+20% to fertility and no children

[Thrake]

No, women are incapable of getting children after 45 in game (to simulate menopause, it's in the defines)

46 they can't. 45 they can. I know defines, I modded it enough.

 

[Red Earth]

They get pregnant at 44 and give birth at 45.

 

[beartjah]

46 they can't. 45 they can. I know defines, I modded it enough.

I said after 45, which technically doesn't include 45 (I think)

 

[Thrake]

I said after 45, which technically doesn't include 45 (I think)

I said that they could still have kids at 45; you quoted me and replied no.

I certainly remember that I once had my wife having her first kid at 45. I thought I had the pregnancy event at 45 too (but I'm not sure) and it could have been that she was pregnant at 44 and the event fired at 45. So maybe we're both wrong and Red Earth is right, who knows?

 

[RykaS]

Yup, some NPCs have naturally low fertility. If you farm out your auto-generated female courtiers every year, you'll run into a few that are stacked with fertility traits, but no AI will take them because "unlikely to have children". I've always thought there ought to be some way for the us to figure out if a prospective spouse is fertile or not w/o having to use console, esp if the AI can figure it out on its own!

Proving people were fertile was totally A Thing for important dynastic marriages, there should be some way to avoid sending your whole dynasty down the toilet because npc's base fertility is like 5%.

 

[beartjah]

I said that they could still have kids at 45; you quoted me and replied no.

I certainly remember that I once had my wife having her first kid at 45. I thought I had the pregnancy event at 45 too (but I'm not sure) and it could have been that she was pregnant at 44 and the event fired at 45. So maybe we're both wrong and Red Earth is right, who knows?

Think I misread/understood that initial thing... That would make us both right, while saying the other is wrong

Yup, some NPCs have naturally low fertility. If you farm out your auto-generated female courtiers every year, you'll run into a few that are stacked with fertility traits, but no AI will take them because "unlikely to have children". I've always thought there ought to be some way for the us to figure out if a prospective spouse is fertile or not w/o having to use console, esp if the AI can figure it out on its own!

Proving people were fertile was totally A Thing for important dynastic marriages, there should be some way to avoid sending your whole dynasty down the toilet because npc's base fertility is like 5%.

There's a couple of rahter obvious things that make children unlikely, such castratos and extreme genetical defects(such as charles the 5th of spain), but these are already in the game. For a person that wasn't excluded by these kind of things, there wasn't any way of checking their fertility other than just trying it and see if they get children.

Though I do wonder how the AI figures it out when the player can only do so with cheats...

 

[Kardo]

Though I do wonder how the AI figures it out when the player can only do so with cheats...

I imagine the AI has access to that information by default.