Please let me know if additional balancing elements are required for STIs. The offset range can also be reduced for the minimum value to make the range allow for settings that can be more obscure/unlikely if needed.

It seems a little odd that STI's are just generated randomly. It seems like they should only be contagious. One of my pawns has just contracted an STI but his lover doesn't have it.

Well its a significantly reduced chance of catching the infection due to the act of love making. Otherwise how do these things arise in the first place? e.g if a piece of dirt or other viral infection was passed to one person whilst love making then they might establish the origins of an sti.

Though with an sti, the chance of infecting the partner (if unprotected sex) is very real.

fyi, both of the above situations are negated with protected sex. e.g. use of a condom from the Medical supplements mod.

If not using protection then you perhaps want to separate the lovers until the infection subsides.

STDs occur way too often.
At least one colonist in a 4 colonist colony has it all the time.
The -10% moving effect is a bit too punishing.

Added an additional mod option so that you can vary the base chance to contract STIs independently from the overall base chance.

Also lowered the movement penalties associated with STIs.

Sorry, I missed your notification for some reason.

I'm not sure what the possibilities around hediffs and illnesses etc. But I guess it'd make most sense if STI's were permanent until they got treated with whatever drug and only spread via Lovin'

I know there's a mod that implements anxiety kind of like this.

In terms of getting it out there to begin with I feel like it'd be cool if maybe certain traits had a higher chance of spawning with them in the first place? It stands to reason that beautiful pawns would get more nookie?

I wouldn't like to get sexually transmitted diseases randomly.
Make them so they appear on the wild on new pawns, some of them hidden in early stages, make new procedures to diagnose them. And make them actually sexually transmitted.
RJW mod has a robust framework on those kinds of diseases, and it also has the option to toggle on/off getting those diseases randomly.

STI's are already specifically associated with the act of love making.