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Non-Binary Gender
Joanne 13 Dec, 2023 @ 7:15am
Sexuality Handling Suggestions :)
"Currently, non-binary people can only be bisexual or asexual. I welcome suggestions for better ways to handle this."

How do gay pawns treat non-binary pawns in this mod currently out of curiosity?

Anyway here's my suggestion in the form of an anecdote from using the previous version of non-binary gender.

So the way I have found that mod works (in practice with my huge modlist and an outdated mod anyway) is that it defaults to a binary gender for sexuality without showing it. This is problematic for I think obvious reasons but the side affect in relationships is actually surprisingly useful. Binary gay pawns would be attracted to some but not all non-binary people and a non-binary pawn could be gay and attracted to men or gay and attracted to women. Maybe this isn't the best solution but I found that in practice that actually generated more realistically diverse relationships than treating all non-binary pawns as a single 3rd gender.

I guess the thing is that queer reality is not monolithic and rimworld traits definitionally are, so it makes sense to simplify as you have but here's some ideas I guess :)

I'm up for criticism on this bc it is messy, but honestly I'm just happy to see this mod getting any attention at all. My only other request is I would love this to work in conjunction with way better romance (or sexuality traits but that seems abandoned)
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divineDerivative  [developer] 13 Dec, 2023 @ 8:23am 
Originally posted by Joanne:
How do gay pawns treat non-binary pawns in this mod currently out of curiosity?
The code checks are essentially, gay: not allowed if genders are different, straight: not allowed if genders are the same, bi: always allowed. So I think that would mean a non-binary person could be a valid target for a straight person, but I honestly never tested it.

Originally posted by Joanne:
My only other request is I would love this to work in conjunction with way better romance (or sexuality traits but that seems abandoned)
Taking over this mod was the first step for compatibility with Way Better Romance. No timeline though, since some of the ideas I have might not work out.
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