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Warlord255

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Gender Selection at Embark?
« on: September 21, 2008, 12:01:58 am »

Is there any way I can tweak the probabilities for female dwarves? Namely, turn them off for embark?

I'm going for various feral-dwarf builds which require maximum testosterone for optimal brutality.
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Re: Gender Selection at Embark?
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2008, 01:57:35 am »

Only way I know is by way of 're-rolling', or aborting and selecting the site once again for embarkation until you get what you want.  Speaking of which, I would really like a way to have my starting dwarves regenerated without having to go through that..
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Re: Gender Selection at Embark?
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2008, 02:48:45 am »

Make the dwarves all male in the raws.

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Re: Gender Selection at Embark?
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2008, 03:13:17 am »

You could make them all males, embark, and them turn them back to both male and female.
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Re: Gender Selection at Embark?
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2008, 04:04:38 am »

Notice that in world-gen your dwarves will be only few (so stop gen at year 1 or 2). And keep your mental clear of gay, hairy dwarves.
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Re: Gender Selection at Embark?
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2008, 04:11:30 am »

Does it just randomly generate embark groups? Because if it did you could have both genders in, and then just turn off females for the brief period of embarking before turning it back on.
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Re: Gender Selection at Embark?
« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2008, 10:44:05 am »

My way that I would do it:

-generate the world
-give your species the [MALE] token
-embark
-save
-remove the [MALE] token

see if this works... in (my) theory, it should.
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Re: Gender Selection at Embark?
« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2008, 11:23:46 am »

You can also use Dwarf Companion to change everyone's gender to male after embark. They will end with female names, but you can change names too.
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Re: Gender Selection at Embark?
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2008, 01:47:51 pm »

You can also use Dwarf Companion to change everyone's gender to male after embark. They will end with female names, but you can change names too.

There is spefic female names? I haven't noticed.
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Re: Gender Selection at Embark?
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2008, 04:19:29 pm »

You can also use Dwarf Companion to change everyone's gender to male after embark. They will end with female names, but you can change names too.

There is spefic female names? I haven't noticed.
People think so, but I haven't seen any raws proof of it.
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