Guaranteed starting colonies distance

[Lumpy]

I want to increase the distance of the two guaranteed generated colonizable planets from an empire's starting system, but had no success in doing so. I've changed the 'distance = min' value in this line of the empire_initializers.txt:

}
neighbor_system = {
distance = { min = 10 max = @distance } <- Changed this from 10 to 30
initializer = "neighbor_t2"
}


But it didn't seem to have any effect. The starting systems were still one or two jumps away from my capital system. Can anyone give me a hint here?

 

[Fisk]

There's been a few game versions since I played around with initializers, but from what I remember the distance is unrelated to number of hyperlane jumps. I imagine the only thing to do is to increase the min distance more. Probably higher than whatever the vanilla max distance is, since vanilla distances (usually) sets the starting colonies within two jumps.

Do realize that you might inadvertedly set the systems in another spiral arm or similar if you overdo it. That might be bad.

 

[Courageous]

From playing with this extensively, I don't think these are jumps at all. I believe they are related to the same sort of distance functions that the galaxy size parameters use. One thing to be aware of, is that these use existing systems.