Almost all colonists female

[Sirprize7]

Nothing against the gender but I would like to play as a single rich explorer and it's always female, like %80 of the time. I just want to be able to relate to my character but way too many times it's female. Every single past character has been female because they always get all the good skills or professions and I just went with it but never really realized till now. I'm seriously looking at an extremely rare and valuable character in my screen and she has mad skills, healthy, is steadfast/optimist with cannibal and I have to skip because I'm seriously tired of this. Whenever I finally get a male, he gets the "gay" trait, bad back/frail with extremely low skills with like 2 interests.

     I repeat, nothing against female gender. I just want to be able to invest into the character emotionally and relate to it. I get about 5-9 females in a row and there are no males worth choosing with their horrible stats in comparison. Don't take this the wrong way

[Limdood]

in that case, keep hitting "randomize"

or download the "prepare carefully" mod from the steam workshop (or forums) which gives you full complete control over starting backgrounds, skills, passions, traits, health, gear, and starting goods.....don't want to cheat?  don't!  hit randomize til you get a good character, then if it's female, go to the "prepare carefully" button and just change the gender.

[DarkXanatos]

I've actually noticed this too. Most of the colonists are female. The best are almost always female. All of the colonists that have joined my most recent colony, except one, have been female. All of the raiders left alive, and subsequently captured - except one - have been female... Very, very odd glitch the game is having. As I cannot imagine that this is intentional.

[A Friend]

An unlucky case of RNG.

[KingKnee]

I got this too, even much later I realize that some of the pawns I thought were male, were actually female.

[skullywag]

Nope all RNG.

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if (request.FixedGender.HasValue)
{
pawn.gender = request.FixedGender.Value;
}
else if (pawn.RaceProps.hasGenders)
{
if (Rand.Value < 0.5f)
{
pawn.gender = Gender.Male;
}
else
{
pawn.gender = Gender.Female;
}
}
else
{
pawn.gender = Gender.None;
}

[b0rsuk]

Maybe kickstarter supporters and other people who paid for their characters to be inserted in the game are getting preferential treatment ? I don't mean in a bad way, but they might skew the odds depending on how it's implemented. For example I know for certain pawns can be generated using one of the following methods:
a) childhood + adult background
b) fully defined biography with stats
What I'm not sure is how often a is chosen over b (I wrote a script which calculates skill stats for all backgrounds)

[eadras]

Random number generation doesn't always produce a distribution of results that our human brains are expecting when we think of "random".  Statistical anomalies are entirely possible (and inevitable on a wide enough data set), and not evidence of some conspiracy by the devs to belittle one gender or the other.

[A Friend]

Or is it?

[PotatoeTater]

My current colony right now is 6 men and 2 women, I went 4 years without a female in the colony. It was a lonely time for us all.

[Goldenpotatoes]

My colonies are usually testosterone-filled man caves with the occasional Emmie/Tail to make sculptures of the various testosterone-filled events.

Everything tends to go spiraling downward as soon as a beautiful lesbian joins, typically with the nudist trait to rub salt in the wound.

[KingKnee]

Someone write a script to generate 100.000 pawns so we can see the gender spread.