[0.50] Sandy's Better Systems Mod.

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        SANDY'S BETTER SYSTEMS MOD v0.1 for [0.50]

NOTE: Images taken with abundant stars. I recommend a lower star setting.

Interesting, high planet systems!

Varied stellar terrain! Huge orbits!

Hello, and thank you for looking at my mod! Feel free to leave comments.

SECTIONS
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1. About
2. Contents
3. Install
4. Uninstall

1) ABOUT

After playing weeks of GalCiv3 I came to feel that space was... boring. Exploring stars felt unrewarding as there were rarely any usable planets, even on abundant. It just felt too empty. So, I dove into the xml files and through trial and error, made this mod! It makes stars rarer, but massively spikes the planet/asteroid count, and gives personality to different types of stars. Planetary tile bonuses are also made more common.

2) CONTENTS

This mod changes 3 files, and includes backups to make install easy. I have documented changes at the beginning of each file to simplify manually merging, and to give some guidance.

The changes are:
[v0.1]

• Star systems with personality! Planets can appear much father from stars and most systems have an Ourt belt of asteroids.
• YELLOW STAR 1. Good chance of habitable planets, lots of asteroids. 6 Lanes
• YELLOW STAR 2. Good chance of habitable planets, some asteroids. 5 Lanes
• PURPLE STAR. Not many planets but most are habitable due to large temperate zone. No asteroids. 4 Lanes
• WHITE STAR 1. SMALL HOT YOUNG. A small, hot, young star with some habitable planets. Many asteroids as it has just formed. 5 Lanes
• WHITE STAR 2. SMALL HOT OLD. A small, hot, old star with some habitable planets. Few asteroids. 4 Lanes
• BLUE STAR 1. SMALL HOT YOUNG. A small, hot, young star with some planets. Many asteroids as it has just formed. 4 Lanes
• BLUE STAR 2. SMALL HOT OLD. A small, hot, old star with some planets. Few asteroids. 4 Lanes
• RED GIANT 1. LARGE OLD. A large, old star with many planets. Most asteroids gone with time. 6 Lanes
• RED GIANT 2. LARGE. A large star with many planets. Some asteroids. 6 Lanes
• ORANGE 1. Small, cool.    A small, cool star with an almost empty system. 4 Lanes
• ORANGE 2. Medium, cool. A medium, cool star with a small system. 4 Lanes
• ORANGE 3. Large. A large star with a small system. 4 Lanes
• Star numbers drastically reduced on lower settings
• Habitable planet number increased on higher settings
• Slight increase in special tiles on planets.

    
2) INSTALLING

1.  Find your GalCiv3 data\Game folder, usually located at
• Code: xml

  1. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\data\Game
2. Copy the contents of the zip file in, overwriting when given the option. You should be asked to overwrite 3 files. Don't worry, I included a backup of each vanilla file in the zip.
3. Start a new game. The mod won't take effect on pre-existing saves as it is used to generate the map prior to the first turn.
• I recommend playing with stars set to uncommon or rare, and both planet settings set to abundant.
4. Have fun! And be sure to leave me feedback on to forum!~

    
3) UNINSTALLING
    

1. Go to your data\Game folder as listed in install instructions
2. Delete GalCiv3GlobalDefs.xml, MapSetupDefs.xml, and StarSystemDefs.xml
3. Finally, restore the vanilla files by removing " [0.50]backup" from their names, leaving them as xml files.

This information is also included in the zip file.

DOWNLOAD v0.1 for [0.50]

http://speedy.sh/ARdM7/Sandys-Better-Systems-Mod-v0.1.zip