I don't really have much to offer, but here's what I know -
- Disclaimer: I do run about 80 mods, but the collection is carefully curated and from lots of playtesting I know my game is very stable and has no bad conflicts.
- I also don't use any mods that change sector gen beyond the normal parameters like Adjusted Sector. Nexerelin is of course present and Prism is always generated.
- My mods do generate systems further out than usual like Sylphon, ORA, Diable, Tahlan, HMI, BRDY, Arsenal, etc., but when JP is deactivated, the 'zone of denial' seems to be functioning just fine with respect to these further out systems and never generates a constellation too close.
- JP seems to cause generation of a sector with random constellations way close to the core, always closer than Sylphon's Rofocale and Diable's Outer Terminus and always at least neighboring the core worlds.
- Often random constellations will spawn inside the core worlds, even within and overlapping the vanilla core systems, sometimes literally at the center of the map.
- With trial and error I can get 'good' random gens with ~ a 1/10 chance. 'Good' meaning that there are no random constellations overlapping the core worlds, merely significantly closer than usual, and far out systems like Rofocale and Outer Terminus will still be further away than a number of random constellations.
- I'll attach some screenshots showing a couple of 'good' and 'bad' JP gens, as well as a gen without JP. Again, it takes about 10 fresh games to generate a 'good' gen, and they are rarely ideal.
I doubt I'll ever play without JP, since the factions are always such a feature in my campaigns, and the gen issue isn't a deal breaker, but it is hassle to have to make 10 new games to get an unborked sector, and it's always in the back of my mind that other weirdness might pop up as a result of the gen issue, but nothing has yet.
Hope this all helps.
(I need to post the screenshot individually, feel free to delete the other posts when you've seen them. I also needed to downres them hugely, let me know if you want the full sized ones)
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