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He was a poster who frequently demanded people make various sapient creatures milkable for him on the modding subforum, and didn't seem to comprehend that the game does not allow a creature to be milked if it is also sentient, and didn't like any of the responses he got. He got banned for being rude to people. We can only riff on him constantly because he's not around to defend himself. Which we should really stop, technically.
Set vampire curses to 0 from advanced world gen, then generate a world with a couple hundred years of history and see if your custom vampire curses show up. Custom curses should work unless there's some problem with the interaction.
From what i've seen when i was testing the same thing, the game has a limited number of slots for secrets. i think it's like 40-60 or so by default.Not secrets, secrets are no problem, talking vampire curses.
It will sometimes select custom ones, but the default ones are more likely, because it generates like 50 of them.
I had some success by reducing the chance of civilisations worshiping the Death and decay spheres and increased the chance of them worshiping the sphere that my secret was tied to [SPHERE_ALIGNMENT:(Sphere):0-25600] 256 is the default, according to the wiki. I set mine to like 100, and it seemed to reduce the number of necromancers, and resulted in more of my custom secrets.
In addition, you can tie your secret to multiple spheres IIRC. which obviously means it will occur more.
Edit: Wait, did you mean entity curses? or secrets? because they work differently, but i think it's a similar problem. it generates 50 odd potential curses, and your 1 secret has a 1/50 chance lol. i'm not sure spheres influence curses.
You might be able to use advanced generation settings to set the number of secrets and curses quite a bit lower, that seemed to increase the number of custom stuff too. i think those settings only affects generated curses/secrets.
Another way though is to make multiple identical copies of your curse (with different IDs) to increase the odds that it will be the one picked. If you want to totally replace vanilla generated curses with your own, you would have to set the amount of curses in worldgen to none.
Do you mean crashes or rejections? Because having many playable entities can cause rejections if it can't place them all.
😐Are you using site types PLAYER_FORTRESS or MONUMENT? Those may cause world gen crashes.
I would also say that cant be the culprit, at least not on its own. World gen should restart if it cant place enough civs to meet the required number, not crash.
I also have a mod (Spellcrafts) that adds a dozen or so civs in total, and doesnt seem to have this issue. Or at least, it will place all the civs. Sometimes world gen still crashes, and Ive never been able to figure out why but the actual number of civs-to-be-placed in the world, or number of entities, doesnt seem at all related.
I in fact had a frustrating crash recently after generating a vanilla world for 6500+ years; after pressing the "keep world and return to title screen" button.
oh! that would actually made sense.
One of the times i had lots of crashes i couldn't work out was two entities with the same Start biome.
I don't get any now, presumably because they now all have entirely separate starts?
hmm.
I have a similar mod, but adds 5 playables.
I had a bunch of problems, but i suspect at least in my case, it was the fact some of them didn't have any valid growables for outdoor farming and started in a desert.
After i removed that entity tag, it stopped failing.
That isn't your issue is it? i can't say i've had many problems after that, that weren't me doing something really dumb haha.
