Message from @ThePoshBarbarian

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2018-09-25 12:14:20 UTC  

can't remember the name

2018-09-25 12:25:59 UTC  

o shit

2018-09-25 12:26:38 UTC  

who dat ?

2018-09-25 12:36:34 UTC  

@ThePoshBarbarian I did research? Its news, the event is a game a few years old suddenly getting review bombed. Looking at the reviews, they blame female generals where they are not supposed to be, suddenly and out of the blue, or the CM's response. It being overblown in a patter of opinion. Believing Kotaku's take is anything other than hot garbage is on you, its just the first i saw reporting on it, then linked the steam page to confirm that yes: they are review bombing and blaming random female generals and the CM's response.

2018-09-25 12:37:06 UTC  

okay

2018-09-25 12:37:13 UTC  

sorry bout that then

2018-09-25 12:37:29 UTC  

i've just seen enough people lying about this whole thing

2018-09-25 12:37:36 UTC  

it's just pissing me off

2018-09-25 12:37:41 UTC  

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2018-09-25 12:41:21 UTC  

understandable

2018-09-25 13:37:10 UTC  

@ThePoshBarbarian
this seems like it might have been what makes people see a much higher female general rate than what the spawn tables suggest. Idk how accurate this is since i don't play the game: "The reason for the frequency of female generals despite the low pool rate is that all wives of male characters in factions which have female generals can then be generals, which means that they get far more women than they receive as candidates. This is likely also how the screenshot which shows all women candidates for generalship was created. In reality, all of these candidates are likely the numerous wives of his male characters."

found that in the comments of the video you linked

2018-09-25 13:37:37 UTC  

only for certain factions

2018-09-25 13:37:43 UTC  

barbarians

2018-09-25 13:37:57 UTC  

egypt, and the african-arabian factions

2018-09-25 13:38:12 UTC  

but yeah that is accurate

2018-09-25 13:38:22 UTC  

if you play pure vanilla

2018-09-25 13:41:22 UTC  

i mean i play mostly heavily modded, i tested it out to be sure, with pure vanilla

2018-09-25 13:41:27 UTC  

that seems like it might lead to some issues when playing the game, where even in factions where such generals were somewhat rare, you can unintentionally (or intentionally) end up with a female dominated forced. Which might be some-what immersion breaking. Sounds more like an unintended bug than a feature.

2018-09-25 13:42:18 UTC  

not entirely

2018-09-25 13:42:40 UTC  

unless you willingly just choose men as your candidates and statesmen

2018-09-25 13:43:00 UTC  

you should never be able to just get females

2018-09-25 13:43:15 UTC  

dominated is not only females

2018-09-25 13:43:24 UTC  

unless the RNJesus is against you

2018-09-25 13:43:36 UTC  

RNJesus is always against you, lets be honest lol

2018-09-25 13:43:41 UTC  

yup

2018-09-25 13:43:57 UTC  

however you can choose to not employ them

2018-09-25 13:44:33 UTC  

and, i will say that i'd prefer if CA had not left it to the modders to disable the option

2018-09-25 13:44:41 UTC  

it's bloody fucking common sense

2018-09-25 13:45:03 UTC  

adding an option to disable them in game

2018-09-25 13:45:15 UTC  

and get accused of being sexist?

2018-09-25 13:45:16 UTC  

lol

2018-09-25 13:45:28 UTC  

lets face it, its how things would play out. neither side would be happy

2018-09-25 13:46:12 UTC  

true

2018-09-25 13:46:44 UTC  

but it would've been easier to "debate" the detractors in that case

2018-09-25 13:46:47 UTC  

guess they could have added "disable males too":

2018-09-25 13:46:48 UTC  

Know what they could have did?

2018-09-25 13:46:53 UTC  

Sorry, it was a bug.

2018-09-25 13:47:00 UTC  

but still it seems like "all wives of male characters in factions which have female generals can then be generals" seems like a real quick way to take a like a 10% spawn rate and make it easily feel like 30% or higher.

2018-09-25 13:47:04 UTC  

But heres a setting that allows you to set it if you want it "realistic"

2018-09-25 13:47:35 UTC  

i don't think its much of a debate to call to CM an idiot who probably should be pulled from PR