I'm ~130 years into my game playing as a monarchy, but after the start, my ruling family has been woefully small - to the point where I regularly get the event allowing me to adopt an advisor. Even though I keep my ruler married and sometimes arrange marriages for my family members (to spouses of presumably childbearing age, though I don't know if I:R has that restriction), there are only like 2-3 kids total in the family, some of which may be daughters. For some reason, the other families end up with way more characters.
The result of this is it feels like I'm slowly losing a futile battle to keep up with family prestige. Even when I'm careful to not over-allocate government jobs to a family and refrain from needlessly adopting (and taking the 10% prestige hit), my monthly prestige is pretty consistently lower than the other families because they have so many characters. The cumulative effect of which is now my family has the smallest power base among the other families.
Is there a way around this? I've tried revoking other family holdings when there's a prime opportunity like a disgraced family leader and granting holdings to my family, but it seemed to have negligible effect. Realm size is currently ~140 if it matters.
The result of this is it feels like I'm slowly losing a futile battle to keep up with family prestige. Even when I'm careful to not over-allocate government jobs to a family and refrain from needlessly adopting (and taking the 10% prestige hit), my monthly prestige is pretty consistently lower than the other families because they have so many characters. The cumulative effect of which is now my family has the smallest power base among the other families.
Is there a way around this? I've tried revoking other family holdings when there's a prime opportunity like a disgraced family leader and granting holdings to my family, but it seemed to have negligible effect. Realm size is currently ~140 if it matters.