I've noticed that sometimes my wards would gain personality traits without the usual event that allows me to influence whether they keep the trait or develop another trait, is this a bug or are there children ai events that let them do this?
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If the event doesn't give you influence it just not shown to you in a window you has the guardian, guard/ward influence event are not the only source of children personality, it just the most regular. Game also skip the notification if child is getting the 3rd trait of an influence even, if I am not mistaken.
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Sometimes you just have to personally check how your Wards are doing. It pays to be proactive...
Since there are nothing to stop a ward from getting the same personality trait event multiple times, its possible to get the same event three times. If this happens then you simply won't get the third event since there is only one choice to make and the game automatically gives the ward the third trait without notifying you.
The personality trait events repeating for the same ward is bad game design, especially when the event is a wholly negative one like the beating. The encourage competition from the wet nurse could get your kid traits without you knowing, even though the install virtue task notifies you.
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An example of this happening is getting the ambitious trait event firing, you can pick ambitious, sadistic, or paranoid. If it fires three times your ward will get the the trait you did not pick and you will get no pop-up...
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I mean I didn't even got a window that tells me they are gaining a personality trait, and the wet nurse wasn't put on any duty, so I wonder what happened.
Maybe one of the ward events was pulled that ended up only having one option available? It doesn't necessarily mean you have to have the other two choices in the event that is pulled up. If you have a choice or its opposite trait, that trait won't be an option to choose in the event. Like if your ward is already diligent and compassionate and the kitchen cleanup event pops up, you kid will become a glutton. I think that there are some child events from wards and wardens that can give personality traits too. Like an event that tests if the kid is like one of his ancestors.
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Update. I just got 3 spit in food events in a row for one ward. So I am not sure that an event popping up with no other option is what is going on here.
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yeah it also doesnt fire if there's only one possible alternative due to conflicting traits.
like child is temperate and patient. they roll the shy, gluttonous, impatient event. temperate blocks gluttonous, patient blocks impatient, so the child will get shy without an event.