Breeding like rabbits

**Captain Irish** · December 03, 2007, 07:02 PM

Is it common for there to be a higher ratio of family members to provinces in SS than other mods? I'm playing a Lithuania campaign and had a total of 6 children born to my Grand Duke and his son before I took my fourth province.

I'm not complaining, it's just a pleasant surprise

**republic_bohemia** · December 03, 2007, 08:57 PM

Yes it is surprising,it"s like Strawberry fields for me in my life,and for Muslim factions it is even more surprising.

**Hereward** · December 03, 2007, 10:46 PM

Originally Posted by Captain Irish

Is it common for there to be a higher ratio of family members to provinces in SS than other mods? I'm playing a Lithuania campaign and had a total of 6 children born to my Grand Duke and his son before I took my fourth province.

I'm not complaining, it's just a pleasant surprise

I'm perplexed. I'm also playing as Lithuania, but am having the complete opposite problem. Decades go by without births. I'm constantly worrying about my family dying out. Healthy young couples grow old together never having procreated. And no they don't have traits decreasing birth chances.

I suppose it's probably rather random, so you guys have just had better luck.:hmmm:

**IceBeast** · December 03, 2007, 10:51 PM

I'm like you Hereward. In my current campaign, I had no children for ever, then only daughters. To make matters worse, no one was getting married, neither my male or female family members. I finally forced my Faction Heir to get married through diplomacy. It's strange though, having only like 8 male family members and 16 provinces.

In contrast, my previous campaign was like Irishes, with family members up the wazoo.

**klops** · December 04, 2007, 06:34 AM

Does anyone know how the distance to capital affects birth rates? Or does it? Will the wife follow general or family member when crossing seas to distant cities?

In my games married men haven't got any offspring after they've travelled to a somewhat distant city beyond sea (to North Africa from Spain, to Novgorod from Denmark). Does the distance or partial isolation have any effect in brth rates or were those men just randomly sterile?

It seems that warring prevents children being born (which is quite obvious), but after things are settled and settlement is peaceful, years pass and there's no offspring coming. And there went my blood line. No stat was reducing chances of having children. They did adopt grown men as heirs though.

Anyone noticed the same or know something about this? I don't have experience on very many games so their sterility might have been just a coincidence.

How about the age affecting on birth rates? When is it too late? Or is this all dependant on the faction's size? When faction is big, old men and women still breed?