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FLoopie posted 02-15-99 05:19 PM ET
Does anyone know if there Is a limit to the number of Special Rules that can be added to a faction? I tried making a custom-made faction with advantages and disadvantages for the social factors, gave it a few technologies, and so forth. But while checking to see if it all works out, the game seems to cut off the rest of the Special Rules after a certain number of Rules, and after a certain point on each line.
Is this a bug, error on my part, part of the program, or what?

Xentropy posted 02-15-99 06:59 PM ET
Did you try playing the faction and finding out what you *really* had? It could be the display was simply unable to list everything, but in reality you got it all...
FLoopie posted 02-15-99 07:44 PM ET
Not yet, but the way I have the Special Rules set, I placed all the Social stuff together before any of the other Rules other than Tech. Also, all the Social rules are being used to give my faction either a disadvantage or advantage.
So, at one point, I was getting only the first 3 of my Special rules working in the game. After some playing with the text lines, I took out the spaces after the commas, and then finally I was able to get all my Special rules in.
In order to test to see if the other rules would work, I logically figure that if I took one of my Social rules and place it at the end of the Special Rules list that I have, then that Social rule which I moved should still show up. So, after I made that change and tried my faction, that particular Social rule didn't show up at all. As a result, I'm guessing that there's some kind of number of characters per line limitation and/or number of lines for Special Rules for the game.
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Author	Topic: Customizing Factions Question
FLoopie	posted 02-15-99 05:19 PM ET Does anyone know if there Is a limit to the number of Special Rules that can be added to a faction? I tried making a custom-made faction with advantages and disadvantages for the social factors, gave it a few technologies, and so forth. But while checking to see if it all works out, the game seems to cut off the rest of the Special Rules after a certain number of Rules, and after a certain point on each line. Is this a bug, error on my part, part of the program, or what?
Xentropy	posted 02-15-99 06:59 PM ET Did you try playing the faction and finding out what you really had? It could be the display was simply unable to list everything, but in reality you got it all...
FLoopie	posted 02-15-99 07:44 PM ET Not yet, but the way I have the Special Rules set, I placed all the Social stuff together before any of the other Rules other than Tech. Also, all the Social rules are being used to give my faction either a disadvantage or advantage. So, at one point, I was getting only the first 3 of my Special rules working in the game. After some playing with the text lines, I took out the spaces after the commas, and then finally I was able to get all my Special rules in. In order to test to see if the other rules would work, I logically figure that if I took one of my Social rules and place it at the end of the Special Rules list that I have, then that Social rule which I moved should still show up. So, after I made that change and tried my faction, that particular Social rule didn't show up at all. As a result, I'm guessing that there's some kind of number of characters per line limitation and/or number of lines for Special Rules for the game.