max_wives Question

[Uroshnor]

Is there any place where max_wives can be set other than religions? I thought I remembered seeing on the wiki that it could be set by government, but now I'm only seeing max_consorts there, not max_wives.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to set it by culture, but I tried doing that (on the off-chance it was possible but undocumented), and it didn't work. I thought of a way to use government types as a workaround, but now it's looking like that's probably not going to work. Religious branch traits would be another workaround option, but afaik you can't set max_wives in traits either.

For context, I'm working on a Jewish overhaul mod, and I'd like it to be able to reflect the fact, that, during the CK2 timeframe, polygamy was permitted for all non-Ashkenazi Jews, and even Ashkenazi Jews weren't required to be monogamous until c. 1000 CE.

As it stands, I can't figure out any way to implement that. Anybody know something I don't?

 

[Tinuviel]

I'm not sure if there's any way to do it besides religion. Maybe you can give a marriage-disabling trait to Ashkenazi character once they're married and remove it once they're widowed?

 

[Uroshnor]

I'm not sure if there's any way to do it besides religion. Maybe you can give a marriage-disabling trait to Ashkenazi character once they're married and remove it once they're widowed?

Huh, that might work, actually, although the character screen would still show the box for secondary wives. I think that’s acceptable, though. Thanks!

 

[Uroshnor]

I do wish they’d add other ways to change max_wives, though. At least in governments, since you can already change max_concubines there, but I’d still prefer to be able to do it by culture.

 

[Tinuviel]

It'd not remove the box, but I think you can make the secondary wives localisation empty for that culture only by using customizable localisation. It's not perfect, but it'd do for now. I wish they would expand more on marriage and concubinage.

 

[Voltspark]

Yeah, it would be awesome if they added a "monogamous" parameter for religions - setting it to yes would prohibit concubines even if government or culture enabled them and setting it to no would allow governments or cultures to enable them.