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Dogfisc

Second Lieutenant
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Apr 25, 2018
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Does anyone know if the logic for determining which flashpoints spawn has changed? Every career I start (dozens at this point, as I was testing mods) the first four flashpoints are always
Of Unknown Origin
The Periphery is a Harsh Mistress
Unwelcome Guests
Prototype
My understanding is that "Prototype" and "Of Unknown Origin" are supposed to spawn first, but after those two I expected them to be random. I even have "The Cache" installed, which has weight of 10000 and should therefore almost always be first if weight is being used.
 
All of those Flashpoints are tagged to be Starting FPs.

If you open their flashpoint files with Notepad++, you'll find:
Code:
    "Tags" : {
        "items" : [
            "StartingFlashpoint"
        ],
        "tagSetSourceFile" : "tags/FlashpointTags"
    }

This is what determines their appearance at the beginning.