Help this newbie; the docs for this game are vague

[Q]

Lucanos wrote:
"Especially the cultural traits which CAN'T be modified either (not when I tried anyways)."
Well I made a modification of the cultural file which gives all non neutral traits a total plus of about 6 points, but always in combination with negativ values in some fields. It works fine in my experience.

[Lucanos]

The reason why I wanted to change them was to lower the values (neutrals had a -25 on all traits except for happiness) and make it more interesting. So races would be really weak on one area, and somewhat strong in another.

For example: Imagine that most races would have between -25 to -50 in ship attack/defence - which would make battles more interesting. Warriors and other aggressive cultures had a modifier between +5 to -10.

-10 would be a good value in this case.

Also - the choice of culture would be more important.

But when I executed the game the Cultures.txt wouldn't load.

"Unable to load cultures.txt"

hmm...

[Hydraa]

you might want to double check and see that you have no stray spaces or blank lines. SE4 is paticular in wanting a specific format for its data files

[This message has been edited by Hydraa (edited 21 March 2001).]

[Sal]

You might also want to check the total modifiers to SC and make sure they are in an acceptable range, between -25 and +25 or some such.