The only issue I see with giving a password to a worthy successor in a city is that conceivably that crew could continue for as long as the money supply continues.

Generally speaking, the purpose of war is to eradicate a city or crew. If that crew could continue on and on with successors getting a good amount of extra bodyguards, the city could possibly never fall. Some people could view this as a good thing, others not so much.

A further idea could be to limit the times that you can name a successor. Say your crew has the HQ bodyguards, and the CL dies. Those bodyguards could only be handed down once, the person that takes over would have no power to pass down the bodyguards again, and would have to pay a price for the succession, say an employment fee on top of the HQ fee.

A random thought I just had; When the Crewleader dies, the HQ bodyguards could be split between the members currently sitting in their home city.

For instance;

Example 1: HQ has 20 bgs. 10 crewmembers are sitting in their home city when the CL dies - each of those 10 is given 2 bgs.

Example 2: HQ has 5 bgs. 10 crewmembers are sitting in their home city when the CL dies - each of those 10 is given a bg with 50% effectiveness.

I haven't given too much thought to whether this would be a good idea or not, it literally just popped into my head.

Would the rank of the players matter? What if only wiseguys were in the city at the time?

i like the idea, but Valamont has a valid point aswell, n ild like to see that included in if it could