Forerunner - A Traditions Overhaul

Compatible with 3. 8 (Gemini). Forerunner - A Traditions Overhaul is a complete overhaul of the game's tradition system, designed to mirror the balance of the base game while introducing brand new gameplay options. It reworks existing Tradition trees with more compelling perks and choices in order to reinforce existing playstyles or create entirely new ones. The new Path mechanic gives players increased freedom when it comes to pursuing Ascension Perks, by allowing Paths to be paired within a Tradition category or in between Tradition categories, letting the player define how their Ascension Perks should be obtained. Forerunner overhauls all Traditions in the game with more compelling perks and choices, supporting unique bonuses for standard empires, machine empires, hive empires, Lithoids, Necrophages, and more. Adding in total 11 Tradition categories, 60 Paths, and 198 new Traditions! A new way to gain Ascension Perks. Instead of gaining Ascension Perks from finishing a Tradition, gain them by pairing Paths. Choose the bonuses that are relevant to you and your playthrough! Redesigned layout and icons for each Tradition, featuring the beautiful artwork found in Stellaris. Lightweight and compatibility friendly. Forerunner was designed with compatibility in mind. See the compatibility section for more information. Clean implementation. No game errors. The content of this mod can be seen below. Ascension Perks are now gained by pairing a Path with another Path (6 Traditions in total). Note that any Path in any Category can be paired in this way. Paths from Supremacy can be paired with Paths in Commerce, and so on. Forerunner was designed to be as lightweight and non-intrusive as possible and as such makes no direct changes to any base game file. This is a huge improvement from Traditions+ and how many files it was forced to edit. Forerunner does, however, make indirect changes to the Tradition files found in the \traditions and \traditions_categories folders by overwr