This thread is 13 pages long. Isn't it starting to be a bit much to ask for someone to read this entire thread for the answer? I search most of my "terms" in this forum when I am looking for something, but most people won't (based on my personal experience obviously). Either way, why will a spell work and not an ability? (professional curiousity as that would be my goto thing with custom sovereigns, and not spells )

Does a Champion Summon require an Upkeep mana cost?  The following test code doesn't summon anything:

Question:

Is there a way to limit the total number of a certain type of unit in the world?  For example, I am interested in making a building that allows the recruitment of a powerful unit... but I'd like the custom faction to only be allowed to recruit, say... 3 of these guys.  It would be even better if once those units die, the faction could still not recruit more.

Yes you can do this using a custom resource type.  Check out the first few posts of this thread:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/439334/page/1/#3311666

You could achieve that using the method in that post... but rather than have your building produce 3 of the resource per turn, set it to produce 3 as a one off.

It's definitely possible. Try looking at CityLevel_UnlockLevel2 in CoreImprovements.xml and adding a prereq to Forts.

Opps actually it's in CoreAbilities.

Hi,

Just starting out modding LH, and I'm trying to add a new faction with new racial/blood and also add some new traits. Could someone please provide a guide on how to do this please? What files do I need to include in my mod folder? etc.

I've taken a look at both DSraider's "Additional Faction Traits and Races" and Attackdrone's "Fervor" Mods (which are both great by the way), but there's so many files I can't really make heads or tails of it, so any advice would be great. Thanks.

All the Best,

Yet another:

How do mod files work when "conflicting" with the main game files?  that is... say I want to make it so the Logging Camp cannot be built by a custom faction... if I edit the coreimprovements file I can make a prereq.  but what if a mod file has the same improvement with the same internal name... would the mod file override the main file?

For things further down the tech tree, i can easily make a new tech and tech tree... but for buildings that are default such as logging camp, I'm not sure what my options are.

You might want to try setting the Requires city improvement tag to 0, sometimes the system is a little odd on what is considered an enabled bit for the different tags.

That's a bit strange.  Have a look at the xml file for that Sov, it should have lines like this...

<CutSceneDataPack>Procipinee_CutscenePack</CutSceneDataPack>
<ModelScale>1.0000</ModelScale>
<TacticalModelScale>1.5000</TacticalModelScale>
<EquipmentScale>1.0000</EquipmentScale>
<ClothMapScale>1.6000</ClothMapScale>

 Those numbers should be the same. 

You could also check the CutSceneDataPack as that would impact the zoom level.

Unfortunately it's not as simple as you'd like.  There's no nice tag to do it.

You've got to use a bit of a workaround.  Basically you create a new local ResourceType and have the improvement produce the resource.... then have the unit require the resource to be produced.  So for your example you could have it so that the Woodworking shop producing "wood" or "bows" at a rate of 3 per turn or something.  Then put a requirement that the unit, or an ability the unit has... or maybe even the bow itself require "wood" or "bows" to produce.

Have a look at this post specifically the reply #2 from Heavenfall:

https://forums.elementalgame.com/439334/page/1/#3311666

It's a similar thing to what you want to do.  Just use a local ResourceType (not Shared) instead.  You might also want to set it to Stored = 1.

That should work.

Yeah, those are the same values on my custom sovereign.  I'm a bit mystified.  I also based this sovereign's data on Procipinee so, most of the values are the same, with the exception of head, hair, equipment, traits, etc.  But somehow my lady boss likes the camera.