Ok thanks, will give it a shot.

Well, I am not exactly sure what your problem is, but there is the elemental.str file that you can edit a simple text editor that you can look at and maybe it holds your answer.  Can you tell us what you are doing and maybe we can figure out if that is what you should be editing.

Yep it's in there.

If you mean the little icon things just name them in the same way the default icons are named and it automatically works if I recall correctly.

Is there anything like a modding guide, except this one? That one is basically just an intro to the various tools. This game seems very accessible from a modding perspective, and what has always stopped me from modding has never been lack of design skill or ideas (I do a lot of P&P RPG design) but rather that I've never been able to learn a programming language (not for lack of trying).

But without understanding how the game works it's still hard; I've tried messing around a bit this afternoon, but everytime I think I've understood something it seems I mess it up again without knowing why.

Wow, thanks a LOT! Now my weekend will be full

I don't think it is possible to disable it for a single player.

I would recommend that the faction you want to eliminate it for just eats fame for breakfast. Or has a penalty that prevents that faction from getting fame altogether. You would have to create a cost per turn for the faction that just removes fame accumulated by that faction. There are bonuses to fame given to questing by Altar, maybe you can reverse the effect on this faction.

The other idea is to create a separate resource where every faction gets it like fame, except the faction you are creating.

I don't think there is a clean way of doing this.

Fame is used to hire henchmen for Altar. Might be a few other things, but I can't think of it right now.

Speaking as kind of a newb myself, but that has put more hours than I care to admit these last two weeks, I'd say +1 fame per turn seems a bit much for a trait, though it'd be kind of a strange trait if done by itself; if I were to design the trait, I'd have a lesser trait and combine it with something else. +1 Fame per round is a lot in the early game, but quickly loses importance as the stuff you can do with fame is very limited.

I'd probably do something like: "Popular - +1 fame every three turns, unit wages -10%".

For the weakness, though Init is very very powerful, sovereigns tend to end up with a lot. Still, I'd probably put it at -1; more than that and I couldn't see myself ever taking it. Or perhaps make it a percentage?

Primal_Savage, this is exactly what I have been thinking or a long time but said much more simply.  It also relates to abilities being a flat % based instead of a slowly growing ability.  With abilities that have % based increases you can have uncontrolled growth due to multiple stacking.  Or a lack of stacking and end up with static increases and only have a marginal effect in the long run.

I always look at the sovereign bonus to be more of an initial game boon and doesn't grow with the sovereign as that is the point of the level-up system. If you want it to grow with the sovereign, they really should produce another level up tab for the profession of the sovereign. But then there are just not enough levels given to a character to justify this tree as well.

I don't think there's necessarily anything "wrong" with having a trait choice that provides a significant boost earlier game but less impact later game.  Wealthy for example is like that.... and I think it works ok.  

Wealthy could be setup in several ways:

+500 starting goldar (like now), early game bonus

+5 gildar / turn... bonus that last all game

+1 gildar/level per turn... scales into the late game

Note those values are probably way out of balance, it just illustrates the point.

Personally I think it's interesting to have a mix of choices, some that impact more early game vs. some that scale better.

Good point.

But yet Might is +3 Attack right? (i'm at work can't check).  So there is a mix, which is fine.

The resource providing ones don't scale with the sov:

Wealth +500 starting gildar.

Attainment +2 Mana/turn.

I guess I was looking at the "Famous" trait as being similar to Attunement.... i.e. a nice early game boost that becomes less relevant late game. 

Fair enough, though I would point out that Wealthy (LH 1.6) does scale with the Sov Power or at least the Faction Power (In that the stronger you are, the better the loot you usually find):

+400 Gildar & Double value when selling in shops

So in absolute, you get maybe +5 Gildar from selling low-end item but +100 for selling high-end item.

In any case, if you want +1 Fame/Season, I'm not stopping you! It does seem a bit better than the Adventurer Profession, but I'm not sure I would select either when creating a Sovereign.

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