Empire ruler "some effects might be disabled" trait

[Alxndr]

This message is not really that clear, it allows me to select these traits for my ruler but at the same time it gives a warning that some effects MIGHT not be disabled when he is the ruler".

https://i.imgur.com/y6qOIQl.png

So which is it, will they be disabled or won't they?

Why does this warning message show for some traits but not for others on my ruler?

[cswiger]

The ruler becomes governor of your capital world, so only governor traits matter and not traits which affect research, fleets, etc. The specific trait you show only works if your dude is a councilor in charge of research.

[Alxndr]

Originally posted by cswiger:

The ruler becomes governor of your capital world, so only governor traits matter and not traits which affect research, fleets, etc. The specific trait you show only works if your dude is a councilor in charge of research.

I'm playing as a gestalt empire and my ruler cannot be a governor, neither can my nodes. So I never take traits to apply to governorship of a planet, because they cannot be governors.

But they're all councillors so I dunno why it says this. I only get this warning for my ruler, all my nodes can take whatever traits they want, but my ruler? I get this message.

[PrincessOfChicago]

Maybe it's because your ruler is your ruler and not your councilor? Therefore you won't get the councilor-buff. Since you have just one ruler it would make sense that you get this warning just for your ruler.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by Alxndr:

I'm playing as a gestalt empire and my ruler cannot be a governor, neither can my nodes. So I never take traits to apply to governorship of a planet, because they cannot be governors.

But they're all councillors so I dunno why it says this. I only get this warning for my ruler, all my nodes can take whatever traits they want, but my ruler? I get this message.

As far as the game is concerned a empires ruler is just a normal scientist/commander/official. They likely didn't make a exception for a hive mind ruler. So that is why you gets those warnings.

[Teckny]

Well if this is a trait for your ruler it's obviously weird to propose it if it end up useless, if not then I don't know why they precise it, wtf 🤣

[PrincessOfChicago]

Originally posted by Teckny:

Well if this is a trait for your ruler it's obviously weird to propose it if it end up useless, if not then I don't know why they precise it, wtf 🤣

As far as I know only an empire-empire will have generated leaders/rulers. Democracies, dictatorships and corporations can get rulers out of the current pool. That means that your your new ruler could've indeed been your councilor before. Only within an actual empire your ruler wouldn't be part of the council as far as I remember.

[jamcarmody]

Originally posted by Alxndr:

This message is not really that clear, it allows me to select these traits for my ruler but at the same time it gives a warning that some effects MIGHT not be disabled when he is the ruler".

https://i.imgur.com/y6qOIQl.png

So which is it, will they be disabled or won't they?

Why does this warning message show for some traits but not for others on my ruler?

Does he have the capacity to fill those skills? I ask because council members don't benefit from a propensity to wander; it mixes up the job tasks and gets in the way of filling the job of that high-level administration meetings; or the like.