The trait system is really beginning to grate on my nerves!

**Quillan** · 06-02-2006, 20:35

Wow, that really was a drop. I don't have BI, and my rule is to always spend down to the point where I don't go over 50K even with greater income than anticipated.

**Excalibur Bane** · 06-03-2006, 01:36

So there is absolutely no mods whatsoever to solve this problem? I find it incredible stupid to be punished for having excess denarii to spend. ERE is a big empire, and I tend to be a defensive player. Build everything up to the best that can be built, defend in the meantime, then come out kicking and steamroll everyone else.

Is there no way to just disable the whole system within the game? How would I go about removing all the anti-traits? Or at least the ones that make no damn sense.

As it stands now, I'm getting hammered by the Sarmatians, who bribed one of my best cities and conquered Constantiople from me with their wonderful horde. WRE is sinking every ship I have. The Sassinds are keeping me quite busy trying to finish them off. Most of my cities have no governors at all and my generals are all getting killed off by a super assassin somewhere near Constantinople as I'm trying to bring up forces from Anitoch to pin them down. It's a fine mess.

If I don't find a way to get rid of these traits, I'm shelving it and waiting for MTW 2. I've had about my fill of this non-sense.

**lars573** · 06-03-2006, 15:15

Well most traits are kind of on a line. With 0 being the starting point and the good and bad version being the positive and negative ends on the line. So the bad management are the opposite end of the good management. It's just that good management isn't the anit-trait to bad, so you can have characters with good manager traits and bad at the same time.

And like I said if you add a zero or two to when the checks happens you can have a really fat treasury. So the question is where is it in the traits file that designates where the checks for bad manager start?

**Epistolary Richard** · 06-03-2006, 15:50

Go to your descr_strat file - remove all the lines beginning 'traits'

Then delete everything in your export_descr_character_traits file.

You'll get a couple of non-CTD error messages, but you'll be able to start a campaign without any traits.

**lars573** · 06-04-2006, 04:19

So how do I change when the checks for embezzeler start?

**Captain Fishpants** · 06-05-2006, 10:36

Originally Posted by Epistolary Richard

Go to your descr_strat file - remove all the lines beginning 'traits'

Then delete everything in your export_descr_character_traits file.

You'll get a couple of non-CTD error messages, but you'll be able to start a campaign without any traits.

Just FYI, this will also remove all the beneficial traits as well, so don't expect to see any high-star generals around after you've done this.

It should go without saying that you should make a copy of the original files first before any editing.

**Avicenna** · 06-05-2006, 11:31

Alternatively, you could try to find those few traits and exclusively delete those. It makes no difference though, only the influence or command decreasers matter. Management is only for money, which you'll have plenty of anyway.