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I just have the demo and I already want to mod the game further. 
In SEIV I have a personal mod with elements taken from some other mods (like Proportions) and glancing at the stats for things like facilities I've noticed some differences.
Like, it looks like facilities now upgrade some stats based on level and not to a different entry on the list. Which makes my mod more difficult to emulate. For example, the main resource extraction facilities would gain more abilities after level 3 (since I figured there should be a reward for researching those tech areas up to lvl 9). Mainly cargo space, some phased shielding, some ability to generate the other two resource types (much lower than the main resource type) and some component repair ability. I'll have to see if there's a way to trigger newer abilities after a certain amount of levels, or just make the ability so low as to be negligible until you get enough levels in a particular resource.
I am also hoping there's a way to make a custom facility that is only buildable on the homeworld so I can make a version of the proportions Cultural center in this game.
Okay, enough rambling.
You most likely wont be able
You most likely wont be able to do this in the demo but in the full game. You might be able to add a racial trait that limits it to only those that have it.
You're lord and master (below foamy) LordHavoc
Might be possible
You might be able to achieve that by making them unavailable from any tech and then calling them in the homeworld starting facilities file - it might let you get away with placing them.
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Hope it is possible.
I'll have to get the game and test it out. Starting with one facility entry and then see if it appears.
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What if you start with more then 1 Homeworld? The Homeworld colony type can be manually entered.
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I've noticed that starting facilities ignore racial traits, but they do seem to follow techlevels. So to get it to work you'd have to have the technology to build it. Now it will put it there even if you can't build it assuming you have the tech to build it.
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So make a tech with no branch offs to other techs, set it so that the tech is one of the ones you start with, make the facility, make it so the facility requires the new tech, add the facility to the startinghomeworldsfacility.txt?
Sounds simple enough... one question... how do I adjust the starting techs? I want NOBODY to have ANYTHING! Want a ship? LEARN THE TECH! Mwaaaahaaaahaaa Kwok/Aaron/Fyron is the BM AI smart enough to do that?
Kyle
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there's a txt named homeworldstartingfacilities or something like that.
you can adjust the starting techlevels I forget what file that is.
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yeah... and anyway, the bottom line
Use startinghomeworldfacilities.txt to place the appropriate facilities on all starting planets. This IGNORES tech, ive done it. i made it so the facility required temporal tech lvl 101 while the highest availible was only 100. it worked. you can increase or decrease the amount of facilities on homeworlds as well in this file.
For starting tech, edit techareas.txt and go through and change the starting tech level line on whatever you want. the ai will hate you for it i guarentee.
You can still mod that!
The formulas are flexible enough so that you can have certain abilities kick in after X levels etc.
You'll be happy to know that there is a data file called StartingHomeworldFacilities.txt that allows you to specify what a homeworld starts with...
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