Adding dinasties with bloodlines and blood abilities which can be used to augment magic using or forging or whatnot,

for example getting kids who inherit basic blood ablities of sovereign, and can be used as generals, and if sovereign dies, and they (kid) are invested/designated as heir, they have a chance of receiving some of sovereign's abilities...

Something like Birthright RPG?

The sovereign dies!?!
sorry, I had to...

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

I enjoyed the dynasty concept. Maybe have a set up flag to enable/disable it when starting a game, thus making a larger subset of people happy (not everyone, since I am sure someone will still take exception to it's existence, even if they can turn it off, and I can even think of a few reasons).

With it on, have certain abilities that can be purchased, such as: Divorce, Polygamy, Bastards (Illegitimate offspring, have traits, but not marriageable kind of thing), Widows/Widowers can remarry, Same sex marriage, and even have a flag to turn progeny on/off.

Yeah it was one of the neater features. Hard to see why they would take it out really. Unless they intend to really dramatically change the races so that breeding between them would not be possible. Or they didn't want to have to design mixed race offspring. Also I would probably vote against same sex marriage. Since that's really more of a modern lifestyle convenience. Marriage in the old days among royals was a business strategy pretty much. Throne was bound to the bloodlines so they carefully planned who would Marry who an give birth to a proper heir with legitimate claims. Love only mattered in these in the chance the couple actually did like each other but most of the time it was just business. In gameplay terms it was also interesting trying to find, and level up a Male/Female counterpart for breeding purposes down the line lol.

I'm also in favor of this one. I'd love to see Dynasties brought into the full game. That was one of those little things about Elemental that I really liked. It was actually really disappointing when I finally found a hero of the opposite sex in a game and couldn't marry them.  

In the old game I loved creating a story behind it. I had my one son who was a great mage, and his two sisters who were far better governors and rulers than he was. He went adventuring with his mother while his sisters traveled around the kingdom ruling the cities. 

I love the concept ... just has to be done right. In WOM it was kinda "meh".

I hope it does come out in a big DLC or expansion pack! I'd buy that in a heartbeat.

I have no problem with dynasties as long as the children don't inherit dad's 42 damage broadsword. 

It would be very OP if Junior, a newly minted  level 1 sovereign, had all of the magic items from his high level parents...

Didn't mean to be an ass about it, I just absolutely hate that quote.

And sorry, didn't see the date of the post, I just stumbled on it when I was just about to pass out :/

Yes, prior to release, the most important features should be implemented, however, that does not mean, that upon release, this game would thus be perfect because only the important features are present, and nor does it mean the game would deteriorate in it's "perfection" through the addition of unnecessary but positive features.

Again, sorry for the necro post, didn't see. I swear I saw it in the top of the forum though >.>

Happens... don't worry too much about it, just one of the "more odd" necro posts.. if I have to say it

This is a point where we should agree to disagree about the quote, I feel most features that are tacked on to a game makes me... "drown" in said features instead of enjoying all the good stuff in the game (I know, luxury problems).

One example is the DLC to Civilization 5 which added "Religion", if you have played it you might find it slightly lacking, I feel that is one of the unimportant features of Civ 5 since it adds very little to the game, and should have been worked on more thoroughly or scrapped.

As I tried to say, I don't mean every single feature should be scrapped, I mean that each feature of a game should be worked on or scrapped, don't just throw in a feature and forget about that feature.

Dynasties COULD make a welcome change to elemental, if done right, but the key focus right now is permanent heroes, and I don't think dynasties works well with permanent/invulnerable heroes. And the AI can't really handle mortal heroes

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Right now I feel one of the weaker points of the game is the whole sovereign, champion, and even henchmen thing.  You pick your sovereign based on a playstyle, spells, and abilities that you want to play and then you find some champion or power level some henchman that makes your sovereign irrelevant in comparison.  I thought the sovereigns were supposed to be the premier channelers in the game.  Why is some champion that I just found sitting in a hut loaded with magical paths and abilities not leading his/her own army/kingdom/empire?  Why do they call this guy a henchman when he can learn every level of spell (with a subscription to Pariden's digest) and wind up just as good or better in combat than your sovereign and other champions?

Adding more champions in the mix through dynasty wouldn't change any of the above, even though it could be developed and the other stuff to change to a point where you feel like it adds something meaningful to the game.  Right now though, I don't even feel that a sovereign is meaningful, so why would I care about his/her children?

I wouldn't mind this back, IF, and this is a big if, there was someway to have it balanced. I can't see how being able to churn out children is not going to unbalance the game completely. I'd love to hear some ideas about it though.

I miss the kids too.  Janusk fathered many babies in my WOM games...