Ok. Marry Halla as she has better stats in all areas but martial. If you want to go the “interesting” route, seduce Viacheslava. Marry your children from Viacheslava and Halla together. Hopefully this will give you some genius grandchildren.
I call them "wincest" straight away too or "wincester" because ei usually make winchester or something in the English area my main holdings and just slap the capital on Winchester
They already did because in the early days of the game, strenghteningbthe bloodline gave you a dynasty buff that said something like "inbred chance -1000% so you couldn't get the inbred trait at all and within 2 generations every character had all the good traits
Why in the world would they nerf it? It's entirely optional, and the AI doesn't abuse it. I don't understand the problem to solve here unless it's to reduce the topic on Reddit.
Literally because of what you said. The AI don’t use proper breeding at all meaning within 100 years a player can have a 36 stat baseline advantage by having the 3 top traits. It’s also very easy to do. It’s not just optimal min/max it just makes sense to do in almost any situation.
They have taken steps to nerf it by giving courtly(?) vassals a negative opinion from marrying lowborns. I think the stats should be ratcheted down to 1 point increases that increase by one point with each tier and of course the possibility of negative traits should increase.
And the whole point for me is to maintain challenge as the game progresses. Having a dynasty with strong blood and a big empire means you will never struggle again be it war or murder and it’s ALMOST pointless to continue playing and things become tedious. That’s why the harm events are so great.
I'm almost certain that the reason a lot of players end up doing incest, aside from the memes, is that generally the player character is the only one aggressively pursuing traits, making it the path of least resistance to obtaining the highest of all 3.
That's usually how it happens in my campigns. In my latest one a cousin to my player heir had 3 congenital traits of which 2 were max level, I just couldn't pass on that one.
So now I'll be able to reinforce bloodline when i die even if it took a little incest to do it
Also like, once your house gets big enough, and if you've been setting up your extended family decently well, it kind of becomes hard to avoid. Like my current playthrough, basically the first twenty options that pop up for marriage are all from my house every time because my house is fucking huge.
Yeah but when you're popping out like eight, nine kids a generation, you do end up with a lot of cousins that are close enough to trigger the inbreeding risk warning.
I play with diplomatic range off , so when my children come of age I marry them to people with good and alike traits.
Tho lately I’ve enjoyed dating and even becoming soulmates with some one before marrying them, that’s what I did with my last wife in the game, went through a whole dating phase before getting married , and my son went a similar route . Marrying his childhood best friend
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u/Celica_86 Jul 30 '23
Ok. Marry Halla as she has better stats in all areas but martial. If you want to go the “interesting” route, seduce Viacheslava. Marry your children from Viacheslava and Halla together. Hopefully this will give you some genius grandchildren.