Cybrex much rarer now? (2024)

Faey said:

Precursor events are based on where in the galaxy you are. Cybrex are always the lower-left quadrant of the galaxy.

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source?

urogard said:

source?

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When I answered the question, mostly experience and vague recollection of having seen mention of it being location based. But since you asked I decided to dig further.

At galaxy generation, a number (set in 00_precursor_civilizations.txt) of star systems are flagged for each precursor civilization. While, as far as I can find, we don't have access to how the galaxy generator places these flags, it is possible to check where they've been placed.
Pull up the console and use 'debugtooltip' to allow you to see the flags on systems. Then just mouse over each system to see if it's been flagged as a potential precursor event location. From precursory testing, Cybrex is always the lower left quadrant, Irassian Concordat the top left quadrant, and the other 3 scattered across the remaining half of the map. There is some overlap at the edge areas of these, and this can get messed up entirely on tiny/small maps due to having less stars than the number of preset systems.

For reference:
Precursor_1: Vultaum Star Assembly
Precursor_2: Yuht Empire
Precursor_3: First League
Precursor_4: Irassian Concordat
Precursor_5: Cybrex

urogard said:

I love anectodal evidence, can anyone share contradicting observations?

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I did provide an easy method of testing.

Faey said:

I did provide an easy method of testing.

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exactly, i know hope someone else can come forward to provide counterclaims, if not then I can rely on the information you provided next time I play a new game.

anecdotal evidence is perfectly fine, if there's nothing else acting as counterevidence

Not certain where that is coded, I think hardcoded. Picking the precursor chain is based on the result of an on_action trigger every time you survey a new system (comments added by me):

on_survey = {##skip other triggered events random_events = { 100 = 0 6 = precursor.1 #Vultaum 6 = precursor.500 #Yuht 6 = precursor.1000 #First League 6 = precursor.1500 #Irassian Concordat 6 = precursor.2000 #Cybrex }}

All of these events are scripted to exclude empire homeworlds, stars, and planets that already have an anomaly. They also check for a star_flag = precursor_1 (or _2 or _3 or _4 or _5), but can't find where that is defined.

The devs have previously indicated that precursors are determined based on galaxy location, however I am not sure about the relationship of the location and the specific precursor chain. I'm not sure if this determination logic is buried in the exe or in the event files. I don't agree that they are ALWAYS in the lower right quadrant though. I have had them in the upper right before, but that was in an old patch version.

It would be nice if they buffed the others because Cybrex is so much better than the others by a mile.

heliostellar said:

The devs have previously indicated that precursors are determined based on galaxy location, however I am not sure about the relationship of the location and the specific precursor chain. I'm not sure if this determination logic is buried in the exe or in the event files. I don't agree that they are ALWAYS in the lower right quadrant though. I have had them in the upper right before, but that was in an old patch version.

It would be nice if they buffed the others because Cybrex is so much better than the others by a mile.

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The location isn't in any of the moddable files. Nothing sets the star_flag = precursor_N in any of the content we can mod, has to be hardcoded.