Absolute Settings vs Relative Settings

Is there a way to distinguish the two?

I've noticed, while modding the tech tree, that some settings are absolute whereas other settings are relative.

For instance, whatever you set LogisitcsAbility to 9, that is its actual value so it is absolute.

But when you set DiplomacyAbility to 10, that is its increased ability which it adds to the value already there.

The advantage of relative is you can have research from more than one path to increase that ability.

If I want more than one research path to help increase logistics or range it's nigh-on impossible unless there is a way to set relative values for these.

Is there?

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Some use a percentage, some use a absolute value.

Logistics uses an absolute value, as in there is 10 more logistics points so you can increase fleet size by (for example) 5 more ships with a logistics value of 2.

Research (or Diplomacy) uses a percentage, so an increase of 10 would increase the overall research by 10% (whether it is based on civ-wide or planet-wide would depend on other factors - like the research resource is a civ-wide bonus, but the Omega Research Center is planet-wide).

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Hey, I was wrong! They are all relative.

I got confusued with the setting in race configurations which are absolutes!

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