I just won't add the advanced mod thanks. I'm not arguing if that is what you think.

No problemo.

Finally got my Nexus account fixed, so I just finished reuploading 4.0 to the modfile page and updating all my links and descriptions. Added warnings about the core races. Thanks guys.

Go into the GRM folder and look at "0-GRM FactionDefs"

I modded your file to remove the colony ships from the minor races.

I decided I could live with the fact that there were now a zillion survey ships (from pirates and Minors) but I couldn't deal with the minors colonizing my precious planets.  This probably wouldn't matter much to the Insane / Abundant crowd, but I normally play on large maps, and having each minor race poaching 1-2 of the planets made it extremely difficult to accumulate Ideology points.

I do enjoy your mod, but some of the gameplay changes are having a LOT of impact.  Thanks again for your efforts.

Depends if the parts will show up in game, I think they will. But if not, the only race affected would be the delnorians. I'd really appreciate it if you tested this actually. 

Thanks Gauntlet. I caved and bought the Snathi DLC, figured it would just be easier. Like the look of your mod so far, thanks for that

Yeah. Its for 1.7+, says so in the description on the file page.

Finally had some free time to start poking about with 4.0.  Awesome as always. 

I know that you're planning on making this a full replace mod eventually, but I have a highly idosyncratic setup myself, so I've been picking and choosing want I want for my home games.  In doing that I think I might have made an interesting discovery that might or might not already be known.

In your mod, you have a full replace for StarSystemsDefs.xml.  Well, as you might know, one of my mods is also modifying that xml in full replace.  Rather than trying to merge them on my home rig, I wanted to see if I could "take out" the starting home systems you appeneded to the start of that xml and put them in their own xml.  After a bit of trial and error, I discovered one can create custom a StarSystemGroup and the game will run them even though the GlobalDef file expects them to be in the StarSystemGroup FactionStart.

What I did was simply cut out the six homeworld sysytems you had, and created a custom StarSystemGroup called GRM_FactionStart, made sure I has the appropriate xml headers for a StarSystemList, fired it up.....  And it worked! Loaded up a game with the Fuldoon and clear sailing. 

I haven't done rigourous testing yet so there might be gremlins lurking still to be discovered, but it does appear that one can create custom sets of star systems for custom factions.  I know you're planning on a full replace, but for broad range compatability with other mods, this might be something to think about on your end.  Call it 0-GRM StarSystemDefs.xml or sumthin'.

Just thought you might like to know about this, if you didn't already.

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Here it is, without the actual star systems:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<StarSystemList
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="../Schema/StarSystemDefs.xsd">
<!-- Created with the Gal Civ 3 Editor -->
<!-- StarSystemDefs.xml -->

<!-- System Group -->

<StarSystemGroup>
<InternalName>GRM_FactionStart</InternalName>

BUNCHA COOL STAR SYSTEMS SNIPPED FOR LENGTH

</StarSystemGroup>

</StarSystemList>

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Mind if you have tried this already and found it to be unstable at some point.... Well... Nebber mind.

Doing some more poking about, Gauntlet.  In my game, the custom names of the planets of your custom star systems aren't showing up.  Instead they are things like Tiamat's Promise II and Tiamat's Promise III.

Doesn't appear to be any of my fiddling around with things at play, as I restored the StarSystemDefs.xml file to the state you had it in your mod.  I'll do some more checking on my end though, in case it was something I did on my end.

I am using the backup factions provided for the non-GRM-A version of the mod if that matters at all.

Hey guys!

Interesting discussion going on here, please continue. That being said, if you use the custom group, are you still able to select the custom star systems for a new custom race you make, without any XML edits?

Basically, I know I could name the planets make that work but I chose that having the systems be selectable when you create new races trumped that ability. If, it currently works, then I'll look at rebuilding that part for the next versions. But if you can't freely select a custom home system, it serves little purpose and will only work for wholly unedited versions of the race files I provide (which I expect is a rarity for peeps).

Anywho, let me know if you have any insight on that!

Thanks guys.

Yup.

Custom groups, instead of adding to the faction start group make it unselectable. And the custom editor, will then rename all those planets regardless. Hence, while Buck Godot can make my races/mod compatible with others, he can't do so and preserve the functionality, which, for my general mod distribution, trumps aesthetic concerns mostly.

So Tiamat II it is lol.

<CustomFactionHomeStarSystemGroup>FactionStart</CustomFactionHomeStarSystemGroup>

 

OH...Missed that....hmm very intresting, if thats editable opens up whole new possibilities. I'll give it a go after work today.

I used the vanilla pirate ship set with one of my races and now with your mod when I select the backup pirate ship set to keep the same look, I don't get the starting ships (colonizer, survey and scout) on map generation.