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Higher Mortality Mod

"Higher Mortality"-Mod IS BACK!

This mod adds some realism/challenge to the game by making diseases and pregnancy complications more relevant.

Main changes:
-) Moderate increased fertility in general - but also decreasing faster by age
-) Pregnancies are more risky and risk is depending health-status
-) Especially the first pregnancy is more risky
-) Higher mortality caused by more common events of different kind of diseases
-) Especially "pneumonia"-disease is now much more common for children and works more as a collective term for all typical adolescence diseases which are not existing ingame as disease yet and were historically very dangerous and common
-) Much wider range of given health constitution at birth for all characters - some are already born with better constitution and dont have to fear diseases so much and for others a influenza is much more life-endangering
-) Rebalance of medical treatments
-) Knights&Commanders have a higher risk to get wounded or maimed during a battle
-) Rebalanced Genetics: Most traits are a little bit more common and its a little bit more difficult to breed traits
-) Reduced likehood for random harm-event so that the game expierence wont become too deadly with this Mod on default-settings. (new since 1.9.1)
-) Reduced stress-gain caused by dead children

Result:
Much more difficult for characters to become adult or old man making dynasty management more challenging

Reason why I like my mod: I already play with and work on this mod since 1.0 and its not easy to balance it, but after all it always made the game experience more immersive and telling great stories about dynasties where not always the first born gets on the throne. And do yourself a favor and dont let your character marry a old woman if you are looking for heirs! With this mod its much more important to have an plan B for your dynasty!

Its not mandatory but considerable to use "Less old wives" to have more stable AI-Dynasties: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2265131712

Link to forum thread:
https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/mod-higher-mortality.1462675/

No performance-issues recognized so far.

Mod is save game compatible.

Thankful for any advise or feedback!