Which files(s) did you mod to achieve this?

Way to make minors less . . . minor

There ye be.

I did the work on modding the minors originally, discovering the quicksave fix.  Super Abilities worked fine with my mod.  I even tested the Super Organizer ability.  Trust me, you don't want the minors to have it!  If I had to guess why yours didn't work, I'd say that perhaps there are other traits in the raceconfig that control it.  Rather than just change the personality, I also add the other traits that Majors have but Minors do not.

It's official.  With the appropriate settings the minors can become monsters.  I'm playing a test game now and actually started a preemptive war against the Dark Yor.  They were out-colonizing me and encroaching on my space.  I'll also reaffirm that super abilities work just fine.

I guess I could go back an retract my statement about not knowing what the extra settings do.  They're the same variables you can adjust when you customize your opponents - how much money they get compared to you, how much CPU they'll use, how strong the AI is, and how aggressive they act.  Without them I figure the AI just goes into stupid mode.

It's kinda fun watching them go.  Brings back GalCiv I memories . . . sniff.

Yes, the mod only works for TA and DA. I have yet to determine how to make DL minors colonize, if it's possible.

I definitely did edit those other settings as well; in fact I set the Snathi to be ridiculously aggressive (warmongering squirrels are fun). The minors' SAs definitely don't work, though: in addition to the "League of Non-Aligned Worlds" I set the Dark Yor as Super Dominators, but when they fell victim to the Drengin's spasm of aggression in my test (they suddenly declared war on about five races at once) no Super Dominator corvettes appeared.

As mentioned above, the minors vary in power apparently at random. In this same test game, the Carinoids are putting up a good fight against the Drengin and the Paulos have built themselves a small empire; all the other minors are dead.

Ironically, in an unmodded game I started soon after, the Scottlingas colonized a planet and have a military larger then several major races, and are now waging a war of aggression against both the Drath and Yor. Go figure.

(BTW, I'm considering going back and buying GalCiv 1 myself, principally because of the random events, which I hear tended to be even more unbalancing then most mega events. Was the "minors gone wild" triggered by an event or was it a common thing? I know they could colonize, but that's not necessarily the same thing as the old stories of minors taking over the galaxy I hear from GC1 veterans).

This sounds amazingly awesome. I've tried to create mods like this before but didn't know about the quicksave "fix". Will you be releasing this as it's own mod any time soon? I could probebly recreate it myself, but It'd be nice to see what sort of tweaking you've done so i don't have to do it all m'self.

Me <- LAZY MF

I haven't put it up anywhere. It's not that hard to do on your own, but if you want I could upload it to I-Mod.

I gave them all small bonuses to military/social production, research, economy, and pop. growth to help them stay semi-competitive during the colony rush. In my ongoing "test" game, they've fallen into three groups that I think of as:

"Major minors" (Dark Yor and Lentzlandians) - on a par with the smaller major races,

"Minor powers" (Carinoids, Scottlingas, Paulos, and Jessuins) - minors with 1 or 2 colonies, good-to-fair abilities, and intelligent behavior, and

"Fools" (Akilians and Snathi) - the only minors that are like (or, more precisely, were like - they're dead) the normal unmodded minors.

There's also definite variance between the minors in behavior. For instance, even though the Lentzlandians are much larger then the Scottlingas, the Scotts have a much better military and have been battling for the fifth military rank with the Dark Yor and Korx for some time.

The super abilities are working, all right. Right now the "League of Non-Aligned Worlds", the Thalans, and my Krynn are all at war with the Drath after the Drath attacked the Carinoids. The League and Thalan are also at war with the Korath, although I passed on that one.

My only concern is that even though, as mentioned, the Dark Yor have a strong military, they aren't doing anything with it. My guess is that it's because they have a score of 30-something (they're ranked between the Korx - 40-ish - and the Iconians - 28 or 24 at last count). Their military probably should be rated higher, but the Drath, Thalans, and Korath are all so huge that they're artificially deflating everyone else's score - rather like Dread Lords in a way.

To bad the library is not working you could upload this, 

I suspect that if I edit CustomPlanets.xml to include home systems for the minors that the game will use them?

I've tried this with no success.  I haven't been able to get it to work for custom races and I haven't tried with a major race, so I'm not exactly sure that I'm doing it right, though.

Bumping so that any new forum members can know about this.

Edit:

While I still haven't seen any minors initiate a war on DA, I've seen them do it on the TOA version, though not too frequently. As one might expect, it only happens when they're stronger then a major race, which is uncommon but not unheard of. It is fairly common to see minors join in on the "dogpile" on a dying major, though.

Given the influx of new players now that the game is on Steam, bumping again.