I:R - Ruler getting seemingly randomly generated child with unrelated women (who gave birth to another child recently, making the 2nd early-born)

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Herennius

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Description of problem
Ruler getting seemingly randomly generated child with unrelated character

What game version are you running?
2.03

What platform are you playing on?
Steam

Please select any/all DLC you have enabled.
Hellenistic world flavor pack, Epirus flavor pack, Magna Graecia Content Pack

Do you have mods enabled?
Yes (a small one offsetting the AI province loyalty boost when experiencing revolts)

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Title.

I just can't find a proper reason for this - not only that I don't get any event about the ruling character cheating...this pregnancy is just highly doubtful itself, as the mother character has already recently gave birth to a child. Even if she would have become immediately pregnant again, the 2nd child (where the ruler is said to be the father), would have been seriously early-born (~6 months after the first child)

My only explanation is that -after my ruler coming to power late and having only one daugther so far- the game is coded to somehow create more children after taking power...and if they aren't possible on natural way, this happens.

Steps to reproduce the issue.
1. Investigate my ruler. See he is married and his consort is far past beyond her fertile years
MarriedRuler.jpg

RoyalConsort.jpg


2. Investigate the pinned character Aristomache Desmonid. See that she is a guest from Tegea and recently has given birth to a child. See that she also married in Tegea
AristomacheDemostenidFromTegeaInRome.jpg

AristomacheDemostenidHasAlreadyChildBornSep616.jpg


3. Let the game run and see that on/around March 28th, you get info the a royal child has been born and you can name it. See that the ruler is still married with the old consort, but the child is from Aristomache Desmonid.
FatherOfChildOfAristomache.jpg


(4. Repeat 1-3 a couple of times and you will recognize that not even the gender of that child is determined)

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Herennius

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Okay, the game at least tried to clear the thing up by this soon following event:

ThePriceOfWildOats.jpg


So this takes care of explaining why the ruler becomes father, but it remains an issue that the game picks a female character for the event which has become mother recently - and being able to name the child directly after birth somehow conflicts with the flavour text of that event (which presents the so far "secret" pregnancy/birth as something new to the ruler)
 

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So the basic point here is that IR does not have a concept of pregnancy?

I think I don't mind that. The character level is significantly simplified and not bothering with pregnancies seems to fit.

Pregnancies could be something to be explored with a mod.
 

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I've been on the receiving end of this event several times and have never seen any strange behaviour (such as being informed of the "secret" birth when it happens) previously so something must have gone wrong in this case.