Customizable pronouns

[Iscah]

You mean the four supported languages? (Not counting China and Korea as theyre effectively operating on they're own system)

It's not like swapping pronouns when a fantasia is used brings the system to a halt so I dont see what the issue is.

Swapping pronouns post-Fantasia doesn't "bring the system to a halt" because it's still doing what it always did: checking, at the time of displaying the text, whether the player character is male or female, and applying the correct fragment of text individually programmed into that line of script. It's not fetching the right pronoun from some external listing that could be altered independently.

Changing it to reflect additional options (even if it was just a pre-built choice of he/she/they - or even a free choice of the existing he/she) would mean changing the structure of character data to carry a new setting for pronoun choice, and potentially affecting everything that ever has to refer to that data. Then they need to find every single line of text in the game that uses pronouns or other gender-varied language, and change it to consult this new setting instead of the character's gender, plus add in new text for the 'they' option.

Retrofitting it would be a massive undertaking, and a very different thing to including it in a game as it's being built from the ground up. Perhaps we'll see it be an option in more games in the future, but it's not something that can be added to this one.

(Even long-term in a game where the option is built in, I doubt we would get fully-customisable pronouns without restricting the way players are addressed in the script - it wouldn't work for this one, certainly, where sometimes entire sentences are different based on the character's gender. I think it would be kept simple as he/she/they - and I think society overall will tend that way as well, picking a single 'inbetween' pronoun instead of everyone trying to establish their own.)

I do agree with you on this point that it would be rough. However, you seem to have a misconception, I never suggested code for English but rather to search where the variable used to determine which [gender] response they should play [...]

The thing is, there is no separate variable to determine which gender pronouns are used for the character. It uses the character's gender directly.

[Lunavi]

The thing is, there is no separate variable to determine which gender pronouns are used for the character. It uses the character's gender directly.

Then that solves that, this would make this suggestion pretty hard to implement then.