How to extend the Select Home System choices

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Hi,

I successfully created and tested a new system (I added it to a custom faction, restarted, and can see that the system is correct).

What I also want to do is make the custom system selectable during race customization for an arbitrary new race.

During race customization, there is a window where you can select your starting system.

How do you add a newly created system to that menu?

I did a global .xml search in the data directory for all systems labeled "Thalis" to see how this was done. I could not find anything that appeared to be related to the menu choice in any XML anywhere. Is this hard coded?

Thank you.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Add it to the start of the StarSystemDefs.xml. Then have this edited xml in your mod. This is the key :-

<InternalName>FactionStart</InternalName>

In GlobalDefs this is set as default, you can change it too one you created which then has a bunch of systems in it, these would then show up at race creation and not the default ones. I found it easier to just add to the default ones though.