Adding Minor Races

Oh, ditto. This is something I'd love to do. I was actually coming ehre to ask the exact same question.

On another not concerning Minor races, I was wondering if anyone had found a way to make them able to trade ships in diplomacy?

I guess I'll go burrow into XML land to find out...

I have looked Everywhere. It seems minor races are listed nowhere in the any of the XML files. It seems not only can you not Add them, but you cannot modify the exisiting ones, the name of thier star systems, or even thier description in the foreign advisor's screen!

That is, of course, if I'm not missing something blanbantly obvious.

Take a glance at the raceconfig.xml and english.str in your Path_to_gc2/data/english direcrory
it's all in those
For the pics look at /gfx /race folder

Thank you.

Oh really? Cool! What do you use to open the str file?

Any text editor will do. All strings for ui are in there, as well as some "not implemented yet" stuff, just get into it...

Thanks! I added a custom minor race, but its kinda hard tell if it worked, as there is no way to pick what Minor races you get...

It should work out though, however simply just change all the minors to your own choise, and you should have the benefit.
BTW, the game seems to "randomly" pick the minors with the lowest ID first...just try in cheatmode the shift-ctrl-D to spawn new ones.
Has anybody else noticed, that by doing this, the newly spawned minor seem to be unable to develop themselfes, just as the initial minor do?, i.e. they don't build ships and I also guess they build no planetary improvements, since I took one planet and no improvements were build

Was just searching the forum and came across this thread.

I#ve successfully added my own minor races and all is sweet...however, it's a bit time consuming.

Is there a pre-released mod with the CFG file and the pictures already done that adds lots of new minor races?

How did you add your minor race? I went into the XML file and looked around, and recoginized the minor races, but I don't see a real difference from the minor races to the major races? Is there a certain category I need to make the new race to be a MINOR race? Thanks for any help.

My question also concerns this, I changed out all the original minor races with my own and they work great but I also added a bunch more to the raceconfig.xml file and none of them ever appear in game. How can I change this? I want the game to recognize all the minors I added.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Try here for a Stardock Modding Guide: Link

It is one of the stickies: Link

That was the first place I checked and It doesn't help. It does not cover adding more minor races than the game originally had.

Because (afaik) you can't add more. I've only had luck modding existing minors.

Well thats just a bummer. I had doubled the minor races in the game but now I can't use all of them. I like the idea of having a few of them randomly show up in a game. If anyone knows a way around this let me know.