Racial Trait Creation Problems

[Suicide Junkie]

That's correct. All I had to do was start a game with random empires, then save all of them.

For my mod, everybody had to have the "normal" racial trait, so you have to add existing empires with that trait, or you get lame empires that can't build anything.

If you're just adding the borg trait, random empires will work fine, but to add empires, they must have been saved during a game that includes the borg trait.

[God Emperor]

Thanks guys.

I have come up with an interim solution of just having a new tech called Borg Technology which only the Borg, of course, will research.

[Atraikius]

God Emporer,

on the Master computer problem, I found that if you replace the Master computer ability with the Ship bridge, ship life support, and ship crew quarters abilities, the computer will actually replace them with the master computer, but it replaces each one. I tried replaceing the ship requirements from a fixed number to requiring a percentage, and changing all of those components to go along with that, but found there was some hard coded requirement that didn't like the change. I figure there should be some kind of way to get around it along those lines, but havn't had time to do much more playing around with the idea.

[Nitram Draw]

I seems the AI looks for the ability and doesn't check if any other component satisfies it. I tried making solar sails have the solar supply generation ability and the AI insisted on building 2 solar sails. If two components have the same ability but different values the AI seems to choose the higher value, in my example it chose 2 solar sails if the solar sail generated more supply than the solar panel.
You could try giving the master computer the extra ability and add it to the Borg Tech tree. The AI may not choose it because there is no value to increase.

[God Emperor]

Nitram,
I had given Master Computer regenerative ability but it still ignored it. I've given up on it and have elevated Computers on the Borg research instead. I figured that the micro repair bays and regenerative structure (armour) that I have given the Borg, pretty much replicate what I want the Borg to be like.

[Nitram Draw]

Sounds like you are creating a whole new tech area for them?
Cool, can't wait for it!

[This message has been edited by Nitram Draw (edited 15 May 2001).]

[God Emperor]

Nitram,
I have posted a Borg variant in the Ships/Races mods archive.....
Check it out! Look forward to any comments that you may have.
Regards,
GE