Required and Restricted Traits
 

Do these not work?

I tried to use these feilds in the Empire Traits file, and it didn't seem to affect anything.

Re: Required and Restricted Traits
 

They don't work.

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif That blows, you could make some interesting mods if they did.

Re: Required and Restricted Traits
 

Note that there is nothing stopping you from verbally declaring certain racial techs to be mutually exclusive.

P&N has the mutually exclusive Pirates, Nomads, and Nomal traits, for example.

Adamant mod has lots...


If players must choose one from a set of traits, and a race is not viable if none are chosen, then you can do the following:
1) Create a dummy trait that does nothing, and costs -50000
2) Set the cost for all your exclusive traits to +50000

Thus, the players have to choose one and only one.

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Also, two things:

1) the AI will only take the traits they're told to take in their modable AI files, so they won't disobey if you set those up.

2) human players' trait choices are visible, so players can't "cheat" without being caught.

But ya, it would be better if it was automatically enforced.

Re: Required and Restricted Traits
 

Same goes if they have to choose more than one; for instance, Adamant has a dummy 30k points trait, and you have to pick a colony type, technological paradigm and social paradigm, costing 10k each. Works like a charm; choose two traits in one category and fail to choose a trait in another, and you're up for serious trouble as you can't do squat http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Re: Required and Restricted Traits
 

#2 isn't foolproof. If you have enough the traits scroll off the end of the screen, letting you hide any amount of cheese..

Re: Required and Restricted Traits
 

Which is why you order your traits so that the important ones are at the top.