custom race initial points

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Wouldn' t it be nice for the custom race to be able to chose abilities with negative value? For instance: I do not appreciate "soldiering", so I would like to take a soldiering -10% bonus in order to get +1 points. What do u say?
Of course there must be an upper negative point limit in order to maintain a balance in the game... But I think we need this feature !!!
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There is a mod..."General Pants Race Mod" I think, which accomplishes this.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I agree that we would benefit greatly from a feature like this being implemented properly.

Until then, there's PANTS!
The Political Machine 2024
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, it seems weird to me that in TA the Acreans have a negative speed ability, yet a negative ability is not something that can be chosen when customizing the races
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Yeah, it seems weird to me that in TA the Acreans have a negative speed ability, yet a negative ability is not something that can be chosen when customizing the races

I don't know if we are going to modify the ability options to allow negative choices.  Even if we made them cost points instead of give them back, you could still nerf your opponents by giving them all negative abilities, and putting in a system to make sure that you can't nerf your opponents too badly would be difficult.  I'm not saying that we won't do it at some point, I am just pointing out that it would be difficult to do well.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, could there be a dual skill box then? Like if you choose the -speed option you gain +weapons in one click? This way you couldn't nerf your opponents into the ground with at least giving them something back.

It would tie our hands as to what we could get back for the negatives...but that at the same time could be your balance call as to what should be rewarded for taking a knee on something. As my -speed +weapons example, your a slow moving cannon, while having a -speed +population growth wouldn't make sense to me.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I concede, I'm not sure *why* you would goof up the AI that way, but one supposes you could do it now, even without that, by simply not using any of their advantage points.

If it's something that would affect the metaverse (Haven't done that yet), you could simply make a score adjustment for unused points on the AI's versus you - multiply the scores by the ratio of '(Average AI points unused+1)/(player points unused+1)' - Nerf all the AI's too badly, you're only going to get 10% of the points?

Jonnan