All My Courtiers Are Dying

[mr. MeeM]

Is there any mod that can get rid of this? Now my nobles (Kinsman/women, Uncles, Aunts, Cousins) are dying at 40 and 49, and they're married and has children; yet they're dying too.

 

[faiuwle]

"Died a natural death" just means they died of old age. "Died of poor health" means they failed a random health check, which doesn't necessarily mean that their health was artificially reduced due to a crowded court, it can happen because something else was reducing their health or just because they got unlucky. It's basically bullshit and I wish it wasn't in the game, but that's how it works.

 

[Admiral_Obvious]

"Died a natural death" just means they died of old age. "Died of poor health" means they failed a random health check, which doesn't necessarily mean that their health was artificially reduced due to a crowded court, it can happen because something else was reducing their health or just because they got unlucky. It's basically bullshit and I wish it wasn't in the game, but that's how it works.

Natural Death is what the game also tends to use to cull the amount of courtiers the game has to keep track of. While a character dying at the age of 49 of "natural causes" is extremely rare, I do believe that the game will only pull the "natural causes" card after the individual is over age 50, anything less is the game trying to save on CPU.

I've had courtiers die at age 30 because of "natural causes", and most of those courtiers were, just kind of "backup" courtiers I largely used for plots.

 

[WJS]

My character has died "of poor health" at an early age, too, so it can happen to anyone.

 

[mr. MeeM]

I had a court of 40 or 50, what is truly a crowded court?

 

[faiuwle]

It becomes crowded at 30, I think they may have changed it to 25 with Reaper's Due. I believe it is in defines, so you can mod it to whatever you want.

 

[smellymummy]

Yeah, a court of hundreds/upwards of a thousand would be so incredibly expensive! That's a lot of pies being baked every day, after all.

lol I never thought about the fact that I had to feed everyone in my court. That really puts an interesting twist to how I see my game now. Though I've never hit 100, much less 1000, I've hovered in the 50s often enough, but typically once I go over 30 I open up the character finder window, look who's in my court and start to empty it. Prisoners will die, bachelors will get shipped off and a few lucky ones will get a bishopric

 

[Snow Crystal]

Necroing makes puppies cry. Let us keep the puppies happy instead