I kinda hope that we don't have to deal with governors. Dealing with them just got annoying in Total War. The way they've been implemented in the past just makes them feel like one more way of putting +/- bonuses on a city without really adding gameplay. Stardock might be able to come up with a better implementation, though. (And hopefully they implement the dynasty system better than Total War did too)

I can't find the threads easily just now, but back a year or so ago (well before the dynasty system announcement), there was some talk about being able to assign heroes/champions to civilian duty as town administrators or perhaps to roles in a royal cabinet/council.

I still think that inlcuding things like administrator and councilor roles for champions (and royal offpsring) would make for fun and interesting tradeoffs, especially when you found yourself with a particluarly well-rounded and strong 'character' unit who could be very useful no matter where you assigned him or her.

All that aside, I'd still like to see an option to enable a 'staff AI' as a town administrator, at least if the game ends up nurturing city spam on the really large maps I like to play. A good UI for creating and applying build queue lists would be better than nothing; GC2 updates tried there, but didn't really make it, at least for me.