[HELP] Modifying Galactic Ambitions Technology

[jlbrown95]

I'm trying to separate the 20% border growth of Galactic Ambitions from its secondary effect, gaining the survey data of other empires.

Modifying the 00_defines.lua file and nullifying the:

TECH_TO_SURVEY_OWNED = "tech_galactic_ambitions"

line seems to just remove the tech requirement for the survey data, consequently giving you the data even if the technology has not been researched - definitely not the change I was looking for.

I know that if you take over the other empire's territory the survey data is reset so you can survey again, but this is irrelevant if playing a pacifistic empire - I'm hardly likely to take over other empire's territory and thus those systems will remain surveyed.

Does anyone know how I can address this issue? Currently left scratching my head for a solution

 

[asnys]

Does anyone know how I can address this issue? Currently left scratching my head for a solution

I haven't tried this, so I don't know if it will work, but what about setting TECH_TO_SURVEY_OWNED to a tech that doesn't exist? Or to a new tech which has prerequisites that can't be met?

 

[Sotof]

A way I have seen it done is to make a dummy tech so it can never get researched.

 

[jlbrown95]

A way I have seen it done is to make a dummy tech so it can never get researched.

This isn't working for me at the moment - changing

"tech_galactic_ambitions"

in any way, either by nullifying it or changing it to a dummy tech simply makes the game revert to giving you the survey data of other empires without even researching Galactic Ambitions

 

[Adrik Thorsen]

You actually need to crate the dummy tech that it points to. Then give it unattainable pre-requisites. Like having all FTL techs(including jump drive) researched.