This is crazy awesome. I'll definitely keep this in mind, and I dunno about anyone else but I love this kind of data mining. Great job, and nice youtube channel.
Education Trait Outcomes: An experiment
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Thank you for research. It seems that your focus was education traits, there was also interesting experiment with stat point distribution you might want to check out, it nicely adds to your work: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum...what-determines-the-base-stat-gain-of-a-child
Original post has been updated with new data, embedded video removed, new links to the 4 videos if you are interested, and conclusions and pictures of the results are now in the first post.
Everybody's a critic. 
You have more patience than I would with people who are looking your gift horse in the mouth. Thanks for sharing and nice job.
You have more patience than I would with people who are looking your gift horse in the mouth. Thanks for sharing and nice job.
This is gold. Thanks Arumba!
I don't know when they added this, I had a hard time figuring out the birthday of my characters myself. But you can mouse over the age of the character and it will now show the birthday.
I don't know when they added this, I had a hard time figuring out the birthday of my characters myself. But you can mouse over the age of the character and it will now show the birthday.
I've been checking out this and the related reddit posts & videos. It's clear from your research that there is both a completely random aspect (small percentage) and the chance to get the same category trait at different levels. Looking at the trait definitions, something struck me: the definition don't "connect" to each other, that way opposite traits do (weak vs. strong). They are all just marked as "education=yes". So how does the game know which traits are grouped together? Is it hard-coded, or am I missing something?
I know this was originally published in April but just want to say thanks for your efforts Arumba, it was a learning experience. I always enjoy your videos, keep up the good work.
Beautiful work, Arumba! I always love to see empirical data and the videos did help immensily in making it accessible.
But does this mean that since time does not matter - then i can reassign the teacher one year before the character becomes of age? And it will count as if that teacher had been the teacher the entire life?
Yes. But of course, if you do it an entire year before, then you miss out on that year of events with that mentor. You could instead do it just a few days before, depending on who the new mentor will be. If the "Offer Education" diplomacy window has yourself as both negotiators, it will be instant, so you can do it the day before the 16th birthday. If anybody else is involved, give it at least 2 weeks.
