I'm pretty excited about this! It really looks like an extra, open-ended Ambition. Happily married characters won't choose 'Seduction', falconers and hunters will choose 'Hunting', aggressive characters will choose 'Warfare', etc.

AI characters will choose focus based purely on their traits, not their circumstances and the advantages they give.

There may be effects other than bonuses, which would be granted by other sections of code (similar to how the 'unlimited subjugation wars' benefit of the 'Become King' ambition is coded into the casus belli file). The 'Seduction' focus grants +2 Intrigue and +25% Fertility. For example, the 'Family' focus grants +2 Diplomacy, +1 Health and +25% Fertility. These can be to your primary skills, health and/or fertility.

A Focus grants certain bonuses while active.

Presumably, then, you can abandon one and take a new one, possibly after the usual 3 year period.

A Focus doesn't have a 'completion condition' the way an Ambition does.

You take a Focus like taking an Ambition.

But if you want to avoid spoilers, then, uh, don't, and don't read this either.įrom my reading of it, here's what I can gather:

I suggest you read it if you're interested in finding out what Focuses are about. Sure enough, in the common/objectives folder of your game folder, there is a file '00_focuses.txt' alongside the files for ambitions, plots and factions. Those of us playing with the latest beta patch will have noticed the 'Focus' icon next to 'Ambition' and 'Plot' on the character screen.

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