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[Asarin]

Are portraits supposed to affect sector generation? I'm using MN-4836943447861783100 as my seed and choosing different portraits changes system names, planet mods & other settings.



Top generates a 75% hazard terran world but the bottom changes to 100% with a decivilized mod.

[Alex]

Ahhh, thank you for the report! It's not supposed to but I can see how it might, due to code that tries to avoid picking the player portrait for officers/etc if it's practical - I just wasn't thinking about how this might affect new game generation. Made a note to investigate!

[Asarin]

Well, time to hunt for a new seed with the portrait I plan on using.

Also, are high danger systems always supposed to be generated? I had to abandon my first save after many hours when I found out it only had low and medium systems.

[Alex]

Also, are high danger systems always supposed to be generated? I had to abandon my first save after many hours when I found out it only had low and medium systems.

Yes! That seems... borderline impossible, and I only say "borderline" out of an abundance of caution

If you run the game in devMode, you can press Ctrl-Z while in hyperspace to turn off sensors. That should reveal all the warning beacons so you can be 100% sure. (It also color-codes the names of the star systems based on the kind of stuff they had generated in them...)

[Asarin]

If you run the game in devMode, you can press Ctrl-Z while in hyperspace to turn off sensors. That should reveal all the warning beacons so you can be 100% sure. (It also color-codes the names of the star systems based on the kind of stuff they had generated in them...)

I play with no mods, but I did install the Console Commands mod to access that feature after scouring the sector looking for the beacons. I backed up the save before restarting, the seed was MN-7004331922106474068 with the same male portrait in the image from my first post if it's of any interest to you.

[Alex]

Oh wow! That was a really, really bad roll on a lot of star systems - not enough had enough planets (4+ OR 1+ habitable) to accommodate the rolled number of Remnant systems. I've tweaked the requirement to be lower, which should make this a lot less likely, though it already seems extremely unlikely. But, well, it happened!