Need some help with changing a minor faction's traits

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Hey, firstly I need to say I'm new to modding for Total War games. I've only really done any serious modding in Mount and Blade and X3.

Now, my goal is to make a pretty well fleshed out Syracuse faction that is playable, has a unit roster of mixed Italian and Greek troops as well as custom faction traits.

Well I have them playable so far, with a custom description and custom political party names, but not much else. I've been trying for the past several hours to get custom traits to work. I was using the All Factions Playable mod as a reference but I just can't get it to work, even when I copy exactly what they have done for the Syracuse traits. Is there something I need to alter in the startpos.esf to point the faction to the right traits or something?

Edit: I forgot to mention that I remember seeing references to athens_syracuse in the unmodified DB somewhere, also that by default Syracuse is using Athens' traits. Perhaps they are connected in some way? I apologize for the simple questions...

Here is the .pack

[Aodh Mor]

you can just add the units to the building_units_allowed db, and units_to_exclusive_faction_permissions

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you can just add the units to the building_units_allowed db, and units_to_exclusive_faction_permissions

Ah thanks for that, I had't really looked into the units and buildings a whole lot yet as I'm still stuck on the traits haha. Any idea how I can get the traits working?

I've added the traits to effects_tables, effects_bundles_to_effects_junctions_tables, effect_bundles_tables, effect_bonus_value_battle_context_junctions_tables and effect_bonus_value_basic_junction_tables in the db. I've also added the text fields in text/db effect_bundles.loc and effects.loc

I guess what I'm missing is where I actually point the faction to the correct traits, as right now it still gives them Athens' traits.

Edit: I really can't find any differences in the all factions playable pack file and my own in regards to Syracuse... I must me missing something, but I have no idea what just yet. For now I've been working on the mod still, but editing the all factions playable pack file instead, as it allows me to use the custom traits I want and such for some reason. I guess I could spend an entire day going through and changing all the other factions back to unplayable and deleting all the added stuff I don't need but I really don't have the time for that. I hope someone can help me out!

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I guess nobody knows how to fix this then? The only people I know who can definitely do it are the creators of the All Factions Playable mod, but none of them have responded to messages.