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Better Children Skill Learning

@RiKShaw
In vanilla you can often end up with just a pick of "Depressive, Teetotaller, Pyromaniac, Chemical Fascination" even with max-tier growth, which is quite hard to pull off itself.

A kid with 3 shooting and double-passion is still easily outperformed by a random no-passion baseliner with 11 skill and Tough, especially if you throw a +8 skill on the baseliner.

Meanwhile kids easily get eaten by the wildlife, or have a mechanoid base spawn on them when they are skygazing.

Also pregnant pawns are terrible, and mothers can die in childbirth if you're unlucky.

They aren't _bad_ in vanilla, but they are a huge risk for relatively little reward compared to focusing your colonists time on stuff like Research/Crafting, Biotech, Mechanoids, Anomaly content, etc.

Imo. of course.

In the description about children needing to be more competitive, I've found the game to be the opposite. Random pawns from raids, etc are often laden with conflicting and just terrible traits/passions. Like having a shooting inspiration on someone incapable of violence, or a wimp with a melee passion. Or just a bad trait that's going to be a pain.

On the other hand, yes children take more effort but you're going to get someone who not only is guaranteed to get along with at least 2 of your pawns, they're going to have more passions than a random pawn and they're going to have curated traits and passions, even if you aren't picking the best option each time.

Now, this would heavily be influenced by mods I have to increase trait slots and add new traits, because I think the majority of them are negative, but I think the point still stands.

Yes, it works with 1.6

You can see compatible versions on the side-bar (1.4, 1.5, 1.6 in this case)

Is there 1.6 support?

Okay, thank you for responding. Trying to rule out mods without doing the half n half method if i can lol

@Tae
It touches growth/learning and nothing else.

@Egalexandr
The problem is that some of those genes (ones written by me for Vanilla Expanded and Big & Small included) do modify growth point accumulation which will result in more growth than intended.

Growth does adapt to the aging setting of your game. If you want aging genes there ones ones available which do so in either "Vanilla Races Expanded - Pigskins" or "Big and Small Genes". :)

Does this mod cause babies to no longer be able to eat? I'm having an issue where the food bar will not go up on babies only and if I don't cheat it up the feeder and the baby get stuck in an endless loop. Could that have anything to do with this mod or no?

some mods provide fast growth genes, so that means very limited options when growth moment happens, kids while growing fast can't be good as generated adult pawns (meaning passions count). So as I understood, "Growth from learning multiplier" is exact thing to increase. But well... it could be great if the multiplier relys on pawn's aging speed like

default_learning_growth*aging_speed/default_kid_aging_speed*this_mod_learning_multiplier=growth_from_learning

thank god for this mod

@RedMattis awesome, thanks!