Question about the King

[Eternie]

For the first ~16 years I've had the Good king Karol the Brave with whom I had excellent feed back -15% less taxes and +10% villager happiness. In the game I have now the Herald has appeared again with the new king being Dobrogost 1 the Mad.
1. Would reloading a previous save give the possibility of a better different King?

2. What is the upside of working for a MAD king?
3. As he seems quite young 29 ... will I have to put up with a mad king for a long time?

4. Am I worrying too much about it?

[Mark Forbes]

Originally posted by Eternie:

For the first ~16 years I've had the Good king Karol the Brave with whom I had excellent feed back -15% less taxes and +10% villager happiness. In the game I have now the Herald has appeared again with the new king being Dobrogost 1 the Mad.
1. Would reloading a previous save give the possibility of a better different King?

2. What is the upside of working for a MAD king?
3. As he seems quite young 29 ... will I have to put up with a mad king for a long time?

4. Am I worrying too much about it?

All kings will respond in kind if you complete their quests :) no worries, I used to worry over same thing, Is just a name :) One thing u can do if starting a new game after update is check the king at the beginning and if no like just keep rolling till u get a king u like

[Goldi_Toplitz]

1. What king you get afer your pervious one dies is random.
2. You pay less taxes if you succeed at his quests. The downside is that your villagers' mood will drop. If you fail at his quests their mood will go up, but you get no tax reduction. The challenge quests between the different types of kings are slightly different.
3. If you fail at his quests the chance for him to die is bigger, no guarantee though, and you get punished for it.
4. Possibly, but that's part of being immersed. :)

[TheMole]

1. There's a chance that would give a good king, but just as likely to have another bad king

2. You still get the tax reduction, but instead of a boost to villager mood, their happiness goes down

3. Completely random. Failing a quest for him increases the chance he'll die in battle at a young age, and increases your villagers mood. But does come with tax increases

4. Very much so, if you're in year 16 I highly doubt you need to worry about getting production higher. So a mood drop won't make much difference, and same for your taxes, money is likely falling into your lap left right and centre. So you likely won't notice any advantage or disadvantage from comleting or failing his challenge

[mig586]

What benefit is the skill hand of the king with a bad king?

[Eternie]

Thanks for the responses I did the Herald quest for the Mad king culling 18 Boars or Bears. Which reduced taxes -10% but dropped happiness apparently by 2% it seemed to be more than the 2%.

Agreed money isn't a worry anymore, as I have exceeded the million mark.
I do have OVER production in most areas of game as it working out how to maintain a balanced economy when skills and people are constantly changing.

In fact my village produces so much that I cannot sell it fast enough and need to keep building resource storage.

Great to hear that refusing the Mad Kings requests may lead to his early death!
Hopefully not to my early death :-D

[Morri]

Originally posted by TheMole:

3. Completely random. Failing a quest for him increases the chance he'll die in battle at a young age, and increases your villagers mood. But does come with tax increases

Oh shoot! This is interesting to know!
When he 'dies in battle', do you get a message for that?

[TheMole]

Originally posted by Morri:

Originally posted by TheMole:

3. Completely random. Failing a quest for him increases the chance he'll die in battle at a young age, and increases your villagers mood. But does come with tax increases

Oh shoot! This is interesting to know!
When he 'dies in battle', do you get a message for that?

No message about it no, the in battle part is more my RP spin on it, a bad king is more likely to develop enemies or try going to war etc. So just makes sense in my head cannon XD

[Eternie]

A slightly off topic Question.
My Heir now 15 yo obviously he has a love interest in Astrid (the North Maiden Quest) who is 10 years older than him. Weirdly enough he has been following her and meeting her in the evenings. Now I have kept her in a house on her own at this stage.

Would Astrid be a viable wife for my Heir "Rajner" or will her age be a limiting factor?

[TheMole]

Afaik PC can't marry the quest NPC's, but your heir may be able to before you take over playing as him. The age gap for NPC's to marry is 20, so 10 years should be fine. But don't think she'll be viable if you're playing as him at the time

[Eternie]

Thanks for that detail TheMole
I guess as he gets to 18 I'll have to make a save that I could use where he and my choice of partner will be able to set up a home together.

Firstly change to him to see what flirting with girls of his age may offer to check out what other alternatives are available to him. He will have up to ~ 40 Children in the village within several years all reaching 18 after he does. So several good options should be amongst them .. as well.

I have been surprised that some of the village children have VERY high skills. One child has 8 in Diplomacy and isn't old enough to be an apprentice yet.

[Morri]

Originally posted by TheMole:

No message about it no, the in battle part is more my RP spin on it, a bad king is more likely to develop enemies or try going to war etc. So just makes sense in my head cannon XD

Ah I see. Makes sense! Or more chances of him being assassinated as well I guess.

Originally posted by Eternie:

I have been surprised that some of the village children have VERY high skills. One child has 8 in Diplomacy and isn't old enough to be an apprentice yet.

xD Could have it apply to mensa if such a thing existed back then!

[cosmic_armadillo]

Originally posted by Goldi_Toplitz:

3. If you fail at his quests the chance for him to die is bigger, no guarantee though, and you get punished for it.

If you successfully complete a bunch of quests for the herald does this in turn increase the chance of the king living longer? I have a bad king right now and wondering if I can try increase the chance of him dying by failing his quests and then (hopefully) get a new good king if I can try keep him around a little longer 🙏

Also if you save at the end of every season, is it possible to save scum your way to rerolling the new king? I’m assuming the new king is randomly picked at the start of a random season so would have to remember to save at the end of every season just in case

Sorry to revive an old thread, absolutely loving this game though, thank you in advance!