okay

sorry bout that then

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

it's just pissing me off

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understandable

@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

only for certain factions

barbarians

egypt, and the african-arabian factions

but yeah that is accurate

if you play pure vanilla

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

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.

not entirely

unless you willingly just choose men as your candidates and statesmen

you should never be able to just get females

dominated is not only females

unless the RNJesus is against you

RNJesus is always against you, lets be honest lol

yup

however you can choose to not employ them

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

it's bloody fucking common sense

adding an option to disable them in game

and get accused of being sexist?

lol

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

true

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

guess they could have added "disable males too":

Know what they could have did?

Sorry, it was a bug.

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.

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

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

true

though apparently the male birth rate is set to 65%

for married couples in the game

strangely enough

so that decreases the chances of female generals even more