Jimothy's Romantic Purity Genes!

Welcome to Jimothy's Romantic Purity Genes!

Welcome to Jimothy's Romantic Purity Genes! The mod brought to you by too many cases of my non-bug people colonists banging my bug people colonists! It was funny when Nolan did it, but come on, guys, now you're all just being weird. Each of these genes affects the likelihood of romance with someone who has the gene with someone who lacks the gene. It's like the pig-nose gene, but without any visual effect, so you can come up with your own reasons for why the genes have the effects on romance that they do, be it pheromones, psychic stuff, or a cosmetic thing from another mod.

The Genes

Heads up: All of these can be circumvented with the Psychic Bonding gene. You can use multiple genes at once, ie an almost-purist and impurist gene for 40% romance chance, or half-purist and part impurist gene for 75% chance, or impurist and part-impurist for 300%. Each category of genes has 5 genes, which you can use multiple of simultaneously, such as to have more than 5 combinations of purist genes for lots of xenotypes or collections of xenotypes (2^5 = 32) that don't do romance with eachother, or to have a 25% romance chance by using two half-purist genes simultaneously. Purist 0% chance to romance or be romanced by anyone who doesn't have the exact same purity genes as them. Almost-Purist 20% as likely to romance or be romanced by anyone who doesn't have the same half-purity gene. This is the same romance value held by the pig nose gene. Half-Purist 50% as likely to romance or be romanced by anyone who doesn't have the same half-purity gene. Pure-Drawn 43% as likely to romance or be romanced by anyone who doesn't have the same gene, but also -1 to beauty. Functionally, this makes them more likely to romance / be romanced by those with the same gene (due to +1 beauty), but equally likely to get with those who lack the gene. Part Impurist 150% as likely to romance or be romanced by anyone who doesn't have the same impurist gene. Impurist 200% as likely to romance or be romanced by anyone who doesn't have the same impurist gene. Impure-Drawn 230% as likely to romance or be romanced by anyone who doesn't have the same gene, but also -1 to beauty. Functionally, this makes them less likely to romance / be romanced by those with the same gene (due to -1 beauty), but equally likely to get with those who lack the gene.

FAQ

Why no metabolism effect? I don't think the revelation that the 6-limbed bug people with faces covered in tentacles are neither attractive nor attracted to humans warrants any alteration in metabolism. Can I use this with your main genes mod, Jimothy's Genes? Yes. The purity genes in this have a different ID from those in Jimothy's Genes, so you'll actually get 10 purity genes in total, and yes you can still use them simultaneously... that makes for 1024 possible purity combinations. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3371751009 Isn't 5 genes per category a bit... excessive? Yes, but this mod is still so lightweight that it's not like that matters all that much. That said, since every little helps for those who play 700+ modpacks on potato laptops, I will likely make a "lite" version that adds just 3 lol. And an "extra" version that takes it right up to 10, just for the giggles. I'll even make them compatible with eachother, for that one guy who needs 262144 possible purity combinations. Mods that go well with this? Alpha Genes. From what I understand of the alien appearance gene, it bases opinion malus off gene-induced romance chance, so if you wanna make a bunch of purist xenotypes that hate eachother, enjoy. https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=2891845502 Outland Genetics. Currently, the Impure-drawn and Pure-drawn genes are a bit imperfect as they don't account for opinion gain/malus, but Outland Genetics has genes that affect opinion you can use. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2910172297 Obviously also Jimothy's Genes but that's linked already lol. This mod says it was posted in December, but I'm only seeing it in/after March! Left it unlisted for a long time since there were already purist genes in Jimothy's Genes. Then I got a brain blast of how to expand this mod, expanded it, made the purist genes from this compatible with those from Jimothy's Genes, and then published it. ... why are you only using the attractive gene for textures!? You did this for your traits mod too! Why!? ;) Compatibility? Should be compatible with everything, cos simple xml. If you find anything it isn't compatible with, tell me and provide a huglog so I can investigate it.

If you think I'm super cool and stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/@jimothyworldbuilding3664 Note that this channel is *NOT* Rimworld related. It's a worldbuilding channel. That said, you might notice some Rimworld-esque stuff in the worldbuilding, such as organ harvesting, war crimes, morbid hilarity and widespread cannibalism.