Question about Player Abilities

I have a question about the abilities found in CorePlayerAbilities.xml.

Some have a "Default Value", which I see can be changed in a faction file such as:

Code: xml
<A_MaterialsYield>1.5</A_MaterialsYield>

I've also noticed that some abilities draw from CoreAbilities.xml and are placed in different tags without a value modifier.

Code: xml
<SelAbilityBonusOption>MasterSmiths</SelAbilityBonusOption>

But what about the ones in CorePlayerAbilities.xml which, in the file, do not indicate a default value? For example:

A_Farmer_Food
A_Research
A_FreePopulation

How are these added if you put them in a custom faction? I noticed some seem to be binary (on/off) abilities. Others seem to suggest that there is a value that can be edited, such as

A_Stationed_UnitStat_Essence

Basically I'm not entirely sure how to add the different types of abilities.. which ones can take a custom value (for boosting or nerfing the custom faction). Any help would be very welcome.

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If there is no defaultvalue, then the defaultvalue is 0. However, if there is a defaultvalue (not 0) then custom factions will record it in their raceconfig. This is a very stupid practice that they should never have implemented.

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Dumhed

Join Date 08/2005

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Thanks.

There are number of them that are not used at all in any faction, so I can't look to reference. You mention "if" they have a default value. Is there any way to tell which ones do and which ones don't? And some of them say they have a "bonus" but don't indicate how much.

Maybe it'd have to trial and error to make chances and see what the impact is?

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