Cheating to add traits, how do i do it?

[konny]

The computer just isn't appointing any of them, at all, no matter how many battles i fight with them, what cities i appoint them to, how many cities i conquer, etc.

The trait file just asks for influence, relative age and offices held before. So, no conquests, heroic victories and the like will help your FMs to advandce the crusus. There is a certain percentage chance to be elected if the requirements are fullfilled. If your FMs are not elected they either do not qualify (most likely to young) or were simply not fortuante enough.

Anyways, there is no way to recreate a correct cursus honorum by traits because you usually do not have enough FMs to fill all offices every year and the trait file does not know what you would need or how many people are allready holding an office. That is, it is possible to have 3 or 4 consuls elected in one year but no quaestors.

What rules do people who use this cheat use to appoint offices? I was thinking of looking at who are most elligible for each office based on management, influence and other traits, like if they're the son of a former consul, if they have the political animal traits, if they're unusually aggressive or geared for management of a city or if they look like they'd make a good general.

I use:

Quaestors - Management
Aediles - Squalor
Praetors - Law
Consuls - Command Stars plus Troop-Moral plus Bodyguard-Experince

Add to this the influence and the influence of relatives or members of the same gens who allready hold a higher office. The one with the most points gets the job. I hold elections every five years, otherwise I won't do much else than checking traits. It also give governors some time to reach their province.