Animated Serpentoid Portraits: Revisited

Overview Have you seen the scaled splendor of Silfae's "Animated Serpentoid Portraits" mod? Do you wish that the gameplay elements were up-to-date so that you can play the Ancient Technosethi as originally designed? Then this mod is for you! There are lots of other mods which contain these portraits, so why should you choose this one? None of the others update the custom solar system initializer, building, or species traits, but this one does! Please enjoy my translation of Silfae's custom empire into modern Stellaris. Changes All gameplay features from the original mod are upgraded to be fully compatible with Stellaris 3. 8 "Gemini," the latest version when this was written. Updates include: Update the namelist to account for all built-in army types, remove obsolete entries Update the custom starting system initializer, including all four primitive civilizations and the extra armies to make them more difficult to (re-)conquer Update the static modifiers used in the custom starting system (Kheshem) Custom starting initializer now supports a variety of civics and origin starts (all the built-in ones) Split the Serpentoid trait into several, optional traits that are updated (and are available for you to use on your own Serpentoid or Reptilian empires too): Serpentoid Acumen, Serpentoid Cunning, and Serpentoid Indolence Update the custom Space Pyramid building that is buildable once per ruler of the Ancient Technosethi custom empire The Serpentoids are part of the Reptilian species class (since Stellaris 3. 8) Support being able to choose a single-gender species (since Stellaris 3. 2) Automatically choose clothing based on Pop jobs and choose phenotype based on job stratum Compatibility Compatible with any mod that does not add the same portraits, traits, or art assets. The Launcher will tell you that some mods are outdated - that is because the dependencies are both out of date with the game's version number. This mod overwrites and replaces all incompatible code so that