Thank you very much Parrot for the advice, and everyone contributing to this thread. It is extremely helpfull. I am working on a professions mod at the very least for my own use. I am planning on changing professions like the Adventurer profession to a 10% bonus experience for the player and a scaling additive fame per season gain, where you gain 0.05 fame per level of the player each season ie 1 fame every 20 seasons at level 1. Do I adjust the resource type to add a fameper resource or is there an easier way to do calculations within Gamemodifier text itself without having to make a whole new resource type? I also was curious about Troopcount because I wanted to change the General profession to +15% experience for troops and +1 troopcount on top of current technology etc. I've already added a merchant profession with bonus Gildar and shop discounts along with a few other changes.

I realized when I read over that, I meant to say rush discount for the merchant. I tried putting the perlevel tag in the per season tag together and it just didn't work. I'll try the troopcount idea!

I pondered the 'bump troop count' thing BTW, but didn't see an easy way to do this.  This is probably one of those 'try different iterations of troop count in a tag and see if one of them takes' situation.

Had a thought, thanks to the Butchermen... Butchermen have the Undying Curse ability, which increases their group size every time they score a kill:

    <AbilityBonus InternalName="UndyingCurseAbility">
        <AbilityBonusOption InternalName="UndyingCurse">
            <DisplayName>Undying Curse</DisplayName>
            <Description>When this unit kills a victim it adds another member to its group, to a maximum of 5 units</Description>
            <Icon>Ability_UndyingCurse_Icon.png</Icon>
            <GameModifier>
                <ModType>Unit</ModType>
                <Attribute>AdjustUnitStat</Attribute>
                <StrVal>UnitStat_MaxTroopsFromKills</StrVal>
                <Value>5</Value>
                <Provides>When this unit kills a victim it adds another member to its group, to a maximum of 5 units</Provides>
            </GameModifier>

I'm wondering if you tried:
            <GameModifier>
                <ModType>Player</ModType>
                <Attribute>AdjustUnitStat</Attribute>
                <StrVal>UnitStat_MaxTroops</StrVal>
                <Value>1</Value>
            </GameModifier>

If the game would accept that, and accomplish what you are going for?

<StrVal>UnitStat_TroopCount</StrVal> would be another iteration you could try.

Just a thought.

You need to place all graphics in the mod\gfx folder otherwise the game doesn't use any of them. You could also put them in the correct directory in the main game, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Is there any ways for item mods to share the same description?

Let me explain what i did so far.

I tried many ways to have the item description say +1% All resistance per level but i just can't figure out how to do it.

I tried packing all res (fire,cold,lightning,poison) into the same gamemodifier but when i do that only the last resist works.

I also tried to have the description hiden by adding <Provides></Provides> but that defaults to not adding it meaning i see +1 fire resistance +1 cold resistance + 1 poison resistance on 3 lines.

Basicaly i want to hide fire, cold, poison, and lightning res by having only +1% all resistance per level.

There is the code as of now : 

<GameModifier>
<ModType>Unit</ModType>
<Attribute>AdjustUnitStat</Attribute>
<StrVal>UnitStat_ResistFire</StrVal>
<Value>1</Value>
<PerLevel>1</PerLevel>
<Provides>+1% All elemental resistance per level</Provides>
</GameModifier>
<GameModifier>
<ModType>Unit</ModType>
<Attribute>AdjustUnitStat</Attribute>
<StrVal>UnitStat_ResistCold</StrVal>
<Value>1</Value>
<PerLevel>1</PerLevel>
<Provides></Provides>
</GameModifier>
<GameModifier>
<ModType>Unit</ModType>
<Attribute>AdjustUnitStat</Attribute>
<StrVal>UnitStat_ResistLightning</StrVal>
<Value>1</Value>
<PerLevel>1</PerLevel>
<Provides></Provides>
</GameModifier>
<GameModifier>
<ModType>Unit</ModType>
<Attribute>AdjustUnitStat</Attribute>
<StrVal>UnitStat_ResistPoison</StrVal>
<Value>1</Value>
<PerLevel>1</PerLevel>
<Provides></Provides>
</GameModifier>

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Also, is it possible to have the total given from level in the item description? Let's say the champion is lv 13. It would look like

+1 All Resistance per level (13)

is there a way for the 13 to be currentchampion level variable? does it exist?

Thank you for looking into it

Why not reduce the numbers in the CoreUnitGroupingType.xml and see if that will reduce the numbers to 2 soldiers. Note that the units that start with the sovereign are summoned separately and have their numbers fixed under the coreunits.xml where the sovereigns are located.

Hey Parrotmath, Heavenfall, etc.

I just spent about a day troubleshooting a quest.  I had made a simple change (from a turn activation to a resource level activation).  The quest would run fine, up to the point where the game would post your rewards, and then the game would crash.

In this case, I was using Research as my trigger, but I also tried Fame briefly.  I haven't tried Fame since 'finishing' up the code on my quest, but I was having issues with it as well.  When I changed back to a turn number trigger, the quest began working properly again.

Have any you guys figured out any tricks to get resource level quest triggers to work properly?  I did read recently where Heavenfall said that they had worked for him before, but weren't now under LH.

Two questions; I tried to add a tech in a standalone XML file, didn't work. Copy paste part of both "sources" in the Single player tech thingie. It's essentially similar to arcane armor in prereqs and all.

Second question, I added a new set of armor, the items work fine.. but the armor set doesn't show up in the tech view. How do I add sets there? (I copy pasted champions armor def, and messed around with values)

(my end goal is a file where both tech and items can be added, so I can easily add more item sets later)

Second this, if this is possible it would be easier to replace stuff. 

The xml that controls whether you have death or life shards is under CoreEnvironment.xml

As to the allegiance you might check the RaceConfig and see if you can change the value to a variety of different allegiances. Not sure if it is possible. Specifically the tag

<FactionAllegiance>Kingdom</FactionAllegiance>