Odd Gender Ratios

[moghopper]

Something odd is going on, I am getting a really weird ratio of women to men. I'm getting around six women to one man.

I have tried starting multiple games and it this keeps happening. Any idea what is going on and how I can get it to a 1 to 1 ratio?

[shinr]

RNG decided to give more women than men several times in the row?

[Falko]

weird
this is the only part in the code i could find in regard to gender creation

Code: [Select]

_gender = (SoldierGender)RNG::generate(0, 1);
_look = (SoldierLook)RNG::generate(0,3);the ruleset has

Code: [Select]

soldiers:
  - type: XCOM
#...
    genderRatio: [3, 1]but this number is never used at least as far as i can see

[Warboy1982]

lucky guys

[Hobbes]

lucky guys

I like working with women but being in a place with a 1 to 6 gender ratio wouldn't be exactly my dream job...

[SupSuper]

weird
this is the only part in the code i could find in regard to gender creation

Code: [Select]

_gender = (SoldierGender)RNG::generate(0, 1);
_look = (SoldierLook)RNG::generate(0,3);the ruleset has

Code: [Select]

soldiers:
  - type: XCOM
#...
    genderRatio: [3, 1]but this number is never used at least as far as i can see

It's always been a 50:50 ratio. I have no idea where the ruleset thing comes from because it has no effect.

[Mackus]

It's always been a 50:50 ratio. I have no idea where the ruleset thing comes from because it has no effect.

Well, this would explain why when I tried to modify the ratio game ignored any changes.

[Dioxine]

There's lookWeights line in the .nam files, but it's only for skin color, not gender.

I've always thought the gender ratio was something like 2:1 in favor of men, at least that's what I've been constantly getting in the original.

[Solarius Scorch]

There's lookWeights line in the .nam files, but it's only for skin color, not gender.

I've always thought the gender ratio was something like 2:1 in favor of men, at least that's what I've been constantly getting in the original.

The latest nightly makes it customizable. Default is 3:1.

[Warboy1982]

default is 1:1, xcom1ruleset makes it 3:1, we're not gender biased, vanilla ruleset is.
these ratios can also be overridden by the .nam files, so recruits from the planet amazonia can have a 100% female ratio.

[Solarius Scorch]

default is 1:1, xcom1ruleset makes it 3:1, we're not gender biased, vanilla ruleset is.

Ugh, sorry. I... didn't think this through.

[darkestaxe]

default is 1:1, xcom1ruleset makes it 3:1, we're not gender biased, vanilla ruleset is.
these ratios can also be overridden by the .nam files, so recruits from the planet amazonia can have a 100% female ratio.

Just in case there's still some confusion for other readers: Warboy is saying that vanilla x-com had a 1:3 ratio (1/4 female and 3/4 male) and Openxcom also has a 1:3 ratio now (in the ruleset).

If you remove the 1:3 ratio rule from the ruleset then Openxcom's engine will default to 1:1 (1/2 Male and 1/2 Female) because Openxcom isn't sexist, only vanilla x-com and the default ruleset.

Also .nam files give name-sets for different countries and modders can add new .nam files for new countries too. A .nam file can be set to have it's own gender ratio, for example if someone added Planet Amazonia they would want all soldiers with Amazonia names to be female.

[Warboy1982]

yes, that's it exactly, darkestaxe. thanks for clarifying.

[Sturm]

If you remove the 1:3 ratio rule from the ruleset then Openxcom's engine will default to 1:1 (1/2 Male and 1/2 Female) because Openxcom isn't sexist, only vanilla x-com and the default ruleset.

It's not "sexist" since it doesn't ban women from X-Com. Though it could be accused of pandering to fantasies as it would be pretty hard to find 1:3 women to men ratio in elite combat units, not to speak of the tiny percentage of female recruits that would actually get through physical tests.

[Warboy1982]

well, i'll be honest, i'm not really WORRIED about being accused of being sexist or misogynistic in any way, but shall we not go down this route of discussion? we all know where it leads.