Lack of newborn children
Folks,
I've got BI with the 1.6 patch and I've noticed that I've very few newborn children. I'm playing as WRE and nearly all of my family are married yet I think only 1 or 2 have kids at the moment.
I've played around 30 turns and I seem to remember lots more children than that.
I also noticed the same thing with the Vandals....very few or little newborn children.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Cheers
Starkhorn
ps I tend to reload nearly every turn....would this affect this?
Let your manhood be seen by the push of your pike:- Owen Roe O'Neill at the Battle of Benburb 1646
Re: Lack of newborn children
I think the Vandals don't get any because they're hordes. FM's are given based on territories, in vanilla it was 2-3 territories per male FM, roughly. It must have changed in BI though, because I suddenly had a baby boom late in the game as the WRE, having gained around 5+ babies per FM, and to top that off I got the occasional good adoption!
BTW, mine is on 1.6 as well.
Student by day, bacon-eating narwhal by night (specifically midnight)
Re: Lack of newborn children
In both the original game and in BI, I have noticed a lot of variation in births with no apparent reason behind it. I'll go long periods with no births at all, and then get a host of them in short order.
Now, what I did notice in BI is that the kids don't seem to come of age while you're a horde. I tried a game as the Huns, and the oldest child still hadn't come of age by the time he was 30...
Age and treachery will defeat youth and skill every time.
Re: Lack of newborn children
I also think that to have kids, your fellas should settle in cities.
"Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much."
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
Re: Lack of newborn children
yeah, you can get married in the field but for the rabbit thing you need to hole up in a city.
Re: Lack of newborn children
its a cheaty kinda solution, but its only a game...
if u are needing a birth around a certain time...just save b4 u hit the turn button...and if it doesnt happen, reload, and hit it again...
i've noticed little differences when going into one year from the same point multiple times...sometimes the events are radically different.
i think i've done it to try to squeeze in a birth once or twice.
i like saving every year so i have the option of going back to a save game in a campaign. downside is filling up the savegame box but i go thru and get rid of boring years and keep a few exciting ones if i wanna play again and do different stuff.
i think after many campaigns and cultures it just seems stagnate at times...i guess every royalty guy cant be a playboy afterall.
pillage, plunder, burn...
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