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I am playing as a custom faction that is synthetic.
When I meet the Yor they refer to me as talking meat.
I would think they would like me some what for me also being synthetic. More if I was also the same Ideology.
You'll also find you get a whole lot of colonisation events that make no sense for synthetic life. I'm avoiding them until some of this is fixed.
At the moment the flavor text dialogue is coded mostly for specific factions (the stock ones that ship with the game) and not the traits that those factions posses. For instance it will be like "if: speaker = YOR, then: say this;" It needs to be reworked to instead say "If: speaker is synthetic, then: say this; "
There is default dialogue that kicks in when you have a custom race, but none of it checks for synthetic ability at this point.
One issue I also have with custom synthetic races it that you
have to select the YOR tech tree.
With other tech trees you
get the basics [growth, food, ...] which aside from making
no sense, makes the race almost unplayable.
The tech tree thing is easily overcome when modders produce more tech trees, the problem is there is no modding solution at the moment allowing use to filter events via race traits so even modders can't address that as it stands.
Some of my favorite custom races are synthetic/robotic (Cylons, Borg.) So I just over look these little things.
Stuff like this most likely will never see a fix (just like in GC2 nobody did care about these discrepancies)
Cyborgs could just get a farming bonus and a production penalty since they need to maintain themselves. Cyborgs can easily be done and flavor wise organic events will still effect them and the Yor still might refer to them as Meat bags since they are part meat.
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