I've made a good copy of the Creative start and have transformed it in a screnario which starts in Survival, adding POIs on the planets and in space for training purposes. My idea is that the player uses the Changemode command to switch to Creative, he can then spawn the POIs he likes, then assign them to a faction with the command faction entity Zrx [entity ID] Then, he switches back to Survival with the Changemode command again (according to the display this is recommended to avoid issues). The player can then play against this POI like in Survival with all the NPCs that spawn, etc. I notice however some flaws: First, This method will only work for BAs, not for vessels because vessel missions must be set in the Playfield_dynamic.yaml file, AFAIK you cannot get a spawned vessel to patrol by switching game modes or with other console commands, or can you actually? Second, I notice that before using the Changemode command you must visit all playfields first where you intend to make changes for POIs, etc. If you skip doing this and use the changemode command, then no POIs except asteroid ressources will be in any playfield you enter and different from the starting one, these POIs will only be there if you have visited the playfield before using the command. Up to now I haven't encountered any 'issues' with the changemode command as long as I quit the game session with the game having the same game mode when loading it. It would also be best I imagine to swtich back before you leave the playfield. Is it that simple? What are your subtle experiences with the Changemode command? Can you use it so to keep your game stable? In previous game versions it may have broken your savegames with high certainty, but in the current version I cannot really confirm this with the measures I take.
Now that I know that I can copy blocks with CTRL-RMB, and also use the aimanager in the console which I find very useful as for the possibilities, there are very less occasions where I do really need this changemode command. I've been adviced in the Steam forums to refrain using it from players who know it much better than me, I've no reaosn not following their advice, but I can still think to use it if I really need the full N menu for big copy-paste operations.
