I'm trying to understand how exactly an Empire gets MF trait upon assimilation and make a mod that adds that trait to your empire trait list.

So far when a MF is assimilated, the Empire gets its fleet, the system with population, and trait as a reward. I feel like it's hard to compete in assimilation with an Endless AI and it mostly depends on proximity and timing: whoever discovers them first has a bigger chance of assimilating. What I would like to do is when you have a considerable amount of a certain population, you can build an expensive unique Culture center for that population will add that Race MF assimilation trait to your empire, so it kinda reflects that the Empire officially assimilated & integrated that minor race.

The problem is I cannot isolate the command or action or the event that assigns the MF trait specifically, from what I understand assimilation currently only works if there originally exists a system with a MF owning it, so when assimilated by an Empire, the Empire gets everything together as I mentioned before. I've found a list of MF trait descriptors, but I'm struggling to add these traits to my own Empire.

I called on these descriptors by creating a custom building, but it didn't work. It shows exact effects that Minor Faction traits display when you hover over with your mouse, however, when tested, it doesn't actually add those bonuses. Maybe I could do a permanent "share trait" boost? Another problem is that the name of MF whose trait you are getting is contextual, and I'm not sure what the actual "MinorEmpire" names for different minor races are.

Any advice would be appreciated, thank you for reading!

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