Spawn Amount
How to set how many bandits spawn at each hideout or ambush point using the Spawn Amount setting.
1. Question
What is Spawn Amount?
Spawn Amount is a feature that was introduced in v1.31 which allows you to set a custom number of bandits that
will spawn at each individual hideout or ambush point.
2. Question
How do you use the Spawn Amount, and set the number of bandits you want at specific hideouts?
First:
Locate the spawn Amount settings in the ini
In the Bandit Hideouts.ini file look for the following title:
// HIDEOUT/AMBUSH CUSTOM SPAWN AMOUNT //
All hideouts are listed below this by region and then the hideouts for that region, below the hideouts
are all the ambush points for that region.
The hideouts and ambush points are all listed in the same order as the high resolution downloadable map.
Second:
To change how many bandits will spawn at a hideout, lets use the first hideout in the list under
the Ambarino regions Hideouts list as an example:
/////////AMBARINO HIDEOUTS ////////////
ADLER_RANCH_SPAWN_AMOUNT=0 // 1 - story [Outlaws From the West]
The name in yellow above, is the hideout name setting itself which is ADLER_RANCH.
The 0 is the number you change for the desired number of bandits you want to spawn.
If you leave the setting at 0 the hideout will spawn the default amount of bandits, or what you have set for the min/max
hideout settings which is this:
// Hideout random min & max spawn //
HIDEOUT_BANDITS_MIN=13
HIDEOUT_BANDITS_MAX=21
If you wanted to change how many bandits are to spawn at Adler Ranch, then give it a number, so lets say
we wanted to have only 5 bandits spawn at that hideout, we would set it up like this:
ADLER_RANCH_SPAWN_AMOUNT=5 // 1 - story [Outlaws From the West]
So for each hideout in the list you can have the same amount, or different numbers, and this is all you need to do.
3. Question
Whenever i use the spawn amount setting i dont get the exact amount of bandits i set,
more bandits always spawn, what am i doing wrong?
If you set a specific number of bandits with spawn amount for certain hideouts or ambush points, and your
getting more bandits then what you set, there are two reasons why your getting more bandits,
they are the following:
The first reason
1. Exceeding the default number of bandits that can normally spawn at hideouts
Every hideout and ambush point has a default number of bandits they can spawn, if you exceed this default number
then the extra bandits will come as reinforcements.
How do we determine the default or how many bandits a hideout or ambush point can spawn?
By reviewing the Hideout and Ambush default bandit position amount Reference -----> LINK
with the reference you can get an idea of how many bandits a hideout/ambush can spawn,
lets look at some examples of how this works:
Example: (Hideouts)
If a hideout has a base of 13 bandits and in the spawn amount you set it for 10 then only 10 bandits will spawn.
If you increased that number from 13 to say 16 in the spawn amount then the 3 extra bandits will spawn with reinforcements.
Example: (Ambushes)
If an ambush point has a default number of 5 and you lower the spawn amount to 3 then only 3 will spawn.
If you increase the number above the default number which was 5 to say 8 then the extra 3 bandits will spawn
at the reinforcement spawn points and come with or as the reinforcements.
So the default/base spawn points have set numbers, exceeding those numbers
then bandits wont have anywhere to spawn because there are no more spawn points to spawn at,
so reinforcement spawn points are used.
Answer 2
The second reason
2. Reinforcement settings are enabled
More bandits will spawn if you didn't disable the reinforcements settings.
If you leave the following settings as default or have them set to another number, bandits will still spawn,
so when using spawn amount setting, disable the following settings for reinforcements
by setting them to 0:
// Hideout Reinforcements //
REINFORCEMENT_CHANCE=0
// Bandit Reinforcements on horseback //
MIN_REINFORCEMENT_ON_HORSE=0
MAX_REINFORCEMENT_ON_HORSE=0
// Bandit Reinforcements on foot //
MIN_REINFORCEMENT_ON_FOOT=0
MAX_REINFORCEMENT_ON_FOOT=0
4. Question
When i use the spawn amount setting and set the HIDEOUT_BANDITS_MIN=13
HIDEOUT_BANDITS_MAX=21 both to 0 my game crashes, whats the problem?
When you use the spawn amount setting, your telling the mod to spawn a specific number of bandits
at hideouts or ambush points you chose. Changing the Hideout random min/max setting to 0 conflicts with
the spawn amount function in the mod.
When using the spawn amount settings the hideout random min/max numbers are being overwritten by
the numbers you set in the spawn amount setting, so just leave these settings for hideouts
HIDEOUT_BANDITS_MIN=13
HIDEOUT_BANDITS_MAX=21
either at default, or another number but NOT 0 or the mod will crash!
Any questions, or problems, please ask here, or on the post tab. Cheers!
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