I am a modder! Hear me roar! *cough* Then not understand what happened.
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Lucky me, my roommate is a computer programmer/analyst/jack-of-all-computer-trades. He likes GalCiv too and when I told him about wanting to mod it, he said: "No sweat if it is a simple mod. Let's just go find the text and modify it." "Sweet!", I said. So we do. So many things I'd like to try, but I wanted to start simple. I picked the abilities. We found them at the bottom of the "English" file. We did some changes here and there. Tested them. All seemed to work ... except two.
1) Speed. We increased it and no change. We increased it by a lot (6 parsecs / month) and still the survey ship and colony ship didn't increase their speeds at all.
2) We tried to give traits disadvantages and thus cost you negative points. This way you could say take ten points of disadvantages to get 20 points of advantages. No dice. The abilities don't allow negatives. We try Loyalty. Made one "Backstabber" and gave it a negative bonus and a negative cost. When we fired it up, nothing appeared where the two negative numbers should have.
Now does anyone know what happened in 1) and what we did wrong in 2)? Thanks.
1) Speed. We increased it and no change. We increased it by a lot (6 parsecs / month) and still the survey ship and colony ship didn't increase their speeds at all.
2) We tried to give traits disadvantages and thus cost you negative points. This way you could say take ten points of disadvantages to get 20 points of advantages. No dice. The abilities don't allow negatives. We try Loyalty. Made one "Backstabber" and gave it a negative bonus and a negative cost. When we fired it up, nothing appeared where the two negative numbers should have.
Now does anyone know what happened in 1) and what we did wrong in 2)? Thanks.
