Customizing Race...

I just double checked playing normal dreadlords - I have 10 ability points there for race customization. Only 5 when playing Dark Avatar expansion.. recent change/bug.

Sam W.

It may be that some of my previous options when customizing a race are now "unclearable".

Example,

I hit reset, I only have 5 points left.
I choose 5 points worth of abilities, lets say +30% defence and +30% weapons.

However, on the summary screen I still have: +25% soldering, +30% defence, +30% weapons, +10% research, +10%economoy, +15% loyalty, +10% trade, +6% logistics...

I never selected any of those other options... and even though they appear to be unselected/clear - hitting reset, only allows me to use 5 points.

Sam W.

I can not seem to edit my own posts - so I apologise for posting seperately but,

Anyone aware of wear the data regarding custom races is stored? I'm looking to delete that and see if I can start completely clean as if I've never made a custom race to see if I would still only have 5 customization points left.

Thanks,

Again.

Sam W.

This was in the Beta 1A change log as a temporary change from 10 to 5 ability points. I *think* that the racial inherent abilities are now unclearable which are the other abilities that you're seeing.

Editing posts can sometimes be a mystery. It's clear that you can't edit your post if someone has replied to it, but there are also categories that you can never seem to edit. The developers journals and the off topic categories are an example of this. However, if I use https://forums.stardock.com/ instead of https://forums.galciv2.com/, I have been able to edit posts in the off topic category. In fact from forums.stardock.com I've been able to edit posts even after someone's replied, though this might just be a latency issue. However, this is from my work computer, from my home computer I can't make a post from forums.stardock.com at all.

BTW I was able to edit my last post from both locations. As I said, it's a mystery.

This was in the Beta 1A change log as a temporary change from 10 to 5 ability points. I *think* that the racial inherent abilities are now unclearable which are the other abilities that you're seeing.

Mumblefratz

where is this change log Beta 1A ???

It's a few posts down in the 1A release announcement thread.

I posted about this in the Beta 1A thread as well.

So is this a temporary thing while they balance or is this intended to stay? For the named races it sort of makes sense. But the custom race is no longer *custom*. I know the race I normally play can no longer be created with the new rules. I mean I know I can modify the xml to put it the way I want but that seems to defeat the point of it being a custom race. Beyond that I thought that the system would override the default raceconfig if it found another in the saved game folder. This is no longer the case either.

If this is meant to attempt to balance out the races in light of the new super abilities then I'm sure I can get used to it. Just kinda struck me as odd.

It's temporary.