Yes, men have the advantage that they can delay fatherhood far longer then women can delay motherhood, which is why I would like the nephew/niece options to be the children of the mc younger brother as that would likely make them the same age (early thirties) by 1983 as our mc’s are in this game.
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I’m not saying that should be an option I’m just thinking of the biological logistics. But I do agree to introduce a younger brother character if you are a lover of the more masculine persuasion.
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Wouldn’t it be better if it is the grandson|/daughter of the MC?
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Well say we want the new mc to be about the same age our mc’s in this game are then they would need to be born around 1952, making them about fifty years younger then the mc. Now since the mc is not yet married and doesn’t have children yet that makes for a very tight timeline requiring a teenage pregnancy or fatherhood of the mc’s children to have the new mc be a grandchild.
Also it requires the mc to breed in the first place, which mine has no intention of doing.
For the grandkid to work the mc would have to have married around age 20 or so and have an 8-9 year old child by now. A background I’d rather not have forcibly added to my mc.
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If the MC was the child of the previous MC they should be born when the MC is around middle 50. I think it is easier with an grandchild.
MC have a kid on his middle 30
MC’s kid have a child in their middle 20
Way better then having a child when you are 50.
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Hmm, yeah, hadn’t really put a lot of thought in to the whole biological conundrum.
I think @Urban has the best suggestion. A hetrosexual MC has a child in the late 1930’s, they have a child in the late 1950’s and you get a MC for the sequel in their mid-twenties.
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Which is easy enough to do with a straight male mc.
The in-game year is now 1935, I believe. If the straight mc marries and gets his wife pregnant very soon or with the female mc she herself gets pregnant in short order the kid would be born sometime late 1936, early 1937. If that kid then has a kid when they are in their early to mid twenties the new mc would be born around 1960, which would make them in their early 20’s around 1983.
That is student age and a bit young for a position of real power. While being a student leader could work, I’m not sure if it is the tone the author wants to go for in the sequel.
Older grandchildren obviously require the mc to already have a kid, and either a wife/husband or divorce of their own by now. Again something I would not like as a background for my mc.
With the mc being so actively involved in politics this would again place an unfair burden on the female mc as particularly in the 1930’s it would be nearly undoable to combine pregnancy and early motherhood with politics, particularly for the lower class female mc who likely cannot afford expensive nannies.
Again isn’t that a bit young for a position of real power, unless you’re focusing the sequel more around counter-culture and student movements and protests.
How will you handle the gay mc, younger brother?
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I think the best solution would be this:
Straight MC has a child in the late 30’s, outside the remit of this game (which incidentally won’t reach 1939, possibly not 1938 either). This means childbearing doesn’t affect your political career in-game at least.
Gay MC would be a younger brother/sister having a child at around the same time.
Then this child would have a child around ~1958-60, who would be the MC in the sequel. Now you’re right, that would make the MC early-mid twenties, which is quite a lot younger than in UWS. But the sequel isn’t just going to be the same game but in the 80’s, I think it’ll have more of a ‘coming of age’ feel where the MC, perhaps with a background in youth politics, must come to terms with their regime-establishment heritage and either embrace it and go for continuity, push for reform, or work towards a complete overthrow. While they might not be a minister or senior politician, they would have to side with certain factions within the regime or outside it, bringing the weight of a significant student/youth following. Perhaps the MC could start out as the leader of the fascist/socialist youth organisation…
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What a shame, I would like to see the start of my MC’s family.
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@Urban I know what you’re saying but like @idonotlikeusernames pointed out, it would mean that a female MC would have to step aside from politics, while a male one wouldn’t, meaning some stages of the game would be accessible to one gender and not the other
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Why not just have a time skip? Then the female MC wouldn’t lose anything.
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That’s simply not true, among other things female mc would lose, her seniority in the party, or at least much of it. Around two years minimum of her career (from pregnancy until she no longer has to nurse the child) and pay, the latter being very significant for the lower class mc in particular.
And lastly her chance to be minister. Even if she does return it would likely be as a newly junior mp again.
That said on the gay path I hope our mc’s get at least one good scene with their bro/sis to establish the connection.
True, and like I said the new mc would probably always be a child of tremendous privilege, doubly so I guess if born into the royal family, which is a possibility for an aristocratic female New Order mc.
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Got to agree with @idonotlikeusernames here, aside from the points he makes, a time skip of 9 months or longer would be a lot bigger than the ones so far in the game and I feel like it would be kind of weird to say to the player “9 months later, you’ve had a child, that’s all done now, back to the politics”
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There is no rule in game saying a pregnant woman lose their seniority. There is no need to leave for 2 years, just the latter stage of pregnancy and the first months of the baby.
The MC might have been born into working class, but now they are receiving MP salary and they will become a minister, they will be able to hire someone to take care of their children.
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And you wouldn’t find a formal rule like that in most political parties even today. It’s the unofficial rule of out of sight, out of mind or the “musical chairs” rule. Easiest way for a woman to disqualify herself right up until the 70’s in this country would have been by becoming a mother.
Yes, they’re receiving an mp’s salary now and that would stop as soon as they’d become too pregnant to work. A pregnant woman or young mother would almost be guaranteed to be passed over for that minister post.
In addition the working class mc in particular, unless they’ve been saving up all that pay would likely remain unavailable until the child no longer has to be nursed again due to not being able to afford to dump the kid on nannies and wet-nurses.
The times were very unfair to women and if they did restart their career after an absence due to pregnancy and motherhood they’d largely be starting over from scratch.
Even if Moravia appears to be one of the more female friendly countries in Europe the women with high office seem to be universally childless or at least well past early motherhood.
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This is absolutely accurate, actually. I say @AlexClifford1994’s solution is best, honestly.
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Viktor Riga dancing with Rosa Wulf at parliamentary ball right before elections (Colorized)
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Your heart sinks. The SDP and Centre MPs cheer. Kant recieves much acclamation. Riga looks quietly satisfied. Herta grimaces. You came very close in deep but in the end too few of your colleagues were persuaded. [i]Just[/i}].
The Just part.
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Fixed (20 characters)
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“I’m looking forward to it!” she chortles, “Sometimes I ask him if you lot aren’t keeping him busy he’s round the house that much. No he hasn’t got an excuse not to get off his arse!”
Should be Now.