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Definitely much harder to get them to breed, you might have to pump them full of aphrodisiacs, lol... like I said I might have to dial the inhibin thing back a bit. Some of the sliders were set arbitrarily, with rates and stuff pretty much copied from C2 (with some conversions since reaction speeds and halflives work a bit differently in c3)... But hormone levels and production are also a bit different in c3, so figuring out what they should be was tricky, so I just set them as is until enough testing was done for me to figure out how to tweak them..

Bibbling to each other, especially expressing opinions, are actually forced by game scripts randomly any time they are paying attention to each other. Answering opinions and giving advice also seem to be based on attention but they are forced 100% of the time to answer by scripts when they are paying attention to the speaker.

The looking at each other a lot thing is when they are thinking 'approach norn', and has to do with a default stimulus gene which tells them that other norns are fascinating to just stare at, and that any time they are approaching, whether or not they are moving, it is automatically fun and emits boredom reduction regularly.

I have had some real success with editing this stuff in some of my own genomes that I think are quite effective and helps their personalities a lot though. I can put those edits in, it should make them stare a lot less and be a good bit quieter. They will tend to not answer each other or express opinions quite as much (they still will, just less, also they will answer creatures they like more often than creatures they don't)...

Basically there are two genes that make the real difference.. the stimulus for 'heard other creature speak' (its effect on drives, even if silenced, has the effect of forcing them to pay enough attention to any speaking norn in earshot that they will have to answer... I disable it, and then norns only answer other norns they WANT to pay attention to, especially ones they like more or are already looking at for some other reason, or ones that are talking about something they are specifically interested in at the moment) and the stimulus for 'approach' (it gives them a pretty large boredom reduction reward for just staring at or walking to other norns... I change this to a slight boredom increase, since they already get a very good reduction in loneliness for it, and a boredom decrease any time they are walking).. this makes them stare at each other a lot less, which also cuts down on the bibbling, but it doesn't make them antisocial, they still like to sleep together and follow each other...