Are you going to abandon this mod again?
Haha, no. Barring some unexpected event, Xenology will always remain up to date from now on, even if it stops getting new content.

@JonasIV
I feel incredibly dumb, thank you for telling me
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2774388842 this should work

ayo bro youve just linked it to this one again

Well, seeing as this mod is abandoned, I've uploaded an unofficial update for it here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2403756280

Hey Devious, I was wondering if you'd be alright with a fan update of this mod?

Update?

yeah well you dont see devious around here anymore do you

I also avoid all other Trait mods like the plague, because it's almost all wanky garbage.

Devious cares about - and understands - the concept of game balance.

nah you trippin

@JONASIV
Maybe because there was quite a bit of negativity. I also was very skeptical of it before trying it out. This is still the only traits mod that I feel is very well balanced. It doesn't have any inconsequential negative traits that are essentially free points, the cheap ones are nothing beyond nice bonuses and the expensive ones really do require commitment to get the most out of them.

yeah man i know, ages ago there was another version of it with different traits and god damn it was fantastic, not sure why he started all over again just to once again abandon it

@ JonasIV
Very unfortunate cause it was one of the best ones there was. On paper it looks really bad but when actually in game they are all very well balanced. The cheap ones are indeed that; cheap bonuses that don't impact much but do help a little. The expensive ones change your entire gameplay and actually are worth it if you're willing to commit to them.

its dead man. let the mod rest in peace

Please update your mods, the launcher swears a lot and the game crashes when I load your mods. Please, can you fix your mod, the mod does not want to work correctly in the new version 3.2

Please, is it possible to update, the mod does not want to work correctly in the new version 3.2

its dead bro.

Devious sometimes needs to take breaks due to real life. It was dormant for quite some time in 2020 too, or in 2019, or both. He'll get around to updating it when he's able.

Looks like this mod is dead. It hasn't been updated in 8 months

I was wrong though. After trying it some more the higher ones really are worth it. They are expensive but also pay off.

I'd be very skeptical of that. The 3.1 update seems like a very minor thing to us players, but according to the dev diaries, extensive changes were made to the scripting side of Stellaris, so based on that one would expect few mods to work-as-intended with 3.1.

Even things such as giving Rulers or Leaders Traits based on Species Traits might not work as intended, and it's the kind of thing that isn't immediately obvious if you play for 5-10 minutes.

Was testing thsi mod and it would appear that even tho not updated it so far works with 3.1

Has anyone already done a run as Clone Soldiers with this mod?

I think getting this mod updated to 3.1 ought to be a higher priority.

So.... two months on, do we have an ETA for Synthetics?

Needs updating for 3.1 Lem if poss please

update?

I've been using Xenology with 3.0.4, without problems.

This isn't updated for the most recent version of the game, correct?

@kinngrimm, @Devious: I'd be game for helping with a German translation, being fluent in both English and German

currently the traits are shown with the names of their variables trait_ ... . I guess that is due to language settings, in my case german. As a work around you could make it so that every language uses the same base, everything then being in english till you would get around to have it translated.

hi im just gonna check this mod out...

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Hi, i just wanted to say thank you for making this mod. It's definitely one of my absolute favourite mods.

And please take all the time you need to make the synthetic module. You're doing this for free, and we have no right to ask you to do it any faster than you'd want to.

Any E.T.A. on the synthetic module?

when do you think the next module will be?

Muggins never did remove the offensive noose from Despondent smh. He said he was going to replace it with a storm cloud.

This mod seems to work fine with 3.0.3.

When can we expect an update?

@Lance

Give it a while, updates take time.

Abandoned once again.

Sorry, my brain derped.

@Peter34, see the full list in the discussions

Can you please document this mod more thoroughly, but explaining what the various new Leader Traits do?

In a new game, 43 years in, I've got Droids, and my Lithoid POPs have the Inept Trait, which gives them -33% productivity from Strategic Resource Mining Jobs (also answering a question I had: Is the Trait meant to affect Extraction Jobs, or Production Jobs, or both?). Now I have a planet with a Fuming Bog, letting me build 2 Gas Extraction Wells.

To my surprise, I see my Lithoid dudes doing those Jobs, even though the Droids would be better suited, due to *not* having the Inept Trait.

Do the Traits added by this mod interact with the Job Weighting system at all? If no, why is that?

I deliberately created a Lithoid species with Hedonistic and some spare Trait points, intending to genemod the Trait away as soon as I got the Tech for it, but now that I have those Trait Points (4), the Trait doesn't appear in the Species Edit screen. It's not even present but dark meaning that I can't remove it. It's not present at all.

Is it supposed to be impossible to remove? I remember seeing 1 or 2 Traits like that, but it doesn't say that Hedonistic is impossible to remove anywhere, in-game, or in the out-of-game documentation, the list of new Traits.

What's up? Is this a bug?

Any update on when the synthetic module will be out?

I seem to get som weird text strings with 3.0.3beta (playing in English) because of this mod, but so no serious problems so far.

Warning for people thinking of downloading this mod, This ate my game at about 100 years in and has now made my save unplayable


trigger.cpp:440]: invalid scope for trigger. got [leader], expected {country, dlc_recommendation}. file: common/traits/xte_01_ruler_traits.txt line: 237

For what it's worth, looking it up, I found a topic suggesting that the "requires trait = xyz" approach doesn't actually work.

Hey! Very nice mod overall, but I seem to be getting the negative traits from obstinate on rulers from a non-obstinate species? This didn't happen before 3.0 afaik. The traits from this the species does have are generic memory, flexible, and inquisitive.