Kid might not be mine...

[Gilgamesh]

So, I had this event happen with my first wife where she wasn't coming home at night. Found out she was cheating and two kids maybe weren't mine.

Now with my second wife I'm getting a different event on every kid that says I don't know of its mine and she acts distant when we talk about them.

Is this just my guys trauma making him suspicious, or am I actually just failing the check everytime?

It says I have a chance of finding out the truth whatever it is, or wives opinion of me goes down. But everytime I got no extra info, and opinion went down. And everytime I did the followup and found nothing opinion went down again.

Does that mean the kids mine or I just failed every check for all 4 kids? (Wifes pissed, it was tough getting her back to 100 lol)

[Gilgamesh]

Yeah I mostly just want to know if there's a positive success to this. So far between us two we've never seen a positive success so I think you're correct. It lets people role-play (or helps them get into role-playing) a paranoid partner.

[ChaosKhan]

Originally posted by Gilgamesh:

So, I had this event happen with my first wife where she wasn't coming home at night. Found out she was cheating and two kids maybe weren't mine.

Now with my second wife I'm getting a different event on every kid that says I don't know of its mine and she acts distant when we talk about them.

Is this just my guys trauma making him suspicious, or am I actually just failing the check everytime?

It says I have a chance of finding out the truth whatever it is, or wives opinion of me goes down. But everytime I got no extra info, and opinion went down. And everytime I did the followup and found nothing opinion went down again.

Does that mean the kids mine or I just failed every check for all 4 kids? (Wifes pissed, it was tough getting her back to 100 lol)

It's definitely possible to find out the truth with this event. Then your wife tears up and admits, that the child isn't yours.

The most reliable way to find out the truth though, is to let your spymaster snoop around for secrets on your capital county for a while...

[Gilgamesh]

Yeah I was thinking you can find the truth in a negative way, but never a positive way. If the kids yours I assume from what I've ready you'll always just take the opinion hit and never get confirmation.

It's only if the kids not yours that you "find out the truth no matter what it may be"

[Theandal]

Originally posted by ChaosKhan:

It's definitely possible to find out the truth with this event. Then your wife tears up and admits, that the child isn't yours.

The most reliable way to find out the truth though, is to let your spymaster snoop around for secrets on your capital county for a while...

never had that result happen with this event. And on spymaster part. After having this event I have had loyal spymasters try to find secrets for decades and forcing them to keep going when they say "can't find anything".
I think the game feeds you this event for storytelling even if you are not paranoid and you have a chaste soulmate wife.

of course there can be a time the event pops up and your wife is actually cheating, but I feel this event is almost always just lies for building up a story for the player character.

[Gilgamesh]

Originally posted by Theandal:

Originally posted by ChaosKhan:

It's definitely possible to find out the truth with this event. Then your wife tears up and admits, that the child isn't yours.

The most reliable way to find out the truth though, is to let your spymaster snoop around for secrets on your capital county for a while...

never had that result happen with this event. And on spymaster part. After having this event I have had loyal spymasters try to find secrets for decades and forcing them to keep going when they say "can't find anything".
I think the game feeds you this event for storytelling even if you are not paranoid and you have a chaste soulmate wife.

of course there can be a time the event pops up and your wife is actually cheating, but I feel this event is almost always just lies for building up a story for the player character.

Yeah I think it pops up just incase you actually married another cheater and the kid really isn't yours.

[dbix11]

ive had my wife confess the child wasnt mine by simply asking

[Gilgamesh]

I went into debugg mode, all four kids are mine. So basically the event is there to make you paranoid, unless you re-marry into a second cheating wife. Then it's a confession chance.

[PostalGibbon]

Or maybe that "paranoid" event is remnant from 1.0 version where there was a event that changed child's father from husband to some random bloke. I have never seen it reveal bastard in 3200 hours of game time i have at ck3.
But anyway its nicely simulate IRL where is it estimated that about 10% of children born in marriage, father of the child is not husband.
So there is food for thought for every "family guy" when looking that "own" product of loins.