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Improved Personality Formation System

In the vanilla game, the system that gives children their personalities takes really only two things into account, and that's the personality traits of their guardian and (nowadays, for some cultures) their culture. This mod makes the system that gives children their personality traits more complicated, taking many more factors into account.

It has the following changes compared to the vanilla game:

The probabilities for what personality traits a child gets as they grow up depend on the personalities of their guardian, their parents, their friends and their siblings, what personality traits are virtues or sins in their faith, what childhood personality trait they have, their culture (if it makes certain traits more likely), and their education focus.

What childhood trait a child gets at 3 is affected somewhat by what government form they live under, the personalities and education of their parents, and the childhood traits of their siblings.


This mod may be incompatible with any mod that changes things in the child_personality_events.txt file.


Note: To clarify, all this mod does is modify the probabilities in the existing vanilla events in the child_personality_events.txt file, based on the factors listed above. It doesn't add events, or anything else, of its own.

It's just things like: Tribal children are a little more likely to get rowdy as childhood trait. Children with parents that have a martial training are a little more likely to get rowdy or bossy. Children with brave parents are a little more likely to become brave. Children in faiths where being honest is a virtue are a little more likely to become honest. Children with the charming childhood trait are a little more likely to become gregarious. And so on...