i wanted cybrex cause the last game i abandoned before the patch was cybrex with ringworld origin. so i selected only cybrex, and got no precursor first game. then cybrex. then no precursor again. are people who are not turning off precursors having this issue? or is it only if you turn off too many and select only one? i will file a bug report later, but just wanted to see if others have been facing this.
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I’ve had 1 or 2 on and got a precursor each game, but others have definitely reported it. Seems like if you go too low there’s a chance that it doesn’t appear anywhere near you, contrary to what the devs said in the dev diaries.
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Do precursors still spawn in geographic regions? I know the old preset "X precursor is in the NE quadrant" rules don't apply but is the galaxy still split up at generation and then those segments are seeded with precursors?
I know in my runs of only having one active it's taken me longer to find the first step of the chain, my science ships having to go further from home before I got the first bite. I've not had a game where I didn't find any, but I have had a game where I didn't find the first step until I was two empires away and deep in extermination before I triggered the first anomaly. (And that game also isn't a good data point as it was early 4.0 where Wilderness deposits were spawning on planets and preventing actual anomalies from being placed during gal-gen.)
I assume it's because the region that was set for the one precursor I had chosen just wasn't geographically near me but I don't have enough data points to do more than wildly speculate about that. I can confirm that I haven't yet experienced a game without finding a precursor at all but that I have had it take until nearly mid-game before I got the first step.
I know in my runs of only having one active it's taken me longer to find the first step of the chain, my science ships having to go further from home before I got the first bite. I've not had a game where I didn't find any, but I have had a game where I didn't find the first step until I was two empires away and deep in extermination before I triggered the first anomaly. (And that game also isn't a good data point as it was early 4.0 where Wilderness deposits were spawning on planets and preventing actual anomalies from being placed during gal-gen.)
I assume it's because the region that was set for the one precursor I had chosen just wasn't geographically near me but I don't have enough data points to do more than wildly speculate about that. I can confirm that I haven't yet experienced a game without finding a precursor at all but that I have had it take until nearly mid-game before I got the first step.
According to this comment they don’t spawn in distinct slices. Under the new system the galaxy is divided up into a number of slices equal to the number of precursors you’ve selected.
Stellaris Dev Diary #367 - 4.0 Changes: Part 1
Greetings, Stellaris Community! Last week we announced the Stellaris 4.0 ‘Phoenix’ update, today we’re going to start going through some of the changes coming in it. As mentioned before, the changes we’ll be going through in the next few dev...
However this doesn’t mean you can get precursors everywhere. Since the devs want some (all?) to be more concentrated if you pick one there’s a chance the cluster of precursor flags spawn far away.
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oof so the less precursors you have the more likely it can land far away? so by selecting just one precursor, i have a single zone that could be the whole galaxy? or am i misunderstanding that?According to this comment they don’t spawn in distinct slices. Under the new system the galaxy is divided up into a number of slices equal to the number of precursors you’ve selected.
Stellaris Dev Diary #367 - 4.0 Changes: Part 1
Greetings, Stellaris Community! Last week we announced the Stellaris 4.0 ‘Phoenix’ update, today we’re going to start going through some of the changes coming in it. As mentioned before, the changes we’ll be going through in the next few dev...forum.paradoxplaza.com
However this doesn’t mean you can get precursors everywhere. Since the devs want some (all?) to be more concentrated if you pick one there’s a chance the cluster of precursor flags spawn far away.
I’d say they still spawn in distinct sites, I played around with debug mode and different precursor numbers and the less precursors you have, the more “empty” (of precursor triggers) the galaxy is.