Courtesans

[caralampio]

I don't like the fact that a brothel+ in a city practically guarantees that my general will gain an adultress ancillary if he sits there for a few turns. This is an ugly ancillary that can tarnish a good general. The chance of gaining one is 8% per turn and only unmarried generals or those with a charming wife (5+ Charm) or very chivalrous (4+ Chivalry) are immune.

One suggestion is not building brothels, but that limits the number of spies I can have. Likewise if I want assassins.

However I don't want to eliminate it altogether. Having a lover was relatively common among medieval nobility, if biographies are to be believed, and the occasional adultress adds flavor to the game.

I've been trying to mod it so there is an increased danger of getting a lover as the buildings become more luxurious. The reason is, it would be unlikely for a noble to be found around a lowly brothel elbowing with common soldiers. He might be found at an inn if he needed to spend the night but it would be unlikely that he would find someone really of his taste there. Better chances as the building becomes a tavern or coaching house and at a pleasure palace the chances of falling in the arms of one of those lovely courtesans could be quite high.

I have lowered the immunity requirements so the general only needs chivalry 3+ to maintain fidelity. I have also added piety 4+ as an immunity factor. Makes sense, no?

The formula I have found is having different triggers for each building. However the triggers for higher buildings subsume the lower ones, so for instance if you have a coaching house, the game will check against the coaching house but the two previous triggers will also be checked, causing a cumulative % of getting the ancillary.

This mod has the following % of getting an adultress per turn (if not immune):
Brothel- 0%
Inn- 1%
Tavern- 2%
Coaching house- 3%
Pleasure Palace- 5%

Compatible with all mods, although probably not savegame-compatible.

Just find the trigger adultress_vnv_trigger in export_descr_ancillaries...

 
;------------------------------------------ 
Trigger adultress_vnv_trigger 
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd 
    Condition EndedInSettlement 
          and RemainingMPPercentage = 100
          and SettlementBuildingExists >= brothel
          and IsGeneral 
          and IsMarried 
          and SpouseAttribute Charm < 5 
          and Attribute Chivalry < 4 
    AcquireAncillary adultress chance 8

And substitute that trigger with the following 4 triggers (copy and paste will do; save the file first)

 
;------------------------------------------
Trigger adultress_vnv_trigger_inn
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    Condition EndedInSettlement
          and RemainingMPPercentage = 100
          and SettlementBuildingExists >= inn
          and IsGeneral
          and IsMarried
          and SpouseAttribute Charm < 5
          and Attribute Chivalry < 3
          and Attribute Piety < 4
    AcquireAncillary adultress chance 1
 
;------------------------------------------
Trigger adultress_vnv_trigger_tavern
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    Condition EndedInSettlement
          and RemainingMPPercentage = 100
          and SettlementBuildingExists >= tavern
          and IsGeneral
          and IsMarried
          and SpouseAttribute Charm < 5
          and Attribute Chivalry < 3
          and Attribute Piety < 4
    AcquireAncillary adultress chance 1
 
;------------------------------------------
Trigger adultress_vnv_trigger_coaching_house
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    Condition EndedInSettlement
          and RemainingMPPercentage = 100
          and SettlementBuildingExists >= coaching_house
          and IsGeneral
          and IsMarried
          and SpouseAttribute Charm < 5
          and Attribute Chivalry < 3
          and Attribute Piety < 4
    AcquireAncillary adultress chance 1
 
;------------------------------------------
Trigger adultress_vnv_trigger_pleasure_palace
    WhenToTest CharacterTurnEnd
    Condition EndedInSettlement
          and RemainingMPPercentage = 100
          and SettlementBuildingExists >= pleasure_palace
          and IsGeneral
          and IsMarried
          and SpouseAttribute Charm < 5
          and Attribute Chivalry < 3
          and Attribute Piety < 4
    AcquireAncillary adultress chance 2

[Gnostiko]

Awesome Caralampio, simply awesome!
I never build any kind of brothel or Inn or whatnot in Constantinople because that's where all Generals go to enter the Roman military career system, but I didn't want them all leaving the capital as filthy degenerates...yet Constantinople, like Rome, had a seedy underside (as well as most Emperor's and high Strategoi having lovers), this should serve to balance things out nicely!

[Emperor VI]

Caralampio standing ovation to you!!!

[Santiago de Pola]

Great idea..exactly why I wasn't too fond of building those inns and brothels!

However I'd increase all percentages by 1, so that there is at least 1% chance for brothel..man's desires are sometimes a powerful thing, even if it means fulfilling them in some filthy back-alley brothel!

[caralampio]

Great idea..exactly why I wasn't too fond of building those inns and brothels!

However I'd increase all percentages by 1, so that there is at least 1% chance for brothel..man's desires are sometimes a powerful thing, even if it means fulfilling them in some filthy back-alley brothel!

Actually, I was thinking that a more realistic approach would be to have all married generals (except maybe those pious, chivalrous, or charmingly married) to have a 1% chance per turn, period, irrelevant to the brothel series of buildings. Or perhaps only the pleasure palace having an additional effect. After all, the typical lover would not be a prostitute but someone from the nobility or at least a borgueois. And anybody could fall into the temptation, brothel present or not.

1% doesn't seem like a lot but over a period of time chances accumulate. For instance, over 20 years (40 turns) 1/3 of susceptible generals would have an adultress.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

An interesting piece of info: The king of France begins the game with an adultress ancillary. However, this adultress is actually the one that appears in the family tree as his wife, Bertrada! He had divorced his legit wife and taken Bertrada, who was wife of the count of Anjou. He was excommunicated for 12 years because of this; he abandoned Bertrada, and then took her again discreetly after the excom had been lifted. And apparently, he didn't mind that she continued to perform her marital duties with the count!

[helmersen]

Great! I will try it when my current campaign is done since its not save-compatible

[Gorrrrrn]

bumped this so more people see it.

has it been incorporated into other mods yet?

[Santiago de Pola]

has it been incorporated into other mods yet?

Not sure, what of Caralampio's work made it into 6.2 patch, but I think most of his mods(courtesans, real death, royal bloodlines) are great candidates for any future versions of 6.2!

[caralampio]

Not sure, what of Caralampio's work made it into 6.2 patch, but I think most of his mods(courtesans, real death, royal bloodlines) are great candidates for any future versions of 6.2!

Thank you! All of my minimods will be included in the add-on for 6.2 (with a version for RR/RC).