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[King Kitteh]

I have yet again, another conundrum with my Animal People mod.

My mod functions by having one animal person civ, with a ton of different [CREATURE:] tokens to give diversity. However this seems to generate a new civ for every creature in the list, instead of randomly selecting an animal person each time a civ is needed (like I hoped it would). That results in having 13 or so animal civs and only several goblin/elf/human/dwarf civs. 

I want there to be the same ratio of animal person civs to other civs, but still keep the diversity of animal people.

How can I do this?

[Tiler]

You can limit the amount of civs that are generated from the MAX_STARTING_CIV_NUMBER entity token to some low amount. Of course the value you set would have to depend on what kind of map you usually generate, since a number meant for a pocket world would be very small if you then went and generated a large world.

[King Kitteh]

You can limit the amount of civs that are generated from the MAX_STARTING_CIV_NUMBER entity token to some low amount. Of course the value you set would have to depend on what kind of map you usually generate, since a number meant for a pocket world would be very small if you then went and generated a large world.

Yeah, I thought about that option, but it's unviable for the reasons you've stated, I'd like to explore all my options first. 


I've had the idea of putting all the animal people into one creatue, with a bunch of castes for each animal person. The problem there would be crossbreeding and nonsensical births, (two creatures of different species creating yet another different species). If I could somehow limit what caste they marry, and then again, what caste they give birth to, that would fix this whole problem.

I know that castes with no maxage will not marry castes with it, but I don't want half of them to be immortal, plus that still wouldn't solve the whole issue of different caste babbies.

[King Kitteh]

Nevermind, I found a rather unelegant solution.

I just weighted all the other civs with more [CREATURE:] tokens so that the animal men were evened out.

Thanks anyway 

[Tiler]

oh, thats fairly clever, actually. nicely done.