Simple question+idea about rival factions

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Is there a way to designate computer-controlled sovereigns (custom or not) to automatically belong to custom factions I've created, every time I start a new game?  In other words, I want my custom sovereigns to belong to custom factions I've made (while selecting rival factions at the start of a new game), instead of simply joining random factions with no control over which one they end up in whenever I start a new game.  I expect it's a pretty simple thing to do, but I cannot figure out how to pull this off.  Hope I'm being clear enough.

 

Either way, I firmly believe this feature should be a basic option plainly displayed while creating a sovereign; freely being able to select a faction they belong to, so that AI can easily assign them to the specific faction when they are selected as opponents in future play sessions.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Yes there is. You'll have to open two XML files. The first will be the XML for the custom sov you created. Copy the internalname of the sov (Usually just the name you gave them with a bunch of numbers afterwards). This will be located in my games/elemental/Units. Then, in /my games/elemental/race, open up the XML for the faction you created. There is a tag <SovereignUnitType>. Replace whatever is in between there with the copied internalname of your custom sov. Hope this helps.

 

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

So it is pretty simple!  I'll be trying this out shortly, but it sounds very straight-forward.

 

Assuming I don't somehow mess something up, many thanks for the tip!

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