Someone Explain the "Political Intrigue" and the family thing to me....

[meltdown]

I just don't get it....

I'm playing as Sparta, on the faction menu there is the Royal Family and the Other Families. Now, I can assassinate some leaders from the other family or even my own, and they try to take some of my family member out as well. However, I see the influence going up for the "other families" no matter what I do...spread rumors, adopt, marriage..whatever. What I want to know is...what is the purpose of this feature really? So what if I lost all influence....do I lose the game? What is the point of spending money to assassinate or adopt...etc, when it doesn't really effect anything. Am I missing something here? Should I only promote the Royal Family to command the armies or what? Someone help explain it to me, feel like I'm missing something...don't want my faction to into civil war all of a sudden or anything.

[jtfjtfjtf]

It's a really half baked political system.

[Smartbomb]

Yea I don't get it either..... I liked the system in Victoria 2 this system is just vague and seems relatively unimportant.

[AlexisonfireNZ]

Yeah the political system is a bit meh this time round. Just try to dominate the other families as much as possible.

[krisslanza]

Not every faction has a real political system. As is befitting the game title, Rome, mostly Rome has a working system of politics. I assume so does another culture like Carthage, but one like Sparta doesn't really.

[Smartbomb]

Not every faction has a real political system. As is befitting the game title, Rome, mostly Rome has a working system of politics. I assume so does another culture like Carthage, but one like Sparta doesn't really.

Ok then that would make more sense. I'm playing as Macedon and there isn't really ANYTHING going on in regards to the political system. The game prompts me every once in a while about some slave/servent/family member acting like a douche and I have to make a choice. The other prompt is when I "promote" one of my "family" members. That's all so far. I haven't gotten anywhere near creating an empire yet so I don't know how far this system expands(if it even does).

[beksibeksi]

Currently only Rome and Carthage have a political system that merits any sort of attention beyond the occasional random event.
Ignore if you are playing anything other than Rome or Carthage. Have fun.
This could change in future patches and DLCs, but it's unlikely future expansions regarding politics will be free.
More likely CA will charge you $10.

[.Mitch.]

The whole system is somewhat half finished and very simple.

It should be noted, investing no time into this system will not produce any negative effects. You can ignore all adoption demands, etc, and save your money if you want to.

Investing the time into actually keeping your family/clan/house/etc will net you campaign bonus's, for example +5% tax rate.

The higher and more important offices the generals/statesmen in your family/house hold the better the benefits that person provides in your campaign.

So the aim is to be able to "secure promotion" for your people above those of the other groups.

You do this by keeping Generals with good ambition and gravitas, through means of assassination/adoption/rumours/etc.

The combination of all Generals ambition and gravitas ratings makes up the family/house influence rating.

You spend your influence on securing promotions of your people to get the better bonus's.


And that's the system in a nutshell.

[RakeinWaiting]

Hey all,

have to agree with everyone here, the whole politics side of things is a massive let down. When i first heard of it, I pictured something akin to a senate or oligarchy. The more influence you had, the more stuff you could do (declare war, raise large armies etc).

Ive tried a few games with a few different factions and i get by fine not opening up that faction panel at all.

Seriously, I dont know why they just had a family with a family tree like RTW and dont worry about complicating it.

Peace!

Rake

[krisslanza]

However something to keep in mind, for Rome at least:

You do NOT want your House to be too powerful. That will cause a civil war. Conversely, if your House has no influence, that can cause it as well. Ideally, you want a balance.

or you can just try to incite Civil War and see what happens. I haven't had it happen yet.