[1.1.61] No enemy bases

[SupplyDepoo]

On a multiplayer server I joined recently the host said he had enabled biters but we never found any (even after venturing out 1000s of meters). I made a copy of the savegame and grabbed the map exchange string and imported it into the new freeplay setup screen and confirmed there are no biters in the preview even though the settings show that biters are enabled.

Here is the map exchange string:

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>>>eNp1U81rE0EUf880mEaQHiJYaGuQHkRYsVVEgs1OI6IiePe42Ux0
YLMTZ3fF6qE59FQUL170lL+geNCDt4IgFRQET96qXgQ/KCh6jDM7M5t
lTR+8t799v/c5s4uAsAKpDFyllSmfewEAIQD1VYCd1arP+30qHC4owN
C4r7SmfZF0qMNZYFOVVmlIe2tO24to3l1hgofFCuUo5qHxaG85FpRG+
cRDifBClvR0LpAsGh89v3V8sLEASkfrUB+NlEq0K+OUAg7k+C1A6TMy
ddTnYSx44EQ0jll4s+Eldxtt5kV4+sQkqivo7YSG/lqjlwQx6weMCly
aL4b2OIviRFBTytmXn1yv7Aes29XHUm+loyPer21d/nTvsYt69FPEgD
3j2W5bz1ULrpN9qUULzubqnEnlVw7oprFsYaIqZAw0uaFIxIc/Xgz/v
n7WROfi3LfP5066uHSp9nNveaspyVm1woHMPH2i5KVdBWzNXddQH118
91bJdxfLKqOmDDkvzfa1EuDMYYmGD6Spz4EdrWnL1Ah2U/ljN/liwQe
3uIc8iAuq+IIyO8qkDbPJ0MAbBMkxy86OQ2T+MuRn6Iw3fGPbvsr1Lw
zy/0Xk9yh4FsmEa6iqhp3MfC1l08jzfH/QvpF1giUFVNRv6dNv+ifSp
fRzhqTHbVnzbRy5s5n8A99z1a0=<<<

If I grab on a slider (like "enemy bases: size") and move it one tick mark and then back again and release it, the preview updates and this time does generate biter nests.

No idea how this happened but it seems like there might be a bug (or the map exchange string was tampered with).

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report. The server host changed the starting area to 10'000%. The maximum the GUI lets you select is 600% so they must have modified it before making the exchange string which they then made into a map.

[Rseding91]

With that size of a 'starting area' you'll start to see biters around the 13'000 tile distance from the start of the map.