Dynasty member spawning

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I've just started a new game with a dynasty I've created myself. I've set the dynasty's province of origin to blank, thinking that this would prevent any automatic character spawning. But instead, I've seen characters from my dynasty popping up both in and out of my court, and sometimes in very distance lands, too.

Is this a bug or somehow WAD?

 

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Should be a bug, if you set province to blank then there will only be automatically spawned (parent-less) characters if a country cousin inherits a salic law realm.

But are you sure they did not move there from your court? What are their first names and culture... are they from the region where you found them, or from the region of your home court?

 

[jordarkelf]

Did you use dynasty ID 1 or 0? Those are spawned all over the map regardless of province setting.
Any other number should behave normally.

 

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Did you use dynasty ID 1 or 0? Those are spawned all over the map regardless of province setting.
Any other number should behave normally.

Ah, so that's the problem. I used id 0 indeed...

And just in case, is there any other id# that has special properties? Character id's for example.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

And just in case, is there any other id# that has special properties? Character id's for example.

No, just make sure you don't use a number that already exists

 

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Actually, no that's not it. I've tried both id# -1 and id# 999, in both cases my dynasty members are spawning all over the place. I've also tried putting 999 in the province array, which didn't help either.

And no, I'm sure I have no stray cousins in other courts. I have defined 4 starting characters in my dynasty, and none of them has had any children. In fact these spawned dynasty members are spawned as early as the second day from gamestart.

Is there any other possible cause?

 

[jordarkelf]

Do you have the dynasty 1 left? I think that the game uses random dynasties when it cannot find any valid dynasty for a given province.

By default both a generic dynasty (#1) and one per province (even for the unused ones = seazones) exist.

 

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Do you have the dynasty 1 left? I think that the game uses random dynasties when it cannot find any valid dynasty for a given province.

By default both a generic dynasty (#1) and one per province (even for the unused ones = seazones) exist.

Sorry but I don't fully understand what you mean...

What I did was adding one new dynasty (tried id 0, -1 and 999) on top of the dynasty file. I did not touch the rest of the file, so in theory there shouldn't be any province that's dynasty-less.

EDIT: I think I've found the problem.
The id 0 does not actually make the dynasty ignore the designated provinces. Instead, it is the order of the dynasty in the file that makes it ignore the provinces. If I put the new block to the bottom of the dynasty.txt file, everything works fine regardless of the id# I use.