Yes, all the other Elders will get really mad at you. Killing an Elder will likely make all other Elders Displeased for a very long time.
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Yes, only the Emperor uses the new government form, just like it happens with Merchant Republics. Its vassals will belong to any of the other regular governments.
Imperial Elective takes precedence, just like any elective succession does. In the case of Imperial Elective, one should consider that it is in some way a more complex version of heir designation already. The Emperor's preference bears a considerable value on who is going to be the successor to the throne, especially if the Emperor is competent and has good traits. If your voting power far outweighs that of your vassals, you are able to pick whoever you like, even if nobody else likes him. The system tries to emulate the historical reality that, although the Emperor was technically in charge, if enough influential people in the court were against his preferred heir, somebody else would end up getting the throne.
Cannot imprison without a reason is already a feature for Merchant Republics, you can expect it to work in exactly the same way for the Imperial Government.
Having more than one Elector title does not grant multiple votes (or reduce the number of electors), this is to avoid exploitation. The way the system works, the two factors are taken into account separately: holders of the electoral titles are always prioritized, if one is missing or invalid for some reason and a new elector must be chosen, theocracies receive a slight prioritization.
Sure.
Born in the Purple makes considerably more likely for Electors to favor a candidate. As for the trait itself, having it as an Emperor does not grant additional voting power, but NOT having it as the Byzantine Emperor will reduce your base voting power by -15.
Regarding my experience with the AI handling Imperial Elective, it does tend to follow more historical patterns. Popular Emperors tend to pass the title down to their adult close relatives, claimant factions are more common since the "change succession type" factions are no longer available; changes in dynasties usually happen when a weak Emperor is in power. I've definitely seen the Komnenoi taking over the Empire on their own a few times with this new setup when starting in 1066, for example.
Historical titles are always prioritized, so the non-official elector would lose his voting rights once the Duchy has been assigned to a new vassal. If the Emperor holds onto it that doesn't count, of course.
Adoption (as in, make somebody that is not of your dynasty become of your dynasty) is not allowed for balance reasons, but Imperial Elective does allow to pick any close relative as a potential candidate. Naturally, if you pick your non-dynastic nephew to succeed you, you will not get to play as him once your current ruler dies.
No, the list is already present in the current version. For example, Nomads cannot build any castles, city, temples, etc., Feudals cannot build tribal holdings, and so forth.
Adopting Chinese Imperialism would replace your primary title with a custom one, so you would no longer have access to the Imperial Elective succession.
If you use the Form HRE early decision, it will not apply the succession law, if you use the official Charlemagne decision, it will get it.
As for the electoral titles, yes, as of now, if you get into dejure Germany, they will start being prioritized.
No, Romuva and African. It can be unlocked through Reformation for other religions, though.
As long as the current Emperor holds one elector title, the title is considered "vacant" and will be filled by another vassal. Regardless of what titles are active, you are still always going to have 7 vassal electors + 1 voting Emperor.
It may not be a decision, but it does increase your vassal limit.
No, no changes to Merchant Republics succession.
I believe so, yes.
The list of AI behavior modifiers is extremely long, too long to post it here. Talking about Tanistry specifically, I can say that, compared to Feudal Elective, electors tend to prefer adult candidates, members of the extended family rather than direct descendants of the current ruler, and to be slightly more concerned about the heir's culture compared to other elective successions. There might be other differences that I am forgetting right now.
It's going to upset them regardless, even if they hate the Elder in question.
Not as a direct command, no. It might be possible to simulate a change in their number with some workaround, playing with the elector selection or creating variants of the election itself, but by default, the max number of electors (if defined) is set in the succession law itself and remains static when in game.
No, but you could set different variants of the same succession law, and mod it so, depending on the realm, when the law is implemented, it follows one or the other depending on whatever triggers you wish to set.
Hm, not sure about this, @Divine might know.
It should be possible to use most existing conditions that can be set as a trigger for a character or title, yes.
You could script it so that an Elector with the "traitor" modifier or who is imprisoned by the liege is no longer a valid elector, which would prevent him from voting until the condition preventing him from being a valid elector is removed.
That should be possible, yes.
Maybe there is a workaround to make something like this work, but it would need to be handled by events, there is no specific command for it that I know of.
No, Papal Succession itself is not counted as an elective type (same for the Merchant Republic succession) in this context. I suppose it could be possible to mod different successions with this system and tie them to theocracies and Cardinal titles, but I don't know how would that mix with the Papal interface, there might be oddities.
I don't think so, no.
They are prioritized quite a bit, so you might be losing your Elector status in that circumstance, yes.
Not particularly.
Yes, all new succession laws combine with gender laws as usual, and the AI's behavior will take them in consideration amongst other things when picking their preferred candidate.
It might be feasible, yes, it depends on the state of the ruling dynasty, on potential competitors to the throne, how much the Emperor's Councilors like your preferred heir, etc.
No plan as far as I know.
If you are not gaining tyranny and the other electors' opinion of you is not going down, then they are not going to care.
If you are referring to killing/imprisoning Elders, if you have a legitimate reason, the other Elders will not get upset with you.
Yes, that seems feasible.
The official HRE yes, the pseudo-HRE no.
No, a Commander is defined as a character that you have given the title_commander in order to make him lead your armies. You can make the Varangian Guard leader your Commander, sure.
There are currently no ways to duel on behalf of others, so that's a no.
Incapacitated characters should not end up in duels. Certain levels of injury/sickness might still be allowed, but they come with a scaling opinion penalty (from others in your realm), depending on severity of the health issues of your target.
Worth mentioning might be that we have simplified the game rules surrounding dueling to be "Default" and "Unrestricted" (where before there was also a "Restricted", kind of in-between setting), as we quickly realized that the system is more fun if it lets you be penalized for your behavior, rather than outright blocked from it. Same goes for dueling priests, or female characters, when not appropriate within your religion or culture (female fighters of the Warrior Lodges are fair game, for instance). Of course, your targets can still refuse your challenge. But to break it down, the default setting applies penalties, whereas "Unrestricted" is less concerned with what's an "appropriate" dueling target.
(Edit: Forgot your first question): yes, usually. As long as they are in general valid targets for you to duel, you should be able to pick them off beforehand (not without risk, but sure).
There has been some background maintenance to upgrade old basic events to work properly with Enatic, but that is about it, I'm not sure that would warrant an entire Dev Diary. It was mostly about updating already existing events.
If for whatever reason a woman qualifies as an elector (wife, special Jean of Arc commander, etc.), she can vote, yes. In order for women to be viable candidates though the realm must have a gender law that allows it (that is, not full agnatic).
There is no change regarding Marshal, but a Eunuch is very unlikely to be supported by anybody and is likely going to have a very low voting power due to his mutilation.
Yes, no change in Constantinople's baronies' type.
The Kingdom does not take precendence.
I had considered the possibility of having special circumstances where the main electoral titles can change (such as the one you named, as well as some of the other new special titles creatable by decision within the HRE, such as the Grand Duchy of Austria or the Swiss Confederacy), but would have taken a lot more time as I didn't want the electoral titles to be too malleable in a way that was for the most part outside the player's control.
Yes, it should. I said no since the first post specifically said "excluding the Exclave rule".
What I mean is, if you go into common/realm_decisions.txt, you will find two decisions: form_the_hre and form_the_hre_early. The former will enable Princely Elective automatically, the second will not.
As the ruler, you still get a vote by default, even if you are not an Elder.
It can happen that an Elder of your dynasty gets elected and you end up playing as him. You are not going to "become" an Elder if you are an independent ruler under Eldership, even if you are extremely old, since you are already the ruler.
And, oh, yes, an Immortal Elder is going to meddle into your elections for as long as he is around.
Yes, Imperial Elective is meant to represent the politics of a centralized byzantine Empire with centuries of laws, traditions, etc. so you only get it when you hold one of the two Roman Empire titles.
No, that is a completely different kind of elective succession.
It depends on the succession law.
It depends. If the eunuch is competent, has prestige and minor titles, etc., then it would be influential in spite of being a eunuch, but still less influential than a non-eunuch with the same skills/prestige/titles.
No, unless she's of your dynasty.
There is not. It was one of the improvements I was thinking about. However, I don't know if it would be best to do this via law modifiers or just having a weight_modifier list on the max_amount in the script.
It would require the improvement above to work. However it's shouldn't be especially taxing on the game to make a bunch of cloned elective rules that only differ by the amount of electors for a hacky workaround.
Good idea! This would likely require some new clever solution for an on_action. I do believe however that the top 3 candidates will be considered pretenders before the succession.
It might not end up as the most elegant script and might require some maintenance events but I do believe that there should be the tools necessary to allow this.
Not in a way that wouldn't disqualify you as an elector.
Hmm this is interesting, the electors can only be de jure or de facto below but if it has a grace period where it steps by the liege it might be possible. It will however take up to 6 months before all of the ai-votes to trickle in.
I do think this would be very possible with the current_heir title scope, abdicate_to effect and some clever use of on_actions and variables.
The Papal succession has it's entire separate logic from the other succession forms. It was not something we had time to look into this time around.
I hope these answers helps to give you an idea about what should be possible.
/edit: Oh, looks like Silfae beat me to the punch on most of the questions.
It is not a simple on/off issue; they would need to be adapted considerably to work for other titles, since their features and the AI elector behavior that was scripted for them was done to try and represent the cultural context of the Empires that used them. For example, it would not make sense for another centralized Empire to reduce voting power of a ruler that is not Born in the Purple.
The government works in a way similar to the Chinese Imperialism one. If you fail the election, you are going to revert to feudalism and get wrong holding penalties if you still own city holdings directly.
Yes, it gives the same effects to voting power/Elector preference as having the Born in the Purple trait.
Yes.
Yes, Electors in general making weird choices should no longer be such a common occurrence with the new system.
"priests of that religion's holy sites" this condition might be beyond the scopes that a title can reasonably check for when determining its electors. Though the system could allow to make priests within your dejure or defacto realm that own a holy site be electors.
I'm not sure what you mean with "abdicate old titles upon inheritance".
Yes to all the other points, custom Elective based on specific Doctrines with Religious Head as an Elector and AI behavior looking for Learning, Piety, Diplomacy, virtue traits, etc. is definitely possible.
Yes.Thank you for your patient answer！
And there is another question：
Is this law still exist？I mean，is there still “Feudal vassal opinion -10”？
Yes, Princely Elective replaces Feudal Elective for the HRE, it has otherwise the same requirements.