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[Putnam]

Oh, yeah, and eye color, and ear length, and nose bridge convexity, and...

Seriously, everyone in a civilization looks freaking identical once you gen long enough.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Again, not to those extremes.
It's better now than with some really big differences in each civ. In our modern, ethnically integrated world, it can be easy to forget that most of the world had very similar-looking people at any given area.

[RenoFox]

Regardless of realism, there ought to be a way to override the genetics in things that shouldnt be homogenous, if even dependent on genetics at all.

If I remember correctly, hair- and facial hairstyles are hardcoded and therefore independent of genetics. Being able to mod similarly random appearance modifiers with raws would be what many custom races require.

[assasin]

remember correctly, hair- and facial hairstyles are hardcoded and therefore independent of genetics. Being able to mod similarly random appearance modifiers with raws would be what many custom races require

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if you're using basic high school genetics I don't see it much of problem to add a bit more complexity. You can have castes so why not separate alleles. So to create a gene or whatever you define its effect as broadly or narrowly as you'd like. For example, for hair you'd select the tissue hair, add tags for colour, material, etc. if you want variation you could create a bunch of these and assign a number to each gene. Higher is would be dominant to lower numbers. so if you wanted to create a race with genetic variance in what metal makes up the flesh you'd make a separate gene for each metal and list them under the heading for that trait.