Changing Starting Planet » Forum Post by Frost

I'm not sure why you just dont modify it

(I'm sure that you know how to based on your post).
Are you trying to make it so each player starts with a different planet type?

unlike with the ships, were modifying capitalbattleship would impact all of them, modifying terranhome, will only impact starting planets, although it would modify it for all players.

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I'm not sure why you just dont modify it

(I'm sure that you know how to based on your post).
Are you trying to make it so each player starts with a different planet type?

unlike with the ships, were modifying capitalbattleship would impact all of them, modifying terranhome, will only impact starting planets, although it would modify it for all players.

Yep I did modify it, but it changed it for every TEC faction in the game, I was hoping to change it just for the human player, not the computer.

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Reason why It is even is cause the game needs to be fair to every player. As you have noticed while playing the game. The Terran planets are the most habitable. If we all started with different planet types, it would mean that we all start off with a different amount of resources. This will lead to some players getting the short end of the stick. It wouldn't be fair to those he get a volcanic planet to start. Starting planets need to be the same for these reasons...

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I also don't see why you would want this changed. It needs to be equalized for players of the same faction, different factions is another matter. It's nice when different factions have different requirements for gameplay. But changing the starting planet within a faction with the same requirements... I dont really know why that would be desireable

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I was trying to change it to see if it could be changed. I understand why everyone starts with the same planet, but I thought it might be interesting to start out with just an asteroid vs everyone else's Terrans for a change.

I would expect down the road when people are modding it will be useful to give the player a different starting planet from any one else with the same race.

I'm guessing no one else who has taken a look has found a way?

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there is an unnatural parralellism in the way the programming regards player and computer. I would question whether or not its possible.

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Yeah it doesn't seem possible for the engine to differentiate between the player and the other TEC AI's playing in the game.

I wish it could, it would let me tweak the starting conditions for more roleplaying. Ex. Having the starting planet be "Old Earth;" high population, low resources etc.

Maybe it can be changed around for Beta2?

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I wish it were possible to change the starting location based on player, not faction/race, especially for modding purposes.

There would be times that I would like to start from a different planet because I'm a young, upstart faction seeking independence from my imperialistic bastard masters in red coats.

It may make the game harder for me but that's sort of the point.

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Blair Fraser

Join Date 10/2006

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There are two levels of modding. Modifiy how the galaxy is generated or modify a specific galaxy. If you want to modify the starting planet/capitalship or whatever on a player by player basis you want to modify a specific galaxy. This is akin to creating a map in other RTS games. This is easily done by generating a basic galaxy and then editing a save game of it which you can make right at the start. You can then load the save game as a map. We'll look into better support for this type of modding much closer to release.

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yes they need the same starting planet for balance reasons but diffrent races may start with diffrent planets to balance them out like the vasari my get a realy crappy planet and so on.

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There are two levels of modding. Modifiy how the galaxy is generated or modify a specific galaxy. If you want to modify the starting planet/capitalship or whatever on a player by player basis you want to modify a specific galaxy. This is akin to creating a map in other RTS games. This is easily done by generating a basic galaxy and then editing a save game of it which you can make right at the start. You can then load the save game as a map. We'll look into better support for this type of modding much closer to release.

I look forward to that time then, creating my own maps (Can you say Sol System?) will add ages of replayability to this game. For now I'll content myself with finding the biggest map my computer can run comfortably.

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actually,i think you should have the possibility too start in our solar system and our part of the galaxy.at least when youre playing single player...also,i hope the game is gonna be multi player on a local lan and not only on the internet

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Where is the saved game located?

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On XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\SavedGame\

But good luck reading the save games. A new game is dozens of MBs of text, and later in the games I've heard of files in the hundreds of MBs.

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