Species Creation Question

[Emrakul]

There doesn't seem to be a logic to being able to create your own species. i don't see any drawbacks to just giving my species positive traits in all areas. am i missing something?

[ghost88]

Originally posted by Emrakul:

There doesn't seem to be a logic to being able to create your own species. i don't see any drawbacks to just giving my species positive traits in all areas. am i missing something?

Yes if you give negative traits in some areas you can give other areas more positive traits
But, no there is no draw back, except if you do not select Farmers Urbanites and the other two single choice traits you miss out on techs.

[Emrakul]

Originally posted by ghost88:

Originally posted by Emrakul:

There doesn't seem to be a logic to being able to create your own species. i don't see any drawbacks to just giving my species positive traits in all areas. am i missing something?

Yes if you give negative traits in some areas you can give other areas more positive traits
But, no there is no draw back, except if you do not select Farmers Urbanites and the other two single choice traits you miss out on techs.

Just to be clear im talking about the Edit Species screen, not the Civilisation traits screen.

[ghost88]

The first screen after you choose to edit a Civ?
If yes my answer stands.
If it is the screen in the Civ Creator?
I believe it still is the correct answer,
Have never used or had any need to Create a Civ just modify the existing ones though.

[Pizzarugi]

Originally posted by ghost88:

The first screen after you choose to edit a Civ?
If yes my answer stands.
If it is the screen in the Civ Creator?
I believe it still is the correct answer,
Have never used or had any need to Create a Civ just modify the existing ones though.

With the Species Pack DLC, you are allowed to create a custom species separate from civilization creation. You can do things like modify the base stats of your custom species.

OP is talking about that. You can create species with their stats maxed out and no known drawbacks.

[ghost88]

Originally posted by Pizzarugi:

Originally posted by ghost88:

The first screen after you choose to edit a Civ?
If yes my answer stands.
If it is the screen in the Civ Creator?
I believe it still is the correct answer,
Have never used or had any need to Create a Civ just modify the existing ones though.

With the Species Pack DLC, you are allowed to create a custom species separate from civilization creation. You can do things like modify the base stats of your custom species.

OP is talking about that. You can create species with their stats maxed out and no known drawbacks.

Thought that bug was fixed but Thx as I said I never saw a need to design a Civ from scratch

[Emrakul]

so it is a bug? ♥♥♥♥.

[ghost88]

Originally posted by Emrakul:

so it is a bug? ♥♥♥♥.

I believe it is or else you could do that with the Editor as well as the Creator
Make your Civ OP and your opponents weaker than day old kittens

[Noobc0re]

I agree, it's dumb. You can just make a super species that are good at everything. It doesn't really gel with the game.

It gets even dumber when you can't copy a species and get their extremes. So if they have an inherent large negative, you can't replicate that.

[graphitepaddle]

Thanks OP for starting this thread. After over 800 hours, still haven't created a custom race yet (it's on my 'to do' list). Would have figured for sure that GalCiv4 was using a point system for race creation, like Stars! did a quarter of a century ago.

[Emrakul]

i might just take advantage and ♥♥♥♥ it, make a species that's just good at everything. why not? if the Dev is going to be lazy with their sandbox, why shouldn't I?

[DarkFire]

Makes for creating a big bad (reigning galactic empire) and making the other civilizations their ♥♥♥♥♥.