Babies

[antisocialmunky]

EDIT: Well seeing as there is a baby limit...

I was wondering what the most amount of family members anyone's had at one time. This obviously doesn't include client rulers and other stuff. Just family members alive at anyone time.

Screens are appreciated.

[Megas Methuselah]

Five? What have you been smoking, boy? A single family member and his/her spouse can only have, at the most, four kids. Get your facts straightened out.

[antisocialmunky]

Around Five.

Huh, so that's the limit? Well this is an anti-climatic thread. :-( Well I guess we could always turn this into the most amount of FMs anyone's gotten at one time.

[||Lz3||]

There must be hardcoded max number of FMs you can get

[Megas Methuselah]

Nah, I doubt it. But seeing as there can only be 199 provinces, I'm guessing the number of family members (males only) cannot exceed a couple hundred.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I think the amount can be infinite.

[Megas Methuselah]

Sure. But seeing as how that number is inexplicably tied with the number of provinces owned, the number of family numbers will inevitably be well below infinite.

[Chris_]

There must be hardcoded max number of FMs you can get

From what I've seen, saves store it as a 16 bit number, so its probably 65536 (or it might be 32767, if they used a signed one). Unless there's some sort of cleverness going on that I didn't see. But you would have to play for a very long time to get that

[satalexton]

i doubt thats possible considering....It'll be 4AD before it reaches half......unless u somehow manage to bribe over every single FM there is in the game.....or maybe somebody whould try that? >_>

[antisocialmunky]

I know that after a certain point, recruited generals in BI would lack the general.

[Chris_]

The actual limit may be lower than the number I mentioned, as that number was the techical maximum limit based on actual space used to store the number. However, the engine might impose a logical limit on the number of family members. The same is done with provinces, from what I know.

[HayGuy]

The number of children born to a faction, is that affected mainly by the number of provinces you have in addition to ancillaries/traits or is that only MTW2?

[Aemilius Paulus]

The number of children born to a faction, is that affected mainly by the number of provinces you have in addition to ancillaries/traits or is that only MTW2?

Not, RTW mechanics in this regard are identical to the MiNO (M2TW) ones. But I have never had an FM have less than four children. Not unless an adopted general took place of one of the FM's children.