Need help modding this thing

[Grey69er]

Yesterday, been trying to change few things around on Stellaris. The way things are setup, isn't great for 1,000 systems I wanted to play on as hive specie. So wanted to make Alien specie from the movie Ridley Scott.

I did try to follow the instruction on the modding community, but something isn't right and wont load up for some reasons.

What I was trying to do is increase admin capacity on the traditions, lower the costs per and slightly increase command ships as well.

So having trouble setting up the mod and not sure does it have to be uploaded for it to work?

 

[dezuman]

You definitely don't need to upload a mod to play it. What do your changes look like?

 

[Grey69er]

Well I just found out what was saying in the error log, that "object key, xxxxxx, already exist" and trying to overwrite some file. Now I don't know if I can use the same file, but trying to change some numbers and adding some more features to the traditions.

I am about to give up on this, getting annoying to figure this weird thing out. Something about Merge tool, don't quite understand that compare two files that needed to be update.

What I was trying to do is increase the admin capacity, it is way too low for a large galaxy. So I saw this admin cap in expansion, wanted to change that number from 20 to XX whatever I want. But it wouldn't kick in.

Earlier I did something weird, was playing for two days, the year was around 2220+ and got fed up with that silly admin cap on the 1k system and making leader costs, tech costs, etc a lot more expensive. So I went in and change that number under common, traditions, expansion that showing 20 admin cap and I manage to change it to 2,000 lol. it worked. But only when I loaded from that ironman save game.

But when I make a new game, it is gone!

Btw they need a modifier or multiplier that depending on the size of the galaxy, the bigger it is, the more admin cap, etc will get to balance things out. Otherwise you gonna get pissed how things is going in the game. Gotten so bored and didn't like it. Beside I was trying to make a hive specie that related from the movie "Alien" by Ridley Scott and compare to 4x as Master of Orion III.

 

[dezuman]

So, a few things:
* Are you making a local mod or just directly changing the game files? If you do the latter it'll be overwritten whenever steam updates the game.
* If you're not used to scripting it's really easy to make small mistakes that will break everything, and Pdx script it's very good at telling you when you do. Make a code block here and insert what you've written if you want me to take a peek.
* Not to be that guy, but you know that the penalties for going over admin capacity is really low and never more than what you gain from the extra space/planets? I've totally stopped caring about it pretty much, despite being a tech/unity focused player.[/CODE]

 

[Grey69er]

Well after playing it for few days and did change the main file, but I put it back as it was. So now trying to make a mod to override it and improve it in some ways.

Also noticed a lot of mods on the steam workshop aren't compatible due to so many updates. They kept changing stuffs around in the game. If I can change or make a local mod, then I will be happy with it. As the way things are setup, esp playing a very large galaxy isn't going to be good unless the number increase.

Anyway I will wrap this up for now, maybe someday I will find a mod or try again or simply give up.

 

[Grey69er]

Anyway messed with it some today and made this, instead I didn't touch the traditions, so I made extra trait for the hive Queen. So far ran great, but creating a new specie and after you choose the trait pick (only one is Hive-Trait) and the next screen seem to crash the game. No information in the errors log. So had to change the *user_empire_designs under document/paradox interactive/stellaris.

So I got it uploaded on Steam if you wanna take a peek. If you follow the instruction I mention on that page, you can get it up and running and play that nasty bug in the galaxy.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1624104648

Not bad for a beginner, this happen to be my first mod for Stellaris. I know there some correction need to be made for this to work perfectly. But I think it has something to do cross references between the traits that cause it to crash for some reasons.

 

[AndrewT]

Please register your games here, the you can read and post in the User Mods forum for this game. Thanks.