Prestige affects for Muslim marriages- Bug or WAD?

[eastcoastceojam]

Just started a new game as the Sunni Bey of Daylam in 1066, and found 3 lovely Persian Sunni Ladies to serve as secondary wives #2 - #4. Since I am just a simple Count, I married 3 lowborn girls after I returned from my pilgrimage to Mecca, and just noticed that I took a -200 prestige hit with each one. (Note: This character starts with a -80 prestige for some reason)

Something must have changed, as I don't remember taking these kind of prestige hits for secondary marriages in the past. This can't be working-as-designed, can it? Anyone else seen this recently?

I am playing on the latest prod version (3.0.1), no mods, no Betas.

 

[Lewa263]

I reported this bug (https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/index.php?threads/ck-ii-polygamy-prestige-problem.1129347/), but it's nice to have confirmation that I'm not the only one seeing it. The pattern I found is that prestige effects only happen if the higher-ranked character is on the right circle of the marriage screen. When I put my ruler (or son or whatever) on the right and a lowborn woman on the left, I would lose prestige. When I reversed it, no prestige loss. Hopefully Paradox will fix it when they get back to work in January.

 

[eastcoastceojam]

Thanks for the confirmation. I don't usually play Muslim rulers, so I was wondering if this was a patch note that I missed. I will link this post on your bug report note.

 

[eastcoastceojam]

The pattern I found is that prestige effects only happen if the higher-ranked character is on the right circle of the marriage screen. When I put my ruler (or son or whatever) on the right and a lowborn woman on the left, I would lose prestige. When I reversed it, no prestige loss.

Confirmed! I started up a new Ironman game with this same character, just to make sure my three-week-old save wasn't corrupted somehow. Here is the version of the secondary marriage with no prestige hit:

And here is me trying to marry the same lady with her picture on the left instead of the right. Done this way the marriage costs me -200 prestige, which is incorrect.

At least I have a work-around now, but this should be fixed in a future patch, I hope.