Character relationships and events

[Truen]

Do these exist in this game similar to ck2 or ck3? It appears my only option is to "make friends...," there's no seduce button for instance. And, can you take concubines in this game?

[sammwich]

You can marry, but there are no concubines or seduction. Rarely, there will be an affair event, but I've never had it happen to my ruler character. More often, for rulers, there's an event where you sire a child with a previously non-existent character and will have the option to accept the child, banish it, make it disappear, or replace your wife with the baby's mother.

There are quite a few character events, but they aren't nearly as personal as CK. They're more political, someone wants an office, this guy wants to change a law, that sort of thing.

[Truen]

Ahh, okay that's rather disappointing. Maybe they'll expand that in the future. Thanks for responding.

[XartaX]

IR isn't really a character heavy game. It's somewhere inbetween EU4 and CK2/3. The focus isn't really on the characters, they're just there to add a bit more depth to the political side of the game.

I tend to play republics, and when I do I really do not give much of a ♥♥♥♥ about the characters because my ruler family/dynasty changes constantly. It's more about trying to ferment a healthy ruling class (when it comes to characters) than taking care of specific individuals (unless those individuals start becoming too big for their britches).

I'd say the only characters really worth getting invested in are the ones with genetic blood traids (blood of the argeads, etc.). If you can get those into your dynasty as a monarchy, or into a ruling family as a republic (or get him set up as a dictator and transition into a dictatorship), then it will benefit you the entire game.