There's still no need to be rude about it, saying people are "bullshitting" and "whining." Negative feedback is not rudeness unless it's a personal attack. (IE: this sucks, this is an ignorant opinion) Dismissing it out of hand is. And while any modder, no matter how good, can make a mistake, feedback isn't necessarily about mistakes. It can be on things that people would like to be tweaked or that reduce their enjoyment of a mod. All of what you're saying is your own feedback, it's based on your experiences and what you feel. You are dismissing the feelings and experience of others. Almost nobody wants to just attack a mod just to do it, they want to enjoy the mod and are giving feedback based on their enjoyment. You feel attacked by it because you made that feature of it. That's natural. But people are probably annoyed that you are attacking them for their experience and calling it a lie.
And I think you're having a disconnect here, you're not understanding the people who have problems. All the extra traits make it seem extremely crowded, and you're even calling them insignificant. When people say most people seem to be strong or weak, you surely should recognize that they mean the full range of strong-weak traits, not just the most powerful ones. You say they do not matter, but to all of the people giving feedback, they appear to matter, especially since they are seeing them absolutely everywhere! And yes, fully average people have a bit of variance to them, but I'm one of the people who doesn't understand why it is necessary to simulate this in genetic traits. The game already makes people have variance in their stats via education, normal traits, or stats of their parents. Is it really necessary to eugenics it down to the microstat? Is it worth having them in the game when all they do is tweak numbers in ways you call insignificant? You say they are for immersion or flavor, but they are clearly breaking some people's immersion, and hiding them takes out their utility as flavor.
Genetic traits in the game are normally just outliers. They are inherently of significance. Changing the entire purpose of genetic traits is why you've got such a response. You are making them insignificant, and it has caused a big disconnect in the people who do not like the changes. Why do they need a trait signifying that someone is a few inches shorter than average? Why would that really matter to their stats if it's not significant? I wasn't even against the concept of them myself until I saw how many people had them and in what combinations.
While I'm at it, the first generation of the -entire world- seems excessively random to me every time I play. Two perfectly normal generated people in my latest shot produced an ugly, weak, short child and also a bright child. When you look at that result, it seems completely out of nowhere, doesn't it? And the game constantly generates new people. This will always leave an element of confusing randomness in the inheritance of traits, and that feels at odds with the intended purpose of the genetics mod, to make the system of genetics make sense. This isn't attacking the mod, it is a problem that I think it would be nice if it was addressed or fixed in some way. And nobody wants to have to play a game for multiple generations just in the hopes that the trait distribution will eventually start making more sense.
And your point about clubfooted: You know, some of that is from an added event in the new pregnancy events. I put together a mod myself to cut down the frequency drastically. It's somewhat separate from the whole genetics system, and cutting down on extra negative traits from that event does significant good to the whole state of clubfoot and harelip people in the world. It's not an inherent part of the previous genetics system and can be changed separately by tweaking one event.
Finally: HIP already has many optional features and modules. It's not rude or even unexpected for people to request the ability to not use one that impacts their enjoyment of the game. If it's too much work to separate out, they can say that and it's perfectly understandable. But I've seen people being really rude about that, too.
anyway, I've already typed too much about it, I just don't like seeing all these people having a problem that I shared shut down like that and nobody else seemed to want to put the words in.
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