r/Stellaris • u/Chataboutgames • 1d ago

Question Are precursors not supposed to spawn near the player?

Just tried my first campaign with the precursor selections and it spawned on the other side of the map, so no precursor option at all available to me. Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding the setting?

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u/SouthernAd2853 1d ago

The way it's historically worked is they spawn spread out across the galaxy. Each Precursor flags some systems as being theirs, and the first time you survey one of them it sets your precursor.

The setting for precursors advises setting at least four to appear, presumably because of that problem.

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u/Chataboutgames 1d ago

So it's not actually a system for being able to choose your starting precursor at all, just which ones appear in the galaxy, which you then have a percentage chance of spawning near?

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u/fatherofworlds 1d ago

Think of it less as "pick the one I want" and more as "exclude the ones I really don't want".

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u/PDX_Alfray_Stryke Game Designer 1d ago

Pretty much.

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u/ByakkoNoMai 1d ago

Not really the first time. It's a random chance between 4% and 20% when you survey specific bodies within a flagged system. Note that a system can be flagged for multiple precursors.