[CF-Devel] Female characters

[Mark Wedel]

Jari Petter Sundell wrote:
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      Ever considered adding the gender to the game? There have been female
     
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      (atleast that entity claimed to be one) players complaining about only
     
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      being able to select male characters.
     
     
 I will note that in fact, you don't select gender in crossfire.

 For some classes, hard to tell any difference (a male or female fighter would
still be called a fighter, but there is obviously a difference between priest
and priestess).

 Changing this is a moderate amount of work (would need to add something to the
archetype to specify the alternate name, and then add some code at character
creation to select the sex, as well as something in the player structure to
record what sex the character is).  This is presuming that for all other
purposes, the two sexes are equal (eg, male don't have a higher maximum strength
or anything).  If someone wants to tackle this, fine by me - I can more or less
say what it would take to do so, but this is fairly low on my priority list.

 However, the above changes do not start to address any messages that may be in
the maps that contain a gender reference.  I'm not sure in fact that there are
any (I would think they would typically be like 'you should go do X and Y').