<t> Was hoping someone might have some advice to pass on. Here's my situation, I'm playing a game where I'm pre-warp humans with the start options set to starting and pre-warp as well. I do want pirates in my game because they add an interesting dynamic so I have them set to normal levels. The ...

Ah cool to know! I always figured that it was the amount of the resource on the planet and that the resources were limited.

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I tried that but it wasn't quite working as I intended. I left the initial leader I wanted as "0" and then put the rest of the characters all as "?" What happened was that the game started with 5-6 of every character type including pirate ...

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It is possible to let an Character only appear if the Race have a specific Goverment? I would like to have Willhelm as a Leader but only if the Humans get the Monarchy.
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This is pretty awesome news. Like I said, I don't mind naming them. I'm now in the process of making images to use as characters.

Will the ? in the order part randomize when they show up? I don't mind naming them all, but don't want them all showing up in the early stages and then reverting back to generic portrait people in the end.

Seems like it could be something easy to change in a future patch though. Here's hoping for the future!

<t> That worked. I usually learn how to mod things by looking at existing mods. That doesn't really work when key things are changed between game versions though.<br/>
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Just tried this to make everything random...<br/>
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?, ?, 3, governor3.png, Human, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?<br ...

Ah cool! That seems to have solved it, reason I couldn't find it is because the race txt file changed with universe but the race file was made with previous version. In the file 0 = none but universe -1 = none.

<t> What controls techs being exclusive to one race? I added a few races from other mods but when I fired up the game and was playing along I found that Klingons were the only ones allowed to research the second level of beam weapons, effectively shutting out the rest of the beam weapons from all ...

Suggested the same thing, only handled in a different manner. It's definitely something that is missing and should be in the game. Making your own characters is a nice feature but there's no way to have them appear randomly with random skills and traits so it takes away from half the fun.

Cool! I'll pop them in there and see what happens.

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Nevermind, fixed what I did wrong, thanks! Is there a way for me to use the original images for races, such as the Shandar or Zenox? I like your art, but I've gotten used to the way those races looked. Would it be simple as moving the images ...

<r> I got my game set up to give me a ship captain at the start. Not to hard to mod that in so you can get custom characters. The only part I can't get to work right is the custom image. I've tried putting the pictures in characterImages folder and in the images/units/races folder but just can't get ...

Cool! Thanks, going to check that out and see. Considering I'm starting my Empire as a prewarp one, this is a HUGE boost to my strength because it's probably armed and I can tell it's got shields.

<t> Was curious about anything special that needs to be done to add new races into extended. I wanted to add in a couple from the ME mod and some from the Star Trek mods. Also planning to add in some of the awesome ship sets I've been finding around. This is what I do when I really get into a game ...

<t> Unclean, thanks for reposting the ship set. The ship set looks pretty cool and wanted to switch my human empire over to it but found the link broken. There's no issues with it in regards to universe and the current version, is there? Also, anything special that needs to be done to merge it in ...

<t> Started up a new game and while looking around my home system before unpauseing I seen an abandoned base in the asteroid field. Figured it was like the abandoned colony ship I found in the previous game and sent one of my explorers out to... explore it. I didn't get an event pop up though and ...

<t> So I'm not a fan of all of my ships of one type being named the same with 001, 002, 003 etc as the only difference. I love that the exploration ships, construction ships and civilian ships all get named. Is there a way to get it so that my military ships come out with names as well? I know I can ...

Rough. My suggestion would be in a future patch an option can be added to send the character off for testing. Costing a good sum of money and removing the character for several months.