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[Seagoon]

Basically at the moment all we can do is have a setup where every single FEMALE can birth any other caste with the only control being a population ratio.

I would like to see this expanded so that the [FEMALE] tag becomes somthing more like this :

[FEMALE:CASTE1:10:CASTE2:100:CASTE3:1 ...... ]

Basically the female tage contains a list of different castes that it can give birth to along with a number for each which is what the [POP_RATIO] tag is currently.

[Dirst]

I like this idea, but if we're going to open things up then we might as well go all the way and let the father's caste have an impact as well.  For your example, it would be pulled out of the FEMALE tag to something like:

[OFFSPRING:ALL:CASTE1:10:CASTE2:100:CASTE3:1 ...... ]

But you could also do something like:

[CASTE:ALPHA_FEMALE]
[FEMALE]
[OFFSPRING:ALPHA_MALE:ALPHA_MALE:100:ALPHA_FEMALE:100:BETA_MALE:5:BETA_FEMALE:5]
[OFFSPRING:BETA_MALE:ALPHA_MALE:5:ALPHA_FEMALE:5:BETA_MALE:100:BETA_FEMALE:100]
...

[CASTE:BETA_FEMALE]
[FEMALE]
[OFFSPRING:ALPHA_MALE:ALPHA_MALE:5:ALPHA_FEMALE:5:BETA_MALE:100:BETA_FEMALE:100]
[OFFSPRING:BETA_MALE:ALPHA_MALE:1:ALPHA_FEMALE:1:BETA_MALE:100:BETA_FEMALE:100]
...

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

And how about disallowing particular combinations of castes from reproducing, with an optional tag of [INFERTILE_MARRIAGES:0 to 100], where the number is the chance that a particular nonfertile love relationship will become a marriage.

[GoblinCookie]

This is basically a means to make castes potentially hereditary, wonder though if it would be too memory intensive for the game to manage or something....

[milo christiansen]

Considering the game already models simple genetics, no, this would not be too hard.

+1 for the idea. It would make certain kinds of creatures much more realistic.