Note that I have now got the mod working again, although you can only use it to start at the Sol system. In particular the feature to start on Deneb, or on a system distant from Sol have been removed (or more precisely, they haven't been put back in, as I have rebuilt the mod). If I see a particular demand for these features I will try to find time to put them back in.

Anyway, the basic part of the mod should be working again. If you have any problems with it, let me know.

That's fair enough

My apologies: some personal stuff is interfering with my ability to update the mod :-(

Any chance for an update to 1.8? Currently it only loads Mercury, Venus and Earth then the asteroid belt. Nothing else in the system and the sorrounding stars are all random. Earth has no building except for a capital building which sits on a food tile rather then a energy tile. If you're already updating then sorry for bothering you

I dont think anything else could change them, they spawned on "Sol III" with olds traits

That's weird, as the mod doesn't change the human traits at all. I'll take a look, but are you sure something else isn't changing them?

(I assume you mean while playing the humans, although that shouldn't affect things either.)

Can you change human traits so they match these from Paradox? I found earth and they are fast learners and nomadic.

Hopefully the negative food situation has been solved. Haven't added a lab, as I'm not sure I like that at game start. However, I have made Unity size 18, and have randomised the starting size of Earth to be 18-25 tiles.

Ok, I will take a look at this soon. Thanks for the report.

hi, love the mod, just point out some little mistake that is the starting planet miss farm and lab compares to vanilla, you will get -2 food at the beginning. And size for unity should be 18.

Small update today, to give Mars the terraforming candidate option.

Updated to Banks 1.5.1. If there are any problems, please let me know.

Please update for 1.5
Other then that, great mod bruh

Incidentally, regarding primitive races, note that this mod adds only 100 stars. So if you're playing with 400 star systems, 300 have a chance for primitive races and space monsters.

Ok, thanks for the clarification. That file is there to try to prevent two Sols from appearing, so it should probably been in Lite as well. I will add it when I have a moment.

I noticed that you have an extra system intializer file in special_system_intialization in Sol Unleashed that you don't have in lite and the last comment was about primitive races not working. I don't know if that file is neccessary at all- it might just be a system limitation between the galaxy sizes, but I thought I would just mention that.

It works fine, though, I don't have any problems. The Stellaris Launcher is seeing some competability issues, it's probably some syntax issue with the description.

Hi Jemnite, I thought Sol Unleashed Lite was up to date, i.e., 1.3.1 compatible. It's certainly supposed to be.

Can you be more specific about the issue your seeing, as I don't understand what you mean?

I noticed that in the Sol Unleashed base version you have a special systems intializer which allows for primitive races- that seems to be the only major difference between this Lite version and the base version which is 1.31 competible. Would it be too much trouble to ask you to update this Lite version?

Today's update is simply for compatibility with 1.2.0.

Yes, that is an issue, I'm afraid. I could add more primitive races, but that will increase the number of colonisable planets (because you have to add colonisable planets for the races to spawn on). And if I do that, some of the randomness disappears, because you get to know where the colonisable planets will appear. The problem is that Stellaris at present isn't well set up to spawn semi-random galaxies. It may require a few updates from the developers before it really works well. I appreciate that isn't satisfactory, and I'm open to suggestions from anyone who knows how to solve these problems.

The new systems don't seem to spawn in primitive races or space monsters.

Just noticed an error I introduced into the localisation file in the last update. Don't think it's important, but better safe than sorry, so I'm providing an update. Sorry for the inconvenience.

I have now done the update. You will likely see a more continental planets near Earth, and sometimes you might get very lucky. If people think it's unbalanced, let me know.

The prescripted_species_system file was renamed to improve compatability, but this inevitably means that you will see the vanilla system start options.

I've had a couple of items of feedback:
1. My mod removes the guaranteed continental planets close to Sol, which was available with the vanilla Sol start, and this can sometimes lead to difficult starts. I will be slightly increasing the chances of getting continental planets.
2. It has been suggested that I should not name my file 'prescripted_species_systems' as it reduces compatibility with other mods. This seems like a reasonable suggestion, although it does mean that you will now get the two vanilla starts listed in the menu.
I will be uploading a new file incorporating both the above changes today or tomorrow.

[UPDATE] If you play the Milky Way start or the Deneb start, the planet Earth in the Sol system will now be populated with an early space age civilisation.

glad to see this! I was keep trying to have both Deneb system starting and Sol Unleashed. Thank you.

There's been a fairly substantial update today. Check out the 'Change Notes' for full details, but the main things are that I included some detailed nearby systems, I added a Deneb start and I fixed the bug referred to in the post below.

Earth will now spawn as completely uncolonised, unless the game decides to put something there. There is a question as to whether I should put something there. Possibilities include:

- spawn a human empire on earth
- spawn a human early space age primitive culture on earth
- randomly do one of the above, or do nothing
- provide a starting option allowing the player to decide - in which case, how many options would be the right number, bearing in mind people probably don't want dozens of starting options.

Feedback would be appreciated.

Now to roll out the same changes to Sol Unleashed ...

Thanks to Eisvisage I'm aware of a bug when playing the Milky Way System start, in that Sol will be devoid of life, but will still contain buildings. I have prepared a fix for this, which I will be uploading following testing. In addition to this, I have improved the code to reduce the file size, and have made some special changes to the closest 10 star systems, which are now properly represented as binaries and ternaries.