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Extragalactic Cluster Start

Description
Start in an Isolated Extra-Galactic Constellations
This mod takes the excellent constellations from Extra Galactic Clusters and makes it possible to have any of them as a starting location for your civilisation (Note only the Constellation, not the contents). You can also spawn the other EGC's for your civ to later find and explore.

It is done via a new Origin: Extra-Galatic Cluster.
If your civilisation takes that then a menu will appear on game start for you to customise your cluster. The AI never will.

Options
  • Constellation Shape
  • Starting System Initaliser (Sol, Deneb, Random, Ring World)
  • Guarantee that strategic resources and specific stars for Giagastructures will spawn
  • Access to your cluster? (Wormhole, the L-Gate Network)
  • Multiplayer support for upto 2 players to start in clusters

Gameplay
Your civilisation will move into its new cluster home on day 2 to avoid issues with galaxy generation. Select your options then start time, the game will freeze and lag while it generates the cluster, which might take a while on large galaxies, be patient, it will start.
original point in the galaxy where the evidence of their passage was left.

Your constellation will not have precursors. If you want to learn about your precursor civilisation you will need to get back to your
You can Experimental Subspace Navigation your science vessels to your old home system (and L-Gates if selected), that is deliberate. Be warned the AI expands towards your home cluster quickly as it has a glut of nice planets and resources.

If you select for the rest of the Extra Galatic Cluster to spawn in they will spawn in over time in the first year, to avoid galaxy generation issues. This means you will get lag and freeze spikes until about August when the last one, Hexagon, spawns. Hexagon spawns at the edge of the addressable universe so you may need to hide the outlier to select it.

This mod was also inspired by Isolated Cluster Start

In multiplayer Player 1 should take the regular EGS origin, player 2 should take the "Mulitplayer EGS" origin. See here for details.

Compatibility
No vanilla files were harmed in the making of this mod, but as it does a lot of work shifting a colony will have issues with other mods that do the same or things that add planet classes at starting

  • This mod is incompatible with things that change the planet/system start, there is a long description why in the discussions section
  • It is compatible with Planetary Diversity planet starts, except for tidally locked. It will cheerfully ignore the PD "habitable planets to be same type instead of exact match" option.
  • Compatible with Guillis Planet Modifiers.

My Other Mods

HELP! I DIED ON DAY 1
This is most frequently caused by a modded species home planet, I have to code every home planet manually. If you are a non vanilla, non planetary diversity planet type for your homeworld preference then I can't set it when you move. Post a comment letting me know the planet type and which mod it came from and I'll add it.

Bug Reporting
The only way to achieve a lot of the effects is with a large amount of copy and paste code, so if you have a bug I really need to know the following information, even something so trivial as Spawning Kerbals or not falls down an entirely different branch of the cluster generation and so may have bug where the non kerbals don't.
  • What cluster you started with
  • What your starting world was
  • Whether you have gigastructures stars enabled and the Kerbals enable
  • What class your original starting planet was
  • What other mods are you using

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5 Dec, 2021 @ 1:26am
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4 Jan, 2024 @ 8:55am
PINNED: What actually happens?
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22 Jun, 2024 @ 8:56am
Help! Mod just doesn't seem to exist when i start the game.
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Estellus 7 hours ago 
You can combine this with the multiple origins mod, just be aware that the 'extra' origin decisions aren't comprehensive, so you can't combine this with just anything and things can get a bit...weird. Should work fine with stuff like Riftworld and Starlit Citadel at the very least.
Nilrem 11 hours ago 
any way to start in a isolated cluster but take another origin ?
Draconas  [author] 7 Jun @ 12:53pm 
@ferguson interesting and unexpected, I'm glad you solved it,

@Myyddraal You can't anymore, they were increasingly broken, when we got to 4.0 I would have needed to completely redo them (they were almost entirely the original code from the Extragalactic clusters mod) so I have removed the functionality entirely.

I am hopeful that in future I will be able to re-add Ringworld and Void Dweller home systems without many vanilla overrides, but if I do they will be locked behind Federations DLC as they will operate like PDX origins, not like my custom ones.
Myyddraal 7 Jun @ 11:39am 
also, maybe i'm missing something, but how do i get other clusters to spawn in?
ferguson_bobby2000 7 Jun @ 9:31am 
I was having trouble with dying on day 2 using the gigastructural engineering, some trait mods and this. By putting the mod to the end of the load order it is solved.
Estellus 7 Jun @ 6:29am 
You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Draconas  [author] 6 Jun @ 2:35pm 
Basic version update to 4.0.15 is now up.

There may be continued tomfoolery around the planetary administration building and you get occasional unemployed pops on the move.
[Yetti]DOODS-666 6 Jun @ 4:20am 
Day 2 death on Ocean and arctic worlds. Luckily have a day 4 save on one of them to restart (EHOF glitched and bombed me with notifications)
ScHyMeMe 5 Jun @ 9:23am 
@Draconas :crtgoofy: Thank you ever so much, this is the single most important mod for me !!
Draconas  [author] 5 Jun @ 9:13am 
Thanks all

4.0.15 has made a crap ton of changes including changing syntax on several script commands. It's like 4.0 all over again. Which is a bit rude for a minor patch.

It's broken a bunch of my mods and while I didn't see anything in the patch notes that should break egs your experiences tell me that they did.

I don't have time to look at anything until the weekend and will try to get a fix up as soon as I can.