I hope I am in the right place, I used to love messing with the trait point limit in endless space 1 and I would like to do the same here. Is there a way to do this currently?

There's a sandbox mod on the workshop at the moment which implements a trait that gives you -900 trait points, which basically lets you do what you want to do.

can you link that? I found a way to edit it for people look though in Endless Space 2\Public\Simulation open FactionTraits[Affinity] with notepad then search for either 100 or 95. edit the trait you want (its refrenced by the faction that normaly has it not its name) to any number you want

You can yes (that's actually what my old alpha mod did), however modifying the core files are a horrible idea because they'll be pretty actively overwrote :P

This is what you're looking for. It also has some extra "Cheat mode" traits too if you want to go that extra length.

well thats a problem lol, I must be dumb I installed the mod you sugested however no matter if I activate it in game or not it does not seem to do anything