Is there a way to make it work with Real Space?

When I try to start the game with a core start, I get popups with no text and a blank screen, I have tried accepting them and another just pops up. Not sure what's happening

Awesome mod. Is there any way to not have a blue supergiant as the default "non-core" start? Even without System Scale, it seems to butt heads with Real Space by either clipping into the Sun like a broken sombrero or just blowing up the Disc. Given that I'm trying to run it as an AI Race origin, I worry they'll choose to start outside the core and make things all sorts of awkward. When I choose to start in a core world I seem to end up with an A class star main sequence star and everything works absolutely fine.

You need the perk.

So how do I change the Alderson disk specialty without the perk? Should that be changed?

Ok :), its a weird choice for a gaia world equivalent gigastructure tho, id give the species gaia world preference in that case. Ur call tho

That'd be like giving void dwellers continental preference, so for now, I'd rather not.

thanks :) Is there a way to keep the original planet type preference, since the alderson disc preference isnt convenient :D

A lot more options for starts now.

wow, awesome response time. Thank you very much :)

"Fix" meaning the choice of whether to be random system or galactic core.

Also a huge update, please wait to start a new game unless you want to be in the galactic core.
Future "fix" won't effect any new games from this patch.

Rogue servitor should be fixed now.

Yeah, it does break, no idea why.
I'll have to do some stuff with the start when I get a chance.

i encountered a really weird bug, spawning as a rogue servitor breaks the anderson disk start for some reason, not sure why. And primitives dont spawn either

You need to use the origin, Halcyon.

Doesn't work... says its invalid for a starting system.

Arcane generator should be a non-issue for old saves now.
Pop demotion is now fixed with Birch World Origin's "All in this together" decision.

Nocturne, you must have either started the game before the update or have a mod conflicting the captial initialization.
Elowiny says he has a hive mind equivalent planned for arcology.
Once that and machine equivalent are out, I'll change the origin for each type.

thanks :)

Hive mind cannot get the arcology project, therefore is not able to get the corresponding specialization, and that kinda sucks...

To my knowledge I don't have anything like that, if you implemented it then there must be a conflict

Is the arcane generator not working/doesn't exist?

I don't know how you couldn't have that problem unless you have a different mod of some sort, I started with only 28 pops and they all went to jobs like entertaining, enforcer, etc etc. and no one was working on food or minerals or energy.

Then add in the problem that your districts require gas, motes, and crystals

Nocturne: Strange, I'm playing a normal empire and haven't had that problem
Jeor: You can terraform the slices once you get the alderson ascension perk.

Is there a way to replace a specific slice with the computing segment? Or is the anderson disk locked into the gaia slices?

One thing I think you need to tweak, is to remove the starting habitation hypersegment, this causes several starting pops to be on jobs for entertainers and whatnot, and this means basically no one is working on making things like minerals or energy, causing your economy to IMMEDIATELY tank straight into the ground, year 2200 and im already at 0 energy because of this, and if you are not playing hive or machine empire, your pops will not immediately go down to the lower jobs.

I have run into the same problem

TheFlosh, that may be caused by another mod, however I did not test all origins.

For some reason I spawn with a Planet inside of the Alderson disk and not on the Disk Itself

Dude freaky, I was literally just imagining what it'd be like to have an origin like this, and BOOM my wish was fulfilled by you before I even knew I wanted it

That's likely why then.
I'll fix it in the next update.

the thumbnail image need to be no bigger than 500x500 otherwise it won't load

Arcane generator seems to conflict with planetary diversity, I'll look into fixing it.

im now realizing i made a mistake with the arcane generator lol, it gives 50 extra upkeep than it should because i misread the produces of solar generator district as upkeep. Additionally, i think it would be best to not start with a city district as the specialist jobs cripple the player's economy at the start since you lack workers.

descriptor needs to manually point to the thumbnail
picture="thumbnail.png"
should be a line
also i think thumbnail.png needs to just be in the mods folder?

I did, no idea why it doesn't display.

I wonder if you renamed your picture thumbnail.png. Unfortunately nothing is displayed.

Primitives ended up being more trouble than worth, maybe I'll try it again some other time.
Might have some sort of custom precursor quest go along with this.

You're welcome.
I'll try to get to it ASAP, thankfully I can fix this up at work.
Also looking for a way to get the icon placement to not be weird for the slices, I think gigastructures keeps them at a certain place since they're stuck to a certain megastructure entity.

Okay, I haven't had much of a chance to play with the Alderson Disk much (it's technologically and economically demanding, after all); if you can change the type of the slice after generation, then all-Gaia is probably the best way to go.

Thank you for your continued work on this mod; I'm enjoying it, and I can tell already that it's improving your modding.

I'll add a choice for primitive generation.
The idea with having them all be gaia is that you can terraform them later, thus balancing this start just a bit more.

YES!
I wanted this so bad!

Also, if I had a choice between having six gaia slices or two each of gaia, ecu, and research slices, I'd easily prefer the latter.

And to clarify, I don't mean the disk slice became toxic, I mean it vanished and was replaced with a regular, spherical toxic world. Not that I suspect the core issue is with this mod, but as a rule the slices get treated like worlds instead of structures, allowing nonsensical events to fire and industrialized primitives to magically turn them into regular (if poisoned) planets.

well personally I would prefer without them so you could add an option at the start of the game to turn them on. Birch world origin has that to generate megastructure in the nearby systems at the start.

That is a fun twist, but not without its problems. One of the primitives in my most recent Alderson start attempt turned their slice into a toxic world.

Yeah, I figured that might be a fun twist.

is it normal that the rest of the disk is full of primitives ?

I got it, thank you Ashur.