Suggestion :
If you have the dragon rider trait plus a dragon, you can attempt a ritual to mix the blood of the man and the dragon. The result can be a modifier or a new inheritable trait that can improve which gives more life expectancy, health, prowess and whatever else you want to add.
you can teach your kids how to ride a dragon if you have the trait

@Helixyos - Aside from the mixing of blood part - this sounds near exactly like what I plan to develop for the Dragon Rider traits.

The regular and renowned versions currently do give you extra health (It's just novice that doesn't - and there's no way to progress currently).

And funny enough I have an idea in the works for adding a UI button to 'train to be a dragon rider' - but I think it will only be available to renowned dragon riders (aka I need to flesh a lot of other things first)

Wuren 17 hours ago
After having tried it I do think the artifact system is better than the one tied to innovations. I have some suggestions if you are interested!

- Failures and Critical Failures when attempting to tame a dragon, ranging from wounded, severely injured and death. These outcomes would have different percentages based on traits (i.e. brave, patient, strong, intelligent, shrewd) and/or having high prowess.

- A way to increase the limit of MaA based on how many of your knights also have dragons as artifacts.

- A limit on how many dragon artifacts one character can hold. I can stack four dragons if I wanted, not sure if it's intentional or not.

- A way to lose these dragons due to death during battle, therefore losing the MaA.

@Wuren

1) Great idea, although atm I'm trying to lean more into Player-friendly (/boosting) routes, I would see this as a potential 'challenge' element I could add.
(In my head I have an idea to do a 'duel' like situation for taming a Dragon - so that you can get injured / maimed / die / etc - but we'll see where that goes)

2) I plan to renovate the Maa in my next update - to make them Dragon Riders rather than the Dragon alone (also so we can have levels - imagine Armoured Knights, but just way better)
(And plan to have an event occur if you have no more Dragon Riders in your realm to make you lose the Maa - if that's possible)

3) Not intentional, just how it is in the current build - in my next update I plan to reduce this to 1 (since it should be a bond with that Dragon in particular)
Although it will still be possible to inherit/be-given a Dragon from/by someone else.
(All I will be doing is hiding the decision, and will probs eventually create another decision for things to do with your Dragon)

4) Definitely something I plan to develop on, such as duels with other Dragon riders

@hansthedude
Sorry for posting in the general thread, didn't realise the obvious "Suggestions" thread . Feel free to delete my other comment so as to not clutter it.

1) That's fair enough, I think something akin to a 'duel' would work out well!

2) Sounds good!

3) Ah okay, yeah a bond relation does makes more sense. So does being able to inherit and be offered one.

4) Awesome, looking forward to further updates!

I wonder what if Dragon can by a knight but only for popole with trait dragon raider or dragon blood.? Thah sounds great but I don't know how about implementation

maybe you can make the dragon artifacts not repairable so that it will simulate their life expectancy

Originally posted by Wuren:

@hansthedude
Sorry for posting in the general thread, didn't realise the obvious "Suggestions" thread . Feel free to delete my other comment so as to not clutter it.

1) That's fair enough, I think something akin to a 'duel' would work out well!

2) Sounds good!

3) Ah okay, yeah a bond relation does makes more sense. So does being able to inherit and be offered one.

4) Awesome, looking forward to further updates!

@Wuren
No worries! - I still appreciate the comment

Anazing! I hope to hear from you when theres future updates to hear your opinions! :D
And I welcome any more ideas that come your way :)

Originally posted by Helixyos:

maybe you can make the dragon artifacts not repairable so that it will simulate their life expectancy

They should be infinite currently I believe? - I'll double check that.
I plan to give them history and memories via the player - which should be nice to simulate age

Originally posted by Luxtenebris:

I wonder what if Dragon can by a knight but only for popole with trait dragon raider or dragon blood.? Thah sounds great but I don't know how about implementation

@Luxtenebris

I see what you're saying, random event instead of decision - I will plan on adding that, and essentially it'll use pre-existnig 'non-tied' dragons

Maybe to loose the dragon in battle you could add the dragon as an event unit rather than your personal MaA and if it is possible another event to get the dragon riders when your vassals and knights get the dragon, as for duels between dragon riders the holy grail war mod has a good system of duels between servants with stats that increase with the "level" trait that could be tied to the dragon rider trait and the type of dragon.

@gakemon - Yeah that's a good idea, I need to think about how to integrate it more
And I'm not sure if the ai will strive for it, cause if it's common enough for your court to do it, then everyone will basically be dragon riders.
But there is a recruit dragon specialist thing, which I will add with Dragons too soon

And aye thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a look!

Add a dragon durability of around 200 for life expectancy also add nicknames for dragon riders like "the Dragonknight" for high prowess and being a rider

Also add dragon eggs which can be hatched via decision, if you fail a lot of people die, if you succeed a dragon is born and chance depends on learning skill

one idea i had is maintenance for unraised should be higher to reflect the dragon feeding on the dead when raised. also an aging process gaining in power and such over time with increased cost as they grow larger.