Hello I am looking to reduce the size of the galaxy on the server im launching. How do i go about reducing the amount of systems in the galaxy and the general size of it. My aim is to just having a larger consentration of players in the systems, and not all spread out. Thank you.
You can change this in Empyrion - Galactic Survival\Content\Configuration\GalaxyConfig.ecf. In the first section, top of the file : { GalaxyConfig, Name: General StarCount: "15000, 20000" <<< make that around 1500, 2000 Radius: "0, 500" <<< if you change this "500" max value, make sure to adjust values of each Child StarRegion and Territory accordingly NebulaCount: "50, 100" <<< you can get these very low, and also make their color very faint to have more realistic looking space -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the next section, " Region Definition", you can then reduce the number of stars per "Child StarRegion" but only reduce those that have a significant number of stars. Currently there are 25 of these regions, but the only ones you may want to reduce could be regions 2 (200), region 3 (2700), and region 7 (3000). All other regions have either only 1 star or very few, so I would not touch these (hard to go lower than 1 anyway). You can skim these 3 Child StarRegions and it should be ok, just don't go too low. I would not go lower than 50 stars for each. You may want to try very few systems but I recommend you test this in singleplayer first, to see the results. { Child StarRegion_7 Name: "Above and Below" Shape: Elliptical RadiusMinMax: "15, 500" <<< do not exceed max galaxy radius set in section 1 TotalSpawnCount: 3000 <<< lower that number Make sure that you don't have higher number of stars total in these Child StarRegion than there are total stars in the galaxy! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last thing to check is that the radius and center values for Territory definitions (next section of the file) do not exceed the max values set in the first section when defining the Galaxy global dimensions. { Child Territory_1 Faction: Zirax Center: "130, 0, 206" # LYCoord <<< these are x,y,z coordinates in Light Years in 3d space for the center of that "territory" which you can visualize in game on the Galaxy map. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you want to keep it very simple just edit the first section of the file and cut the radius in half (250 LY) then all other values also in half, apart from star numbers in Child StarRegions. Edit : one point I forgot : in some of the Child StarRegions there is a "Position" that you may need to adjust or just comment-out. This would be the case if that position exceeds the max galaxy dimension. In the same vein make sure the various "min/max" values will remain under max galaxy values. And lastly, don't forget to adjust the Starter system which is defined at the end of section 1, else you may end up starting your game somewhere outside the bounds of your new smaller galaxy if you reduced its size. .
