wife rebalance and personal staff

[makapse]

Right now, all wives are dutiful and provide half of their stats whether they like you or not.

I suggest that it be changed to 0 to 50% from -50 to 50 relations. For muslims with multiple wives the primary wife should give -10 to 40% and the secondaries should give -10 to 10%.

Also , wives currently do not give any points to technology. We can change it so that (our points+ points given by wife)/2 is the stat used to determine the tech increase. This will have theologian wives in demand too now.


Also another suggestion is to have a personal staff made of commoners like a nun or man-at-arm like the noble council.
We can find the staff by using gold to find them ,with tiered staff costing more money to find and upkeep as the ruler tier.ie, a king can search for a kingly staff for 30gold or just a countly staff for 10gold. The attributes match the staffs tier like man-at-arm having basic education in martial and a 1-4 bonus in martial per tier and 1 trait per tier. These staff members then continually train members in your court till they reach stats equal to the staff members. But the staff only train specific members, like man-at-arm only train non coward males and brave female while nun are opposite. We can have a staff member for all the attributes.

 

[weso12]

The idea that wives only give there stats if you like them kind of makes sense, but I don't think they should penalize your for low opinion

 

[gja102]

I agree the wife bonus thing needs improving. A simple solution, not requiring any new mechanics, would be to have the ruler's personal bonus come from his circle of friends and lovers.

 

[Rags17]

How about a new set of unlanded titles called "Personal Adviser". You could allow a certain number of them, say one for every level of primary title (eg 1 if baron, 2 if Count etc) with one free given to your wife or primary wife. It would be revocable and would allow you to add the Adviser's stats multiplied by their opinion of you to your own stats.

Of course the above suggestion would have the net effect of adding greatly to your State stats, so there would have to be some sort of balancing factor, perhaps a mechanism whereby you only took the stat of the Adviser in which you have the highest opinion. Or maybe there could be a Diplo-action on each adviser that allowed you to query them for their advice, success would yield you a temporary Trait bonus and maybe some Prestige, failure would yield a Trait malus and perhaps an Opinion malus. Taking advice before an action could thus give you a big boost or could completely screw up your plans depending upon the outcome . . .

 

[Dirt McStain]

I'd rather wives' stats don't do anything. It's weird that every ruler has this pressure to be married all the time, which is not historical at all. Marriage for heir or alliances make sense but, marriage to magically boost your realm stats is weird.

If anything, tie it to your counselors only, or to specific honorary titles. That way, you're taking merit into consideration.

 

[weso12]

I'd rather wives' stats don't do anything. It's weird that every ruler has this pressure to be married all the time, which is not historical at all. Marriage for heir or alliances make sense but, marriage to magically boost your realm stats is weird.

If anything, tie it to your counselors only, or to specific honorary titles. That way, you're taking merit into consideration.

You realized that the reason for the spouse stat boost is because historically speaking, a rulers wife would have some influence of the rulers decisions, kind of acting as an unofficial advisor, the half bonuses they give are an abstraction of this, while it is odd that they still bonus's when they're not in your court, but that's far from the weirdest thing that happens when your spouse rules elsewhere.

 

[Dirt McStain]

Yeah, but I figure there's a better way to model this influence... and some wives weren't as influential as others. Maybe have some sort of regency/consort/viceregal consort honorary title. You can give it to a secondary spouse or concubine if your wife's stats are pants.

 

[NewbieOne]

I do think spouses should make more of a presence.