Congenital Overhaul v2.0

Right, so intelligence is modeled after polygenic inheritance (not entirely biologically accurate, but works well lol.) As are height, attractiveness, and strength. (The other traits, deformities, are activated through recessive allele pairs, aabb so on, which uses a slightly different model.)



So if you are using 3 allele pairs, then you have 7 levels depending on the number of dominant alleles. 

So.. yeah I do think fitting 12 traits into the 7 levels will be.. difficult. I'm using 6 (+1 for none.) I think 8 would be fine. 12 is probably too much. 

My intention for adding a tier to each trait group was so that the player could better see the system in action. Marrying two geniuses would often result in a non-quick or non-genius child, and for balance reasons I could not change the occurrence of quick and genius. Hence I added bright, so the player could still get feedback that yeah, the child still has the genius genes.

More levels would reflect this even better. But 12 levels would mean you would have to fit that in the 7 gene possibilities. Definitely doable, but you'll end up having to use random lists to determine whether someone is genius level 2 or level 1 (for example). So ultimately its just a random choice between the two, and not really dependent on genes. 

You could add another allele pair. Not only would that mean you could fit in your 12 traits, it would make the inheritance system last another several generations. However, you would have to code a lot more so I would not advise it. 

So yeah, my advice is just use 8 levels. I mean, the standard deviation used for IQ scores is 15 points, and 160+ IQ is basically the highest reliably measured point anyway and is 1/30,000 rarity. (not that IQ = intelligence, but the distribution is probably similar.)

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when can we expect the update

I always seem to check this right when you respond haha. Feels like I'm doing the same thing as I did with the Holy Fury update. I really appreciate you working on this. It means a lot to players like me and I honestly would feel very lacking without this submod. I'm holding off on playing until it is done because it's just too important to me. Thanks for your hard work.

So it's 6am and time for bed basically, but gonna take a quick minute for an update

Like 99.99999999% of event files are completed. 2 remain unedited...
valyrian_steel_events.txt
birth_events.txt

valyrian_steel_event I need to rewrite the reforging stuff which won't take long. They changed the style format of a couple things so just need to do a couple tweaks to the stuff from CO to fit and squeeze in.
birth_events is a bit more difficult as I haven't fully decided what kind of changes to do it if any. Maybe put allele requirements for certain trait changes that can take place in it's scripts.

There are also 89 other event files that need a quick cruise through to see if they've changed/modified them so that I need to touch them, do a quick peruse to check if other files have had changes that need to get a little bit of touch ups... Update a few of the history files (IE: Tyrion into dwarf_2 and make sure siblings get the update to hate dwarf_2 sibling instead of dwarf.. Very minor stuff).

And then get improved genetics tweaked for CO + a couple other minor things.


As another bit of an update, I need to do a little bit of work on my car tomorrow. I thought I had fixed the leak causing water to get into my trunk but apparently not so I gotta see if I can fix that (If the water level gets too high, if I brake it goes through my back seat and soaks my rear floor GGRRRRRRR). ANNND my eldest cat who is a few months away from 19-20 is going in for a check up and depending on what the vet says may be needing to say goodbye to him. If that happens I'll be skipping the improved genetics for later because I'm already a little bit emotional over the idea already (Got him as a month old kitten).

Damn dude sorry about your cat. What is their name? 20 years is very commendable and knowing the love you probably have for them, it's been a very luxurious life. Regardless, you take care of your real life stuff first and let us know what happens, thanks dude.

crimson: Ah sorry, the "recruitment of very new officers" I meant to say "Employ a new courtier". For example...
if = {
limit = { culture = stone_dornish }
random_list = {
1 = { dynasty = 209001 }
1 = { dynasty = 209004 }
1 = { dynasty = 209010 }
1 = { dynasty = 209015 }
1 = { dynasty = 209036 }
1 = { dynasty = 209037 }
1 = { dynasty = 209038 }
1 = { dynasty = 209039 }
1 = { dynasty = 209040 }
1 = { dynasty = 209041 }
1 = { dynasty = 209042 }
1 = { dynasty = 209043 }
1 = { dynasty = 209044 }
1 = { dynasty = 209045 }
}
}
That's part of the event already, so just add in some new bits of if graphical culture high valyrian with a random list point towards alleles Of 3+ or 4+ only. This would be the option A method. Only effecting new courtiers.

Option B is basically pretty similar to option A... In fact combining the two actually might be the better option.

If you're up for tailoring it that'd be awesome! Can always do a normal release now (or at least in a few hours when the rest of the events are updated) and then provide an update later for improved genetics. I've released a version "a" a few times in the past to bring in new stuff that wasn't ready yet. Almost had to do that for the valyrian steal artifacts... Which I mean I think people maybe would've gotten a kick out of the badly made paint artifacts I would have included as placeholders lol.


Appearance
fair_2, fair_1, fair, nil, ugly, ugly_1, ugly_2

Intelligence
genius_1, genius, quick_1, quick, nil, slow, slow_1, imbecile, imbecile_1

Flexibility/Energy
agile_2, agile_1, agile, nil, lazy, lazy_1, lazy_2

Strength
strong_2, strong_1, strong, nil, weak, weak_1, weak_2

Height
tall_2, tall_1, tall, nil, dwarf, dwarf_1, dwarf_2

Fertility
fertile_2, fertile_1, fertile, nil, infertile, infertile_1, infertile_2


The vocal based things...
melodious_voice_2, melodious_voice_1, melodious_voice, nil

powerful_voice_2, powerful_voice_1, powerful_voice, nil

calm_voice_2, calm_voice_1, calm_voice, nil

stutter_2, stutter_1, stutter, nil

lisp_2, lisp_1, lisp, nil

mute

Vocal based stuff I've got a bit of an ambitious idea... So using the same allele voc_AABBCC (for example) on all. 6 alleles (30% for calm_voice) (15% for calm_voice_1) (5% for calm_voice_2), 5 alleles (20% for calm_voice), (5% for calm_voice_1) then jump to 1 allele (20% for stutter), (5% for stutter_1) and no allele (30% for stutter), (15% for stutter_1), (5% for stutter_2).
If character has fair/fair_1/fair_2 then they can get melodious_voice. If character has strong/strong_1/strong_2 then they can get powerful_voice. If character has none of the fair/strong then they can get calm_voice. Maybe tie stutter or lisp into the intelligence based traits (slow/slow_1/imbecile/imbecile_1)... And if a character has "mute" then they have a 0% chance of any voice traits.


die55542: His name is or should say was Stripe. Just got a phone call about 10 minutes ago saying that it's time I'm functional but my eyes have been leaking at random.