I noticed, which is why I posted. The point of this thread is more of a feature request, to allow further modability. If the game didn't crash if a playable civ has no homeworld, we'd be able to do more interesting things.


I know there are presets with "dead" planets, but they actually do have habitable (Class 2) planets. This is not desirable for my idea, though. I'm trying to mod in a civ with no planets, using only starbases and shipyards.

No crash log or dump is generated (is that because we're out of Beta? Is there a way for me to force it to generate those?). 

Supposedly they were left in the release as v1.01 patch notes:
"Removed some release level debug"

Source - http://steamcommunity.com/app/226860/discussions/1/620713633854416360/

There are variables in Prefs.ini, but I am not sure what values besides "Default" it accepts. 

[edit] You may also want to check the Tutorial and the first level of the Campaign regarding Homeless factions, as the Terrans start as one.

On your side note: By orphan shipyards, do you mean that the turn button becomes unavailable? I feel it is more of a bad design decision as I sometimes want to have my Shipyards stay orphans. 

Just found out, you have to shutdown shipyards that you want to stay as orphaned. Then the turn button becomes available. 

One suggestion for you that I picked up while watching the replay of Derek Paxtons stream from yesterday Download/copy the custom race of Ghosts of the Abbaddon which I think someone above mentioned but when you've downloaded them make a copy of them in the faction screen alter them to what you want and change their name before you save/carry on so your changes don't overwrite the original race you downloaded the result of this when you start the game will give you a crap class 2 homeworld that you wont want to keep long term and instead of a survey ship,a scout and a colony ship, all you will have is 3 colony ships from which you search out a new homeworld and you can change your empires homeworld capital once you have a new planet! [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

 

As for the shipyards being orphaned I don't know how to mod this but the production goes like this - planets sponsor shipyards and the shipyards build the ships without sponsors the shipyards have no production and cant produce ships without it also and this what irks me on the change from GC2 you have to either be building a ship or have the yard shutdown for the turn system to let you click the turn button.

hope this helps! [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Ah I see may I suggest you pm/msg Derek Paxton as I think only he or Paul will be able to answer you whether it can be done or not? good luck [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

Yeah, the Turn button is currently my main problem, followed closely by how hard it is to make a civ homeless. Even if I get an event to delete their starting planet (and they have <RequiresHomeworld>false</RequiresHomeworld>), the game simply crashes.