Request: Being able to choose seed for the standard gamestarts.

[-=SiR KiLLaLoT=-]

What is so special about this seed? To me it is most certainly not a seed number. The, typical for Egosoft, lack of any documentatikon leaves this as a very likely outcome.

Personally I have tried using specific seeds in my (Creative) Gamesstarts, especially the ones that I start with only a spacesuit and it is crucial for some things (Stations/ships) to be in a certain reachable distance. I did this by generating start after start untill I randomly was in a "favourable" one, noted down the number from the save file and insert it in the gamestart.

So far I have used seeds for the same reason as you too. In the hard mode creative custom start, I had to use a seed that made the ALI dock appear at a certain point, so that I could place the spacesuit close to it.
But from what CBJ said, there seems to be a way to use a specific seed for vanilla starts as a young gun. The seed of my test has nothing special, it is just a random number that I had entered to verify that it was the same in the save.

The purpose of this is to look for a particular seed where, for example, I can find the Argon Prime sector conquered by the Xenon, or a particularly disastrous state of the universe.
I can never forget that one of my first starts had Argon Prime red in color, with several Xenon caps destroying everything.
But at the time I didn't have the slightest experience in the game, and I just restarted a new game because I was scared of that start.

Now I regret every day not having kept that save

[Omni-Orb]

What does -nosoundthrottle do?

It allows you to hear game audio even if it's not in the foreground.

Thanks

[dtpsprt]

So far I have used seeds for the same reason as you too. In the hard mode creative custom start, I had to use a seed that made the ALI dock appear at a certain point, so that I could place the spacesuit close to it.
But from what CBJ said, there seems to be a way to use a specific seed for vanilla starts as a young gun. The seed of my test has nothing special, it is just a random number that I had entered to verify that it was the same in the save.

The purpose of this is to look for a particular seed where, for example, I can find the Argon Prime sector conquered by the Xenon, or a particularly disastrous state of the universe.
I can never forget that one of my first starts had Argon Prime red in color, with several Xenon caps destroying everything.
But at the time I didn't have the slightest experience in the game, and I just restarted a new game because I was scared of that start.

Now I regret every day not having kept that save

I think that this seed is out of the "range" of seeds. I'd suggest you make a series of tries using 1 as a starting digit of the seed, then 2 etc and see what happens. On the other hand there is never something completely random when we are talking about computers, so there is a possibillity that seeds exist in all of the "first diggits of the 10 digit number but not all the subsequent number values are valid... (again missing documentation from Egosoft, maybe a seasoned moder has an answer to that).

[-=SiR KiLLaLoT=-]

Yes I know, it is so random that I would first start 100 times totally random and hope that one of them has Argon Prime red.
After that I would save that game and share it with the whole world

Instead it would have been nice to be able to activate ultra-difficult gamestarts via seed, as a sort of difficulty selection based only on the generation of the universe.
This would have made many people happy

[Omni-Orb]

You can already, but it's a bit of a manual process. Just add "-seed seedvalue", where seedvalue can be anything you like, to the command line parameters for the game.

We need more information on this, it isn't working for us.

[Duncaroos]

So, I did several tests to start the game with the custom seed, but I got some strange behaviors.

I started the game using the string "X4_nonsteam.exe -seed 6874134549 -nosoundthrottle -skipintro", the seed is a random number.
So I did several starts, young gun, inexperienced explorer, etc. I immediately saved and checked the seed inside the file...
In all saves the seed number was different.
I tried again starting the custom start budget without changing any options. Same result.
I then started the game using the custom start creative, where I manually entered the number chosen in the box dedicated to the generation of the seed and also in this case the number was different in the save...

Where is the mistake?

Could it possibly be the number needs to be the same # of digits?

[Omni-Orb]

So, I did several tests to start the game with the custom seed, but I got some strange behaviors.

I started the game using the string "X4_nonsteam.exe -seed 6874134549 -nosoundthrottle -skipintro", the seed is a random number.
So I did several starts, young gun, inexperienced explorer, etc. I immediately saved and checked the seed inside the file...
In all saves the seed number was different.
I tried again starting the custom start budget without changing any options. Same result.
I then started the game using the custom start creative, where I manually entered the number chosen in the box dedicated to the generation of the seed and also in this case the number was different in the save...

Where is the mistake?

Could it possibly be the number needs to be the same # of digits?

I found out how now. We can add it in the config file: "C:\Users\*****\Documents\Egosoft\X4\***********\config.xml"

Like this if adding the seed 3044564136

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<seed>3044564136</seed>
<fullscreen>true</fullscreen>
<borderless>false</borderless>

[-=SiR KiLLaLoT=-]

So, I did several tests to start the game with the custom seed, but I got some strange behaviors.

I started the game using the string "X4_nonsteam.exe -seed 6874134549 -nosoundthrottle -skipintro", the seed is a random number.
So I did several starts, young gun, inexperienced explorer, etc. I immediately saved and checked the seed inside the file...
In all saves the seed number was different.
I tried again starting the custom start budget without changing any options. Same result.
I then started the game using the custom start creative, where I manually entered the number chosen in the box dedicated to the generation of the seed and also in this case the number was different in the save...

Where is the mistake?

Could it possibly be the number needs to be the same # of digits?

I found out how now. We can add it in the config file: "C:\Users\*****\Documents\Egosoft\X4\***********\config.xml"

Like this if adding the seed 3044564136

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<seed>3044564136</seed>
<fullscreen>true</fullscreen>
<borderless>false</borderless>

Marvelous! It worked!
Thanks for taking the time to discover the mystery, now we go in search of the wild seed

[EGO_Aut]

Wouldn't it better to open a "Seed" thread in the spoiler forum? I would like to support my seed there with a description of my exp. with it - but its not a Argon in red start

PS: maybe someone can describe how to look or cheat a new start to know how it grows fast?

[EGO_Aut]

Here a seed from the german forum.
Its told that Argon Prime was overrun in under 8h of gameplay. From Google Translate : .....WTF after 8h is Argon Prime: Red of Xenon, Second Contact: Red, Pure Gaze: Red, Blessed Vision: Red...
3029299908

Another Xenon heavy Seed:
2873367312

[Socratatus]

I can never forget that one of my first starts had Argon Prime red in color, with several Xenon caps destroying everything.
But at the time I didn't have the slightest experience in the game, and I just restarted a new game because I was scared of that start.

Now I regret every day not having kept that save

Wow. The seed number can change things THAT much? I've tapped in numbers a couple of times on a couple of starts, but barely noticed much of a difference. Anyway it's nice to know it can happen.

[jlehtone]

I can never forget that one of my first starts had Argon Prime red in color, with several Xenon caps destroying everything.

Wow. The seed number can change things THAT much?

You have to take into account the version of the game and the DLC's that were enabled, because all those affect what the random numbers are used for in the generation of the Galaxy at game start, and there have been significant changes in OOS combat resolution between the game versions. The odds of Xenon ship killing someone are not the same today as they were "back then".

[chew-ie]

Got a seed with a really big Xenon fleet entering Hatikvahs Choice I very early (2x I, 6x K)

Code: Select all

2657508082

5h into the game:


6.0, all DLCs enabled, custom game start (budgeted)