As in the real world, women cannot have babies later on in life. Men on the other hand are still able to procreate. Such is with the VV games. Women stop having babies after a set age, 50, while the men can still help increase the population despite their age.

What is the reasons for why inbreeding happen?

-Gene pool not large enough?
-Villagers seemingly embrace at random regardless of relativity?

Any other reasons?

yes!

Marriage might solve the "Villagers seemingly embrace at random"

But I think marriage is very confusing...

What will the married couple's children do?

Note, "Johnny" and "Turner" are last name.

Bass Johnny and Tuna Johnny have a boy called Sam Johnny.
Cook Turner and Soda Turner have a girl called Cola Turner.

Sam and Soda grow up and married, had a new surname Coral.

Sam Coral and Soda Coral have two children called Tita and Mua Coral...

Tita and Mua grow up.

Who would they marry?

It's really confusing for me.

I don't see any problem with the way it is now, I think people are just taking it too seriously. Besides, in the beginning when you first start your tribe the little subtitle says "If you're lucky the stork will bring a baby." Or something like that. The STORK.

Will it be hard to program villagers running away, when they are embraced by...

-Father
-Mother
-Sister
-Brother
-Uncle
-Cousin....

I don't have problems with inbreeding in VV games, but other people do.

I'm just suggesting some ideas.

I'm with Melanoma 100%. This is a game people!! Just like TV, it is not real and it's certainly not the place to debate issues of morality. The developers have done a great job with the procreation issue to make it accepable for any age to play. Solution?????? Go back to not listing the parentage and be done with it---what does it matter anyway?? Like everyone else, I am mainly interested in "bodies!" in the beginning of the game so that my tech points increase before the villagers all starve to death--it doesn't matter to me who begets whom---I'll take them any way I can get them. I hope that this doesn't offend anyone but the reality is that this is a game and should be played and enjoyed in that context. Let our LDW people get on with VV4 and do what they do best!! My thanks to all of them for many many hours of fun!!

And I think it's great!

The stork idea is good. Maybe villagers could petition the chief to summon a stork? When my little daughter (6yrs) played VV2 she would ask what was going on during kissing and why were they going in the hut. I would tell her they wanted a baby and would go in the hut to see if a stork left one for them.

And, just doing away with parentage could help. I use the parents when I'm trying to get a particular look of villager...but I never seem to hit the mark...sigh

Great ideas!

I was concerned that this would turn into something other than what was intended by bethlham. This thread was for constructive suggestions only, not for continuing the debate about moral relationships in VV games. I will leave this thread open for suggestions (for now). Any more posts discussing the morality aspects of making baby decals in VV will be deleted and will result in the locking of this thread.