No Pregnancy in 1.3.1

[icelty]

Simple, I tried making the wife the governor, spending time in fief. Taking the wife into army, spending time in fief, taking wife everywhere, taking wife without army. Even after 2 in-game years since they got married and no offspring. Tried with Abigail, and now playing with a vlandian noble I can't remember her name.

 

[Maximuuus]

It doesn't sound like an issue to me if you only waited 2 years...

 

[nyarlathotep1975]

thats just realistic. if you cant remember a girls name, you wont have sex. no sex, no child.

 

[Dutch Langella]

Simple, I tried making the wife the governor, spending time in fief. Taking the wife into army, spending time in fief, taking wife everywhere, taking wife without army. Even after 2 in-game years since they got married and no offspring. Tried with Abigail, and now playing with a vlandian noble I can't remember her name.

I second this bug.

 

[Ananda_The_Destroyer]

Yeah they've toned it down a bit too much. In older versions I made 9 babies in 550 days. In Beta 1.3 game only 1 baby (that is probably glitched) in 550+ days.
I don't think having spouse in party/settlement effects anything unless they patched it in and I missed it. I did get pregnant again... but had to scrap that save because of un-fixed glitch (that got ported into the main branch unfixed). I think they need to make it something you do, not something that just happens because numbers. Like make it an event, even if cheesy and unrealistic, where you give spouse a special item and have a special romantic scene and then PREGGERS YOU DID IT YAY! Like in the harvest moon games where you buy the feather item and give it to mate and then BOOM you get a baby later.
More player agency needed. Kinda a theme in what I have a problem with, too much stuff just happens willy nilly.

 

[paladinx333]

Maybe you could click on your spouse and select "Try For Baby" like in The Sims.

?

 

[icelty]

lol to the funny comments, and to the "within context" comments, I still think is fine that there is some randomness, but within the context of an actionable trigger, like Ananda and Paladinx suggested, [TRY BUTTON PRESS HERE] -> RND() -> 5%-10% chance ? `Boom` : `cool down for one season, sorry bad luck, try again later`;
First time you want offspring's you'll probably spend sometime grinding that 5%, after that you'll probably just resume enjoying shopping heads.

 

[Bob Gnarly]

Yeah after a couple in game years, I just forced pregnancy using the dev console. It doesn't serve much use right now anyway, I'll easily conquer the entire map before the baby hits its teens.

 

[stevehoos]

Child mortality rates were so high during this period, I am glad children are sparse.

 

[paladinx333]

I am of the opinion that they have changed the pregnancy chance to be too low.

Perhaps they should have a decreasing chance of pregnancy after each birth. You would have a high chance of pregnancy if you have no children and it would then decrease realistically after each child. Eventually the chance of additional children would drop so low that smaller family sizes would be automatically achieved. Your wife would then pass beyond the childbearing age threshold that is already in the game.

Whatever they have now simply isn't working.

 

[Dabos37]

Same here, no kids anymore in my new campaigns.

 

[eternalflame]

What is wrong with large families? Menopause will eventually stop us from breeding our waifus.