Please discuss issues or questions related to the WIll-as-Mana System HERE

If I understand correctly: if I run this alongside your Psionics Class mod, then the psionics class soldier is also affected by the minimum will requirements for casting psionics, but the casting does not cost that soldier any will?

That is correct :)

Sounds good, it makes a lot of sense if you consider them more gifted at psionics. I will definitely use both mods then!

How would will out of combat work then? Can you spam syphon will to get your soldier to full will, making them kind of immune to fatigue? Or take a tired soldier and heal his will in combat.

Technically -yes .. but you need a source to Syphon Will from ... it's a Syphon, not a Generate.

So you could Syphon a fellow squad member, but then all you are doing is "shifting" who has the worse will. Which is part of the design, you need to choose who/how/what/why gets their Will degraded for recovery in the strategy layer.

Are RPGO psionic classes like the Channeler, Resonant and Telepath from RPG Overhaul - Psionics Specializations Extended or should I add them to the list of excluded classes?
(I tend to have them use their abilities mainly, but do have some GEMS that aren't on their skill list in their amps, if I have them.) Recently started a new campaign, am up to May 2035 and have no psi units except for the Templar yet.

RPGO is gonna be a nightmare to exclude as all those classes are just "UniversalSoldier" under the hood.

Oh, I was going to try using the template names for the specializations (Channeler, Resonant, and Telepath) and hope it worked. Though I guess that won't work.

I guess I'll test it and see what happens.

Noticed Psi Implants don't have the Syphon Will ability. Is that intended? (I think they were limited in the previous version and I didn't notice when I was going through the ini files. I can save, quit and try to look for them.)

i dont like the exponential time increase of psionic projects. Psionics are aleady expensive to make and research gating psionics to late game. How do i remove this if it's a ini section

@Sinapus
Psi Implants don't have the Syphon Will ability by design - they are intended to be used by classes that are excluded from the Will Drain mechanic and thus have no need of the Syphon Will ability. However it is a really simple change in that mods configs files... look for the XComGameData_WeaponData.ini in that mod and set the following;

@combatide
I'd obviously love for you to try out this new option to see how this affects the balance. But if you really don't want it then in this mods configs, XComPsionicsExMachina.ini change the following lines (to false):

Can you add step by step how-to on disabling this will-as-mana sytem? I have a game in progress and I don't want to change everything or risk issues :/ I cannot find that toggle anywhere :/

Originally posted by RustyDios:

@Sinapus
Psi Implants don't have the Syphon Will ability by design - they are intended to be used by classes that are excluded from the Will Drain mechanic and thus have no need of the Syphon Will ability. However it is a really simple change in that mods configs files... look for the XComGameData_WeaponData.ini in that mod and set the following;

OneMorePsiAmp_StartingPsiPerk = PexM_SyphonWill ;OneMorePsiAmp_StartingPsiPerk = none

@combatide
I'd obviously love for you to try out this new option to see how this affects the balance. But if you really don't want it then in this mods configs, XComPsionicsExMachina.ini change the following lines (to false):

bTechsIncreaseOverTime_PCS = true bTechsIncreaseOverTime_GEM = true

All the changes are great. I personally don't like the exponential time increase. By the time i get to late game, the exponential time increases makes all of the collected meld useless. I dont want to wait 20 days to craft 1 gem when i have 300 meld sitting around. I was playing on normal difficulty.

@RustyDios: Thanks, I'll try that.

@combatide: I noticed that on my Commander-level difficulty campaign. Kept loading more and more GEM and PCS projects and never ran out of meld. It doesn't seem to be possible to sell meld either, though that might be an interaction between this mod and another mod on my end.