why the ears?

is the a way i can make intiate lovin work on guests?

my male baron colonist got an alcoholic male highmate lol

i genetically edited a pawn to have lovin dependency and shes about to leave the colony because my ideology forbids sharing a bed before marriage, anything i can do?

Yes, about the hairs:

Would it be possible to also add the forced hairtype gene as a toggleable option as ears and tails are? Same with the sanguopahges I guess?

Minor thing but would be convenient to have overall, would be greatly appreciated. I don't know how hard it is to change these things though, it might be way more complex to do than I imagine it is lol.

Has anyone ever done retextures of the VRE hairstyles? Maybe I've been spoiled by Ponpeco and AFU, but I hate the forced hairstyles used for this race. It's especially ludicrous when they're referred to as beautiful in the genes, but they look like amorphous blobs next to the highly detaile and high res hairstyles of other mods.

With apologies to the original artist...I couldn't do better. But have these at least been upscaled?

They won't even let you eat cake!

My 17 (6) year old male pawn born and raised in the colony became royalty. In response, the Empire sent him a personal Highmate - a 71 year old male .

Good points below. Where's side mate and or front/back mate?

@Evenstaar, isn't that just a baseline human?

where is midmate tho

Try using it

So I just discovered something concerning with this mod. I had a lowmate child show up to the colony and the Initiate Lovin' ability isn't disabled. I would recommend that (and the lovin dependency gene) only taking effect after age 18.

perfect body dont work with tattoo?

Sorry if this is the wrong spot/annoying, but I wanted to follow up on @ZCW's earlier question: Could there be a way to allow Initiate Lovin to work on pawns from other factions? Or is this too weedy/would cause issues with the mod?

No apparel mods should conflict with a simple body texture gene... unless they break the game's norms and attempt to add a completely different body shape, and in that case it's them that need to adapt

yeah i second @Simbot34. THe "perfect body" gene is messing up with other apparel mods and i just want to turn it off. Removing it with character editor cause the entire character to be invisible and I get tons of errors for it

Is there a way to change whether the game applies its own body texture from 'perfect body'?

It's caused by a change Ludeon made in 1.6. It is harmless, but we will have to look into a way to get rid of it sooner or later

@Sarg Bjornson
One other question, hope I'm not bugging you too much. Every few minutes I seem to be getting these kinds of errors:

Object with load ID Thing_Human3924 is referenced (xml node name: li) but is not deep-saved. This will cause errors during loading.

The longer I play the IDs there will be.
After looking in the save file, I've found that those IDs are only mentioned in this part:
<li Class="VanillaRacesExpandedHighmate.GameComponent_PawnListsSaver">
<distressedTraitPawns_backup>

Those that are not mentioned in other parts (I assume that's what "deep saved" refers to) produce these errors. Is this an incompatibility or something else?

Seems to have fixed the issue. Thanks for the info.

Yep. It's a base game oversight

Going a bit crazy here, but is that why I'm constantly getting "Could not generate a pawn after 70 tries. Last error: Generated pawn incapable of violence. Ignoring scenario requirements." errors? I'm also using "Xenotype Spawn control", and the spawn chance there is not 0%. I reset its settings, since it seems it didn't update your changes or something.

It is now 0%, as it caused an error due to them being incapable of violence

@Konstantin if you're open to modding, you could make an XML patch to change that specific faction

Hello, is it possible that the spawn chance of highmates is a bit low? (0.5% in certain factions) Is there any way I can increase the chance?

Possible suggestion for the engage lovin action, have them go to one of their bedrooms. Engaging in the horizontal tango in a dirty corridor is NOT sanitary nor socially acceptable, even in colonies with a free love focused ideology.

That said, it was quite funny that I discovered that by having my Lowmate pawn accidentally get topped by a very large demon themed pawn.

@kamil072005 you need the free and approved precept in ideology

Question, is there a way to enable the lovin ability to work on pawns from other factions if they have a relationship with the highmate? I'm playing with diplomatic marriages, and the childhood friend and lover of a highmate was sent on this marriage, but since considered other faction, cannot initiate lovin

Question, how does it work with the "Better Gene Inheritance" mod? I guess the recessive and dominant genes aren't quite compatible as there has been weirdness regarding the baby's genes.

How to avoid breakup when using Initiate Lovin?

I spit in the face of those potential gods!

i will not download this because any potential gods that exist would likely frown on this activity but im sure its a cool mod!

@Hupablom the genes are applied when a pawn is generated. Meaning the setting is only looked at on pawn generation, it's not active or retroactive.

So if you have a highmate pawn but they lack the gene you will have to add it manually via dev mode.

(that big red note at the bottom of this mod's description is about this topic)

Hi, I have a small suggestion.

Currently if someone has lovin' with a Perfect Body partner the effect is permanent and non-transparent. What if instead of being saved in an internal list, it instead of provided a year long health debuff which instead would be used to track this?
(This would also make it a bit more flexible when makinga sub-mod)

TY and cheers!

For some reason I dont have the feline traits despite having it enabled in the mod options. Anyone know a fix?

They can't use it

The Highmate gene "Very High Libido" needs a <minAgeActive> field so that six year olds don't get the "Initiate Lovin'" ability.

No conflict

I had a weird conflict where I had a pawn who had the genetic Lovin Dependency but became asexual.

Nevermind, it seems it was changed at some point

Ok not going to argue maybe it's both pf them having the fertile gene but it just happened again.

"initiate lovin" doesm't result in pregnancies

I have had initiate lovin reult in pregnancy on more than one occasion. I'm curious about the restrictions placed on the imitate lovin.

It was a choice

Okay, that's kind of what I was assuming. Out of curiosity, is that a design choice or a technical limitation?

No

Can the initiate lovin' ability result in pawn pregnancies?

Make it to baron.... get awarded a male highmate. FML..

@mir_38 so lemme get this straight: an imperialist techno-noble rewards you a sex slave genetically modified to be utterly defenseless, forced to bond with their first lover for life, and dependent on sex with said lover for their mental well-being regardless of how that lover treats them, and the only part that gives you the ick about the whole situation is that the human trafficking involves a teenager? if the problematic video game underage sex bothers you more than the problematic video game sex slavery, that really says more about you than anything else tbh.