Reproduction

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With children and reproduction comes Family Planning. Pawns can have kids from 18 years on, until their fertility drops to 0. During this time, you can modify a human's fertility through many methods, whether you are hoping for kids or set on having none. There are also many ways to reproduce, from natural, to surrogate, to artificial. A well-resourced player has a lot of control over this process.

Pawns' chance of getting pregnant is affected by their fertility stat (affected by age and genes), their contraceptive methods, and the player-set strategy on having kids.

Fertility

Fertility is the main stat affecting pregnancy chances. Natural pregnancy explains how fertility rises and falls over time. Fertility affects more than just the chance of a pregnancy after pawns initiate Lovin'. For instance, once a woman becomes infertile, or sterile, you can no longer perform the operation "Extract ovum for IVF", to initiate a surrogate or artifical pregnancy.

Fertility is affected by several genes: it can be increased with the Fertile gene, or decreased with the Sterile gene.

Baby Controls

The player has three options to adjust pregnancy rates from Lovin' in any relationship. By opening the social tab, to the right of a Lover, Fiancee, or Spouse, you can see a button that lets you change the couple's strategy for having kids.

By default, it is a hollow heart, with no preference for any pregnancy outcomes, and no affect on fertility.

If you change it to the sperm symbol, making the couple try for kids, their chance of pregnancy will be four times higher.

If you change it to the ban symbol, they will avoid pregnancy, with the chance getting four times smaller. If you're really worried about pregnancy and don't have the resources for contraceptives, you could place your now-unhappy couple in different beds so they won't do lovin' in the first place.

The actual chance that a pair of pawns will do Lovin' each night varies by several factors. If they're in the same bed and sleep at the same time, their chance of Lovin' varies by age, as seen in this section. Additionally, their chances are affected by their libidos, which can be altered from the default by the low libido and high libido genes.

Contraceptives

There are many surgical methods for altering a pawn's chances of pregnancy. Many of these are revokable, allowing for pregnancy at a later time, but they have a slight chance of causing permanent sterility if a surgery is botched.


IUD

One of these methods is IUDs. One can be placed indefinitely in a woman, requiring ?. You can remove it through a medical operation, using a qualified doctor and some medicine. Women may embark with IUDs already implanted.

Vasectomy

Like an IUD, this is a semi-permanent way to make a pawn unable to reproduce. The health operation "Perform Vasectomy", can be done on any adult male. It requires one medicine and is performed like a surgery, and can lead to permanent sterilization if botched. The vasectomy can be undone later, but here a botched surgery can also lead to permanent sterilization.

Tubal Ligation

This permanently stops a female from being able to reproduce. "Perform tubal ligation" is a medical operation requiring one medicine.