Changing gender laws seems buggy

[Shaolin]

So I created a new religion and changed male dominance to equal. This also changes inheritance law to equal (which I knew and also wanted). My oldest child was my daughter, up till then my second child (son) was the heir. I was totally expecting my daughter to become my heir as she is my eldest child. For some weird reason, the eldest child of my previous heir is now my primary heir. That does not seem to make sense to me. It is like the game just disinherits my heir and checks who would follow him instead of recalculating the heir.

[Admod, the Equivocal]

No. That's how inherits work in real life too.

[Shaolin]

Pretty sure it does not. It would make sense if my heir were to die, but the rules of inheritance just changed from male preferred to equal. How does it make sense that he then loses the heir title and his first child gets it instead while he still lives? Like I said, I did not disinherit him, I just changed the gender law.

[Deylendor]

Carefully read the tooltips. More than once I assumed something should be working one way just by glancing over the tooltips instead of reading the fine print.

Like :: Male Dominance doctrine " Only men and vassal can be appointed to council positions".. welp.. "vassal" doesn't implicate gender. The "Grant to low noble" button in republic cities can produce female rulers who can indeed be on your council.. despite the male dominance doctrine.

In your case your gender law probably says something along the line that the eldest family member.. or it IS a bug.

[Shaolin]

I know what each thing does. You are correct in that changing the doctrine of the religion does not dictate the inheritance directly, but choosing the equal doctrine also changes the inheritance law under the realm menu. I also had partition at that point, so it would make sense imo that my titles would now be distributed amongs all my children rather than just my sons. Because I just decided that all heirs are equal regardless of gender.

[Admod, the Equivocal]

No. What I'm saying is correct is this. "The eldest child of my previous heir is now my primary heir."

[Shaolin]

Again, that does not make sense. If I say, instead of males being superior over females, everyone is equal from now on. How does that make my male heir no longer the heir but his child becomes it? Under the new law, he would not have been heir to begin with so it is dumb that his child holds a stronger position than his father now. How do we go from my direct sons get titles but not my daughters to none of my children get anything at all but my grandson gets every single title now?

[Admod, the Equivocal]

Because the previous heir had kids. If you're an heir to something, and you die, if you had children, they are the new heir. It's how it works in real life.

[Shaolin]

No offence, but did you read the whole thing? My heir did NOT die. I just changed the gender inheritance law to equal. His son then becomes the primary heir despite his father (my previous heir) still being ALIVE.

[Deylendor]

Yeah man. You probably encountered a bug. If not.. thats why people like myself lurk in the forums. This game is big and you can always learn something.

[76561198007310212]

I reckon there is bugs unless you prove me wrong after what I'm about to say.
So I created a new religion with male only doctrine as to who controls temples right.After that I started granting my temples through a "grant to low noble" button and to my surprise game has given away most of my temples to women.Tooltip says that male only doctrine gives right only to men to hold temple holdings so I'm very confused with what just happened.It's kind of annoying as the game gets unpredictable if the rules are being all over the place

[50 Shades of Gandalf the Grey]

More information is needed to answer this question, like what is your primary title, are you a vassal to someone, are there overlapping laws in a higher title that supercede your own, etc.

Please give more info along with some screenshots; I haven't noticed any bugs like this, most of the time its unintended consequences which, once you understand what's going on, make sense.

[ambi]

so your grandson is now your heir, even though your son (his father) is still alive?

[76561198007310212]

Originally posted by 50 Shades of Gandalf the Grey:

More information is needed to answer this question, like what is your primary title, are you a vassal to someone, are there overlapping laws in a higher title that supercede your own, etc.

Please give more info along with some screenshots; I haven't noticed any bugs like this, most of the time its unintended consequences which, once you understand what's going on, make sense.

I'm a King of Ireland and nobody above me so I make the rules.There is no overlapping laws.Lvl 3 of Crown Authority.I do understand the rules and I can read tooltip too and it really doesn't make sense what just happened to me but please be my guest and explain how is the temples being granted to women under "men only" doctrine.

[Cryten]

Sorry to be pedantic but did you check your realm laws and see what it says its laws are now? Did you also check to see if any titles have their own laws attached outside of realm law?

Also I want to make sure the old primary heir is alive. Because under inheritence laws if the old primary heir died the succession of the next heir happens as if he was king and then died. Skipping his brothers and sisters unless he has no children.

Maybe the bug is that it follows that logic when recalculating even on law change but gotta check other chances.