Right now, everybody under the age of sixteen looks exactly the same. It would be nice if their appearance reflected their DNA, and not just their race and gender. If Paradox released a DLC that dealt with this, I'd buy it.
Child portrait pack DLC
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Couple that with designs for some mixed people (your children being all A or all B is weirding me out), and I'm game.
I don't mind it as it is now. I'd rather they make something more detailed for adults like ugly people being actually ugly, things like that. Generic little kids are ok with me.
I'm a full supporter. I rarely notice the other graphics packs but these would definitely be noticeable
I don't need to see how little John Lackland looks in different stages of childhood, so I'm happy with current "placeholder" portraits. Children change their appearance rather quickly as they grow up and you would need different portrait graphics for baby, toddler, child and teen.
The focus of the game is in adult characters, so I would rather have more ethnic portrait packs than portraits of children.
The focus of the game is in adult characters, so I would rather have more ethnic portrait packs than portraits of children.
I wouldn't, people look quite different at 8/10/12/13/14/15 and unless there's going to be 10x as much content for that pack than anything previously it's going to look very silly.
For me, to not break immersion it'd take way more than even the 4 you mentioned.
Exactly, children change too fast for it to be anywhere near plausible in the game. Besides, they're completely unimportant in anything until they come of age, they can't lead armies, rule realms on their own, hold offices, etc.
Wouldn't having one portrait from 0-16 be more immersion breaking than having one that changes four times (or even just twice), you could have just said you thought it was a waste of time it was a waste of time.
But right now there is zero differentiation besides gender. A couple new versions of the pics they use now couldn't hurt. It would be easier to navigate as well when your Danish son looks different from the son of Muslim Sicilian
Just having one portrait that is based on what they will look like as an adult would be nice, even if its from 0-16. Making it 8-16 could be considered 'close enough' since they are near enough full height by that point. Its kinda sad seeing the random betrothal or your heir turn into some hideous monster without any warning. I've turned down enough betrothals because the genius/attractive duchess turned out to be some kind of hideous mule/pig hybrid.
I am mostly fine with the existing child pictures. Only the Mongolian ones are just awful.
While I agree with some of the above, in that it's not really essential, I've been in this situation more than once..
I've even turned aside large kingdoms to avoid such cases.
There don't need to be like 8 different ages. Maybe three at the very most: generic unisex portrait for infants and toddlers (0-2), small children (3-9), and preteens and young teens (10-15). If it were just variation on the placeholder portrait that reflects general facial features and maybe hair, that would be fine by me.
I too, would like to have some indication of what the child would look like as an adult; it's annoying to have a character turn out with horrible-looking features that will then be passed on to your future heirs/characters/kinsmen.
No thanks. I prefer children this way because you can identify them so well when scrolling lists.
well, baby-toddler-little child-teen would imo be a great improvement, especially combined with some more children events(i.e. child X is very smart, gains the trait quick, teen X is turning out very beutiful, gains the trait attractive, X doesnt like his guardian, X walks away from home, your heir doesnt want to be your heir ect.). would not only fix the fact that children are genius the second theyre born, but would also give them much more of a personality. it alos fixes the fact that all your children look the same while theyre a child and would make it much easier to spot if a childs very young or almost an adult(like adults change protrait at 30 and 50)
^^Like a young person overhaul. Awesome. It would be a but overdue I think though. Maybe they could've done that instead of the Aztec DLC.
Lol
I just imagine that they haven't had a portrait commissioned yet because they're too young. Maybe the way they show up should be a little more detailed (hair colour, eye colour, exact skintone), but their features would take too long to implement and make them harder to find in lists.
But they do have a portrait, it's just very in accurate.
And how would better pics make them harder to find?