Seconded. We should be able to define those things in the racetype, so that it is inherited for any faction created from that racetype.

    <UnitStatType InternalName="UnitStat_ManaFromKills">
        <DisplayName>Mana From Kills</DisplayName>
        <DisplayNameShort>MFK</DisplayNameShort>
        <Description>Amount of mana this unit melee recovers when killing an enemy unit.</Description>
        <Icon>Piercing_Stat_Icon.png</Icon>
        <Hidden>1</Hidden>
        <DefaultValue>0.0</DefaultValue>
        <UnitStatGrouping>CombatStat</UnitStatGrouping>
    </UnitStatType>

I would like a way to get different resources from kills, even custom ones. Maybe change this tag from mana from kills to resource from kills and allow us to choose the resource.

But doesn't this include 1 for every group member?  Maybe he wants it per army unit rather than per group member (unless the population loot function can be set to do one for each army unit rather than each group member).

I would like a tag or tags so we can create roads between cities in different ways like spells, units, abilities, and treaties. I would also like to be able to create custom types of roads with different effects like stat modifiers, resource multipliers, upkeeps, and unique trading caravans. I would also like to be able to modify the effects of caravans with more freedom and without going into the ElementalDefs file.  

First off, you should switch your modding style because some of the things you want to mod are just easier to do by replacing the core files. Instead of putting things in the mod directory, you should mod from the game directory. Just make a backup of all the vanilla files and then start changing things. Anytime you start messing with ElementalDefs.xml or other files that require you to replace the whole file, it is easier to do it this way. I also hope you are using Notepad++ to mod instead of Notepad. It is free and pretty good at searches. Now that this is out of the way, let me see if I can find the things you need.

The starting population is in ElementalDefs.xml I believe. Should be easy to change. The default growth levels are also in this file.

The Improvement file will take the most work. Basically you just need to add a 0 to the end of everything that has to do with food. Then add a 0 to the cityhub levelup thresholds. Then increase all growth values in the same manor. Do the same for Prestige. The game calls Growth Prestige and Prestige is actually called Faction Prestige. Don't tell anyone about this.

Then you need to change the default amount of food gained from grain. This is in CoreResources.xml I believe. Also check CorePlayerAbilities.xml to make sure there is no overlap. 

In the CoreSpells.xml you will need to change all the growth and prestige spells. The descriptions for levelup choices are in the CoreAbilities.xml. Make sure to update them.

Now you'll want to change the CoreTaxRates.xml to give much less taxes. Seems like you did that.

Go into the folder called SP Only and change the additive food bonuses from technologies as well as prestige.

Population does not really affect anything else. The only other thing it affects is random events. Might go into CoreQuests.xml and add a 0 to the population triggers for the few events we have. Currently they are all set to have a chance to trigger at 200 Population. That is global pop BTW.

Sean, in CoreResources.xml, I am not seeing any values for food, what I mean is look at this example:

<ResourceType InternalName="FoodPerGrain">
<DisplayName>Food Per Grain</DisplayName>
<Description>Amount of food each unit of grain produces.</Description>
<Type>FoodPerGrain</Type>
<IconColor>0,0,0</IconColor>
<!--<Icon>Gfx//Icons//dude_icon.png</Icon>-->
<Icon>Gfx//Icons//Icon_Population.png</Icon>
<HideInHiergamenon>1</HideInHiergamenon>
<ModelColor>0,0,0</ModelColor>
<Worth>0</Worth>
<Global>0</Global>
<Stored>0</Stored>
<Rarity>0.0</Rarity>
<Shared>0</Shared>
<TradedByCaravans>0</TradedByCaravans>
<ShownInGlobalDisplay>0</ShownInGlobalDisplay>
<Medallions InternalName="Population_Res_Medallions">
<All>Res_Ores_Plains.png</All>
</Medallions>
</ResourceType>

All the values there are 0. It is the same for everything in that file which mentions food.

So the only value to change there is in coreplayerabilities right>> Just change it to 200 to have a factor of 10. The other 2 files don't need changes>

To use edits in the core files you must start the game through a shortcut with the -localdataonly tag.

"C:\Program Files\Stardock Games\FallenEnchantress\FallenEnchantress.exe" -localdataonly

otherwise the game downloads all core data from their servers and use that. This is being done during beta so they can push new versions without requiring patching.

I changed this like this

<PlayerAbilityType InternalName="A_Additive_FoodPerGrain">
<DisplayName>Base Food Per Grain</DisplayName>
<Description>How much food each unit of grain produces in a city.</Description>
<Icon>Icon_Level.png</Icon>
<DefaultValue>200</DefaultValue>
</PlayerAbilityType>

but in game it is still giving me only 20 food per grain so I am missing something.

Dunno, possibly you are using a custom faction. Custom factions save defaultvalues when they are created, and that saved value has priority.

Do you think you could make a separate thread for questions about modding? This threadd should be more about things we want to be able to do, but can't.

I would like to have tags for goddie huts that allow them to be persistant and not disapear when walked on.  In addition I would like to be able to give those goodie huts cooldowns, so you can't walk on and off them repeatedly. This would allow modders to create special persistant locations and dungeons.