More bugs and crashes? Oh no

The primary benefit of dynasties is to gain children who have essence and thus can cast spells.

After release, we can listen to ideas of what people would like fleshed out.

Inheritance/wars of succession were actually plugged at last year's PAX, that was part of the original plan for dynasties. Would be nice to see it implemented in an expansion.

Indeed. That's something that had to be commented out because it was taking me far too long to program AI that made use of it effectively and as you know, we try to avoid having features the AI doesn't use.

In .981, the kids seem to all be spawn of excessive inbreeding even when my sov picks the first wandering mate who comes along. I sure hope that even before RTM, there are some changes to those surrealistically low stats.

That aside, it's looking like my hopes for the focus of the first and second expansion packs are 1) More Fun with Magic, and 2) More Fun with Dynasties. Hopefully at least one of those current impressions will be blown out of the water by the shiny results of the final pre-RTM coding crunch.