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Researchers Gain Traits

Go right ahead. I don't really have time for modding Stellaris anymore.

I was looking at the innards of your mod and it seems you may have placed the changed file in the wrong place. leader_events_1.txt should go in the events folder rather than in common/events, which doesn't seem to exist anyway. Not sure if I've got a messed up version of the mod, but this would likely mean what you intend isn't actually working.

If you don't plan to update the mod, would you mind if I uploaded my version for people to use?

It didn't stop. It's just an election thing. Democratic governments no longer draw candidates from existing leaders, but instead of creating a new "candidate" leader type the game just creates normal leaders. They way it behaves (taking up your leader slots, and letting you dispose of presidient candidates you don't like) is a bug, but it's Pdox's bug, not mine.

Ok, looks like 1.2.0 or 1.2.1 put in some automatic leader granting. Went into a straight vanillia game and was getting extra leaders without cost. Not sure why it stopped on the prior game when I disabled the mod but it seems it was not this mod.

Didn't happen with my test game. The game does create leaders to fill candidate slots in democratic governments, so you might be seeing that?

That should not be possible, because there's no code I added that touches leader creation. I'll test things some more from my end, but if the bug is confirmed it kills the mod.

Have a bug showing up for me. I'm getting a new leader each time they would have leveled up instead of the existing leader getting a new trait. And not just researcher scientists. My trial game ended up giving me an extra 4 military leaders and 3 governers without names.