VN homeworld

[Lichking07]

So, finally beat the VN homeworld, however a few things felt off. First, the Neo-beserkers felt like tissue paper to shoot and no VN planet killer ever spawned.
I'll also mention this is a multi-player game and the ghost ship menace had already appeared.

[Hirmikss™]

You can't have more than one Grand Menace in your game without modifying the game files.

https://swordofthestars.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Unknown_Menaces

You simply cannot have Peacekeeper, Locust, Planet Killer nor Pupper Master in the game alongside each other.

Originally posted by Lichking07:

ghost ship menace had already appeared.

It will come back to haunt you if you hadn't destroyed it but thats about it, its all that will spawn you destroy that and its gone for good.

Originally posted by Lichking07:

First, the Neo-beserkers felt like tissue paper to shoot

VN falls flat when you get Fusion, let alone antimatter tier weapons.

Edit:
https://swordofthestars.fandom.com/wiki/Von_Neumann_Construct
Von Neuman System Killer (copy of a system killer) can appear in the same game as other grand menaces because it doesn't count as one, to my understanding von neuman needs to gather enough resources to create it and you'd have to fully defeat the "von neuman berserker" encounter for it to spawn too (saucers, carrier, triangles all of it in a single battle).

if you destroy the homeworld no more von neuman encounters will spawn in the game

[Lichking07]

Yeah, went down the path of destroying a berserker. Guess either the AI took down the VN system killer or they never got the time to build it.

[Lichking07]

And you mentioned that the ghost ship might come back? Dam, this is the 3rd game in a row it's appeared and I hate fighting it.

[Hirmikss™]

Originally posted by Lichking07:

this is the 3rd game in a row it's appeared and I hate fighting it.

you can open up the sots.gob and navigate over to the encounters.txt change some numbers for example change puppetmaster odds to 0.0 and it'll never spawn EVER (in a new game) till you change it back


Keep a copy of the gob file just in case
Sots.gob/Data/


it should be near the top of the file easy to find:

SYSTEMKILLER_ODDS 1.0 // (0-100) Percentage chance per turn to init system killer.
SYSTEMKILLER_MINTURN 100 // First turn to start rolling for system killer to show up.
SYSTEMKILLER_MINSYS 50 // Minimum number of systems in a map for system killer to show up.

PUPPETMASTER_ODDS 1.0
PUPPETMASTER_MINTURN 100
PUPPETMASTER_MINSYS 50

LOCUST_ODDS 1.0
LOCUST_MINTURN 100
LOCUST_MINSYS 50




EDIT:
Peacekeeper odds etc are in ---> ortgay.txt
Sots.gob/Data/combat/
you can shut him off for good too

[Lichking07]

Cool, thanks