Do family members not in party do something usefull?

[saliddry]

so in gild 2 members f family not directly controlled where useless... they did nothing ... dont live there lives dont get family dont get children dont go politics..

did that change in guild 3 ? i realy realy hope so but im early game just year 10 now ...so i ask before i find out myself if its usefull to have many childran and have an big family

[Dechalmes]

You can control them to some extent : make them work, court, fight. You can't make them apply for political functions nor can you send them to special trips. As the game permits a lot of automation, they are quite useful (e.g employ them at home on loop for boasting earns you a substantial amount of influence).

[Dechalmes]

You can make them have children too...

[billygreat]

Actually they are quite useful. All 15 adults members of my dinasty are in the council ( rest of 5 are kids). And you CAN send them to special trips like guild quests. Once I got a unique hammer that raise productivity with 20 % !!!

[FalconerHG]

They can do pretty much anything your main character can do. They're just not in the top-left of the screen for easy access.

[Necroscourge]

Adult members are super useful, they replace workers in business and work all night for no pay. Having a full family is very powerful

[Defiant Dan]

You need to hire them as Worker in your House then they can do lots of usefull stuff in Early Game, like nonstop promoting Business or praising themself to earn Social EXP Points you need to level up

[Jelinobas]

Originally posted by saliddry:

so in gild 2 members f family not directly controlled where useless... they did nothing ... dont live there lives dont get family dont get children dont go politics..

did that change in guild 3 ? i realy realy hope so but im early game just year 10 now ...so i ask before i find out myself if its usefull to have many childran and have an big family

Well, THEY CANNOT do pretty much everything the master and 2 hands can do, but they are definitely useful:

They can be used as water carriers, controlled manually (active micromanagement), and thus to bring necessities and intermediate products to the companies or to fetch them from other companies.
So you can save yourself every stupid AI carter.

Of course, you can simply put them in important companies as workers for 24/7.

You can always put them on pedestals to advertise.

You can put them in important positions.

You can only have 20, usually. With luck a few more.

[Steppenrazor]

Originally posted by Jelinobas:

Of course, you can simply put them in important companies as workers for 24/7.

very handy at a barbers - as they can serve the over night customers. always seem to have a line 5 or 6 folks long every night at my Barbers.. when normal workers are sleeping. (not sure about inn - havent tried it yet. thats next play through. lol

[Dechalmes]

My bad, i realized that they could do everything only recently...