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    Shougun's Avatar
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    Wubrant Drakesbane
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    Balmung
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    Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
    Gender is a binary flag because "binary" is how a computer thinks. It's the simplest piece of data they can store. One or zero; on or off. There's no "halfway".

    there's also no "need" for it in the programming. It needs to know whether to display a male or female character model, and whether to apply "he" or "she" in the text. There aren't any other options programmed into the game that they need to reflect.
    Not sure why I was included in it since we're basically agreeing (if you include my other posts) . I was saying it would be more convenient for OP if the tracking of gender was set up to track multiple cases already, but that it's probably not. Which is why I was asking them why they think a boolean (a true/false/1/0) would be inefficient.

    Did I miss something? I feel tagged but I don't know how to tag back . . .

    Uhm..

    Boop! lol
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    Last edited by Shougun; 07-27-2019 at 01:11 PM.