I really hope they listen, but it seems like we have made a ton of topics on this and given plethora of ideas that could make it work.  I just don't think that they are interested in making the dynasty system work.  I really don't think that the system really needed a lot of work.

First, I would say limit 2 children per hero.  This would keep the numbers of champions from ballooning.  Also, give the children the choice of marrying non-royal champions.  This way, if I choose to keep my female daughter instead of marrying her away, I can.   When you choose to marry away a daughter, you should receive a bountiful dowry, gold or treaties.  Forget the grandchild randomly going to either grandparents faction, just stay with which ever they are born into.  Also, make the traits the child gets random, but weighted towards those of both parents.  So if daddy has powerful and mommy has swift, I am more likely to get one of those than others, but might end up with something unique.  

EDIT: Also, there is no reason why you couldn't marry away a Male child too.

Note: I tried messaging the Chief (Frogboy) to see if I can get some info out of him on the possible dynasty come-back. I can't promise he'll answer or say anything "official" but maybe we can get some general info out of him on whether or not we'll see them come back as a normal (non-modded) part of the game.

I would tend to agree, but, we don't know for sure exactly. If the new design mandate for FE doesn't utilize Dynasties they may not put forth the effort to bring them in officially and it may be left to us modders to bring them into the game. Personally I think that would be a huge waste of what's been accomplished up till now, but I'm not the one in charge of the current design. Only Frogboy and Derek know for sure I think.

last I heard dynasties where planned to make a come back in the 'next' expansion, don't know any details as to what they're going to do with them though (other than they said they wanted to do them 'right').  I firmly believe they DO have a pretty good idea of how many of us want dynasties back being this has been something that seems to have been brought up many times since the initial take away of tha system.   I think I come up with some decent ideas sometimes but almost never on command so I'll prolly be posting here again later (after a few drinks when my mind really starts tickin)

I don't want to wait for an "Expansion" to FE to get them back though. I still remember when the Chief started talking about giving the buyers of Elemental a free game he said the next Two games Stardock did they'd give to the players for free. Somehow though I think we'll be paying for the expansion of FE. Mostly because the company needs to recoup some money, not because Brad would go back on what he said. I don't even think I'd want to hold him to the whole "two games" thing as it was only what he first mentioned when he was understandably upset and thinking what he could do for the fans of his company, and not so much on what the bottom line for that would mean later down the road.

As such I'm perfectly happy getting just FE for free and paying for it's expansion, but, that being said I don't want them to wait for the expansion to put in all the cool things I really want like the aspects that originally drew me to Elemental in the first place, Dynasties being one of those.

Imagine if they hold back on Dynasties, All the major tools and editors, larger maps that are supported without heavy modding, boats, and other spheres of magic or other things that were all part of Elemental that we had to begin with just to make us pay for them later down the road. As much as I understand the need for them to recoup some of the costs, that would kind of piss me off at the same time.

That's why I'd like to see as many of the things the players like and want as possible make it into FE, pre-expansion.

I, for one, never found the dynasty system very engaging.  It added zero strategic depth to the game, and was just annoying the way it popped out kids with the name of "Goofelbrod" or "Invetsibloghjoyuryal."

I have no interest in seeing this aspect of the game return unless it makes some kind of strategic impact on gameplay.

I agree the names got annoying. I would say getting more generals that you don't have to pay recruitment costs on is a big strategic impact on gameplay, that's just me though. I've played the FE beta every day since it's release and in every game I've played I didn't get anymore heroes after the 4th or 5th one. I didn't really try to either though.

Agreed on the permakill. In fact I mentioned that same thing in the thread about Heroes getting out of hand. I still think the Sovereign should be immortal though just as is now and as was intended in WoM.

I'm not missing dynasties at all. My vote woud be to ditch them. They work well in games like Crusader Kings where the game itself is more about politics. But I really don't see FE gains much by adding this.

Having said that, one idea I would find interesting would be that when marrying your race gets one of the bonuses from the spouses race. And possibly a random negative as well. This would make each game more random and different.

I hate, hate, hate the idea that completely taking away a piece of content, rather than making it good, makes the game better.  Especially when the fixes would be pretty easy.  It doesn't have to be this major overhaul, it just needs some tweaks.  

Bringing back dynasties is a bad idea for FE. I might could see it in an expansion down the road, but I would rather the current features in the game get refined before adding in others. Dynasties were kind of fun, but they didn't really work well from a gameplay standpoint.

I would love to see dynasties come back, because it would add another level or strategy and gameplay. Dynasties were a huge selling point of WoM for me, and people complaining about making the game more simple we are playing a 4X strategy game not an FPS... Why would you make a TBS more streamlined and dumbed down? That is just a silly statement.

Dynasties were removed for a good reason I agree with. I don't think it is because they don't want them at all, just as I would like to see them. But if you do too many things it becomes harder and harder to do any of them well. If Fallen Enchantress is a result of slimming it down to that, I don't want to see them undo it.