jbehnken
Member
Quite often, I've given a new child a male name and end up getting a female photo. Or vice versa.
Recommend announcing the sex and/or picture of the child (adopted or new born) in the screen where you actually create the new family member. That way you can assign an appropriate name instead of having to keep thinking up androgynous names. :)
John
GambitNaomi
Member
Not only can gay couples give birth, so can unmarried heroes. So it's probably going to be fixed eventually.
Though I also like the idea that it means the hero had a bastard child that they decided to acknowledge. Of course, that should probably have political repercussions...
Given that heroes presently can conceive at will, never have accidental pregnancies or suffer from infant mortality, mpreg probably isn't too much of a stretch... (okay, okay, I assume this will get sorted out once spouses are more than placeholders. Insisting on the relative reproductive abilities of boy-shaped cardboard cut-outs and girl-shaped cardboard cut-outs seems a bit premature.)
I totally agree that most players are going to want to know gender before they name children, particularly since existing hero names conform (more or less) to Euro expectations of how suffixes connote gender. (Odds are you're not going to be calling any boys Lelia.) The alternative would be to pick culturally appropriate names from a library, which would work against player involvement a bit (Urist who?) but would reinforce the implied culture.
Woodsy
Member
The staff's definitely aware of the homosexual couple having blood babies issue (this is mentioned in the readme, I believe). Personally, I name all of my children after trees and don't really care if Spruce is a he or a she, but I can definitely see where it may be helpful later on in the game, if not a top priority fix.
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