Custom star system appearing on "Home Star System" selection menu

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I have seen a few posts that are similar in nature to this, however, I want to cut straight to the point. Has anyone been able to get their custom star system to appear in the selection menu. I developed the four .xml files; PlanetDefs, PlanetText, StarSystemDef, and StarSystemText for my mod and they run fine when I boot up the game. However, upon going to create a new race, the new star system fails to appear on the selection menu. I can replace one of the systems, and its functional, however, I would greatly prefer to add the system.

I know there is the recommendation to add the new star system in a custom faction, add I'm in the process of doing that. That being said I would still like it to appear in the selection menu. 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Replace starsystemdefs with a version with your custom system within the factionstart block. I tried appending a factionstart, but it wasn't working - i think appending might not work for this use.

 

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Using the recommendation from exelsis, I finally found a solution.

I went back and took the lines from my StarSystemDef_Attempt1.xml folder and inserted them into the StarSystemDef.xml within the games main folder. I maintained my separate PlanetDefs_Attempt1.xml and  StarSystemText_Attempt1.xml in the mods folder and booted up the game. 

The custom star system now appears within the Home Star System selection menu, with the information from the mods folders.  

-Edit- There is an issue now where the game will crash once the system is selected for a custom race and the game is started. I'm currently going through the files to find out what the hiccup is, however, I'm certain its between the PlanetDef.xml and StarSystemDef.xml.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

The modded starsystemdefs can be inside your mod folder - with the same name it replaces the original without you needing to alter the vanilla files.