Hi all
was just wondering about the age of rulers and princesses - rulers usually kick the bucket around 65 (vanillia MTW) and the girls around 30 in my experience. I just had a game with an 82 yrs old pope and a 37 yrs old princess (both when finally departing) - is that unusuall? (maybe the princess was a looker, but the pope?
nick
ya if u applied the VI patch rulers can have long lives. not sure abt princesses, they usually die between late 20s to mid 30s in my games.
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The princesses actually don't die, but become old spinsters. The result is yet the same: they disappear from the game around their 30s.
jepp, they are to old to get heirs and are therefore out of service.
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In a fairly recent thread at the COM, the pics of a princess at her 90s were posted.
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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lol in their 90's??? - that must have been a modded game (or they cheated with photoshop lol)
to the others - thanks for the repies and as I stated unmodded MTW not VI - I was just curious about age limits (my guess is that dying/spinstering is hardcoded and starts at 50/30 with increments each year - anybody with an idea to that?)
nick
I think what they decided at the COM was that a princess will continue to live indefinitely as long as she is on a mission of some sort. If I remember correctly, what happened was, an AI princess was somewhere (Constantinople, maybe), and her mission was to marry a general. The general, it turned out, was stranded on one of those islands, Rhodes, Crete, or Cyprus -- and there was no port. No port means there's no way for the princess (or any other strategic unit) to get there, so the princess was left on the mainland, waiting for a port to be constructed. I think the princess stuck around at least until the age of 110. Not sure what happened from there.
Although it seems like a bug, this does have some use in the game for human players. I always got sort of nervous when my princess approached their upper-twenties. If they were in some inland province and I wanted them to marry one of my generals, I would be counting provinces to see how long it would take them to get there. But apparently, even if she's already 30 and is like 8 provinces away from her target, you can send her on that mission (by dropping her directly on the general/AI king you want her to marry) without worrying about her croaking on the way. I haven't tested this formally or anything, but it seems to work.
CountMRVHS
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Exactly as the count describes but I think it was a player princes because the lucky general (marooned in Kypros) was a bribed one. The AI does bribe indeed but...anyway, weak evidence.But I'm pretty sure that the original poster confirmed no modding/potoshopping.
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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No port means there's no way for the princess (or any other strategic unit) to get there, so the princess was left on the mainland, waiting for a port to be constructed
Stupid princess. Hasn't she ever heard the expression, Any old port in a storm?
Our greatest glory lies not in never having fallen, but in rising every time we fall. Oliver Goldsmith
What I find funny is that in the game your princess isnt available for marriage till the age of 15 when in medieval times I thought just about every princess was married by this time. Or would that cause a mature rating for marrying off 12 year old princesses of to an 16 to 18 year old child molester
When a fox kills your chickens, do you kill the pigs for seeing what happened? No you go out and hunt the fox.
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GAH They were betrothed on their birth.
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Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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Yes but is my understanding the marriage did not take place until they were around the age of 12Originally Posted by [b
When a fox kills your chickens, do you kill the pigs for seeing what happened? No you go out and hunt the fox.
Cry havoc and let slip the HOGS of war
depending on my mood... I might go through king like water...
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