Hi everyone,

I think many are in agreement that Collective Minds as an ability is a serious problem. Now that we got the mod tools - how do we fix it?

I found the affinity, but it appears to be an unchangeable action in the mod tools.

Possible solutions/work arounds -

1. Make Collective Minds effectively useless. I was thinking of changing it to the procession action as a placeholder.

2. Add a 10% passive science increase to Scientific affinities. Remove Collective Minds entirely.

3. (Ideally my preferred option), Destroy the builder-scientific culture nexus by only allowing the conversion of Money to Science. We can rename the ability Scientific Investment. This however is the hardest possible solution with the mod tools as they currently are.

Any ideas?

I was looking for that and found it like you.

My idea was to make it 5 turn duration, then a cooldown.

But I couldn't find how to define "Convert FIMS to science". So I gave up.

Maybe you could delete this item (no more science conversion), then add a mercury.plugin.

Like this :

And in this choose any effect. But I've no idea what it will do ingame, and how it will work.

Interesting! I might try to do some testing on it later then.

I personally believe it should be an empire wide effect, and it should decrease stability, AND it should have a cool down and a time limit, as well as be uncancellable for the duration of its turn limit.

Enchanteur wrote:

Maybe you could delete this item (no more science conversion), then add a mercury.plugin.

Like this :

Um, how did you do that?

my vote goes to efficiency trade off. there should always be a less than 100% conversion rate between all currencies