Oh, and I nerfed the elective faction in the beta (merged with Meneth after his teaser post). In combination with the crown law revocation cooldown mentioned in the beta changelog (the feudal elective faction required almost min. CA before it was enabled), we should see much more historical succession laws in place in, particularly, AI realms after the game's been running for 10-30 years and beyond. I'm crossing my fingers for an actual halt to rampant feudal elective conversion in the game's long-term as well, but there are still some other factors which could be driving that behavior.