how is there no interracial mod yet?

[o5850028@nwytg.net]

I'm honestly surprised there's no interracial mod yet, we've got everything from bestiality to tentacles, to BDSM to demons and just so much more yet there's nothing for interracial?
by now i would have expected someone to make a mod where you get a trait like "blacked - only liked black guys" or "bleached - only likes white guys" etc and some events sprinkled in along with it and so on.

 

i have absolutely no coding skills so i won't be making it but would be nice if someone made a mod like it.

[jjnoc5]

If I had to imagine its because such a mod would have to rely on the game's culture and portrait DNA system, both of which really aren't suited for something like this.  A quick look through modifiers and I don't think there's one that lets you mod opinion beyond "foreigner". Black/Bleached using culture, beyond not having anything to really mod off of, can get affect by the general weirdness that can happen with CK2. 

 

If you let the game run long enough you'll end up Arabs using French Portraits or Greek Portraits with an African culture or something else along those lines. Portraits genetics I also think can't really be used in anything like this namely because I don't think there's anything to latch a mod on to in the first place. The only way I could see something like this happening is through manual, player only decision that gives them a special trait that increases sex appeal across the board and then using a blacked/bleached flavor trait. There's also the simply fact that modders make what they are interested in and this is doubly sure for modders on here who tend to based their mods on their own kinks and fetishes.

[WarLordXII]

The whole Interracial Fetish thing is a bit of a base breaker from what I've seen. Some really like it, some really hate it, and it touches on some berserk/trigger buttons for many people for many reasons. So I'm not surprised if no one decides that it's worth the floodgate that they could open.

That said, I would be interested in a interracial/intercultural/interreligious mod centered on events for lovers/spouses with sex; slice of life and even reaction events (IE: Family, court, country, etc.).

[o5850028@nwytg.net]

fair enough, i get that every mod maker makes what they find attractive i'm just surprised seeing as the game is 8 years old and most mods here are several years old. interracial is a lot more common than most others here so just thought someone at some point would have done something with it.

[souldead341]

It wouldn't surprise me if there was a mod that did have this at one  time on some site, but it really depends on the modder deciding to continue develop the mod.  And yeah, this forum tends to have a lot more weird fetishes in it's mods, but I feel like that's at least partly because they're 1: less likely to impossible in real life (obviously tentacles, elves, magic, exc aren't going to happen in real life) and 2: doesn't have centuries old prejudices involved in it (not going to go into the details of this, it should be obvious what the issues are).  

[Blooda]

Theoretically it would be possible. The game is mostly cultural based but there is 'ethnicties' based on the culture you can use in modding. Like, for example, I could make a simple mod that lets you confront your wife if you and your wife both the same ethnicity, and the ethnicity of the child born is a different then there's 'something wrong' there. You could also do it in a different way, whenever an ethnicity is given, you can assign a trait to describe the race so the modding itself can be simplified. 

 

What would you like to see in that kind of mod?

 

I've been thinking about doing something along those lines, like a cuckold mod. I had an idea for a unique pagan reformation that basically has it so that your male characters can't have children, and you have to rely on other characters to.. 'help' with it, and the bonuses of that reformation is increased fertility for women, decreased for men of a certain kind (maybe have it based off of cock-sizes), and allows you do have a series of events or a decision which lands you with children that have great traits that are 'yours'. 

 

[Wily Rodent]

There are too many technical issues here. The game is optimized for performance, and so a lot of things are generalized to the point where you'd probably need to jump through a lot of hoops and write a lot of code to get even a semi-workable mod with some baseline functionality.

 

Basically, you'd need to group culture groups into bigger "race groups" and then define at which point it's considered interracial and pick event pictures based on the race of the two participants.

The obvious ones would be to start by grouping all the regional varieties of the same "culture group". Like East Germanic group, West Germanic group, etc. will all be treated as "Germanic" and interactions between those culture groups will not be considered interracial. But that's not nearly enough, since with the HRE, interactions between Latin and Germanic cultures would definitely not be considered interracial.

Firstly, forget ever making this something other than player only. Running those checks on random events across the whole world would absolutely bring the game to its knees while adding little value.

The beauty of CK2 is to find clever ways to pretend something is happening, rather than actually making it happen. The mod you are describing would need to find clever workarounds as well.