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Equal Age Disparity
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Equal Age Disparity

Description
Did you know that in vanilla RimWorld, there is a mechanic that causes male colonists to prefer dating younger people and female colonists to prefer dating older people? It's not a rule or guarantee by any means, but the mechanic does skew romance in that direction.

This mod removes the gendered skew and makes all colonists have equal preference for both younger and older partners.



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06/17/2025: Update to 1.6

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32 Comments
ephemeraltoast 27 Jul @ 11:44pm 
Okay, I have found a claim that the gender imbalance in romance attempts is "now fixed in the base game": https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3003882069 I'm no coder so I can't check myself, but I thought I should mention it in case I sent you on a wild goose chase :P
1trickPwnyta  [author] 25 Jul @ 2:50pm 
@Nowhere This mod shouldn't cause any issues with other mods. I don't know if Way Better Romance has this feature.
Nowhere 25 Jul @ 2:17pm 
Do you know if this is compatible/redundant with Way Better Romance? I know that mod incorporates Ladies Can Flirt Too and this resolves a similar annoyance with vanilla romance.
ephemeraltoast 14 Jul @ 8:38pm 
Uh yeah there are a lot of unfortunate choices in the romance system to say the least. Very happy there are mods like this one to clean them up.
1trickPwnyta  [author] 13 Jul @ 10:14am 
@ephemeraltoast Oh dear God, I wasn't aware that was also a thing. Not exactly surprised though, unfortunately. I'll look into it but it might be a while before I get a chance. Thanks!
ephemeraltoast 13 Jul @ 8:26am 
Hi, does this mod address the apparent imbalance in romance attempts from female or bisexual pawns? I've been using Ladies Can Flirt Too to fix it (and the age issue) but it hasn't been updated in quite a while and I'm looking for something else that will do the job.
zakuro 1 Jul @ 1:45pm 
Where are the GILFs enjoyers at
hybrex 18 Jun @ 10:41am 
never had this happen if anything it was the opposite older female pawns going after younger male pawns
Wraith_Magus 15 Apr @ 1:14pm 
It has a lot to do with money, although other cultural factors, especially polygamy, will skew it. It's almost a crisis in polygamous cultures, because older men tend to have all the money while younger men are still trying to finish education or are only in starting jobs or just plain haven't inherited daddy's fortune yet. As a book on the subject I read put it, "Throughout most of history, it was better for a woman to be lonely and ignored as a fourth wife of a rich old man than to watch her child starve to death as the only wife of a poor young man." The result is a bunch of horny young men and no available women except prostitutes, and prostitution is more common in such cultures. Things are rather different in cultures where women can work, although they also tend to marry later, so the single young men to women ratio is more even, even if marriage rates at that age aren't high.
Glodenteoo 2 Feb @ 12:51pm 
@Nekosempei It's supposedly a modern American statistic, but all the actual studies I could find in my five minutes of googling seemed to say that both men and women preferred dating younger with no external factors (money). I'm sure money plays a big part in the stigma though lol