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Originally Posted by Sweed
Would you be happy with the men's development model being used for females? Aging curves would be the same? If different, how, why, and what is the research based on? Because you can bet someone in the less than 1% of users that do a women's league is going say it's not the same for women and wants it fixed. So, do we say no to the 1 in 10,000 that wants a serparate female development model? If so why? What about the guy that now wants mixed leagues? A third pbp file? Do we tell him no? If so why?
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The only way you would lock yourself into having to support the "feature" and deal with a women's development model is if you marketed the game saying "You can even run women's leagues with a completely accurate development model!"
If you don't bother mentioning it at all in marketing, or mention only that it is possible to have women show up as players, or say that you can make a league using only women..... you don't have to support anything unless you promise some special development model. Baseball Mogul used to have the ability (I don't know if it still does) and it was nothing special other than having women players.
If it's added, just put the note in that there is nothing special about women... there isn't seperate code to control them at all, it's just the name and other superficial pieces that are different.
It wouldn't be that difficult to have an option in setup that said it was a women's league... then it grabs different height and weight pieces to model it and it goes.
A pbp file and a name file that has been made by one of the modders would need to be downloaded... the game associates those files to the league and all is done. Any idiosyncrasy unfortunately must be dealt with by the user... but the option is there to make your life easier. The end... it's not that hard.
The pieces you won't be able to do anything about is the hard code text and facegen. It's hard enough getting the hard code text fixed when there's a problem with it in MEN's leagues... so it's not going to happen.
There's no need to waste programming time on facegen for women... picture files for women could also be up to modders. There's no reason to think that this would become a feature that has to be supported beyond giving the option with the caveat that there is nothing different, it's just there to allow the superficial changes to help you if you want it.