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Old 03-16-2023, 01:25 PM   #52
JonInMiddleGA
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Originally Posted by Umbrella View Post
On a side note, in another one of the playtests, something interesting happened. Richard Taylor, father of president Zachary Taylor, died during a battle in the Revolutionary War. As a result, Zachary Taylor was never born, and will not be in their game. I didn't realize there is a dynasty rule, where if someone dies young, any of their children born after the date of death don't exist, and then their children won't exist, and so on. I thought that was pretty cool.

Cool mechanic, nice for replayability and alt-history but it prompts a question:
Is there a mechcanism (even as a future feature) to work the same way in reverse? For example, Tad Lincoln lives, has children, grandchildren, etc.

Otherwise there's wouldn't there besomething reducing the political family dynasty chances but nothing augmenting them, creating a net reduction of those?
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