What determines starting empires' populations at game start?

[Seomis]

Is the populating of home planets at the start of a game hard-coded? I see that special empires (fallen, primitive, etc.) have scripts populating their planets, but nothing for the default country type.

 

[Shaggo]

i suggest you have a look at our mod files. especially the code in prescripted_countries and the stuff in solar_system_initializers could help you a lot.

 

[Seomis]

i suggest you have a look at our mod files. especially the code in prescripted_countries and the stuff in solar_system_initializers could help you a lot.

In the base game, files in solar_system_initializers only populate for fallen empires and primitive civilizations. prescripted_countries does so for no one. I'm looking for where the default population is set for the player's and normal, randomized, AI-controlled empires.

 

[AlphaAsh]

I looked. Hard. Couldn't find where the seven starting pops is defined in soft-code.

Try a game-start event that creates a couple of new pops on every colonised planet. AlphaMod has an edict that triggers such an event.

planet_event = {
   id = relocate_megacitizens.1

   is_triggered_only = yes
   location = ROOT
   hide_window = yes
   
   immediate = {
     planet_event = {
       id = relocate_megacitizens.2
     }
   }
}

planet_event = {
   id = relocate_megacitizens.2
   is_triggered_only = yes
   hide_window = yes

   immediate = {
     create_pop = {
       species = owner_main_species
       ethos = owner
     }
     create_pop = {
       species = owner_main_species
       ethos = owner
     }
   }
}

 

[Seomis]

Thanks! That's what I'm prepared to do, but I was holding out hope that I wouldn't have to resort to a hacky solution like that. Oh well, certainly not the end of the world!

 

[LogicSequence]

You'll have to do it on on_press_begin not on_game_start if you want to add pops to the player country. Just FYI.