Quick question, do these traits apply Empire wide modifiers? For example traits like ship damage +10% or station mineral output +20%?

Originally posted by Rabbit:

Quick question, do these traits apply Empire wide modifiers? For example traits like ship damage +10% or station mineral output +20%?

No, these traits will not affect empire directly unlike civics or some other trait mods, only affect POPs' attributes as vanilla traits do.

Ok good. There's way too many trait mods that just give out empire wide bonuses.

What does Mechanical Organism do? Does it allow Robots to Trade?

Originally posted by Refresh:

What does Mechanical Organism do? Does it allow Robots to Trade?

Mechanical Organism

• cost: -4
  
• Machines only
  
• Cannot be added or removed after the start of the game
  
• Effects:
  
  • Habitability: -140%

As machines have base habitability 200%, <Mechanical Organism> makes that as 60%.

Could you tell me what id Mechanical Organsims has?
The vanilla traits got ids like: trait_robot_mecanical_organsim or trait_mecanical_organism, but these don't work.

Originally posted by Delmagor:

Could you tell me what id Mechanical Organsims has?
The vanilla traits got ids like: trait_robot_mecanical_organsim or trait_mecanical_organism, but these don't work.

The trait IDs are following some simple rule. I'll give you some examples.

1. traits for bio species (trait_td_<trait name>)
e.g.) Multi-hiveminded: trait_td_multi_hiveminded
e.g.) Great Excuses: trait_td_great_excuses

2. traits for lithoids only (trait_td_lith_<trait name>)
e.g.) Meteor Strike: trait_td_lith_meteor_strike

3. robotic traits (trait_td_rbot_<trait name>)
e.g.) Laser Blasters: trait_td_rbot_laser_blasters

Note that some bio traits have alternative version of the trait for lithoids. For instance, <Gigantic> is separated as trait_td_gigantic and trait_td_lith_gigantic. If the trait affect [food output, food consumption, pop growth speed, leader lifespan], I'm pretty sure they have an alternative.

So, for <Mechanical Organism>, 'trait_td_rbot_mechanical_organism' will be its ID.

Thank you for this detailed response

The Multi-hiveminded trait says "not affected by hapinness", does that mean the population is no longer affected by happiness or the bonus from the traits are not affected by happiness?

Eternal youth makes your leaders immortal. I can choose negative traits that reduce my leader's age (these are either vanilla or added by your mod as this is the only trait mod I've added). Shouldn't those be excluded? Immortal - 5 years is still immortal, right?

EDIT: fleeting (vanilla) is indeed excluded, but Hemophilia isn't,

Um, what does Emotionless really do? It costs 2 points but only shows a negative effect. I'd expect it to do something about stability, maybe?