Idea about ability points

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Have you ever been choosing your race's abilities and needed just 1 more point for that bonus? What if we add negative modifiers to the abilities screen as well? For example, you're short by 1 point to get the top PQ bonus so you take a hit in something you don't care about. So you could take a -10% Espionage to get that last point and get a 10% bonus to your PQ! I don't know if this is a terribly good idea, or even possible, but I'd like to try. Does anyone know if this is moddable, or is this something that Stardock has to do?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Bump:

Also, I've noticed in the Political parties xml file that some of the parties have negative bonuses that don't appear in any of the game's docs. Are they applied? Or are they just ignored?
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
This has been discussed, but it could cause too much cheese. If it were limited, to say maybe gaining only one more point, it might be ok, but I don't know how hard that would be to incorporate.
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Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It will add more variety to games. We could go for all out production and weapons, or research the AI to death.

Cheese is for weak players, I'd never promote it. I just want more options to try out.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
there is such a mod for this, but you may want to look through the files first, the spelling, it's just.... terrible