Hrmmm have are we all stumped?

Methods I've tried to circumvent the 3 point limit:

Adding an ability that instead of costing points produced negative points- it magically appeared in weaknesses even though it wasn't classed such and I can only pick one weakness so that doesn't work.

Adding a weakness, doesn't work because I can only take 1 weakness.

Haven't found how to remove the weakness cap yet.

Haven't found where to just add more race customization points yet.

Going to try making abilities cost .5, I expect display errors but if it works to get around this I can rescale everything.

Appreciate the thought, but hopefully this mod will be for public consumption, so honor system no worky

My guess is these things are hardcoded.

Haven't looked extensively at them though.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

Well in CorePlayerAbilites you have:

  <PlayerAbilityType InternalName="A_Traits">
    <DisplayName>Traits</DisplayName>
    <Description>The amount of traits this faction can support.</Description>
    <Icon>FactionAbility_Traits.png</Icon>
    <UsedAsMultiplier>0</UsedAsMultiplier>
    <DefaultValue>4</DefaultValue>
  </PlayerAbilityType>

If you were thinking about that. Otherwise, I don't know.

Stumped here as well. One of the few strings I have yet to come across. There is a string you can modify to add faction points to a custom faction...however, the faction already has to be created. This won't really help in your case, but for those casual gamers who want to experiment can use this for their individual purposes. Located in the folder: My Documents/My Games/FallenEnchantress/Race should be an XML file generated for each Custom Faction you have designed. Within that file there is a string of code -

<RemCustomizationPts>0</RemCustomizationPts>

Changing this value should add more points to the faction customization tool for this particular faction. Additionally, just below that string of code you can also add additional abilities or weaknesses without changing customization points. Those strings would look like this:

<SelAbilityBonusOption>Wanderlust</SelAbilityBonusOption>

<SelAbilityBonusOption>XXXXXX</SelAbilityBonusOption>  (replacing XXXXXX with the name of the ability you want to add using the specific name as it is listed in the CoreAbilities file).

Still haven't been able to figure out where the customization points originate from though

I know another way you can do this too. I found out by accident several months back that if you give a sovereign unit an ability that can be removed in the creation screen, when you remove the ability, you get your normal starting points and the points for deselecting the ability.

By sovereign unit, I mean the generic sovereign unit that is used for each race in core units. Not "Relias" etc.

When I stumbled upon it, it was while assigning magic paths to the generic sovereign and removing them in the sovereign creation screen. So, if you give the generic sovereigns some magic paths, you can remove their magic path picks and do creation as normal with more points when you are designing a new sovereign. This will achieve what you want to do without adding an additional ability to the creation screen.

You can create a flaw that gives -10 points. I have also tried multiple spots in ElementalDefines.xml, to no avail.

I used the flaws to make "more intense" versions with more points. This gives me what I want and doesn't feel like cheese.