Here is my exception 17+17=34/real #30

18+22=40 /2=20 so you'd likely get 18, 19, 20, 21, 22

I know the topic is a month old, and the post I'm replying to is even older, but I saw this and had to add my two cents . . .



I don't really see this as being that difficult; it certainly seems to be a lot to track, but all you really have to do is record the parents when each child is born, which we know the game already does. Also, it would need to reserve the data until all grandchildren die off.

When a child is born, parents are A and B, so look up the parents of A, and the parents for B to determine possible variations. When a villager dies, find its grandparents, then see if those villagers line is dead down to two generations; if so, drop the data. (This means that when generation 3 dies off, generation 1 will know it; so drop the data about generation 2's parents, since generation 4 will never use it. A little confusing, I realize.) Seeing as the sum total of a villager for the purposes of genetics is a head number, it seems like a small amount of data for even a weak computer (by today's standards) to handle. In addition, the program can generate and track this database as the villagers are born; it's not like the programmers have to program a huge, 125-villager family tree into the game, complete with blanks to be filled in, and room for 250 parents and 500 grandparents.

Granted, I kind of doubt grandparents are a factor in the deviant results; such random outcomes as we see in life would be easily replicated by occasionally using a random number generator instead of a close average. However, I don't see any difficulty in the idea at all.

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OMG! complexity (now i know why that is your name...lol)
thats amazing work! thank you

I did read this whole thread, but I want to make a question clear. Does this method work for VV3? And if so, where can you find the images file for the heads?

Yes. It's in the game's images directory; Male_heads.png and female_heads.png.

I can't seem to find it. Meh I'm probably going to need a step-by step guide to get there.

You can see instructions for VV3 here. It's the same for VV2, except for the directory, of course.

ok i read through all of the posts and I would like to know if i have a 21m and 21f would the child be a 21m or 21f? or is the range still in play if the parnets have the same head

oh yeah another thing somebody said that most tribes will end up with all brown haired ppl. um in like all my tribes all my villagers are blonde.( when i start my tribe i tend to make the eldest male look like one of my fave villagers and my faves are blonde or the starting female is blonde so my gentics end up blonde.