Hi, I mirrored you and just see your answer today. I had not played Stellaris for a while but I'm looking forward to try your mod. I'll try to change backgrounds with those from BR, I hope that will assign correct identifuing codes.

Anyway, thank you a lot for your mod. I, like a lot to create tons of customed Empires to spawn, it litterally takes the game to another level of immersion, and the combinations you did are great.

If tweaking your mod would not work, I'll simply copy what you did, so, definitly, thank you for your work.

Hi @Saint-Roch sorry about the delayed response, I completely missed this Steam notification. The mod is completely valid with the current game version.

This mod will work fine with Bountiful Rooms, however while Bountiful Rooms does use a lot of the same images from Diverse Rooms, it uses different codes to identify them. This means that while the mod will work and the empires spawn normally, they will use vanilla rooms instead of their custom backgrounds.

Instead, they will just show as the basic room on the empire select screen, and then when they spawn as AI in game, they will use whatever the vanilla default room is for their AI Personality. So to give some examples, Birthright will spawn in as the AI with that room with the bone trophies in as they are a Purity Assembly, while Refuge will spawn in with that federation’ish looking room because they are a Moral Democracy.

Would this work with Bountiful Rooms instead of Diverse room, and is it stil valid with 3.11 ?

@pignans Very cool! Perhaps I can help you by writing a few backstories. If you want ofc, I don't want to cause any conflict with your established lore or ideas

I’ve also rearranged the displayed in game order the empires, so all the empires with something in their bios are at the top. Here is example of one of the ones I just added.

Empyrean:
Born of stardust orbiting in the cold light of stellar bodies, the Celestials evolved in the hard vacuum of space. Empyrean teach that they are the children of the universe itself, true divine beings of void and star.
For these reasons the Celestials look down on lesser races, for what can those who have never communed with the cosmos understand of beauty and wisdom? Those who have never felt the blessings of solar wind on their naked skin, or witnessed the raw majesty of suns undiluted by atmosphere or void-suit.

Cheers for the comment. I’d been putting off the bios for a while now, and this comment gave me a nudge I needed. I just tend to be much more judgemental of my writing which has been holding me up.

I’ve now added some new bios for the Scintillating Entity, Empyrean, Risen, Iron Host, Prosperity Initiative, Pact of Ice and Stone, Streik Grand Admiralty, Indulgence, and the Fungool Slavers. I want to start making more of an effort to get to rest, even if it’s just adding one or two lines for flavour, I think it adds so much.

Bro, when I saw the Vrath High Command I was a bit suprised, since 'Vrath' this is the exact same name I gave to my own custom species 2 years ago. I wasn't even aware of this mod at the time. Funny, isn't it?

Are you considering writing the backstories for the rest of the empires? Even just a short synopsis that would allow the player to get more acquainted with the lore of an empire

Updated to 3.8.1

@TheIndian_07 I have edited the mod so it no longer requires Planetary Diversity. I have also made an side mode that is Ironman compatible: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2949350556

I know I’ve also said that for a while I will update their bios, I just have a much higher barrier to what I consider good enough writing to release. In the meantime, I will leave you guys with the bio of one of the new empires, the remnant, driven assimilator, ‘The Forgotten’:

“Many miles down in the detritus of the ancient ecumenopolis scavengers awoke something buried in the dark, an ancient horror from a forgotten age.
It began with disappearances, extraction parties wouldn't return, settlements in the lower hive stopped communicating. By the time anyone realised the danger it was too late.
The people of Hive Nexora are gone now. It's men, women, and children absorbed into the quiet order of The Forgotten, their minds and personalities erased, their bodies grey puppets of flesh. The world whole under its incomprehensible will, The Forgotten now turns its billion eyes towards the void, seeking to bring its quiet order to the stars themselves."

Could there be a version without Planetary Diversity? It's because I use Real Space New Frontiers.

sweet

Hi @Terminus, apologies that was not intended. Preset empires are no longer forced spawned, and will instead just have a chance to spawn upon galaxy creation.

why does this mid force spawn its empires? even overriding other forced spawned empires

I'm genuinely excited to see what you have in store now that Federations is out.

Would be interested in a version using the base game planet types.

Sorry about the delay with the bios so far, i'm planning to add the biographies along with the release of the Federations DLC just to save me time with multiple updates. Though I may end up bringing this forward as it now seems to be unclear when Federations will exactly be coming out.

Agreed on the bios. It's not hard to remove them by creating a personal mod if someone really wants to insert their own story.

I'd love the bios as well! I want to learn more about these empires, they're utterly fascinating!

Please include bios.

I would like to see the bios you wrote for these empires. Since you went to the trouble to create something original, probably the stories you invented for them are also interesting.