How to disable custom races for AI

[Wolfschadow]

I wanted to make a playthrough with a custom race I crafted together but I do not want the AI to use my race aswell. I do not mean empire but a full race with new traits and all. Is there a possibility to disallow the AI from using my custom race?

[Minoris]

When you hit "New Game", click on the flaming eagle/phoenix bird beside your custom race. You can either allow them to spawn, force them, or forbid them entirely from spawning.

If you meant just forbidding the AI from using a portrait to create a random empire, then you have to mod it.

[Lord Castellan Majorian]

There is a small button on the bottom right of your race when you make it, click it and the AI can use any custom race except that one.

[Wolfschadow]

Originally posted by Minoris:

When you hit "New Game", click on the flaming eagle/phoenix bird beside your custom race. You can either allow them to spawn, force them, or forbid them entirely from spawning.

If you meant just forbidding the AI from using a portrait to create a random empire, then you have to mod it.

That would be a custom empire but I mean a entire species, like Humans, not like the united nations of earth.

[Wolfschadow]

Originally posted by Magister Militum Castellan:

There is a small button on the bottom right of your race when you make it, click it and the AI can use any custom race except that one.

if you mean the phoenix button it is not that what I mean. I mean a species, not an empire

[Minoris]

Originally posted by Wolfschadow:

Originally posted by Minoris:

When you hit "New Game", click on the flaming eagle/phoenix bird beside your custom race. You can either allow them to spawn, force them, or forbid them entirely from spawning.

If you meant just forbidding the AI from using a portrait to create a random empire, then you have to mod it.

That would be a custom empire but I mean a entire species, like Humans, not like the united nations of earth.

Like I said, if you want an entire portrait to be off-limit, then you'll have to mod it out. It would be nice to have a "tick" option in-game, but sadly enough this is the only way.

[lPaladinl]

Originally posted by Wolfschadow:

Originally posted by Magister Militum Castellan:

There is a small button on the bottom right of your race when you make it, click it and the AI can use any custom race except that one.

if you mean the phoenix button it is not that what I mean. I mean a species, not an empire

You can't do that with the base game currently.

[Wolfschadow]

Well f*ck. The problem is I made it quite strong and so then are the other empires what I don't want.

[Danny]

The AI should not be able to play as the species you play as... :\

[Wolfschadow]

Originally posted by Danny:

The AI should not be able to play as the species you play as... :\

But if the species has several icons it is possible for the AI to pick another one of them, right?

[lPaladinl]

Originally posted by Wolfschadow:

Well f*ck. The problem is I made it quite strong and so then are the other empires what I don't want.

You can't make "portraits" strong. You made it sound like you wanted the game to not play as your race cosmetically. You can't stop the A.I. from using portraits you've modded in.

If you made Civilizations using your portraits, all custom civs can be disabled from the A.I. using them... That's what the symbol by their name is for in the main menu.

It's really confusing figuring out what you're asking for.

[Wolfschadow]

Originally posted by lPaladinl:

Originally posted by Wolfschadow:

Well f*ck. The problem is I made it quite strong and so then are the other empires what I don't want.

You can't make "portraits" strong. You made it sound like you wanted the game to not play as your race cosmetically. You can't stop the A.I. from using portraits you've modded in.

If you made Civilizations using your portraits, all custom civs can be disabled from the A.I. using them... That's what the symbol by their name is for in the main menu.

It's really confusing figuring out what you're asking for.

Yes I mean cosmeticaly as I bound some custom traits to that race and I don't want to encounter them in the game.

[wolkenwand]

when you untick the bird symbol, AI race should not be able to use same trait as the custom race you create. Mind you that the AI might still pick the same portrait, but they will not get the same trait you create.

[Wolfschadow]

Originally posted by wolkenwand:

when you untick the bird symbol, AI race should not be able to use same trait as the custom race you create. Mind you that the AI might still pick the same portrait, but they will not get the same trait you create.

The problem is I wanted to make it easy for myself and have risen the costs of my custom traits to 50, thile they are usable for all bio races each but also increased the points they have so they can equip them. The AI just doesn't follow my way and makes an op race which I didn't want to happen. but nevermind I found a mod that lets me ignore the trait points and all in the creation menu, so that got sorted out

[Danny]

Originally posted by Wolfschadow:

Originally posted by lPaladinl:

You can't make "portraits" strong. You made it sound like you wanted the game to not play as your race cosmetically. You can't stop the A.I. from using portraits you've modded in.

If you made Civilizations using your portraits, all custom civs can be disabled from the A.I. using them... That's what the symbol by their name is for in the main menu.

It's really confusing figuring out what you're asking for.

Yes I mean cosmeticaly as I bound some custom traits to that race and I don't want to encounter them in the game.

You "bound" some custom traits to a portrait?
That's impossible, the portrait merely sits on top of your traits.
The AI may use some of your modded portraits, it will not use your custom traits, if you told the game to not spawn them in.

[Wolfschadow]

Originally posted by Danny:

Originally posted by Wolfschadow:

Yes I mean cosmeticaly as I bound some custom traits to that race and I don't want to encounter them in the game.

You "bound" some custom traits to a portrait?
That's impossible, the portrait merely sits on top of your traits.
The AI may use some of your modded portraits, it will not use your custom traits, if you told the game to not spawn them in.

no I made a custom race with their own portraits and added traits to the biological roster. These traits I made extremly expensive so nobody else is using them and gave the custom race more traitpoints. Now the AI uses my custom race but uses many of the cheap, good standard traits, what was not intended.