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Eight Cubed Leader
Apr 29, 2003
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OK, so I am vain, and the first thing I did when I got the game was load it up, giggle with joy, and then root through the files and try to create myself as a character, complete with my own dynasty (which is super easy to do, except for the dna bit thus far), and started myself as the Count of Lancaster, vassal of the Duke of Norfolk (after the assassination-by-Notepad of the previous count)(I'm going to spend all of tonight delving into the mysteries of the CK Genetic Code so I can make myself look reasonable).

I point this out because there are a couple of issues related to my dynasty that I would like to address: one is a bug, and the other is kinda weird.

First, the bug: two of my (many) bastard sons, Alan and John, died but refused to disappear. Alan I granted the duchy of Courland (and the two provinces that make up this duchy), but he was ill, and he died, and I inherited the provinces back again cause he had no sons. Then he showed up at my court as a greyed-out dead guy, but wouldn't disappear. John was then given the cursed duchy and its two provinces, and of course he dies heirless so I end up re-inheriting Courland from yet another of my pretty-wench-induced accidents, and lo and behold, the ghost of John comes to hang out with his old man and ghostly brother.
Then, when I was rampaging through spain, my bastard ghost son John was commanding a besieging army and he claimed a province as his own... and then just sat there, being the Count, and being quite dead... so I waited to inherit from him, but it didn't happen. I finally asked for the title back, and he gave it back and went back to being a ghost in my court. So yes, that is the bug: dead people not being removed from the game.

The other question I have is: I created my dynasty ('Garak') and my character ('Elim') and gave myself some stats and some traits (high intrigue plus illusive shadow = respectable cardassian tailor), and took english catholic as my culture and religion. After a few years I kept getting a whole bunch of John Garaks and Anselm Garaks and George Garaks joining my court and always being arund 36 years old, and having no traits but always having the same stats as my character's base stats (which, I admit, were somewhat inflated). And I mean a ridiculous amount of them, I never had less than five Garaks not related to me in my court at any given time. Is it supposed to be that way, or did I maybe do something wrong when putting my dynasty in the dynasty file?
 
There's more to character creation and dynastic editting than the simple changes you've made - hence your undead bastard sons. :p

I'm going to move this thread over to the scenario forum which is really where it belongs.
 
It's possible that the Ghost bug is due to some error you made when modifying the files. I didn't encounter this while playing today, with no alterations. Also I assume you're using 1.01?

Regarding the doppelgangers, I read somewhere that if you lack 4-5 dynasty members in your court a new one will appear (I assume to allow the AI to have a Stewart, Marshall etc.). That could be it..

/F
 
Thanks MrT, wasn't sure where I belonged.

Umm all I did when creating myself was first copy/paste the last dynasty in the dynasties.txt, and change the ID by 1 (to 101004) and changed the name. Then copied that dynasty into the dynasties.inc file for the alternate 1066 scenario I made so as not to screw up the original.

Then copy/pasted last character in the characters.inc file, changed the id to 122504 and to my name, and edited the stats and the traits.

Then put in a deathdate of 5 days before scenario start of the ex-Count of Lancaster, and changed all the places where his ID had a title to my ID. And then gave'er.

Is there more to it than that?

Oh, and right at the beginning on january 2 it creates 4 I assume random characters to be my ministers, but they're never members of my dynasty. The dopplegangers don't start showing up till after a year or so.
 
I await hearing how to do this.

Maybe not my first game of CK, but definitely my second, will be putting myself in as the Count of a minor ducchy and seeing my ancestors hopefully reign over most of Europa by the end...
 
I too would like to know how to make Dynasties anew. The Family Blackadder is screaming for a place in the game. :)