Marriage and Children, some observations and thoughts.

[Poacher886]

So i totally understand the reason and point of your family members marrying...the Wife can bring benefits and Gravitas to your family and her husband, i also understand the reason for marrying off a family member to another faction to gain favour and alliance. But what i do not understand is why you would marry one of your family daughters to another Noble!, the daughter now disappears from your family tree, reducing the Gravitas / control and ability to use her Gravitas to benefit.

Also, the 'Other Noble' benefactor gains all the advantages of the wife, increasing in most cases his gravitas which goes against your control and balance! The result is that i have alot of unmarried daughters in my family tree, just getting old without purpose. Surely better would be marrying a daughter to an 'Other noble' should bring that noble into your family to increase its offspring, this would be a far more realistic and convincing manor to further your family tree than the 'adoption' route of which i have no known cases of in history and imho should be omitted from the game.

On children, reading through history shows that ones off spring when in power is all. Its a precarious affair which has all the makings of a game in itself, having a child especially a son was a nervous disposition and in-game waiting and hoping your King produces an heir so the family can continue should be part of the suspense.
This unfortunately is rubbished and sidelined in-game because it would seem that your male family members are more than a little virilous, routinely giving birth to 10+ children before death. I would suggest a little nerfing in this dept would bring back some suspense and joy at birth again..

[gary]

I know its idiotic... I use my children (daughters) and marry them off to other factions, never those other nobles. This is the weakest part of the game/mod, as it really never pays to use up your influence as you lose control, it just makes internal politics null and void and completely counter-intuitive.

[Badnercalabrese]

these are good observations.
I would also request for the modders to nerf virility if it's possible. My family tree has exploded because everyone has so many off spring - male heirs are not very valuable in this sense because there is always a generous handful to pick from it seems.

With marriage to other nobles. I haven't actually tried this so I wasn't aware that your female relative is removed if you marry her to another noble family. Clearly that is a lazy flaw in Atilla from CA.
Perhaps this is something that can be coded to resemble the adoption mechanic.

[Poacher886]

these are good observations.
I would also request for the modders to nerf virility if it's possible. My family tree has exploded because everyone has so many off spring - male heirs are not very valuable in this sense because there is always a generous handful to pick from it seems.

With marriage to other nobles. I haven't actually tried this so I wasn't aware that your female relative is removed if you marry her to another noble family. Clearly that is a lazy flaw in Atilla from CA.
Perhaps this is something that can be coded to resemble the adoption mechanic.

Im wandering if the daughter marring a noble has been fixed in a silent update, because im now seeing it work as it should, that being the married husband enters your family.!! ??

However they still all have more kids than a family of chav's, this really needs to be sorted. Cant remember which TW game it was now, but one of them ended your Campaign if your King died without an heir, now that really did light a candle up the neither regions and made you think twice about rushing your family into battle!!