It will not affect those, only the older 'Random Encounters'

Will this also stop the new Global Encounters with the Contact update? Very important new game loop.

Does this stop the spawning of those broken ships with a million 'debris' chunks that grind my CPU into powder?

@Bačiulis - One possibility for that could be another encounter mod that takes the vanilla spawngroups and re-adds them. When MES detects this mod ID, it looks for all vanilla cargo ship spawngroups and turns them off.

If you find that's not the case however, let me know and I'll dig a bit further.

Could this be broken? Added this mod together with Modular Encounter Systems, but /MES.SSCS still spawns vanilla cargo ships. Looked in the code of this mod, and there is only a dummy sbc file.

Got it.

Thanks for the help

0.001 and you'd probably never see the spawngroup at all. I wouldn't use a value lower than 0.1

So If if for example I want a better chancee at a particular encounter spawning, I would set that encounter to 10 and the rest to 0.001? Is that how it works?

Ah ok. For vanilla, I really don't know the exact method, but in MES it works something like this:

Say you have 2 groups: A and B

A with a freq of 5
B with a freq of 1

The frequency is almost like ballots going into a box. A gets 5 ballots, and B gets 1. Once all the ballots are in the box, a random ballot is selected and that's what spawns.

To prevent mods from conflicting with eachother, eligible spawns are first sorted by Mod ID during spawn selection. A random mod ID is chosen, and then the spawns in that mod are processed using the logic above.

I was more asking in general than this mod specifically. I'm trying to figure out how to modify the frequency of spawning to something a bit faster.

@CapCosmos - tbh, that description hasnt been updated in a forever of a time. Since MES came along, if this mod is present, the vanilla spawns are straight up removed from the roster. Only exception to that would be in another mod re-adds them.

Is the 1-5 like there's a 1-5 percent chance of spawning?

@jetblade545 No, trade station encounters are not suppressed. Of course, they're controlled by the Enable Economy setting, so it'd make no sense.

Bump* Does this include the trade stations?

I still see quite a bit of SPRT pirate ships spawning. I expect more ASSERT ships and bases since I also have assertive bases and ships mods installed.

Does this include the trade stations?

Does this reduce Modular Encounter rates? Or does this make it more likely that you'll see ME encounters instead of vanilla?

can we get links to the ships here?

I think this one?

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=353545951

what is the light green ship from ive been looking for its collections blueprints

What is the difference between this one and the Suppress Vanilla Cargo ships one? Thanks.

Awesome, thanks.

Yep, it can be used to suppress the vanilla Random Encounter grids (eg SPRT Mayday signals, etc)

I saw this mentioned by Splitsie, is it still relevant with MES etc running?

So this mod suppresses vanilla spawns, so as to allow for more Community/Workshop Explo encounters?

Would this also affect Vanilla drones?

Well yes, if you write your own [insert Thing here] you can make it do whatever you want. If It didn't work that way I wouldn't have a job...

@Geneticus - Or unless you build your own replacement spawner with frequency controls included. ;)

That's actually something on currently working on (along with a replacement for the in-game cargo ship spawner). Early prototype is working nicely so far :D

Exploration Encounter Frequency is directly tied to Asteroid Density. it's not moddable without a plugin.

awesome to hear! look forward to seeing what can be pulled off :)

You're right, the random encounters aren't affected by those mods. Unfortunately I don't know of a way to increase their rate in the vanilla spawner.

Working on a new space spawner that will address this in the future though.

Aren't those just for cargo ships, i thought random encounters were different than cargo ships?

https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1112537202
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=888487354
https://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=888485827

Is it possible to create a mod reverse to this where you get more random encounters? I'd like to run something like that with the reddit encounters mod, for more depth

there is a mod called midspace "ship scanner" derelict ships

Me neither, Dragon Fire
i jumped 150km at a time in one direction for hours and didn't find any

you people are lucky, I can never find any encounters even on high density. I even have a mod to scan for them, but no dice.

I just found this encounter. The xedus frigate. Its yuuuuge. Horribly design interior though.

thanks

@tacokid111 - I think it's called Xedus Ophiniam class Attack Frigate - it's one of the player made creations that got added to vanilla exploration a couple years back.

what is the one on the far right