according to the latest patches slow people hunchbacks and dwarfs are genetically related and if you had a congolese great-great-great-great-grandma you run the risk of your entire generation turning out congolese
Funny genetics
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I thought that the African-European mix generally creates Turkish ethnicity characters?
I was exaggerating there are no congolese in the game but my frankish king with a saxon women had 4 hungarian boys because there was a hungarian grandma 2 generations ago and all of them had defects dwarf slow hunchback...ridiculous
Yes, Paradox did very well with faces, and how offspring look like their parents and each other, but they've bombed with ethnicity.
The children of a pale white typical (for lack of a better word) European, and a mahogany-colored Arab should be a mix between the two, not the extreme one or the other.
Sometimes it feels like having positive genetic traits in the pools means any genetic traits for your children. Even if there is no record of the negatraits in the characters ancestry.
I've been running on the assumption that all characters with positive genetic traits are secretly closely related, and thus marrying two such lines together must constitute inbreeding, resulting in the monstrosities that almost always occur from the pairings.
The CKII wiki shows percentage chances of inheriting genetic traits from one's parents, but I'm not sure if traits from both parents interact in a way which is additive, multiplicative, or some other combination.
Generally I treat good traits like Genius as a bonus, rather than something that when applied in combination with another genius will guarantee me another excellent ruler. A normal ruler of mine without special traits will usually marry for good stats, but when I have a genius ruler, I marry for inheritance, since the stats of the spouse don't really matter - but no negative genetic traits, of course. In addition, I don't want to get lulled into the false sense of superiority provided by having a genius couple on the throne and be brutally dragged out of my comfort zone within a few years.
On the other hand, Dwarf is in my opinion the absolute worst negative trait to see appear in your ruling family due to the incredibly high chance of passing it on to all of your kids, and it also causes absolutely everyone in the game who is not also a dwarf to hate you for -30 opinion. Marrying a dwarf is grounds for an assassination, being one means a church career. The PI folks must be elves or something.
Generally I treat good traits like Genius as a bonus, rather than something that when applied in combination with another genius will guarantee me another excellent ruler. A normal ruler of mine without special traits will usually marry for good stats, but when I have a genius ruler, I marry for inheritance, since the stats of the spouse don't really matter - but no negative genetic traits, of course. In addition, I don't want to get lulled into the false sense of superiority provided by having a genius couple on the throne and be brutally dragged out of my comfort zone within a few years.
On the other hand, Dwarf is in my opinion the absolute worst negative trait to see appear in your ruling family due to the incredibly high chance of passing it on to all of your kids, and it also causes absolutely everyone in the game who is not also a dwarf to hate you for -30 opinion. Marrying a dwarf is grounds for an assassination, being one means a church career. The PI folks must be elves or something.
Do they have an attractive princess in their court with a stepmother who is a queen and plotting to kill her?
Agreed. Genius Ruler (female) Normal husband. One of her children is an imbicle . I have not married a single slow or imbicle character going back to my founder.
I had a kid, which somehow just had to be my heir, have ugly trait, dwarf, and clubfooted
A year later, he got maimed
Eventually, had another kid, with quick trait, and killed my heir =)
A year later, he got maimed
Eventually, had another kid, with quick trait, and killed my heir =)
Part of me wishes that the character portraits reflected the 'ugly', 'dwarf', 'hunchback' etc traits.