Read re: GGS and how to seed a galaxy - mostly because trying to get some starting heroes for certain achievements.



So know what seeds are and how to put into advanced screen with random generated option disabled - but problem is I think there was a patch or something I am missing info on because all the seeds I use don't generate the starting heroes the old posts say they do.



Based on what I see as GGS number on my randomly generated maps, it appears "modern" or up to date ES has 10 digit GGS numbers.



But:

a) old posts with seed + specific galaxy parameters info have only 9 digits, or in one steam guide post, only 2 digits - neither of which worked to produce the hero I need



b) old posts with seed + specific galaxy parameters that have 10 digits I tried as well - just to test if I could generate a galaxy the seed is supposed to, so I could determine if seeds were even working for me at all. But so far, can't find one I could verify. Found a few on steam guide/forum posts (old posts again), but the known conditions it implied (e.g. head for the closest white star) was not generated on my map

(and yes, i know to get same map you need seed + exact same galaxy parameters - so only ones I tried to test were ones where the poster gave both seed + specific galaxy parameters (size, constellation type, etc)



Long story short, trying to generate two different hero scenarios:

1 - Skuoi Kyryl for the sowers Praise Be to the Endless achievement - win expansion with the endless hero (and read only this version of endless hero works)



2 - Karta Vauchs + Tephys, for the hire two romantically involved heroes achievement

(I randomly stumbled upon a starting seed that guarantees me Tephys to start but haven't played that out to see if eventually Karta shows up, looking for a starting seed that has both at start)



So plea for help - any of the following would be great help

I - a known seed + specific galaxy parameter with info on what it produced, just so I can try that seed and determine if using seeds is even working for me

** (this is the most critical part, until I know I can generate a seeded galaxy of a specific type w/ starting heroes of known type, it's the blind leading the blind)



II - once I know the above, that I can generate some seed successfully - then I can try to get the seed I need for the starting heroes I need. So second help would be a known seed + parameters for starting heroes of the ones I need above (this I expect will be lot harder to get so really looking for the first part above)



thanks!

Not a never mind, I'd still like to know this info, but just read a brute force way to hack my way to get heroes I want.



Read about the hero.xml file used to generate heroes from, so located on wiki http://endlessspace.wikia.com/wiki/Hero_List a list of many of the heroes with known hero ID number (does not have all or most, just many - thankfully had the ID numbers of ones I needed)



So I edited the two hero.xlm files - there is one under public and one under public_xp1 (forgot exact names but something like that, under my steam installation for ES. I think it's one for classic and one for disharmony maybe because one of the hero.xml had more heroes in it than the other)



To be safe, I edited both hero.xml files to delete all heroes other than the ones I needed plus maybe 2-3 more just to get a few more heroes as my game progressed. With that low a heroes list, 5-6 heroes in my entire list, starting a new game a couple times max is all I figured I'd need to get the starting hero I wanted. And sure enough, first try, I got skuoi kyril so I can now do the sowers achievement.



I assume I can just do the same for the 2 romantic heroes I need.