[MOD] (Alpha 4) Start With more Colonists (discontinued)

[StorymasterQ]

Are you able to reduce the number of starting colonists? Would be an interesting challenge to start with just one person.

you might want to use this http://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=1646.0 its very very easy to use what you need to do is go to 'Colonist editor' then choose any colonist you dont want and edit their health to '0' - save then go back choose 'file' then save---- finish -------- hope this useful

Oh damn he cant, just looked at the .dll, but damn thats a sneaky way to get more colonists
Unless to add a extra event where two of colonists get killed.

Maybe there ought to be a mod that gives a more meaningful 'event' to that effect, saying 'Three life pods were ejected, but only one survives' or something to that effect.

[mrofa]

3 colonists are prapobly still hardcoded, or atleast i didnt see any stuff regarding thier number in dll.

[Cala13er]

3 colonists are prapobly still hardcoded, or atleast i didnt see any stuff regarding thier number in dll.

Yeah that bit is still hardcoded.

[Cala13er]

I won't use this unless it lets me choose the colonist setup in the starting menu of the game.  So I can rename them and such. 

As much as I would love that, that bit is obviously hardcoded. So that won't be part of the version any time soon.

[Cala13er]

New update, Version 1.1!!

ChangeLog :
//v1.1
--> Now spawns more beds to match the amount of colonists.
--> Now spawns more food depending on the amount of colonists.
--> Start with 6 colonists now changes stockpiles to 7 by 7 instead of 5 by 5 (Personal preference)

This is NOT a bump, the post was already at the top.

[ENE]

what is the highest number of start colonist that yo can mod

[Celthric Aysen]

Can you make one that spawns 10 Colonist

[Cala13er]

what is the highest number of start colonist that yo can mod

Not limit, got one that spawns 20, gonna publish later today, just working on spawning so many beds so it looks neat and not a mess.

[iame6162013]

hmmm would it be plausible to have it spawn Billions?(easily)
Then it would be hard to feed them

[Cala13er]

Hahaha no, that would take forever. I would have to make 1 billion pawn spawners which is around 8 lines of code per pawn. So 1 billion lines of code to spawn 1 billion pawns. The game engine can only just manage to handle thousands of things. Never mind 8 billion headless chicken ai's.

[iame6162013]

Hahaha no, that would take forever. I would have to make 1 billion pawn spawners which is around 8 lines of code per pawn. So 1 billion lines of code to spawn 1 billion pawns. The game engine can only just manage to handle thousands of things. Never mind 8 billion headless chicken ai's.

Challenge Accepted
Edit
Hmm .dll it is ...
EDIT
Challenge Rejected.

[Architect]

Hahaha no, that would take forever. I would have to make 1 billion pawn spawners which is around 8 lines of code per pawn. So 1 billion lines of code to spawn 1 billion pawns. The game engine can only just manage to handle thousands of things. Never mind 8 billion headless chicken ai's.

surely using: for (int i = 0; i < [colonistCount]; i++) would be better than 8 lines of code each time?

[Cala13er]

Hahaha no, that would take forever. I would have to make 1 billion pawn spawners which is around 8 lines of code per pawn. So 1 billion lines of code to spawn 1 billion pawns. The game engine can only just manage to handle thousands of things. Never mind 8 billion headless chicken ai's.

surely using: for (int i = 0; i < [colonistCount]; i++) would be better than 8 lines of code each time?

Unfortunately, I've tried that, It only managed to spawn 3 colonists max. No idea why, plus you still need to define the name, it's colony, it's adulthood every time. Other wise it will spawn so many colonists with the same name and adulthood. Which is unwanted.

If that makes sense.

[Architect]

Hahaha no, that would take forever. I would have to make 1 billion pawn spawners which is around 8 lines of code per pawn. So 1 billion lines of code to spawn 1 billion pawns. The game engine can only just manage to handle thousands of things. Never mind 8 billion headless chicken ai's.

surely using: for (int i = 0; i < [colonistCount]; i++) would be better than 8 lines of code each time?

Unfortunately, I've tried that, It only managed to spawn 3 colonists max. No idea why, plus you still need to define the name, it's colony, it's adulthood every time. Other wise it will spawn so many colonists with the same name and adulthood. Which is unwanted.

Hmmm, I see the issue.

[iame6162013]

Hahaha no, that would take forever. I would have to make 1 billion pawn spawners which is around 8 lines of code per pawn. So 1 billion lines of code to spawn 1 billion pawns. The game engine can only just manage to handle thousands of things. Never mind 8 billion headless chicken ai's.

surely using: for (int i = 0; i < [colonistCount]; i++) would be better than 8 lines of code each time?

Unfortunately, I've tried that, It only managed to spawn 3 colonists max. No idea why, plus you still need to define the name, it's colony, it's adulthood every time. Other wise it will spawn so many colonists with the same name and adulthood. Which is unwanted.

Hmmm, I see the issue.

can't u use a randomiser?...