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[soul4hdwn]

so this is a bit awkward, i read on wiki the explanation of ORIENTATION tag.  i'm led to wonder what happens if MALE has MALE:0:1:0 and FEMALE:0:0:1

this implies gay whatevers that only marry opposite sex based on information about the three ratio slots.

i'm posting in general as i'm not asking about modding (thats later) but wondering how game behaves.

[utunnels]

Well I believe it is not all ORIENTATION that matters.
I had two dorfs who had right age and orientation, yet after decades of gameplay their relationship didn't even become friendly term.

[Eldin00]

I interpreted the 3 possible values for each gender as 'no romantic/sexual interest', 'romantic/sexual interest, but unwilling to commit long-term', and 'romantic/sexual interest, and willing to commit long term'. After all, even with the default values, every dwarf gets only one of the three values for each gender, meaning that if 'willing to marry' doesn't imply love, then ALL marriages are already potentially loveless. With the values you suggest, you end up with all male dwarves willing to get into romantic relationships with either gender, but only willing to marry females.

And utunnels is correct that 2 dwarves having the correct orientation/age doesn't guarantee that they will eventually get married. There's a progression of acquaintance->friend->lover->spouse, and if any step in that progression fails to happen, they never get to the later steps.