Is it possible to impose gender limits on certain leadership roles?
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Don't recommend searching for male Asari though on Google, as an example of what is missing. Some people have... Explicitly made their own versions.
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Pretty sure gender is purely cosmetic. Besides, this is the kind of feature that, if implemented, is a PR land mine waiting to go off.
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Because space slavery and space genocide is totally cool for PR.
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If there's going to be two genders I also want the possibility to have a race that only has one gender, or three, or more, the possibility to switch between the genders on-the-fly and the possibility to be a hermaphrodite. Because reasons.
But honestly the gender doesn't matter. We only see an image of some strange lifeform that could be any or all of what I wrote before.
But honestly the gender doesn't matter. We only see an image of some strange lifeform that could be any or all of what I wrote before.
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Different Strokes for different folks, I suppose.
I will heed your advice. I've never let my curiosity tempt madness. Read way to much Lovecraft to know where that leads.
I don't see the people that would be offended as the sort of people that would buy the game in the first place.
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Honestly. Speaking specifically about the restriction of gender roles, rather than the removal of a binary gender formula, there shouldn't be much of a problem.
If you are able to create a completely patriarchal society, or matriarchal, or say that only females can be military leaders, while science is in the hands of males. You are making up a completely fictional race, even if that race happens to bare a human face.
Honestly, I think the addition of anything like this can add to the game. Add War Goals revolving around it, could be interesting.
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I personally want to roleplay LOTS of all kind of scfi stereotypes, no matter my personal values, I will go to extremes to play each as true to original as possible.
I don't know how many others will try the same but I'm not only one.
Sure based on portraits we can't notice difference between alien males and females, and even in some alien names.
But I'm sure Emperor Mercedes Romero doesn't sound right, right?
Then why don't we get ability to change titles and Empress Mercedes Romero can finally be happy.
That trick might work, until my HUMAN Empress (insert_female_name) looks like a guy. <- that's a major immersion breaker!
So I repeat best solution I saw so far, probably make it policy with purely cosmetic effect:
Strongly Matriarchal: only females can rule and be leaders(so every position will be female) <- maybe your species doesn't have other gender
Lightly Matriarchal: only females can rule(only the empire's ruler is female, all other positions are open to both men and women) <- maybe you are a space bug with a Queen because that has never been done before
Equality: both men and women can rule <- maybe you are PC
Lightly Patriarchical: only males can rule(only the empire's ruler is male, all other positions are open to both men and women) <- maybe you are a bit sexist
Strongly Patriarchal: only males can rule and be leaders(so every position will be male) <- maybe you never left the Middle Ages
There is like 0.08% chance of something like this being in game on release day, but I have great hope that something affecting gender roles to help people roleplay vast possibilities of space comes in some future patch.
I don't know how many others will try the same but I'm not only one.
Sure based on portraits we can't notice difference between alien males and females, and even in some alien names.
But I'm sure Emperor Mercedes Romero doesn't sound right, right?
Then why don't we get ability to change titles and Empress Mercedes Romero can finally be happy.
That trick might work, until my HUMAN Empress (insert_female_name) looks like a guy. <- that's a major immersion breaker!
So I repeat best solution I saw so far, probably make it policy with purely cosmetic effect:
Strongly Matriarchal: only females can rule and be leaders(so every position will be female) <- maybe your species doesn't have other gender
Lightly Matriarchal: only females can rule(only the empire's ruler is female, all other positions are open to both men and women) <- maybe you are a space bug with a Queen because that has never been done before
Equality: both men and women can rule <- maybe you are PC
Lightly Patriarchical: only males can rule(only the empire's ruler is male, all other positions are open to both men and women) <- maybe you are a bit sexist
Strongly Patriarchal: only males can rule and be leaders(so every position will be male) <- maybe you never left the Middle Ages
There is like 0.08% chance of something like this being in game on release day, but I have great hope that something affecting gender roles to help people roleplay vast possibilities of space comes in some future patch.
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Wow thats an amazing point
Because pretending is so easy when your Space Drows that sacrifice their men to Lolth have a queen called Richard... The problem is really that it breaks the immersion into the story, which in fact makes it harder to pretend.
If you do not feel like adding anything to the discussion but still think that this is not something the devs should use their time on say that instead of attacking the idea itself.
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Aren't name list profession specific (from the dev diary on that thing)? You can probably build things to follow any type of rule you want. For cast like system like in India, to gender specific things. That's actually assume you can make out what the name you use mean. You are able to choose your name list, so just don't pick the one you made.
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Warrior cast names ends by 'h Xrhtht'h Asqdkkf'h
Scientific cast ends by 'y etc....
Only things I see missing would be using different portrait sets based on profession. If not in yet, may come in the Hive Mind DLC ^^. And no need to restrict it to gender binary thing, the mechanism could be more generic and apply to all sort of distinction. I remember an SF book where people had been genetically engineered over centuries to fit a certain profession/role in society, that could be fun too.
e.g.
Warrior cast names ends by 'h Xrhtht'h Asqdkkf'h
Scientific cast ends by 'y etc....
Only things I see missing would be using different portrait sets based on profession. If not in yet, may come in the Hive Mind DLC ^^. And no need to restrict it to gender binary thing, the mechanism could be more generic and apply to all sort of distinction. I remember an SF book where people had been genetically engineered over centuries to fit a certain profession/role in society, that could be fun too.
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From Johan's example, that does not seem to be the case, but his is just one example.
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