Custom Game Random-Tweaking

[PotatoSamurai]

Now that I am not beset by the countless spawn of Conan in the first thirty turns (thanks!), I have a question relating to game setup.

I want to be able to create a game within the following parameters:

• A normal Erebus-style map script, standard size
• Allowed to choose my civ and leader
• Have a distribution of six major leaders by alignment, 2 Good/2 Neutral/2 Evil*
• Two or perhaps three additional random minor leaders.

I had hoped that "The Acknowledgment" game option would only affect the slots I designated completely random, but it also affected the alignment-restricted slots. And of course, there isn't an option to generate a single random minor leader.

I'm thinking the solution would be in learning one of:

1. How the "random <alignment> leader" works and making a "random minor" option myself
2. Whether and how map scripts can designate players, negotiating my lack of Python understanding
3. How if possible to create a version of "The Acknowledgment" that doesn't affect the alignment-specified random slots (this is what I'm currently looking at)**
4. What sacrifice will let me bask in the omniscience of the everlasting Creators as they rend time and space asunder to help this picky player!

*Or even better: if I'm Good, 1G/3N/2E, Neutral 2/1/2 and one true random, etc.

Any thoughts or tips are sure welcome.
**EDIT: Okay, that is not going to be within my skills for the foreseeable future.

 

[Valkrionn]

All options would take DLL work, but I could possibly add a "Random (Historical/Important/Emergent) Leader" for 1.4