Selecting Tech Tree in Civilazation Builder

[Guard1an4]

I can't find the option in the new civ builder to select which tech tree I want to use. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Radagar]

I thought it was based on your lifeform type and various traits you picked. I don't think there was a tree selection like galciv II had.

[Guard1an4]

There was in the base game but not with the newexpansion pack.

[Shaupat]

Radagar is correct -- in Crusade, your traits determine your tech tree.

[Guard1an4]

P.Shaw that you for your reply. Honestly, I liked being able to select a base tech tree. I have tried several traits and haven't found the traits that give me the techs from the tree i used to use. I feel this is an oversight on the game. While I haven't tested every option, I don't like that unless you use specific traits that you just have the basic tech tree with no customization available. I feel this forces the player to use just those traits to have an interesting tech tree at all. The player can only have 2 traits so this limits your choices. I liked being able to select a race as my basic tech tree and then using traits to modify it some.

I would love to see a tech tree editor built into the civ editor. For balance, maybe you could only pick a certian number of the speciality techs from the various races. I honestly like custom building my civ while each of the prebuilt civs are cool I like tweeking various things about them. I love some of the new aspects of the crusade expansion pack but not being able to select a base tech tree is very annoying to me.

[Airmaster]

Originally posted by Guard1an4:

P.Shaw that you for your reply. Honestly, I liked being able to select a base tech tree. I have tried several traits and haven't found the traits that give me the techs from the tree i used to use. I feel this is an oversight on the game. While I haven't tested every option, I don't like that unless you use specific traits that you just have the basic tech tree with no customization available. I feel this forces the player to use just those traits to have an interesting tech tree at all. The player can only have 2 traits so this limits your choices. I liked being able to select a race as my basic tech tree and then using traits to modify it some.

I would love to see a tech tree editor built into the civ editor. For balance, maybe you could only pick a certian number of the speciality techs from the various races. I honestly like custom building my civ while each of the prebuilt civs are cool I like tweeking various things about them. I love some of the new aspects of the crusade expansion pack but not being able to select a base tech tree is very annoying to me.

I certainly have to agree here. It would be great if we had a breakdown of what traits go with what tech tree. So far there has been no documentation on this and picking a traits has been hit and miss to get the right tech tree for your race.

Please, can we get a breakdown of what traits serve what tech trees.

[ops]

The tool tips are certainly not very helpful in this respect. Also, my experience is that silicon finds promethium much tastier than the durantium specified under race type->silicon.

[The Golden Knight]

More on the meta side, digging through the AbilityDefs.xml file - the file that defines all the traits - does nothing for the tech tree. It gives you the passive bonuses (called "Mods" or "Triggers" depending on how they function; like a "Mod" to give +20% Resistance or a "Trigger" to instantly award you a specific tech), but nothing about expanding the actual tech tree.

[Horemvore]

This

https://steamcommunity.com/app/226860/discussions/1/1696046342872548776/

[The Golden Knight]

I saw that...it tells what techs go with what traits, but does not tell me how to adjust those techs from the AbilityDefs file. Also there is no "MasterTechsDef" file.