Custom AI personality?

[Ohirra]

Is it possible to create a custom AI personality and behavior for an empire, either with a mod or by editing the savegame file?

 

[SAS]

Moved to Mods forum.

 

[Ohirra]

Ah, thank you!

I forgot there was a whole forum dedicated to this stuff.

 

[Ryika]

Yes, copy-paste an existing personality from Stellaris\common\personalities and make sure it has a higher weight than the default personalities if your conditions are met.

If you want to attach the personality to a specific, prescripted empire, add a country flag to the empire in question (like the human prescripted empires do in Stellaris\prescripted_countries\00_top_countries.txt) and use that as your condition.

If you do that, you probably also want to check for fitting ethics still being present, since empires can change a lot over the course of a game. That empire that started as a fanatic militarist may very well become a pacifist over the course of a century, and its custom personality may not fit anymore. Much better to allow standard personalities to take over at that point.

 

[Ohirra]

Thank you, that's awesome.

Now I just have to learn how to code properly.

 

[Ohirra]

Is there a way to have an empire always choose specific policy options if it has a certain civic?

Also, is it possible to mod Empath hiveminds to pacify amoebas and crystals?