NPC Spawn Rate Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

So I went into the smart folder for zaton in the scripts folder. I messed around with spawn populations and time it takes to respawn. The only groups that really seemed to be affected were bandits right outside of Skadovsk. There was a fun battle but then everyone died and zaton was back to being a dead wasteland. I could run around the map for half an hour and not run into anyone.

So there must be other .ltx files that I can edit to tamper with the spawn rate further. I want to have more squads with a higher minimum spawn population running around shooting eachother. Please help me make the zone less dead. I want to step outside and immediately be shot at.

Thanks.

I have not played 2.1.1 for a while, but it was rarely empty. 2.2 surely is not.

Inside each ST's (smart terrain) config file are the type and numbers of squads which will be spawned AND the conditions under which they will start happening.

If you have not yet done x and y Z will time out, but never populate. Try picking a smart terrain like zat_sim_21 open the file with notepad++, change the maximum population from 1 to 3, increase the other numbers by one or two, if there is a timer setting, reduce it to 1000. Go where you can safely observe the ST and observe your results. A zone like zat_sim_28 has bunches of different squads which might spawn, but they don't start until later in the game after conditions are met. If you have a save late in the game, mess with those squad numbers, set the timer to 100 and watch them pop out of the ether.

Warning: Too much ALIFE will cause massive performance problems and CTD's.

Ah ok I will experiment with it. Thanks a ton for the help!

I have only toyed with them by manually via debug spawning test squads. I would be curious what you come up with ... good luck!

GPU 21%

DX11 28 fps

Too low if u mass with the numbers like I tweet zat_sim_18

Be sure to mass with sim.

I like to play this game atbmax settings with directx 11

Absolutely wonderful view so I gave up from performance.

I'm unclear what you're issue is. Are you running into large numbers of NPC's/Mutants and having poor performance?

If so check this thread and try the command I comment about Moddb.com