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[Snip] And it's a whole other thing to jump from that to "the general lack of feminine presenting Kerbals is explained by the some of the masculine-presenting Kerbal's possibly being female". I just don't understand why it's so important to you not to have a few more feminine Kerbals? Like how does that erode your (or anyone else's) enjoyment of the game? A change that would probably just mean changing a magic number or configuration constant somewhere. What are the possible downsides to that?

I am 100% imposing gender on them; that is what happens in most cases in the real world. Sometimes people are explicit about their gender, but in most situations, gender is assumed from social and cultural cues, including fashion. KSP doesn't exist in a vacuum; whilst none of the Kerbals are labeled explicitly as male or female, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine which is which for most of them. And in KSP2 there are very few female presenting Kerbals. We can't fix problems in representation by pretending that "gender doesn't exist" and that all these roughly androgynous but fairly masculine Kerbals can represent everybody. Nope, I'm aware. And I know the Kerbal effect, which is why this issue is so important. I'm glad your KSP1 roaster is two-thirds female; that's awesome for KSP1. However, this is a KSP2 suggestions forum and our KSP2 roaster has been, at best, 10% female, which is the point that I'm making. Why has KSP regressed on this? What possible reason do they have for tweaking the algorithm on the ratio? I'm not suggesting some conspiracy at the developers; I'm sure it is an oversight. But it seems like one that is easy to fix. You can argue the semantics of "gender" and the technicalities that the Kerbals don't have an explicitly assigned gender. But none of that changes the fact that my little one looked at the list of Kerbals, and she concluded that female Kerbals can't be Kerbonauts. Obviously, this is anecdotal, and I care more because it was my kid, but I'd be very surprised if she were the only one that landed here. I understand the devs have a long list of more important problems to fix right now. But to my 5-year-old, this is more important than the terrible maneuver nodes or the Kraken consuming our rocket (which, with the attached mythos of "the Kraken" seems more of a feature than a bug as far as she is concerned). I'm not trying to create moral outrage about this or suggesting I'd boycott the game because of it*, I'm simply forwarding feedback in the suggestions forum. If this game lasts as long and has as much of a profound impact as the first one, the views of her demographic are not only valid but important. And I'd wager rarely heard on feedback channels. *My current workaround is intentionally launching male Kerbals to their deaths until the generated roaster is more representative. I'm undecided as to whether this is brutal or an appropriately Kerbal solution to the problem.

I like the idea that the Kerbals, by their alien nature, are genderless, and we can't make any assumptions. But come on; they are obviously human proxies and clearly present as male or, less often, female. Fashion is a part of culture and thus cannot be detached from gender. Even if the Kerbals are truly genderless (they're not), she didn't see any Kerbals that she identified with, and that's an easily fixed problem.

I would say that, yes, many of the Kerbals are already pretty androgynous. I'm not sure if this comment is being entirely facetious, but I, for one, would love to see some alt Kerbals with more character. I think there is a non-superficial element to this, where it makes it easier to mentally track who is who, and which Kerbal's have somehow made it to veteran status. Speaking of Bowie, I would love to see a "Tom Kerman" complete with lightning bolt face paint.

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And let them, clip models.

She's the only one! And we killed her off on our second attempt to get to space*. All the other Kerbals are male and it doesn't seem to matter how many you kill and generate I don't think I've seen another female Kerbonaut. *We were successful, she died a hero. More parachutes next time!

I've started playing KSP2 with my 5-year-old daughter, Frida. She would like to know why there are no female Kerbonauts? This seems like a huge oversight. The first game inspired many gamers to pursue careers in science. It seems a great shame to tell the next generation of KSP players that space is exclusively for the men. PS She's a big fan of being able to paint her rocket Pink and Purple.

Cant get this to work, the ui appears but turning it on does nothing Seeing lots of this in my log (not sure if its ForScience causing it) "ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Argument is out of range.Parameter name: index" I see some "Tranfering science to container." in my log