Okay, not sure if anyone posted anything like this, but I decided to have a little "tall" game where I'd take care of one land, with one dynasty, and just take care of my few provinces. Thus, I chose the Kingdom of Lanka, and the only expansion that ever happened was inheriting Maldives through marriage. So, I just sat around in my island(s) and playing tall. Despite building hospitals in EVERY province, and developing them as much as possible...
From 769 to 1039, I have played 13 characters. That's 20.77 years per character. Seems good, right? Well... let's take a look at their average ages:
The first two characters are not counted, since they were already present at the beginning of the game (dying at 72 and 61, as they were already old)
3rd - 28 (played from 17 to 28), died of "severe stress" (at age 28, really!?)
4th - 45 (played from 6 to 45), died of Slow Fever
5th - 32 (played from 1 to 32), died of Syphilis (by the way, Syphilis took over the entirety of India, and for like 3 generations everyone was infected with it)
6th - 35 (played from 15 to 35), murdered by her sister (had Syphilis, I cured it at the cost of becoming Lunatic)
7th - 50 (played from 3 to 50), died of Depression (how does one die of depression? Did he commit suicide? Wish I actually had an event for that)
8th - 37 (played from 27 to 37), died of Cancer
9th - 46 (played from 6 to 46), died of "severe stress" (yeah, this bullshit again)
10th - 56 (played from 25 to 56), died of "severe stress" (probably a family thing, huh?)
11th - 38 (played from 28 to 38), died of Depression (again with this crap)
12th - 31 (played from 12 to 31), died of Pneumonia
13th is my current ruler, aged 11 (started playing at 11)
Life expectancy: 39.8 years. I mean, that actually matches statistics, but those were skewed due to ridiculous infant mortality.
The death rates are insane. Out of 10 characters, I have only started playing as an adult 3 times, and out of 248 years of gameplay (since I took over as the 3rd character), I've been an adult for 201. That's 47 years spent as a child, under a regency, or a fifth of the total time played. Not only that, but my longest reigns were not those of rulers that actually lived long, but rulers that I took over as the earliest, my longest reign being 31 years with my 5th character, because I took over him at age 1.
They gotta change this so that characters can actually make it 60. As you can see, the oldest I've EVER seen was 56. It was fun and very exciting when I had severe bottlenecks in my dynasty in the first 100 years, coming dangerously close to being wiped out, in my 5th and 7th character I came down to 3 or less members of my dynasty, and was ruled by a woman (6th), whose only other relative was her sister (who murdered her soon after my 7th character was born), but in two other games I was actually wiped out by disease, in Ireland and Ghana. Not saying it didn't happen, but it definitely should give some sort of grace period of, say, 30 years, so that there can actually be sizable families to get culled down.
