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I noticed that my child between my married characters just has peon and not heir status. This has happened every once in a while. Is it due to something not registering, or because I admittedly used the cheat code to add the husband and wife to the appropriate characters? Not a huge deal, just something i noticed.
Ok so yes, my wife has spouse status, had enough time to do more than glance like I did last time. And like I theorized, apparently if you use the cheat system to skip it, instead of going through the actual process of marriage, your children won't have heir status. Now by doing this multiple times in tests, I've also noticed how sometimes the heir's will have either a Slave icon next to their name or a Peon icon. In my tests it has been mostly random which icon they have. To be fair, I've only tested this with the created characters you make in the beginning of your game. While in these tests, usually if the second character is a slave, the child usually inherits the slave icon as well. However, with the peon icon on the second character, it seems to be a toss up. Small suggestion, maybe the husband/wife as well as legitimate children get their own icon? At the end of the day, I understand how trivial all of this is, sorry I find small details to nitpick.
As you noticed, simply having the spouse trait/class does not allow you to have a child with the Heir type. This is because there is a spouse variable which is assigned a character's ID (Identification) when completing the marriage event. This variable is what dictates if the character may produce children with Heir type and unfortunately isn't connected the spouse trait/class. You may change the spouse variable to another character's ID so the new character may birth Heirs however the variable doesn't take a list of IDs therefore may not have multiple spouses that produce Heirs at the same time.
=Direction to changing Spouse Variable=
1.) Open desired .sav in save file location
File location on Windows: \AppData\Roaming\Strive for Power 2\saves
Online Save Editor: https://www.saveeditonline.com/
2.) When opened, use search (CTRL + F) to find desired character's ID using the keyword below
Search Keyword: "name":"[CHARACTER'S NAME]",
Replace [CHARACTER'S NAME] with the character's full name (Unique Character example : "name":"Daisy",) (Created Character example: "name":"Chelsea Gracewood",)
3.) A few results may show up, look for one with the Key Phrase below being on the left and where # are numbers:
Key Phrase: "id":"hid##########"
This is your ID for this character.
4.) Now search for the Keyword below and replace the ID there with the desired character's ID.
Search Keyword: "spouse":"hid
