Hello again! I've been using this mod to great success since my last message. I did notice in Irony Mod Manager there were a few conflicts in common/personalities with the popular mod "Real Space - New Frontiers". I'm unsure if there is much that need be done about this, but figured I'd give you the heads up in case it may be an easy fix. Thank you!

Fair, thank you! I shall use all three.

If you don't use the 'No Ethics Spawn Bias' mod, then worst case scenario, the game won't work at all. Best case, you'll get a partial set of the changes intended to change the spawn bias and that could lead to unpredictable behavior. I'd suggest using all three mods for the best experience, since I have no idea what could happen otherwise.

Is this still recommended if I don't use the Spawn Bias mod? Thank you!

I looked at the original compatibility patches and diffed those with the latest versions of each base mod at the time. Each one made updates to a common set of the same base files so I compared across each one and combined the changes into a single file revision. In some cases, it was a judgment call since one patch set some of the percentage weights to one set of values, while another one used a slightly different one. The result was my best guess at trying to keep things fair and balanced.

Heyo, so what exactly did you do to update this compared to the old outdated version of this years ago?

I confirmed the issue with some of the ethics being non-responsive so I went through again and made another round of updates. I haven't done much with the hive mind playstyle though so I'll need some more context if it's still having issues. Let me know if you're still seeing weirdness.

Can't select all ethics in bug branch with this enabled.

Seems to delete Form Ethics of Hives when i tested it in a running game.

I finally got around to checking this one out. I couldn't find any obvious failures either, but it didn't look like the patch was getting loaded. I finally just updated the version string to be current and tried creating a new game. I started seeing government types from the "More AI Personalities" mod so I'm wondering if that might be it. I've pushed an update with this change in place but I intend to play on this a bit more, and see whether that actually fixes the issue.

Can confirm it doesn't work with more ai personalities and/or bug branch anymore. The empires that spawn are all basic vanilla ones. Bug branch does correctly add ethics and civics, but ai personalities that spawn are all vanilla.

@valhariel You think you can take a look and update this, if it even needs updating? I've looked at all 4 mods files, didn't find any discrepancies, but kinda assume there should be by now?

This set of overwrites only touches files in the ethics/ and personalities/ folders, but requirements for barbaric despoiler are defined in the civics/ folder. I do see overrides from the original Bug Branch mod against barbaric despoiler and it seems like it's enforcing both militarist -and- xenophobe as requirements. For slavery in authoritarian governments, I also see the tooltip showing that slavery is allowed.

I'm wondering if it's a load order issue. I try to have this patch as low in the load order as possible, just to ensure there's no unforeseen conflicts. It might be worth trying that.

Don't know where these bugs originate from. First, I cannot enslave pops as an authoritarian government. Second, the barbaric despoiler is not a viable option when I am xenophobic even though it is an option in the tool tip. It requires I be militarist for some reason.

I've done a second pass through the files and made some updates based on another review of the vanilla files, compared to the changes made by the Bug Branch mod. I tried to align my patch more closely with the Bug Branch changes but I made some judgment calls with scaling the fanatic ethics buffs compared to the non-fanatic versions.

Let me know if this is closer to what you'd like to see or if further tweaking is needed.

Hi, theres a bug with this and the fanatic libertarian ethic, when having this mod on erases some bonuses and penalties. This possibly has other incompabilities elsewhere, but this is the one i noticed

Thank you!

Bless you this is awesome!