How do you make invisible buildings in Beyond Earth?

[Galgus]

I know a way to do it in Civ 5 by tricking the game with great work count, but I don't have any idea how to do this in Beyond Earth.

I'm hoping to use invisible buildings for a clean workaround for specific specialist changes from policies.

 

[Ryika]

As far as I know you can't. The code that is used in Beyond Earth is different from the code in Civ 5 and uses a different (simpler) method, there is no way to make a building "invalid". So you'd need to rewrite CityView.lua yourself to manually create an exception for your buildings - that could cause a lot of compatibility-issues though.

I've simply been using visible buildings to implement stuff for a while now though and I've not had any complaints. I usually just put a descriptive text into the buildings Help-Tag to make sure people know where they got that building from.

 

[Galgus]

Thanks for the information.