Dying Age of FM

[Xerrop]

A simple question I thougt about lately: Is there a way to influence the Age of death for my family members? Can you set actions or avoid certain circumstages to have a higher chance of reaching a later death year?

I plan to start a macedonian campaign soon, and it doesn't feel right to let Antigonos die at an age of 60 years ...

[fireblade]

I know one way, but it's borderline cheating imho. You make a savegame every turn, and when he dies, you simply reload and end turn again. This way (I know, it's very tedious) I believe you can make them reach the maximum age.

[Ferdiad]

Otherwise no, you cant.

[Bob Doad]

can you not reset the death age in the code...i want elves

[Ferdiad]

Hardcoded. Improper implementation of ALX exe casue all your FM to become Immortal though.

[Bob Doad]

sweet....Roman Elves FTW!

[Ferdiad]

Happens to every faction, needless to say its very annoying.

[Luke Evans]

i once had a an 92 year old greek general in vannila in rtw. it broke my heart when he rebeled at age 88 i had to bribe so everything was pretty much ok afterwads until he died... he was a good man.

[Ferdiad]

So good men accept bribes now?

[fireblade]

Well, by the time you're 88, I guess there is no reason left to stick to your principles, you have to cash in while you still have the chance.

[Rorynex]

I imagine average life expectancy in those days would've made 60 look like eternity.

[Lysimachos]

Well, by the time you're 88, I guess there is no reason left to stick to your principles, you have to cash in while you still have the chance.

By the time you are 88 there is no reason to give up on your principles either. It's cash that you don't have the time to do anything useful with. Better avoid stigmatizing your family as traitor's blood, I'd say.

I imagine average life expectancy in those days would've made 60 look like eternity.

The reason for the low average life expectancy lies in the fact that many people died as children. Once you reach a certain age, there wasn't anything to say that you couldn't reach seventy or eighty, if you had access to a healthy mixed diet, as EB's family members as high nobles would have.

[AtlasGR]

I imagine average life expectancy in those days would've made 60 look like eternity.

Socrates was killed in his 76 .

Plato died in his 84.

Isocrates died in 92.

Those guys had very healthy lives, I suppose.

[fireblade]

But if you like at the average life expectancy:

When you were born, your life expectancy was 40 years.

But if you managed to make it up to 40 years, your average life expectancy was something like 70, as you proved then that your constituency was capable of surviving most of the perils of those days.

[Spike]

delibrately tweak your traits with Alex

all immortal generals and the only death is heroic death on the field, WOOT!

[Ferdiad]

delibrately tweak your traits with Alex

all immortal generals and the only death is heroic death on the field, WOOT!

AI cant deal with it though.

[Ferdiad]

Romans and Greeks were pretty healthy from what I can recall.

[fireblade]

I depends a bit, most people tended to die quite young, but they were still capable of growing very old. Some of the Diadochi were particularly blessed in that field it seems. (antigonos, lysimachus, Seleukos were quite old and even they all died in battle/assassination)

[Stingray970]

Or the entirely unheroic death of assassination...

[Agathangalos]

I think its already been mentioned, but you can just start saving every turn when they start to get old and if they die, reload and proceed to next turn again, its random chance if they die. I'm not sure when, but once they reach a certain age (or maybe its always there just incredibly small?) they have a chance to just drop dead every turn. I did this years ago playing as Brutii, my original faction leader, or maybe his son cant recall, conquered the entire world because I never let him die. The funny thing is once they reach the maximum game age (which is somewhere around 120 I THINK?) they will reset to age 0 and start proceed onward with aging once more. Completely ridiculous, but the immortal Roman God Emperor leading his legions towards total global domination is pretty awesome!