Quote Originally Posted by Vantek View Post
It's perfectly fine if each person is limited to six sons... Hell, I'd be happy with three. It's the fact that an old king's six brothers prevent him from having any sons whatsoever that's disturbing.
Minor detail, it prevents him from having any children. No more princesses.

Anyway, part of the reason is probably a simple way to limit the ex-heir general spam. A silly way of doing it without the limitation. Get 3-4 heirs married. Have the king ending up with an "accident". Repeat until you're at the final heir as a king. Now the family of the 3-4 heirs will show up in the royal family...

Hm, should theoretically be a limitation on the invisible children of the main heir as well then. They can still possibly be pulling a programming trick (married heir got 5 brothers, no children, king dies, bam 0-1 sons X daughters at below 16), but they shouldn't get children due to the 6 heir limit.