More Female Generals
Hey everyone, made a mod in an attempt to increase the ratio of males to females in the game. This is my first, quick, shotgun solution to the issue, since the character generation system is pretty complex and not as easy as just changing a couple of ratio’s.
DISCLAIMER: I’m going to keep saying this, but this mod in it’s current state might create some issues with character spawning. If you notice anything really weird with the character spawning, please report it in the mod comments! It’s pretty hard to test this stuff alone, as I have to play dozens of turns to test everytime I change something. So any feedback helps!
Be aware that it will take a few turns for you to really see the effect of this mod. This is because a ton of male characters are spawned at the start of the game, via startpos. I’m hesitant to mess with the startpos spawning of characters, since that could cause this mod to have serious issues running alongside other mods. So you should only really notice the female spawn rate ramping up at around turn 20-30+.
So what does this mod do?
Unspecifically, it causes you to see more female generals in your campaigns, currently at the expense of a ton of the male characters. I’m decently confident that I can make a compromise where I can keep in most of the male characters without compromising the amount of either gender’s spawn rate, but for now this is just my quick, shotgun way of doing things.
Specifically, i’ve just deleted a ton of the male character entries in the campaign_group_character_generation_templates table, along with increasing the weight for spawning the game’s generic female generals. Right now (again, this isn’t my ideal solution but rather my quickest) i’ve deleted all of the male character spawns for generic Commanders, Sentinels, and Strategists. In addition, i’ve deleted almost every male historical character spawn (this doesn’t include legendary unique characters, or at least it shouldn’t). Almost all of these are random dudes who I guess got like a single name drop in RotK or the Records.
My eventual goal with this is to have two versions of this mod, one for all females (no males, with new female Vanguard and Sentinel generals), and one for a 50/50 ratio that doesn’t require me to delete anyone out of the game. I think both should be possible, it’ll just take me some time to make them.
If you notice anything weird (you probably will), please let me know in the comments and i’ll do my best to fix the issue!
