How to bring back Curators/Artists after they have been destroyed?

[Elteras]

As usual the AI opened the L-gates too early and wiped out the Curators, Artisians and Numistic Orders. How do I use the console to bring them back? Is there any way I can edit the save file to do this?

Tried using this in the console but nothing happens:
spawn_system = {min_distance=20 max_distance=30 initializer="guardians_curator_init_01"}

 

[SectorsAreOkay]

Let the dead lie in peace.

 

[Elteras]

Let the dead lie in peace.

Respectfully but no. There are necromancers now, and letting NPCs die less than 100 years into the game because the AI released something they have 0 chance of fighting is just dumb design. That means the NPCs don't exist for most of the game and that needs rectifying.

 

[Unseelie]

if you're really into this, look into save-game editing. What you do...and this causes all sorts of not-great outcomes, but you can do it...is get into the save file, stare at it for a long time, and when you start to understand it, look at it again. Figure out all the places that mention the curators, (and there's a lot, because there's multiple lines for each nation) , and compare those locations to a save with existing curators. Using that knowledge, write them back into existence.

I've had to do this for a multiplayer game. I'd really advise against it, its not worth the time.

 

[Elteras]

if you're really into this, look into save-game editing. What you do...and this causes all sorts of not-great outcomes, but you can do it...is get into the save file, stare at it for a long time, and when you start to understand it, look at it again. Figure out all the places that mention the curators, (and there's a lot, because there's multiple lines for each nation) , and compare those locations to a save with existing curators. Using that knowledge, write them back into existence.

I've had to do this for a multiplayer game. I'd really advise against it, its not worth the time.

I noticed that the curator "player" itself has been removed from the game since I can't play as it when using the command "play". I've no idea how to reinitialize that, not sure whether "spawn_system = {min_distance=20 max_distance=30 initializer="guardians_curator_init_01"}" creates a player or just adds the curator assets to an existing player.

 

[Unseelie]

Can't say that I know myself.

 

[Gyrvendal]

spawn_system = {min_distance=20 max_distance=30 initializer="guardians_curator_init_01"}

This command line is not a console command AFAIK. It has to be inside an event that you run for it to work. That means you need a mod, that mod includes an event to spawn whatever system you want with the above command, then you can trigger that event through the console.

Example event code:

namespace = tweak

country_event = {
id = tweak.1
hide_window = yes

trigger = {
is_ai = no
NOT = {has_country_flag = tweaked}
}
mean_time_to_happen = {
days = 1
}

immediate = {
set_country_flag = tweaked
random_system_within_border = {
spawn_system = {min_distance=20 max_distance=30 initializer="guardians_curator_init_01"}
}
}
}

Hopefully this should spawn the curator system somewhere as soon as you start the game. Haven't tested it, and it's not exactly optimized event code... may need some corrections.
I used similar code to spawn some leviathans before.