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Androgyne gender, Other changes.

Lasher, May 3, 2023May 3, 2023

Androgyne/Non-Binary Gender, other changes:

  • The main reason for this reboot was to clean up a lot of things with gender. Mostly the messages like “They is dead!” and a lot of the socials. I think some of the clan info messages might still be off until we review them but, other than those, if you see any messages or socials where the wording just doesn’t fit with the gender, please post them on typos. Many thanks to everyone who helped go through all the socials on the test port – it was a lot of work and a few very dedicated people got it done quickly.
  • The ‘neutral’ gender that was known as ‘genderless’ for about 5 minutes is now called ‘Androgyne’. There is a ‘help androgyne’ which explains more about why. If anyone used tpspend to genderless and really doesn’t like this new name please contact me and I will return the trivia points so you can change back.
  • 
    HELP ANDROGYNE:
    Androgyne is the Aardwolf neutral (none-binary) gender. In-game actions 
    and commands will use they/them/their pronouns for characters with this 
    gender.
    
    After adding a non-binary / neutral gender into Aardwolf, we had some fairly
    long conversations about what to call it. Neutral was too easily confused
    with Neutral alignment. We had 'genderless' for a while and it just seemed
    too bland. The Wikipedia description for 'Androgyne' fits exactly what we
    want to accomodate and also has a "kind of RPG" feel to it:
    
    "An androgyne is a person who does not fit cleanly into the typical
     gender roles of his or her society. Androgynes may identify as beyond
     gender, between genders, moving across genders, entirely genderless, or 
     any combination or all of these. Androgyne identities include pangender,
     bigender, ambigender, nongendered, agender, gender fluid, or intergender.
     Androgyny can be either physical or psychological; it does not depend on
     birth sex and is not limited to intersex people."
    
    "An androgyne may or may not look androgynous. Someone who looks 
     androgynous may or may not be an androgyne. A "psychological androgyne" 
     is one term for a person who has an androgynous gender identity, but 
     doesn't necessarily look androgynous."
     
    

    This is a very complex and rapidly changing real-world situation while we are a fantasy based RPG. I do sincerely hope that these recent changes help make Aardwolf more inclusive, but we also need to move on and focus on the core game now. We will fix messages and code that just sounds “wrong” with the new gender, but no other changes for now.


    Some other changes in this reboot:

    • It is no longer possible to train stats with a cost higher than 1 while you have unallocated tier stats or wish stat.
    • There is a new command ‘areaquests’ that will show the most popular areas for quest targets. Like mobdeaths, this is on a delay and updates every 15 minutes or so. Not exactly Aardwolf’s biggest need but I wrote it to troubleshoot a bug report so figured I would make it available to everyone.
    • The ‘quest obj’ stat max amounts have been raised slightly, they are now as listed below:
           Levels 1-29    : 1 stat
           Levels 30-59   : 2 stats
           Levels 60-89   : 3 stats
           Levels 90-119  : 4 stats
           Levels 120-149 : 5 stats
           Levels 150+    : 6 stats
      
    • One of the gquest ranges has moved from 200-201 to 201-201 which means it will pick up some additional areas.
    • There is a new ‘spamreduce consider’ option – when this is turned on you will no longer see when other people consider mobs in the room.
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