Less women

[grallonsphere]

Is there a settings, somewhere, that govern the number of women generated. We're like drowning in them. My current character had 6 girls before he finally got a male heir. All those girls produced girls in turn. It's aggravating.

 

[prismaticmarcus]

the setting is 50/50

 

[Chlodio]

The same thing as in CK2, the odds having many daughters on a row are astronomically low with a coin flip-style, yet it was frequent, but only with daughters. One could have suspected that dev implemented alleles system:

But no dev never admitted it, so I don't know.

 

[Tyrannischgott]

Define "astronomically low"? Statistically, "long" runs of heads or tails in coin flips are actually more common than most people intuitively think they should be. It's not uncommon to see runs of four or five. In 200 fair coin flips you should expect to see at least one run of 7, and runs of 10 or more occur with about 5% probability

 

[SMiki Lorebringer]

Is there a settings, somewhere, that govern the number of women generated. We're like drowning in them. My current character had 6 girls before he finally got a male heir. All those girls produced girls in turn. It's aggravating.

Is your character, per chance, an English king named Henry?

 

[grallonsphere]

Is your character, per chance, an English king named Henry?

Good one - but Henry had 6 wives but only 2 daughters.

 

[durbal]

Good one - but Henry had 6 wives but only 2 daughters.

 

[ShadyGuy_SuspiciousGoal]

Actually the setting said 49% l. Check 00_defines.txt

 

[prismaticmarcus]

Actually the setting said 49% l. Check 00_defines.txt

oh, for women or men?

 

[ShadyGuy_SuspiciousGoal]

oh, for women or men?

It is named FEMALE_CHANCE so I'm sure it's for female. The value is 49 so actually there are less of them than male.

 

[prismaticmarcus]

It is named FEMALE_CHANCE so I'm sure it's for female. The value is 49 so actually there are less of them than male.

interesting. the real problem, IMHO, is all the men getting armour for their 16th birthday and running off to be hacked to death

 

[The_Blind_One]

It is named FEMALE_CHANCE so I'm sure it's for female. The value is 49 so actually there are less of them than male.

So you're telling me that they actually went with the scientific data on this ...

But ...

Female prowess has no penalties?

 

[grallonsphere]

It is named FEMALE_CHANCE so I'm sure it's for female. The value is 49 so actually there are less of them than male.

Something else is at work then - like the fertility percentage. In CK2, above 50% (0.5) fertility meant more chances of females - while below meant more males - or the other way around but that variable had a direct impact. I mean, that particular imbalance if what irks me the most - you might say it's 'the cherry on top' of everything else that needs 'calibrating' on this release.

 

[Tyrannischgott]

Something else is at work then - like the fertility percentage. In CK2, above 50% (0.5) fertility meant more chances of females - while below meant more males - or the other way around but that variable had a direct impact. I mean, that particular imbalance if what irks me the most - you might say it's 'the cherry on top' of everything else that needs 'calibrating' on this release.

My man, read my comment above. You getting six girls in a row is not evidence that the probabilities are skewed. Runs of six are common occurrences when you're flipping coins.

I went ahead and calculated it for you: in a game where you have 30 total children (over several generations) the probability of having a run of 6 in there is about 19%. That's almost 1/5. You shouldn't be surprised when events with 19% probability occur. They are not, as one other commenter claimed, "astronomically" unlikely.

 

[klopkr]

Evolutionary pressures literally makes children born by humans to self regulate to nearly 1:1 throughout generations. A 50/50 coin flip though, theoretically always land on heads for practically all of eternity, it's just unlikely.

People who have a problem with the male to female ratios in this game should actually do the math to see if it's just a run on luck or the actual chances.

If the game works the way I think it does you should be able to go into the console settings and press the generate baby button thousands of times then just tally the boys vs the girls to see the ratio. The more you generate the closer the ratio it to the truth.

Please please people also read up on the gamblers fallacy! Your prior rolls don't effect the outcome of future ones!

 

[Jarolleon]

So you're telling me that they actually went with the scientific data on this ...

But ...

Female prowess has no penalties?

It doesn't in movies, why should it have it in-game? /s

 

[grallonsphere]

My man, read my comment above. You getting six girls in a row is not evidence that the probabilities are skewed. Runs of six are common occurrences when you're flipping coins.

I went ahead and calculated it for you: in a game where you have 30 total children (over several generations) the probability of having a run of 6 in there is about 19%. That's almost 1/5. You shouldn't be surprised when events with 19% probability occur. They are not, as one other commenter claimed, "astronomically" unlikely.

Maths... never my forte. I wonder if changing the female_chance by 1% down would make a significant impact. I shall have to try it.

 

[Tyrannischgott]

Maths... never my forte. I wonder if changing the female_chance by 1% down would make a significant impact. I shall have to try it.

I'm all but certain the the probability will go down by less than a percentage point.

 

[Ruprecht]

I believe Oglaf has already created a mod for this.

 

[Nevars]

It's probably your rng, meanwhile I have so much male children that I worry of running out of land to conquered to give them lol