Anyone every try Massive Inbreding?

**Ludens** · 10-09-2005, 12:24

I am afraid it won't do anything, except lowering your royal line's piety. Sometime ago a player did the same without any noticable effect on inbreeding or other vices. If anything, it may even increase the number of children your King gets.

Inbreeding vices are random, and very frustrating.

**lilljonas** · 10-09-2005, 15:34

Yes, previous playtesting has indicated that inbreeding is random, and that you can marry of any number of princesses to your princes without an increased threat of inbreeding. Weird, but probably an oversight from the coders.

**Roark** · 10-10-2005, 01:13

Fact is, nobody really knows for sure, right?

**yesdachi** · 10-10-2005, 03:55

Nope, i dont have a sister. HA!

In my HRE game the AI wont let me marry off a princess to a relative.

**Roark** · 10-10-2005, 07:21

@ Yesdachi: Check to see if they're single, mate...

**yesdachi** · 10-10-2005, 13:33

Originally Posted by Roark

@ Yesdachi: Check to see if they're single, mate...

They were single, that was my first thought too

. When I tried I received a message that said something like they are of the same royal bloodline. It may have given me a “continue” or an “abort” option but I don’t recall, I will have to check next time I play.

**Grey_Fox** · 10-10-2005, 16:01

Yeah, you get a 'do you wish to continue with this distasteful action' message or some such.

**Ludens** · 10-11-2005, 11:53

Originally Posted by Roark

Fact is, nobody really knows for sure, right?

It is indeed true that nobody knows exactly what triggers the various V&V's of M:TW in a way we can know it for R:TW, except for the programmers off course. But with experience and testing we can hazard a fair guess. My and other people's experiences point out that inbreeding vices are random, though Muslim factions seem to suffer from it more. Playtesting by another member (and I wish I could find that post) indicates that marrying princes to princesses did not cause any inbred offspring.

This is no conclusive evidence, I agree, but you can't get much better unless the programmers will reveal their code.

**m52nickerson** · 10-12-2005, 16:55

I was inbreeding at the end of one of my campaiges just to make sure new kings would take the throne with a few heirs already born. I got a few more very poor stupid inbred drunken bastards, but it was off set by a greater number of heirs over all.