Modding question

[gintamaben]

Is there any way to add more than eight "special rules" (such as free tech, social engineering bonuses/penalties, free facilities etc.) to a custom faction? The SMAX faction editor only has eight slots for them and this even seems to apply when editing the text files directly, When selected custom faction in game
it have popup appear "too many trait" and then the game just crash

I have alien crossfire with latest patch and yitzy patch if that has anything to do with it.

thanks in advance.

 

[Petek]

No, I don't think this is possible.

 

[Darsnan]

Is there any way to add more than eight "special rules" (such as free tech, social engineering bonuses/penalties, free facilities etc.) to a custom faction?
thanks in advance.

I don't know the application for what you want to do/ accomplish, so I will say that if you are designing a scenario with custom factions, then technically there is, as you can edit the custom faction to give it eight properties minus the free techs, and then via the Scenario Generator you can then give the custom faction the additional techs you want it to have, thus giving it more than 8 special rules. Also, the Alien factions get an additional 3 (or 4) special rules which are hardcoded in (i.e. they are part of the terran(x).exe file, so can't be edited). FYI so you are aware of this and that it doesn't catch you offguard.

BTW I've attached a Word document that defines how to edit the faction.txt file. HTH!

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