City activation and civilians' presence

[Vsauce07]

Hello!
I would like to know how I can increase the spawn rate of civilians. I currently have the "Civilian density" parameter at 100% and the "Enemy density" at 40%. Still, I don't see a lot of civilians (just 2 or 3) and I see a lot of patrols of enemies. I also would like to know how to increase city activation from 800m to 1800m. Thanks in advance for the answer!

[Vdauphin]

Hello,

I currently have the "Civilian density" parameter at 100%

There is only one civilian per entrerable house in the range of _spawningRadius/3
First we get houses:
https://github.com/Vdauphin/HeartsAndMinds/blob/master/%3DBTC%3Dco%4030_Hearts_and_Minds.Altis/core/fnc/city/activate.sqf#L131
Then we populate:
https://github.com/Vdauphin/HeartsAndMinds/blob/master/%3DBTC%3Dco%4030_Hearts_and_Minds.Altis/core/fnc/city/activate.sqf#L160
You can notice the number of civilian also depend on the type of city

So the total number of civilian depend one:

• number of entrerable houses
• cachingRadius _spawningRadius = _cachingRadius/2
• Type of city

I don't know in your case which one limit the spawning but most of the time is the city radius because some map maker pourly define it like in Lythium (#753). You can see if it is the issue by enable debug and look at cachingRadius by defining the player spawn radius to 0. Then you will need to calculate the house range which is cachingRadius/(2 * 3) and if it does not include houses, then you find the issue

I also would like to know how to increase city activation from 800m to 1800m.

Just replace 3 by 18 here https://github.com/Vdauphin/HeartsAndMinds/blob/master/%3DBTC%3Dco%4030_Hearts_and_Minds.Altis/core/def/param.hpp#L414 and add 18 after 8 and 1800m after 800m

Cheers

[Vsauce07]

Thank you for the answer!
Is there any way I can fix the problem about the civilians' spawn? I was playing on Lythium and Takistan so the problem is probably what you said

[Vdauphin]

Is there any way I can fix the problem about the civilians' spawn?

• For Takistan I would change https://github.com/Vdauphin/HeartsAndMinds/blob/master/%3DBTC%3Dco%4030_Hearts_and_Minds.Altis/core/fnc/city/activate.sqf#L131 to _spawningRadius/2 or even _spawningRadius because takistan have low density of houses
• For Lythium, just don't use it
  • If you really want I think you also need to increase the caching radius by 100 of more like that: getNumber(_current >> "RadiusA") + getNumber(_current >> "RadiusB") + 100
  • And add more city manualy https://github.com/Vdauphin/HeartsAndMinds/blob/master/%3DBTC%3Dco%4030_Hearts_and_Minds.Altis/define_mod.sqf#L1-L7