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Mass Effect Civilizations - Asari

@Garant26 : Ah... I'm afraid the two are nearly inseparable. The way we designed a lot of the backend stuff, the Origins, Civics and Traditions are all interlocked.

Tbh, the Civics can be considered glorified tooltip containers and status indicators, yet are referenced by scripts far more than they should be. Most of the infrastructure is simply scripted with the assumption that Civics always go with their parent Origins.

The embarrassing truth is, I don't even remember how it's set up anymore. I just know that the time and effort that would be required to separate all the stuff would be... a lot >.<

Hello! Been a fan of this mod for years.
I have a small suggestion, woulfd it be possible to have the Thessian Statecraft civic somehow accessible for Asari custom empires that are not the Asari Republics (which are great, but RP-wise I love creating my own offshoots)? It could be a civic that is tied to the Asari apearence and can't be removed after game start or something like that to prevent weirdness. The Ecclesia Trends and such are very fun, I feel like missing out on a part of the content.
Thank you for your hard work & perhaps consideration!

Stabbity, there were never hundreds of outfits for your pops in pre 4.0*.
There was never a pre 4.0*
These are vile blasphemous rumours spread by the unclean.

Update!
Lots of general polish and some balance/feelslance adjustments, BUT also some good news!

Turns out, while Pops indeed can no longer support our old Outfit Selector setup, with some adjustments, we were able to reintroduce some fashion sense to Pop Groups.
(Big thanks to the SE Restyled team for figuring it out <3)

They can't wear job-specific clothes like they used to, and due to how strata are set up, slave clothes also don't work with Indentured Assets (RIP Illium maids), but Civic and Authority-based variants can serve as a decent substitute.

That said, we're still going to prune the pop wardrobe big time come Portraits 2.0, so please enjoy while it lasts n_n

Hmm... it was originally designed to be a surprise reward for taking an unconventional path, but I suppose you're right. At this point, it's probably okay to let the tooltips be more informative. I'll try to figure something out.

@ Stabbity Oh, well you might want to include that little detail in the civics description!! spent way too long trying to figure out what the hell i was doing wrong.

@victoriousdread07 (private): No, you aren't supposed to. It can be unlocked via one of the Thessia origin's routes.

Possible Bug: Is there a reason i cant seem to pick the ascendant destiny civic?

That said, the changes actually line up nicely with our future plans.

In the future, we plan to rework the portraits as part of our PORTRAITS 2.0 project. The plan was always to trim the fat off pops and focus 90% of our energy on leader portraits, but post 4.0, we might as well make it 100%

And from a more pragmatic standpoint, the depiction of pop_groups in the planet UI is practically microscopic, so even if they could still have conditional clothing, we likely would have ended up giving them a single generic outfit anyway. Because there's no reason for such tiny icons to load and keep multiple full-sized clothing textures in your working memory. I imagine Stellaris devs had similar concerns when they were trying to make pops less performance-hostile.

"Hundreds of outfits for your pops" sounded like a great selling point years ago, but it probably was never worth the cost.

Yes, to elaborate, the game no longer uses the "pop" asset_selectors. Those selectors still exist in code, but as far as we can tell, they've been deprecated and likely will be deleted for good one day.

While the role of pop_groups may be similar as far as they are presented to players, on the portrait backend, they do NOT depict pops with jobs, strata, modifiers, planetary conditions, etc. Instead, a pop_group depicts the species that forms it. So, it draws portraits from the default species scope. It has no bespoke portrait definition of its own.