why dude....why *sob*

[Gallowglacht]

Erm, why are my computer controlled child-vassals inbreeding??

Surely the AI knows touching your sister in that way is bad....Or does it?

Is my glorious emoire about to come crashing down around my ears because of these deviants???

 

[unmerged(133986)]

I try to keep my main line of inheritance *pure* and choose future queen carefully , but apart from that dont really care whats everybody else doing.
In my current game count of Vyazma (or something like that, next to Moscow), the brother of ruler is having real fun making his Bishopric(!?) den of perversion, incest and what not :wacko:

 

[Kordian]

In my gaming experience inbreeding is quite common for "rare" cultures, e.g. welsh or finnish culture.

IA usually tends to marry people of the same culture (or the nearest ones). If it finds no one, THEN will look for different cultures.
So, if there's an unmarried lass (even of the same family of the IA dude) with the same culture, they could get married, and generate some inbreed child.

Well, my advice is to create dukedoms and counties with different families, of same culture of your character if possible. This will improve the "genetic pool" of your culture, lowering cases of marriages of people from the same House.

 

[unmerged(31881)]

It's a pain, but in order to keep the AI from messing up... i keep my heir without a title at least until they're married and have a kid. Maybe then give them a title... but i still delay doing that. On the off-chance my ruler lives long enough that the grandchildren might wind up getting their own title. Or have the AI parents decide who they marry.

Also watch out if you're trying out a Rurikovich campaign. That surname is assigned to over half the courtiers it seems.

 

[Gallowglacht]

Well, my advice is to create dukedoms and counties with different families, of same culture of your character if possible. This will improve the "genetic pool" of your culture, lowering cases of marriages of people from the same House.

That bird has flown I'm afraid. It's been quite a while since I played. Mistakes have been made, but that can add to the fun and drama. CK is more RPG to me than strategy game. And other excuses for forgetting to preserve some other Irish dynasties, umm, yeah.

I decided to take a chance. There are a few Ui Morda counties/duchies from my reconquista of the British Isles (early fallers to the Fatmids. That was scary...). So I'm taking a chance and going elective and trying to rig it so a healthier Ui Morda branch is on the throne. I'm hoping to hang on until the end and convert to EUIII. Hopefully there is still a health Ui Morda branch out there that still counts as Irish, although Scots, Welsh or Saxon would do given my teritories.

Wish me luck. (its 1240's now, Byzantium is strong in the east. In the west, the Spanish kingdoms are, as usual, gone, but so is France! and Sweden. Should make for an interesting next 2 centuries).
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
So close. King dies of plague. Favoured candidate is elected. As a child. Manages to not die of the Plague. Grows up, marries a nice girl, just 2 years to go until I can change inheritance laws and BAM! Assasinated. Who ends up on the throne. Yup, the inbred misfits.
Damn you game, why must you make me fight and struggle for every damned little thing*shakes fist at sky*

Man, I forgot how much fun this game is.

 

[unmerged(82381)]

I believe the inbred trait is tied to having a grandparent in common and it is chancy. Some kids will get it and other won't. It has nothing to do with the Dynasty name.

Gallowglacht - don't give up hope. As long as your ruler marries someone distant from him, his kids won't get inbred. Just make sure your intended bride does not share a grandparent with your ruler. Someone far away should be safe, maybe France of Byzantium.

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

A way to prevent is, is to not replace all your vassals with familymembers. But to keep other dynasties alive to, so that different dynasties can intermarry.

 

[Kordian]

A way to prevent is, is to not replace all your vassals with familymembers. But to keep other dynasties alive to, so that different dynasties can intermarry.

Yeah, that's what I've said...

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

Yeah, that's what I've said...

I usually just read the first lines of a post, sorry about that

 

[Kordian]

I usually just read the first lines of a post, sorry about that

NP dude.

 

[Vladislav]

I have my heirs marry attractive cousins all the time, and I never run into any problems.

 

[jordarkelf]

That may be because the rules changed in DV.
In CK, any two parents of the same dynasty can have children with the inbred trait.
In DV, only if the two parents share grandparents (first cousin or closer) is this the case.

 

[th3freakie]

I try not to create too much inbreeding too, but my nephews/sons/daughters are all constantly falling in love with eachother, so I let them marry. Better that way than having hordes of bastards.

Plus, the local dynasties all raise depressed sons/daughters, and I want to see babies! (dvip's re-think education event kinda stresses everyone)

 

[Gallowglacht]

Fortunately, going elective for a while allowed me to dodge the inbreeders for a healthier branch. I then liberated Portugal and got a nice warm feeling that Europe just might be OK after all. Until I looked around and saw that Byzantium had colapsed, *sigh* a kings work is never done I guess...

Thanks for the advice guys. I'm still on CK, is DV really as good as it seems from some of these threads?

 

[unmerged(75409)]

DV is immensely better. I never went back to CK.