paid enough everyone important would accept anything you told them. "Long Lost Relative", Saviour of Title, Redeemer of family Honour - might all be titles rather than blood relative.
3. The old fashioned way - marriage. Perhaps you can offer land and or money to marry into the family. The old King might become an expensive dependent.
I sort of like the absence of religion from the game but being anointed "God's Chosen" or given the mandate of heaven might also work.
Anyway, those are just ideas.
Knute
