Super Abilities and Minor Races, Oh My!

Some questions regarding the modding of these subjects.

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Greetings. 

 

I am currently working on a mod for Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition and have ran into some hurdles. I was redirected here by the official Star Dock tech support so hopefully I'll finally be able to get some answers.

 

Question #1:

 

Can you create custom super abilities? If so how is it done? All I know thus far is that you can re-assign a given races super ability using the proper numbers in the RaceConfig.xml file.

 

Question #2:

 

I've been modding minor races and have run into some issues. Example race: 'Blob People'. Whenever you rename their planets or star systems in the files, the game still defaults to naming the star 'Blob People' and the planets 'Blob People I, Blob People II. . .all the way to Blob People V'.

 

As far as I can tell this is a hard-coded reaction for minor races since I've successfully created custom star systems for major races using the exact same techniques as those I used for minor races in that I edited the appropriate .xml files.

 

I am looking for a way to override this so that when a minor race appears it uses its proper custom star system and planet names.

 

If anyone has any information on this matter whether it's related to the cause of this phenomena or how it can be circumvented I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Thanks in advance.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

1. You cannot make new SAs, they are hard coded.

2. No idea, having this issue also.

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

As stated Super Abilities are hardcoded.

I don't know, if it is possible to give minor races custom star systems. Have you tried adding the <Homeworld> and <Homestar> tags to their entries in the RaceConfig.XML?

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Gaunathor, reply 2

As stated Super Abilities are hardcoded.

I don't know, if it is possible to give minor races custom star systems. Have you tried adding the <Homeworld> and <Homestar> tags to their entries in the RaceConfig.XML?

 

Yes, and it still seems to be overwritten. I'd be very surprised if it wasn't a hard coded response, but I'm still looking for that little sliver of hope. 

Also thanks for the replies about super abilities. I'm planning to replace the custom race with a distinct 13th race but I guess I'll balance them around not having a super ability.