Anyone else think it's an odd game design choice to make New Game+ such a big part of this game, but then one of the few things you still have to keep between playthroughs is your character's traits and background? I mean, I get why they made that decision story-wise, but it kinda feels pointless to play the game in NG+ when you can't even explore how different traits and backgrounds change the experience for you. Like the only thing there really is to do in NG+ is rush through the main story again while you grind up your powers and maybe see the handful of variations on your first meeting with Constellation.

This mod doesn't fix that. It doesn't even try. But if you want to see all the ways the different traits will affect your game without having to run a bunch of different characters since you can only choose three traits when you create them... then this is the mod for you. See, there's a game setting that can be tinkered with that determines how many traits you can put on your character. By default, that's three. Now, I can't make any of the mutually exclusive traits (the religion traits, the hometown traits, introvert/extrovert, and spaced/terra firma) no longer be mutually exclusive, but I can crank that number of traits you can put on your character up to 11. Which, ironically enough, is how many you can take with one of everything and one of each of those mutually exclusive trait groups.

And now I've cranked it up to 999 for anyone who wants to add the opposing mutually exclusive traits via console commands, and to prepare for all the traits people are going to make once CK2 finally drops and we can start making our own. I've got a few plans myself, at least.


A few things to note:

First, this mod REALLY only works when you're starting a new game and creating a new character. You COULD call up the showlooksmenu with the console mid-game and give yourself more traits, if you don't mind resetting your character's appearance, or you COULD use console commands and add the traits that way. However, some of the traits aren't going to work right. Hero Worshipped, Dream Home, and Kid Stuff, in particular, have quests attached to them, and I'm not entirely sure how to trigger those quests myself (a couple other mods seem to have it figured out, though). Any traits other than those three will work just fine, though. Even if you add conflicting traits through the console, it seems (I'm still not sure how introvert/extrovert and spaced/terra firma will interact with each other, but the religion traits and the hometown traits don't seem to interfere with each other, based on my tests). But still, I can only recommend this mod for fresh playthroughs with a new character.

Second, when you're in the character creation menu, and you're on the traits page, it will only show the top three as your selected traits, however, you'll still be able to check off as many traits as you want (assuming you're not choosing mutually exclusive traits). Check the screenshot I uploaded to see what I mean. When you close out the character creator, open your main menu, and go to the player section, it'll show as having all the traits, and they'll all be active (well, barring those three quest traits that don't work right unless added to a new character).

Third, if I can find a setting that lets you choose more than one background, I'm gonna add that as an option as well. Though, to be honest, it isn't necessary. Unlike traits, backgrounds only affect dialog choices and adds the three starting skills it comes with. You can add those with console commands pretty easily and they'll work without any issues. I've also added an optional All Backgrounds bat file that can be downloaded and will make it easy for anyone like me who's roleplaying a character with more than a simple backstory. That's the main reason I'm using this setting, at least.

Basically, this just lets you have more than three traits. That's it.

The All Backgrounds bat file can be run from the console to add all backgrounds to your character. You can run it at any time after you've created your character to add as many backgrounds to your character as you want. It's easily customizable, if you only want a handful of additional backgrounds for your character instead of all of them. Instructions can be found within the bat file itself.


Install it just like any other sStartingConsoleCommand bat:

 - Extract takemoretraits.txt to your install folder (../Steam/steamapps/common/Starfield)
 - (OPTIONAL) Download and extract allbackgrounds.txt to your install folder, as well
 - Edit or create StarfieldCustom.ini in your My Games folder (../Documents/My Games/Starfield)
 - Make sure you have Archive Invalidation set up
 - Add the following lines to your .ini file:

[General]
sStartingConsoleCommand=bat takemoretraits