Does anyone happen to know what/where the educator effect (player can train follwers to one apprentice/expert llevel behind his/her own) is? I've looked through backgrnd.mes and effect.mes and can't figure it out, unless it's implicitly tied to maxfollowers -1. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated.
I looked at this a while ago and as far as I can tell it is hardcoded into the game. The same is true for all the background special effects. e.g. savant and Frankenstein's monster use intelligence 1 for speech (and also manuals)
Thanks very much, that's not what I was hoping, but it's something to go on. I've experimented a bit since reading your reply, and it does seem to be that any background you tie to effect 328 will have the educator effect, and that is the only way to do it. ( I put the posting after the thank you mainly for the benefit of anyone who does a search looking for a similar answer.)