Hang on a minute, I think this is spiralling out of control a little bit....

I have played all the VVs a lot of times. That means that I know how all the puzzles end, what the collectibles look like, which stuff to buy first so they all don't die from no food......so I need ways to keep me interested every time I play, to play the game differently and not just go through the motions.

I have done the marrying off thing, keeping track of family trees - I love that, seeing generations of people living together, and trying to get the chief to be from the same family.

Like I said in my original, original post :P, all that's happening is brown + brown = brown, blonde + blonde = blonde, I never said I was trying to achieve 'perfection', or actually trying to achieve Anything in fact. All I'm doing is putting people together and see who comes out in the end.

I also agree with Lurkily, sometimes you can end up with a tribe of all the same men and women because they have a more likely combination (the "somewhere in the middle" people on the averages scale), I do like to have a varied tribe with lots of different people.

I don't see why people are now saying things about control issues, or self esteem issues (?!!!), it's Just A Game to me, I have fun with it and I will continue to have fun with it because I think it's cute, and different every time even after the umpteenth time. I don't think one colour hair is better than another, I don't have any preference for certain villagers per se, I think they're all as cute as each other! (even the one I called ugly hehehe!)

I'll say it again, a game forum isn't really the place for people's issues with genetics in the real world. These are pixellated characters, not real people, and if you think about it really and truly - the "genetics" thing on Virtual Villagers, is really an exercise in mathematics rather than genetic engineering, control or self esteem!