How do I change a civ's traits?

Im sure in one of these thousands of pages its covered somewhere but i lack the paitence to skim through everything and find it. I dont want to add new civs, or anything, i just want to know how to change a trait, for Warlords.

I get confused by this because i dont know if i should try to mod a file in the Vanilla or Warlords folders, if i use the my games or the firaxis game folder (i want to make the change for a mod not to change it forever in everything).

Do i have to use the vanilla folder for vanilla civs and warlords folder for WL civs? Or are both dooable in warlords (as i never play vanilla)

This is actually the easiest thing to do
Step 1: go into Assets/XML/Civilizations and open "CIV4leaderheadinfos" its an XML file so use Notepad.

Step 2: Scroll down to the leader you want to change, the leaders info begins with

<LeaderHeadInfo>
<Type>LEADER_ALEXANDER</Type>

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Or whichever leader you want.

Step 3: Scroll down under the leaders info untily you get to something like this

<Traits>
<Trait>
<TraitType>TRAIT_PHILOSOPHICAL</TraitType>
<bTrait>1</bTrait>
</Trait>
<Trait>
<TraitType>TRAIT_AGGRESSIVE</TraitType>
<bTrait>1</bTrait>
</Trait>
</Traits>

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This is where you'll see whatever traits you're leader has. Just Replace it with "TRAIT_" whatever you want, save the file, and you're done.

hey.. i did this and it didn't work. is it just that it doesnt show up in the menu text, but really is changed, or do i have to do something else?

Might not be any use use to you now, but I'll try anyway.

Make sure the trait you entered is spelt correctly and is all capital letters.

Its possible to give leaders all 8 traits. I've given Alexander all 8, and they do work.

You can't change traits during a game though. Lets say you're playing as someone with Spiritual and Financial traits. If you change Financial to Philosophical (for example), it will say you have Spiritual and Philophical, but you'll only get the effects of Spiritual and Financial.

I hope this helps.