Tech 1-5 starting pop & credits

[Gowron]

Some very useful information by Joker that must not be lost

trek.exe pos
DEC 1629212
sorted by race car/fed/fer/kli/rom
all values 32bit int

1st 5 values
pop
2nd 5 values
credits
3rd 5 values
unknown
4th 5 values
unknown

Btw, the "unknown" values are still unknown

[Spocks-cuddly-tribble]

Side note w.r.t. the 'unknown' (unused) 3rd 5 values:


Starting pop of home & additional starting systems is loaded separately i.e. you can use different values via altering of the index calculations.

I always thought it is very odd if the extra starting systems starting pop is limited by exactly identical values than the home system.

Looking at the code and the default values it appears that this interesting feature has been broken just by a single byte coding error:

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450DC1    mov     eax, ds:58FE1C[edx+eax*4] -> change to ds:58FE44

i.e. in trek.exe at 0x501C4 replace: 1C with: 44

Now the starting pop of the extra starting systems will be taken from the 3rd 5 values.


Vanilla defaults: (T1-T5 / all empires)

100 / 150 / 200 / 250 / 300


Note that the effective starting pop is also limited by:

pop & planets limits for free- minor- & starting-systems
Terraforming Fix for Additional Starting Systems and Minors


The number of additional starting systems is limited by:

disable limit for extra starting systems
Corner check (major home systems)




Regarding the 'unknown' (unused) 4th 5 values:


I'll also provide a way of establishing custom AI starting credits using this data field, but that will go into another topic, which will contain quite a lot AI tweaks (probably this year).