Call me "Sir!"

D4everman · November 16, 2001, 00:14

Is there anyway to...uh...change the gender of leaders? Whenever I play as the English the advisors call me Madame, or Ms., or some feminie name.

I'm sure female players have the same problem when playing as anyone but the english, russians or egyptians.

georage · November 16, 2001, 00:30

I don't think so.

You could in SMAC, which was cool because I usually played as the Gaians.

I play Civ3 as the Russians usually and have just learned to accept that I am now I am a middle-aged lady that once (according to legend and some history professors) died after a sexual experiment with a horse.

And the French leader is also a woman/girl! The females are well-represented in Civ3 as they have some of the best tribes I think. And Ghandi is almost a woman.

Georage

BigNick · November 16, 2001, 00:54

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Is there anyway to...uh...change the gender of leaders? Whenever I play as the English the advisors call me Madame, or Ms., or some feminie name.

Yeah - I saw it at about 12:30 this morning. It's in the editor. When you take a look at the empire screen (I think) it has an option to set the gender of your leader.

TCO · November 16, 2001, 01:21

In Civ2 you could specify this...

FrostyBoy · November 16, 2001, 01:25

ROFL georage on the horse thing, wow I had no idea.

I sometimes want to play as the russians, but when I see her face, I just puke and quickly get scared away!

BigNick · November 16, 2001, 01:41

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ROFL georage on the horse thing, wow I had no idea.

It's a myth, unfortunately. Try the Snopes site for reference.

Pity. It's a great story.

TCO · November 16, 2001, 14:30

I heard that she had sex with a horse. (not the dying part). Is that a myth too?

G.A · November 16, 2001, 15:55

Well, Catherine was one merry woman, and had sex with a lot of things

Though about looking at her face bit - during the course of play, if you are playing AGAINST Russia, you`ll have to see this face veeery often, while if you play FOR Russia, you`ll have to see it only once. Especially if you never use the foreign advisor

Stegalin · November 16, 2001, 16:05

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Originally posted by D4everman
Is there anyway to...uh...change the gender of leaders? Whenever I play as the English the advisors call me Madame, or Ms., or some feminie name.

I'm sure female players have the same problem when playing as anyone but the english, russians or egyptians.

I believe you can change the details of this in the scren where you pick your civ. Click under the head of your leader, but above the "description" button below your leaders head. there you can edit things like your leaders name, name of the civ, and I think Mr., Mrs. tags... you'll have to check though, I'm at work.

G.A · November 17, 2001, 14:51

No. You can change the title so the advisors occasionally will refer to you as "emperor" instead of "czarina" or something, but they`ll still say "Mrs", "Supreme Lady" etc on other occasions. And you still have your portrait

sgrig · November 17, 2001, 15:41

For historical accuracy I would just like add that Catherine the Great of Russia was actually 100% German! For those who don't know...

RedWhiteArcher · November 17, 2001, 17:42

Actualy she was 7/8 German.

But let me check on it

Trifna · November 17, 2001, 20:22

modmodmodmodmodmodmodmod

What was I saying?

Trifna · November 17, 2001, 20:31

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Originally posted by sgrig
For historical accuracy I would just like add that Catherine the Great of Russia was actually 100% German! For those who don't know...

Yes, possible. But she stil was a russian leader. Many times in History leaders weren't of the same culture. Look to Cleopatra that was partly greek for exemple.

G.A · November 18, 2001, 16:43

Yeah, Catherine was German. She never spoke fluent Russian too

You see, she was just some German city-state princess, who got married to Russian prince, and then killed him to get the throne when he became a czar. The man was all childish and weak, so he wouldn`t be a good follower to Peter the Great anyway.