Free Skill Ranks for custom classes?

[Evolivolution]

I tried to enable free skill ranks for one of my characters with a custom made class. The box for the free skill ranks shows up but it always shows up empty and I can't interact with it. Is it possible to make free skill ranks available to characters with a custom class? If so, how would I go about doing that?

[deer_buster]

Creating an extension that overrides that portion of code

[Evolivolution]

Do you know where that portion of the code is?
I know how to unpack the ruleset and all that, but it's quiet a lot if you don't know what you're looking for. I'm not all that familiar with extension making...

[swbuza]

I don't know the answer to that for sure, but I would guess it's in the Campaign folder of the Starfinder ruleset and named something like "skills" either xml or supporting lua in the LUA folder under that. A textual search for skills or free or some combination in the campaign subfolder, might be helpful.

[deer_buster]

Do you know where that portion of the code is?
I know how to unpack the ruleset and all that, but it's quiet a lot if you don't know what you're looking for. I'm not all that familiar with extension making...

Look at scripts/manager_char.lua, lines 1355-1363...that's where it limits freeranks to only Operatives and Biohackers

[Evolivolution]

Thank you both

[superteddy57]

A redesign of that whole section is being considered as it's very much locked and prefer a more open way of handling this for the players.

[Evolivolution]

A redesign of that whole section is being considered as it's very much locked and prefer a more open way of handling this for the players.

I'd love that. I don't really see a reason to make Free Skill Ranks dependent on choosing a class that provide them as a class feature.