Give them negative resistance instead.

Does anyone remember how to make a specific world resource always spawn with a specific sovereign? Wasn't there a way to have, say, a wild wheat or iron ore spawn when you had some trait?

Thanks!

I'm pretty sure that doesn't work anymore.

Does anyone know what the <UpgradePathID> tag does for champion perks? It seems redundant with everything having prerequisites?

You could try 'training' the unit by means of a quest (as with Bacco the Beggar or Ascian), or having something grant you a one-per-faction or one-per-world structure that spawns the unit the way that the Binding Altars spawn demons or the monster recruitment resources spawn monsters. I don't know that having a spawning structure would allow you to prevent it from ever being trained again if it dies, though you could put an enormously long spawn timer on it, but if you train it by quest I think you can make that quest not occur on the map again. You could also have the unit 'trained' by means of a consumable item such as the Token of the Sand Golem and then make certain that there is only one way to get one of those (e.g. purchase it at sovereign creation, or as a reward for a quest with the same lack of repeatability that the Arena of the Slakhanan has, though if it's a quest reward you might as well have just awarded the unit at the end of the quest).

If you want to require the player to occupy time in a city's build queue in order to gain the unit and do not want the unit to spawn from a structure the way Shard Demons do with Binding factions, I'd suggest creating a structure that you grant at some point in a quest that must be built in order to complete the quest, and have completion of the quest spawn the unit, if possible at the location where the structure was built. This way, you can attach all the resource costs and production requirements you wanted on your unit to the special structure. Since the unit in this case is a quest reward rather than a unit spawned from a recruitment structure, you don't need to worry about unit resurrections as with Shard Demons, and since it's not a unit you can produce from a city you don't need to worry about having a special resource in place to prevent training additional such units. Make the quest non-repeatable and you won't need to worry about having multiples of the unit.

Any way to make a unit make an attack sound regardless of weapons?

Trying to tie this line into an ability instead of weapon: <AttackSFX>Hit_LightningHammer_03</AttackSFX>  

Since abilities doesn't have easy artdef for me to copy from it obviously didn't work alone.

Thanks everyone. Another question- does anyone know of a GameModifier tag that could be used in a spell to grant +1 XP/ season? I've tried:

<GameModifier>
<ModType>Unit</ModType>
<Attribute>AdjustUnitStat</Attribute>
<StrVal>UnitStat_Experience</StrVal>
<PerTurn>1</PerTurn>
<Value>1</Value>
<Provides>+1 Experience per season</Provides>
</GameModifier>

and a variation with GiveExperience per turn, but I haven't been able to find anything that works?

Also: I've been toying around with new resources, and have successfully added some, but when I mouse over the resource in the top bar, the description reads as "String Not Found". I have a description tag in the code for it, anyone know why it's not being read?

Anyone know if <UnitStat_Intelligence> against a (Monster) UnitType actually has any effect..... and if so how it works?

Two questions, first any idea why this calculation refuses to work? (trying to tie an essence value into "building output" for troops) The code is combined and edited from Alchemist and the Heart of fire spell.

Secondly, anyone have any good tips how to remove the old "Tower of Magi" building. All my prereqs so far have failed for some reason, and trying to mess with the activation ability has failed too. 

Edit: Tried making an additional calculation for just value, still didn't work... 

I made a new thread with a modding question, then realised it could have been placed here.

Anyway, here it is: https://forums.elementalgame.com/447419

If all you want is to see the Hero in action, can't you just add this to the Sov you want to test with...

<GameModifier>
  <ModType>Map</ModType>
  <Attribute>SummonUnit</Attribute>
  <UnitClass>NameOfYourTestChampionOrUnit</UnitClass>
  <Value>1.0000</Value>
  <Multiplier>1.0000</Multiplier>
</GameModifier>

So what I do is have a "Test" sov... and I go and add stuff like this to the xml definition for that Sov... when use that guy for testing stuff.

Fairly sure that will work.

This will not ensure that the unit is a champion if you do it this way. You need to create a spell that will summon a champion unit. The answer already lies within this thread.

As to the random event, you need a city in order for a random event to trigger via a turn.