Was the frequency of randomly acquired negative congenital traits increased?
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Im not going to be on my computer for awhile but can you tell us more. Specifically secret ones that increase positive trait chance? I know for one the fertility festival for germanic always gives daughters born from it attractive and heavenly title when they turn 12.
That's a modern perspective, though. I kind of doubt that the diet was rich enough back then, even for most of the nobility, for diabetes to be much of a problem. The disease was definitely present in ancient and medieval times, but seems to have been pretty rare.
It doesn't, but people in the middle ages thought it did, so in a medieval simulator...
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Think these event only come up for wife, so perhaps an old chaste wife + young and lustful, genius concubines is the way to go
Think these event only come up for wife, so perhaps an old chaste wife + young and lustful, genius concubines is the way to go
A wife with the drunkard trait definitely increases the chance for the kid to be stupid.
There is also an event where you can pray to god/s for strength, wisdom or beauty. This increases the chance for strong, quick or attractive.
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There is also an event where you can pray to god/s for strength, wisdom or beauty. This increases the chance for strong, quick or attractive.
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Evidently, the character above actually was "Weak" on her own, but gave birth to a number of wonderful healthy babies who all suffered from no issues.
It did work.
It did work.
I really wish nonesense like this would get disabled when turning "absurd events" off. This is absurd.
Yea, I'm thinking these events need to check for two conditions:
1.) Pregnancy events - ON
2.) Supernatural events - ON
I actually love the pregnancy events EXCEPT for these bad congenital ones, so they compel me to turn pregnancy events off entirely. I guess it's easy to mod out, but my point is based on the responses I'm reading in this topic, I'm not seeing anyone fond of these bad congenital events in their current iteration. At the very least, I'd recommend Paradox tone down the event's frequency by like 50%.
That's pretty dreadful, really. It explains why there are so many harelips now - that's the first option and the AI always seems predisposed to the first option.
That's also totally counter-intuitive, especially given mot role-playing characters with a modern mindset would be inclined to indulge their wife cravings at least some of the time.
Right. Plus that whole "It's what people believed at the time"-spiel doesn't really work either because there is no indication in-game that your character believes that eating quail feet makes your children clubfooted.
Good point. Maybe the event should be edited so that the text makes those claims, but then the chance of them actually happening should be determined by a variety of other factors, eg supernatural events turned on, devil worshipers active, equality of women on etc.
Right, this is the key thing missing from the event, "Absolutely not! The child could be deformed!" needs to be an option. That would be enough to key in the player that they might get a bad result.
Even so, the likelihood should be radically trimmed down to something more like 10%.
Harelips and club feet are not common features. I have slightly "off" feet that don't quite look right but you can only tell if I'm barefoot AND I turn my ankles outwards, and even then it's just a bump. I believe there are nutritional deficits that can make harelip more common but from what I have read it's not a particular deformity that Europeans are very predisposed to, and Middle-Easterns only slightly more so.
Negative congenital traits should not be any more probable than positive ones. Why would they be? Yet I get bad ones in at least 60% of births, both family and courtiers, and good ones in less than 5%. I think both good and bad congenital traits should have at most 10-20% probability. Right now the game breeds just too many freaks.
Bad outcomes SHOULD be more common than good ones, although I will concede that the actual ratio may be out of whack. Pregnancy is a very stressful time and what these events try to show is all of the usual anxieties and fears made real - children coming out deformed or with a disability because of something the mother ate or did during pregnancy. Hell, I would argue that if you read enough women's magazines you will see the same overblown fears today, everything from the mortal danger of soft cheeses and second hand smoke to the need to sing to the child in the womb or sleep on a certain side.
90% of pregnancy related advice is still to this day complete and utter BS (father of four kids here).
I never had that event. I don't mind bringing the superstition into the game, but so far I only ever had the eating habits event and nothing else. Is this a Christian thing, cause I rarely play as one. I play with them... in the dungeon.
It's a lot of luck factors influencing it. Found out as Greedy Husband I can deny her any of the bad foods, if not feed her fat, which served the purpose for the kid for me.