Hi All
I got up this morning with the intention of posting in regards to the inability of your dynasties children to marry anyone other than other factions children. Others have already long beaten me to the punch with that suggestion, however here are a few other changes (including that one), that I feel would improve the game experience.
1) Fix the out of memory crashes, the game is entirely playable and enjoyable other than this.
2) Let us assign a preferred soverign to factions that we create within the faction creator.
3) Give every NPC a marriage action (unless they belong to another faction who you are currently at war with or are already married), and when clicked a pop up box should come up with marriageable members of your dynasty.
4) #3 could be a mechanism of recruiting heroes from other nations, although it could come at great expense.
5) Add peace settlements that allow you to take other factions children as hostages to ensure their "good behaviour" (not attacking you and also not building cities in your direction of the map).
6) Hostages would have to accept all marriage proposals from your faction and would belong to your faction regardless of gender.
7) Add some kind of character ability that allows you to place your units prior to a battle if the character with that skill is in the stack.
8) At the moment I send in a crack group of cedarwood longbow wielding archers to assassinate soverigns and wipe out factions without wars of any real significance, regardless of my enemy factions size; Entire factions should not disband due to one unit being killed off, allow succession of heirs, if none are available the spouse should succeed, and if none are available then one of the factions hired heroes should take control. If all of these units have been killed then the towns should remain on the map as neutrals waiting to be eaten up by other factions, possibly also increasing bandits.
9) Make succession also work for the players faction if it does not do so already.
10) Materials are too easy to come by, food and gold are currently too scarce.
