Issue With Player Spawning in Static Maps

[Measter]

I'm trying to create static maps, and the map itself is working fine. However, the game isn't handling home systems correctly, resulting in the players being spawned in players being spawned on uninhabitable planets. Like so:

I've tried setting a certain number of the system initializers to have valid home planets, including with the home_planet flag, but the game isn't using those correctly. In fact, even when all the systems have a home planet, planet is uninhabitable, despite being set to random ideal.

Have I completely missed something, or is this feature broken?

 

[Krateng]

Similar problem here, I would like to spawn the player empire on a predefined planet whose solar system initializer is limited to one, but it just appears somewhere random.

 

[PG908]

You could try changing the planet class via event as a workaround.

 

[the_Vicar]

I'm having much this same issue.

I don't know if I can help or not, but I'd love to take a look at your mod files.

 

[Measter]

I'm having much this same issue.

I don't know if I can help or not, but I'd love to take a look at your mod files.

There's not a great deal to it. The maps are basic static maps like this:

static_galaxy_scenario = {
   name = "New Eden - Caldari (326 Stars)"
   priority = -1
   colonizable_planet_odds = 1.0
   num_empires = { min = 1 max = 32 }
   num_empire_default = 8
   advanced_empire_default = 0
   core_radius = 0
   random_hyperlanes = no
   nebula = {
     name = "The Forge"
     position = { x = -265 y = -91 }
     radius = 90
   }

...

   system = {
     id = "itamo"
     position = { x = -195 y = -89 }
     initializer = itamo_system_initializer
   }

...

   add_hyperlane = { from = "rakapas" to = "reitsato" }

...
}

And the initialisers are all like this for now:

itamo_system_initializer = {
     name="Itamo"
     class = "sc_m"
     flags = { itamo_system }
     planet = {
       name = "Itamo"
       class = "pc_m_star"
       orbit_distance = 0
       orbit_angle = 1
       size = 30
       has_ring = no
     }
     planet = {
       count = { min = 1 max = 10 }
       class = random
       orbit_distance = { min = 30 max = 100 }
       orbit_angle = { min = 0 max = 360 }
       change_orbit = 10
       moon = {
         count = { min = 0 max = 3 }
         class = random
         orbit_distance = { min = 2 max = 5 }
         orbit_angle = { min = 0 max = 360 }
       }
     }
}

I've had some success with creating an event to create the homeworlds. So far, I've set up three events that fire at game start, that do this:

The first one resizes the planet:

event = {
   id = new_eden_start.1
   hide_window = yes
   is_triggered_only = yes

   immediate = {
     every_country = {
       if = {
         limit = { exists = capital_scope }
         capital_scope = {
           if = {
             limit = { planet_size = 1 }
             change_planet_size = 15
           }
           ...
           if = {
             limit = { planet_size = 2 }
             change_planet_size = -1
             change_planet_size = 15
           }
         }
       }
     }
   }
}

It's setting the size to 1 then back to 16 to force the area to be square. Otherwise it can cause some issues with the capital. The second sets the planet type:

event = {
   id = new_eden_start.2
   hide_window = yes
   is_triggered_only = yes

   immediate = {
     every_country = {
       if = {
         limit = {
           ideal_planet_class = pc_arid
           exists = capital_scope
         }
         capital_scope = {
           change_pc = pc_arid
         }
       }
    }
   }
}

The final one is basically the same as the homeworlds are set up in the default empire_initializers.txt file.

I am having a couple problems, however. The first is that this planet isn't considered a homeworld, so its habitability is 80%, not 100%. The second is that the number of pops is inconsistant.

 

[Measter]

Well, this is irritating. I had the script mostly working, aside form the habitability, and then the patch goes and breaks one of the events. The first two are working correctly, as the planet size, buldings and pop are correct. Event 2, however, is only setting the planet class for the player.

Anyone got any ideas?

https://gist.github.com/Measter/3881d30e8145d739a69c46513bb1115b#file-gistfile1-txt-L143

[Edit] I think I've found the cause. On a static map it looks like AI races don't have a class preference, so that event ends up not doing anything.