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Skidvar's Houses, Ranks, & Bonds*

Issue with desert factions having no quests is solved now. Only Charlemagne factions don't have any councils yet, but that should change soon ;)

This mod adds Noble Houses (cf. Rome II) to the Ranks & Bonds Mod for every playable faction, also in the Last Roman campaign. (Ranks&Bonds mod are included, you only need the Better traits mod I made with Prometheus, mainly to get the starting traits correctly distributed)

Family members will get a "royal blood line" trait, other nobles get a "noble house" trait the turn after they are hired when other starting traits are distributed.

There are 3 different noble houses with all of them their own interests as they get the bulk of their income from different sources.

Each noble house has two different profiles, one combat-based, the other support-based.

A character from the red house (income based on agriculture) will be assisted either by a local hero (charge bonus) or a local celebrity (replenishment bonus).

A character from the yellow house (income based on industry) will be assisted either by a weapon smith who makes arms (weapon damage bonus) or a blacksmith (upkeep cost bonus) who makes tools for the army.

A character from the blue house (income based on commerce) will be assisted either by a merchant who brings better supplies (fatigue rate bonus) or a negotiator who gets better deals for recruitment (recruitment bonus).

Families can have a positive, neutral, or negative attitude and after a council/senate meeting (see ranks & bonds) all of the characters may evolve together to a neutral or positive attitude (+1 loyalty). All characters can always instantly evolve to a negative attitude, so that's not only during the council sessions.

The negative attitude triggers (instantly) are:
- food shortage (red agriculture-based house)
- losing money AND treasury < 1000 (yellow industry-based house)
- treasury < 500 (blue commerce-based house)

The neutral attitude (after a positive council session) triggers when treasury is between 1000 and 10000

The positive attitude triggers (after a positive council session and starting from neutral) are:
- treasury > 10000 and at least 6 generals or admirals (red agriculture-based house)
- treasury > 10000 and at least have 4 armies (yellow industry-based house)
- treasury > 10000 and at least 2 allies (blue commerce-based house)

The evolution of a character's bond is individual, the evolution of the houses' attitude is in group. All characters of the same house will get the same attitude.
It is easy to have the house get a negative attitude. That can be achieved in one turn. However, to get it from a negative to a neutral attitude can take 12 turns and from a negative to a positive 24 turns under the right circumstances!

Thanks to Prometheus & Magnar for support


TWC: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?699181-HOUSES-RANKS-amp-BONDS-RELEASED