Let us decide starting ruler traits!

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LaurenceC96

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With the level of customisation available for your star nation, it seems peculiar that we cant decide the traits for the starting ruler and that these are randomised. Although I feel that the option to leave these as randomised should be available, often for roleplay reasons I'd like to have specific traits for my starting ruler ie. Dolores Muwanga for me is a visionary with the explorer trait and hence why the UNE is now exploring and expanding in space. I've often reloaded countless times to get the traits I want for my roleplay, however the randomness of this means this can take a lot of reloads. This is just a little request to have a tiny bit more customisation for our empires but I feel would make a big difference for roleplay!
 
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Agreed, and save the traits in the custom empire block so your future games will meet that same leader with those same traits.

Mods which modify the number or available types of leader traits should be respected by the interface, and you should be able to pick "random" for one or more traits to let the game randomize that trait on start.
 
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"Ruler Agenda and Traits" does exactly that if you're willing to settle for a mod in the meantime.

If you add "Perfect Start" mod, you also get to pick the traits for researchers, science ship leaders, generals, admirals, etc. Have to do it after game start and costs same price in energy as hiring from the leader pool.
 
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