Ok so bear with me, I am super new to this game but in the few games I have played I found that I prefer massive maps (100+ planets) and multiple large fleets with only a couple players, Gives me more of the epic empire and fleet experience I want. The games I am trying to set up are on the large maps with myself and 3-4 AI players with no teams, call me crazy but that seems to be the way I enjoy the game the most. I also wanted to change the starting resources so I can get my fleets up quicker, kind of convalouted but I only want to start with the advantage, I really breaks down to I am not good enough to face multiple hard opponants on a level playing field but if I set the skill level to easy or normal they never seem to build up much of anything even though they have the same fleet supply I do. I end up spending 2-3 hrs building massive defenses and getting my fleets together on a backwater planet only to find when I start looking for them I get sporatic ship contact at best, I end up conquoring 140 planets and not getting a single battle involving a cap ship. We all play games differently I guess.

    Now all that being said I have gotten to the point of modding .galaxy files to change the starting resources, I assumed (dont say it, I know, stupid) that my player slot would be the first one (player 0 or player 1 it seems depending on the map) but even after editing the galaxy files, setting them up correctly in the mod folder I couldnt get the extra funds to show up. So I did some diagnosis and found that if I didnt change the number of players or the teams on the maps than the resources would show when is started the game. That led me to believe that their was either an option that was being changed nullifying my edits when they game type (4v4,3v3,FFA) was changed by changing the teams or that the player number changed depending on the team setup and the number of players. I then decided to change the resources on both player 0 and player 1 to 2 different totals 20k of everything on player 0 and 15k of everything on player 1 on the map I am testing on, sure enough when I dropped the number of players without touching the teams than I got the 15k. So I have kinda figured that out, now fast forward to trying to change teams, when I do that the standard amount of money comes up, leading me to believe once again that either I am now starting as a different player # or once again there is a change in the galaxy file that nullify's my efforts.

Whew, I am really sorry for the wall o text, with all that figured out behind me I had two options, I can continue to change the resource amounts on every single player and get the ole pen and paper out and try to figure out if there is a method to the madness, or I could take the easy route and ask if anyone knows the right answer. At this point, im fine with setting my pride down and asking people smarter than I, is there any rhyme or reason to the player number that gets assigned based on game settings or is it random? and if it is random, how would you all suggest modding starting resources to accomplish my goal?

I apprecate the time anyone spent reading this and provide thanks ahead of time to anyone willing to take a moment and help me out.

Thank you

TLP